First up today I need to do a little housekeeping, in my last post I mentioned that I purchased some yarn from eBay. I said the yarn was a  “wool silk blend”, or so I thought, sadly the yarn is neither “wool” nor “silk”!  While leaving feedback on my purchase I noticed someone had commented that the “wool silk blend” they had purchased was actually synthetic and had melted letting off toxic fumes.  I quickly called my husband to read the comment and he snipped off some yarn and tested it, sure enough my “wool” melted and turned to plastic.  So the lesson here is don’t buy your yarn from a Chinese supplier on eBay, go to a nice, reputable, reliable, local supplier.  I still love my scarf and it does feel very soft but sadly it’s not what I thought.

On a much brighter note, I have a lovely new project on the go.  Last year I won a fantastic giveaway from Katie over at What Katie Did.  I recently found this great website called NexStitch which has fantastic video tutorials for crochet.  After watching a couple of really easy tutorials I set to making a lovely light lacy scarf with the beautiful 100% pure new wool that arrived in my parcel from Katie.

On another very bright note one of my favourite blogs is back, Loobylu, yeay!  Claire has posted a fun meme called “Six unimportant things about me – Celebrity Sightings”, and I have decided to join in.  So without further ado I give you my six.

When I was a young girl my sister, Jackie, worked as a hairdresser for a local television station.  Very occasionally she would take me along to work with her.  On one of these exciting days, while sitting in the wings watching all the famous people get their hair done, I met Johnny O’Keefe.  He appeared pretty old to me but hey, I was only ten!

My next celebrity sighting came when, once again, my sister Jackie went on a date with an unknown bloke named Paul Pattison.  Yeah I know, who cares!  But many moons later he went on to win an Oscar, yeah a real Oscar, for Best Makeup on the movie Braveheart.

Next up was a cheesy sighting of tennis player John Lloyd at the airport.  I dashed up, pen and paper in hand, autograph done and off he went. 

 My son Nicholas was a pretty enthusiastic dancer when he was about nine or ten and so I enrolled him in a musical theatre class at the Jamie Redfern Talent Agency.  While Nick was off enjoying his one-hour class I got to sit and chat with Jamie and his wife, he’s a really nice guy.

Now my next celebrity sighting is going to have you all turning green with envy.  As you may know I work in a bank as a teller and it has long been my ambition to serve someone famous.  Well my chance came last year when I found myself face to face with none other than Joan “The Freak” Ferguson from the Aussie TV show Prisoner, known in other countries as Cell Block H.  Yes there in the flesh stood Maggie Kirkpatrick, once again a very lovely lady, a little intimidating but very nice.

My final celebrity sighting was in the city at the Chinese New Year celebrations when I uncontrollably spouted “hello” to an unsuspecting Aussie celebrity named Denise Drysdale.  She was walking along, minding her own business, when I just couldn’t stop myself from very embarrassingly sticking my head right into her face and saying hello.  Sorry Denise if you’re reading hahahaha!

Thanks Claire for this really fun meme.  Now you all know the drill, off you go and write about your Celebrity Sightings and don’t forget to let me know so I can come and read all about it.

Have a great week everyone.

TTFN