Earth Hour 2015

Yesterday was Earth Hour.

Earth Hour is a world wide event in which people show that they care about our planet by turning out their lights for one hour.  Even Big Ben in London turned out the lights this year.

As well as turning off our lights, we don't use anything that uses electricity for the hour.

The cats having a disagreement.

So from 8-30pm til 9-30pm we turned out all our lights, computer, everything. and didn't use anything electrical.  It's a good excuse to get the candles out.

We grabbed our torch, candles, some juice and sat outside at the table under the large tree in our front yard and were able to see a few stars as it was quite cloudy.  It had been raining during the day.

Caught in the torchlight.

We had fun outside playing spotlight with the cats, exploring around the house, front yard and backyard with the torch and Salem was trying to creep up on me but he failed every time.

The cats thought it was great that we were outside with them.

Having scary fun with the candles.

It looked like we were the only ones in our neighborhood celebrating Earth Hour which was a shame.
This has been a family tradition of ours for years.

We were having so much fun that we were outside for longer than the hour.  We could have stayed out longer but a certain young man needed a hot drink and it was off to bed.

Earth Hour Greetings

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Catch up with you soon as I have loads of photos which are well overdue to be posted.

Paraparaumu Antique Fair

We went to the Antique Fair at the Paraparaumu Memorial Hall today.  It is also on tomorrow as well.
We went looking for some bargains but while there was a lot of lovely stuff, 99.9% of it was out of our price range.  It was quite good to see items that we have at home and how much they were selling for.

There wasn't much at all in the way of vintage clothing at all, just a couple of fur stoles and some hats which were fun to try on.  A lot of war medals were on sale.

There was a good selection of books to hunt through, we bought two books about Wellington city which included a lot of old photos including ones taken in the late 1800's.  Salem also bought 5 old comics.

I treated myself to a pair of mismatched cameo ear-rings.  I love cameos.  They had a huge selection of jewellery at many of the tables....... I can dream!!!!!  Salem bought to children's royal visit medals.

It was a nice way to spend the afternoon on a wintery day.  It is definitely getting colder.  I have a hot water bottle every night.  While I am writing this two of my cats are curled up on the couch, they will be there all night.

Sugar and Baal Z

I will probably have my other cat Misty sleeping with me later.

                       Nite Nite.

What to do with old jerseys.

Teenage Monster

 I was given some old kids jerseys (sweaters) just before christmas and since as a family we only make our presents (no buying presents allowed), I decided to use the jerseys to make my two boys presents.
For Daemon, my "lovely???" teenager, I made the monster.



Mother cat and kitten

And for Salem, I made the cats.  They both loved their presents.