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Let's face it, hair can be friend or foe. If your hair doesn't look good, the rest of your attire has to work hard to overcome a messy mane. But I have a simple solution! If you have clean and blow dried hair, you can work this hairstyle in less than five minutes. All you need is a hair comb, an elastic, hair pins and hairspray. That's it.

Ok, here's how to achieve the look. Throw your head between your knees and make a part from ear to ear and section off hair. Gather the excess hair at the back to form a ponytail and get it out of the action. Comb the front section to one side. Hair starts at one ear and ends behind the other. Spray comb with hairspray and comb hair into place. Simply pin behind ear. You're done! Now go off and have a great time

Spending time in a Doctor's waiting room is a drag. You can't help but eye off other patients in the room and mentally note who's next or who's late or convincing yourself out of another pap smear. What to do? Cross your legs and pick up a magazine to take your mind away from the surrounding ailments. The magazine that caught my eye was a Vogue Living. Believe it or not, it was a relatively recent publication although it was sitting on a New Idea with Lady Diana and Charles on the front cover! True, it was that old. I wonder if divorce is on the cards? Anyway, I digress...

Within the dog-eared publication, I came across an inspirational article about knitting. Not just any knitting, but BIG BIG knitting with gigantic needles and rope like wool. Awesome. I love it. I want to have a go!

So I went to my local knitting shop in Sydney and bought the biggest, fattest knitting needles they had (25mm) and cut some old stretch knit fabric into 25 mm wide strips and started to knit (see work in progress above). The knit is so chunky and fast too. I like fast especially when it comes to knitting as it usually bores me to tears. Have you knitted anything on a big scale? I would love to know

Here's the article from Vogue Living and the inspirational lady is Sydney based Jacqueline Fink of Little Dandelion (see her blog here) and below that is some of her work (from a professional, not an amateur like me). She specialises in throws blankets and shrugs in linen and wools

I'll show you pictures when I've completed knitting whatever I'm making

Can't you hear these poor pooches saying "What the.....?" It's totally written in their eyes with a mix of fear or apathy. The need-to-please attitude is ever present even when coerced into wearing a silly costume whilst the master laughs hysterically at their new wardrobe

But they look so cute

From top to bottom: Froggy Doggy, Shark Bait, Big Bad Woof Dog, Need-a-good-feed Skeleton dog, Bowwow Butterfly, Fido Bee, Dino-mutt