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Goodbye B-Max

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B-Max and Venus in 2019. We brought home our first family pets back on 26th May 2016 - B-Max, Snowy and Nemo. Three goldfishes, so tiny with different colours. B-Max was black with small orange patches, Snowy was all white and Nemo was all orange.  The kids sat excitedly in front of the aquarium for the first few days =) However, just a few days later, Nemo died under the bridge - we suspected that the aquarium was too small for 3 fishes, so we maintained with only 2. A couple of years later, while we were on holiday in Malaysia, our friend, who was pet sitting for us, sent a picture of Snowy looking very sick. It died not long after, this time possibly because of trauma when Hasben transported them to our friends' house. Upgraded our aquarium . We bought a bigger aquarium for B-Max as it grew very big. It now looks more orange/white with small black patches. Also, we bought a new friend for it - a comet goldfish we named Venus - because it is bright yellow! Venus was very, very t

Tutorial: Crochet Plant Pot Cozy

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If you're like me, obsessed with plants, I am sure you will have many collections of plastic pots from the plant nursery. Here in Australia, the most popular place to buy plants is of course, Bunnings. I usually go for the clearance section, obviously, as I am such a frugal person. But also, because I am not confident enough to ensure the plants' survival. So if I kill them, at least it won't be such a great lost! Anyways, since I keep going back for more plants (either because they did not survive, or just because it's spring!), I have soooo many plastic pots in my backyard. One way to reuse these pots is to make a cozy - either from fabric or by crocheting. It would be a waste to throw such a perfectly usable plastic pot, right? So, for my friend, Sofi's belated birthday present, I decided to make my first plant pot cozy.  1) I started of by crocheting a circle, just a bit larger than the bottom of the pot that I am using: 2) Then, without any changes in the numbe