Walsall Wonderland

With my last post, I mentioned that my fiancé and I are putting money away for a home in the (hopefully) not too distant future. Well, I am aware that the property market has been in quite the slump for the past few months, and prices still seem to be markedly lower than the actual values… houses still seem to be selling for lower than most would expect, but they are still selling. This got me to thinking that perhaps we should be actually paying attention to the housing market, and what it is currently doing. So I will be keeping an eye on the market from here on out!

I’ve found a few places on the internet to keep an eye on things of this nature. I am going to this site here to find out about property prices, and the BBC News has a groovy page that you can check house prices in different areas. Of course, I will also be keeping an eye on property news and such.

I know there are also real estate forums, but I can’t really bring myself to read through that sort of thing. I just want the news, rather than personal opinion. I’m really not interested in any of those quick house sale things, they don’t seem on the up and up! It should be interesting to see where the market goes from here though, I mean, everything has been so changeable since the financial crisis really hit.

Now on to today’s knitting pattern. As I’ve mentioned before, I love faeries, and as this entry here is on houses, why not a knitted house for faeries!? Technically this is a felted bird house handbag, but I think it looks more like a faerie house! I don’t actually like handbags – I know that’s strange for a woman – so I have a leather back pack that I am hoping will carry me through to at least sixty years of age, but I would like to knit this little house up as a box to keep little bits and bobs in, like bobbins, stitch counters and stitch markers.