Blankets of snow

Gosh it was fascinating sitting watching those great big snow flakes all flurrying down this afternoon.... off and on in mini blizzards all day! Not as bad here as some other places, but still made you feel good to be sitting inside knitting a blanket!This is the Moderne Log Cabin from Mason-Dixon Knitting, which kind of slipped into my Amazon basket one night in January, and I've had great fun with it so far with felted boxes and now trying out this blanket. I'm using a mixed bargain bag I brought back from Shetland last year, in Heather Aran, all naturals, so will need to amend the square sizes I think just to fit what I've got, but that'll be all part of the fun! The cough is still there and feels more like a good old fashioned head cold now ... wonder what tomorrow will bring!

1 February

Well hello world! So this is what it feels like to wake up and not have to worry about filing a tax return... cos I did it yesterday! And got my accounts all the way up to this very date. Now all I need to do is keep it that way .... Still knitting away and having felting fun in the washing machine, and by hand - but that gets tiring and tedious very quickly, though interesting things happen to the colours when you get so bored you boil up the knitting in a pot ontop of the cooker. I quite like that effect! But I'm starting to look covetously at those little portable washing machines that are aimed at caravanners or bedsit land. It would certainly be more controllable than using the front loader and wondering what on earth you're going to end up with. Maybe.... Pics to follow sometime! (Though with mum's birthday soon I have to be a bit sneaky about them!)

So where did January go??

In a fog of flu methinks ... ill over Christmas, kind of got back on track and then got laid low again last week again. Ho hum. Well it did make my 25th photos kind of boring.... mostly my list of medicines to take! Oh well. At least the steroids give me the energy to finally update the blog, not to mention tackling the tax return!

Solstice Celebration

Well all the winter wonderland scenes of the last post have kind of set the scene I guess, so now it's the shortest day of the year. I've had a few days off and sorted and cleaned and tidied, and even decorated the heart wreath and put a few other decs out and cards up. I won't be here on Christmas day itself so am not putting the tree and all the decs up but one or two have sneaked out of the cupboard! OH is coming over for dinner tonight so it'll be a solstice celebration I guess!

Travelling through Narnia...

Or so it seemed, some pics on my mobile phone from the train window at the weekend.

Another month goes by in the blink of an eye...

I found it hard to get decent pics on 25th November, I guess I was tired and it was a not too fabby day and nothing much was happening and I forgot to take pics at work so I just have a few this time round. My cactus flowered again - twice in one year- very strange. My workspace was quite tidy - also very strange. And I took a piccie of my feet in the mirror - strangest of all. But then I was trying to follow the self portrait prompt but hated all the ones I took....

25th!

Has come round again, so here's some pics from today, in all it's wet, wild and windy-ness.

Oh and er, yes that was my morning clock shot!

Christmas is coming...

We came, we saw, we shopped! My sis and me went to the craft fair at the SECC yesterday, lots of stalls to look at and stroke and touch and poke and deliberate and try to choose things, but we managed and came home with a few bags between us! Some stamps from Clarity stamps (for Christmas cards!), some patchwork (for Christmas too, but my sis is not saying which Christmas...), some wool, and all sorts of odds and ends. A lovely day out.

And the penguins are on parade! I made another one for an online pal, so he's all excited about going off in the post soon...

Caught up again...

Well hey, I feel all up to date on this one now... wonder how long that will last? Finally resolved my argument with Virgin photos - they refunded me and I printed them out myself! So here are August and September's Save the day pages. Wonder what I should go and catch up on next? I never really got started on My Freedom so maybe that's top of the list!