Paul is on tour, so I'm home alone. I've got a horrible cold so don't feel like doing anything at all....so here I am updating here after months of inactivity!
I've managed to go to the post office and dye my hair today, but that's about all.
Tomorrow me and Marie are meeting up in town and going to the park. I'll be taking my Holga along and taking lots of pictures. I'm currently waiting for my 1st film back from the developers....I have to wait till Thursday because of all these bank holidays!!
Anyway. Tomorrow will be fun. A nice sunny day. Good company. Parks, photos and beer to follow! Good day!
Maybe I'll update with photos when I get them back! haha. maybe.....
I've been lazy the past couple of days and not really done much in the way of knitting/sewing. 1st Fetching is nearly finished tho as I picked it up again this morning. It's supposed to be a quick knit, but as it's the first thing I've done in the way of cables, circular knitting or anything other than a scarf progress isn't so quick! Pictures will follow when I'm actually done as the laziness also transfers to me being bothered to take WIP pictures!
I have however being successfully making gorgeous bread with my new favourite bread making toy! I've got the hang of it now I have the right yeast and remember to put the mixing paddle in before I turn the machine on!
This afternoon will be spent making more bread, a cassserole for tomorrow, roast dinner for tonight and hopefully some white chocolate & cranberry muffins if there is time & space in the oven.
Back to college tomorrow after the Christmas break, so I'm trying to make the most of a relaxing day.
Show us something that you really treasure.
Submitted by An Olympic Dream.
Hopefully I'll treasure this (us) forever and ever! How soppy am I!?
What are your resolutions for 2007?
The usual....don't drink/smoke/eat so much rubbish!
Start saving money. I want a house that we can call our own, where I can keep hens, grow vegetables and put in a cat door, so I have to start saving more - and start earning more to have anything to save to make that a reality!
Start learning to drive - so I have better prospects of getting my perfect job when i graduate.
Knit/make more stuff
I have returned from Scotland. The drive up on Christmas day was beautiful. You kind of forget what how beautiful this country (well the UK) is when you don't see anything other than the city centre for months on end!
This was as close to a white Christmas as we got. Very heavy frost just outside Dundee. I tried taking better pictures of the trees, but at high speed all we managed to capture were grey blurs! By the time we got to the right side of Aberdeen the sun was out and there was no frost to be seen. We arrived around midday, just in time for dinner!
The rest of Christmas day was spent with the family, eating, opening presents and drinking - possibly too much! Boxing day was spent by the fire, taking pictures in the garden and relaxing after the journey.
We went into Aberdeen the next day as Paul really wanted to buy stuff! It was a good day - all I bought was new DPN and some Debbie Bliss Cashmerino DK in a gorgeous red colour so I could practice knitting on DPN's. I'm still unsure why I decided to leave my knitting stuff at home! I'm now well on my way to figuring it out, after trying, failing and finally ignoring my mothers instructions I turned to Stitch N Bitch (from Paul for Christmas) and found out she was telling me to do it wrong.
The next few days we visited Slains castle, which was surprisingly warm considering it's on a cliff, and the surrounding temperatures were as low as -4. I've been before, but Paul hadn't and he loved it - as I knew he would! We were planning to visit a couple more castles, but due to my dads awful directions, a lack of a map and my insistence of showing Paul that there were places you could buy magazines from without travelling to Aberdeen we went to Peterhead town centre & harbour and Fraserburgh beach - which was extremley cold and frosty - quite odd really when you're used to being by the sea in the middle of summer.
We also visited St. Coombs, Fraserburgh again and somewhere further up on the North coast I can't remember the name of!
It was a really good week. Now it's back to normality. But many more pictures to come once Paul or myself get round to scanning the Lomo pictures!
OOoh - look, my first post! Finally, eh!?
This blog is purely for my crafy ventures and details of jaunts around the country. I have my LJ for all the moany, bitter & twisted rants about love, life and everything else!
I truly intended to keep this blog up to date, but as usual life, or more aptly uni has got in the way. Anyway, it is my (not quite) new years resolution to start this - and keep it up!
I am now officially on holiday from uni, so it's the time to be catching up with everything I've intended to do, but not quite got round to!
So, today I shall be sewing the bag and wallet I'm making for my sisters Christmas/Birthday - I'm not sure which it'll be yet - I guess it all depends on what gets wrapped up in what paper, her Birthday has been and gone now anyway (yesterday), so she'll be getting them all on Christmas day, so I'm not sure it matters anyway!
I'll also be finishing off the lavender bags mother requested for Christmas. I'm making them out of lilac and dark purple faux-suede - hopefully they will go well with the rooms they're intended for, I have a feeling they'll be a bit dark. But I'm going to put on loads of buttons for detail, so I'll try and lighten them that way.
I also intend to cast on Fetching from Knitty, but I have a feeling what with everything else (and the cleaning, washing etc. that also needs to be done) that this won't get done until tomorrow. I thought this would be a good challenge, for a beginner knitter that's only ever knit scarves before! - and something to keep me occupied on the drive up to my parents house next week. We'll see, it may be one of these things I start badly and that then sits there for a while until I stop hating it!
Well a rather boring first post - no pictures or owt!
