Knyttwytch's Crafts and Stuff

I think I am hibernating!

This was Friday, I took a photo of the front of the house as I headed out to the local pub for lunch (by the way out house ends at the bricked up entrance way)

48 hours later and this is the back garden

Lots of doggy paw prints and a covered dog water bowl, and the snow is even staying on the washing line! As crutches and snow are not the best combination in the world I am staying inside where it is warm and toasty, lots of mugs of tea and probably my Kindle, this being the UK though I doubt it will last for long - I hope not at any rate I am supposed to be meeting a friend for lunch on Tuesday!

All Sorts of Stuff

It may not be the best photograph, but this is my first knitting project finished! A simple shawl (a little snug maybe - but as I lose weight it will be better fitting), I am currently working on a stole (about half way through), it is in a thick cotton and will be good for a cool summer night (which we tend to have more of than warm ones at the moment!)



The 2nd photograph shows my birthday gifts, a good friend got me the seeds (and a book about the various types!) and OH got the planter, this coming Saturday we will thin some of these out and use them in a stir fry (they are all Oriental veggies, and we like stir fries so this is a win win situation!)

Hmm what else? Well the rosehip wine is now bottled (and tastes very nice!), I/we need to set off a Rosemary wine and a kit fruit wine (I think it is a peach one but need to double check that!)  OH has a beer kit to start off, so that will be next weekends job I think, hmm this coming week though what do I want to get done? Well the list is as follows:-

1. cleaning (loo, bathroom sink, kitchen sink, stove top)
2. go to crafty afternoon
3. finish stole
4. go to dietician (in the hope of shifting some weight!)
5. get the afore mentioned beer/wine started
6. text J
7. decide on next craft project (a toss up between a tapestry and more knitting! - of course I could always do both)
8. write on my other blog
9. find a new recipe

Now that may not sound much but when you are shattered all the time then trust me it is more than ample!

Cleaning and Crafting

*Sigh*, I have the sofa and desk of DOOM again - my mission for this week (should I care to accept it!), as well as this I want to get some crafting done (I have discovered that with a stand I can manage a short length of yarn on a "Tapestry" so I plan on getting my tapestries done!), the sofa picture shows a Waterstones bag - that has some knitting in (a simple shawl - which now I have some better circular needles I can work on), on the desk is the "travel" crochet bag, again I want to get some of that done as well.  Add in to that the fact that I have a magazine to send out, stuff to get filed, stuff to get moved, books to read, seeds to sow .... it seems I will be busier than I originally thought!

I need to decide whether to clear the desk first or the sofa, do I work on both together? Or do I think "hang spring cleaning" (Mole from The Wind in the Willows) and just do the crafting! I know which I would LIKE to do ... but then again I like the place to look clean and tidy (another *sigh* for this one!)  Crafting would also take my mind off the fact that I am again trying to diet and at the same time I could have an audio book running - this would mean being able to keep on top of my Goodreads challenge, mind you the same could happen whilst clearing so that isn't too much of a problem (I have an Agatha Christie and a Dorothy L Sayers to get through quickly - both I think I have on audio, the one for the book club is on my Kindle so that is a sit and plough through it one!)

Hmm I wonder if A would be free this Saturday for lunch and a Knit and Natter? I think a text fest might be called for!  That and planning a healthy menu for next week (will the weather clear up again - salads are losing their appeal!)

In praise of stunt stitchers!

Thank you oh wonderful on-line friends for helping me get my stitching done - these ones have been done and I just need to find a time when OH isn't at work and also not running around like a mad thing so I can get them to the framers.

Before and After

We had some friends down for the weekend, and whilst they were here Toby got to have his first ever hair cut! Hand stripping, clippers on the soft fluffy fur, washed and dried (he was fine with all of it until the hairdryer bit!).  But here are a couple of before and after shots of the pooch.

There is suddenly a lot less dog *grin*

Okay weight stayed the same this week, but after a week on pain killers that is not too bad, sold another book on Amazon (this should clear my negative balance , someone claimed that a book never arrived, amazing how everyone else's did! I now send 2nd class recorded *sigh*), hmm what else, well I have started making tentative plans for the new me , which will also mean starting a new diary I think, the debt busting will need to start over again but that is fine, today I have been trying to get some cleaning done (it HURTS majorly to stand and dust) and over the weekend Dr Tempewytch dragged the futon sofa out and we really cleaned around and under it AND cleaned all the slats as well (and Goddess there was enough fluff under there for another Cairn Terrier ).  It is nice to see the sofa with just my handbag on it and no other bits of "stuff".

As well as this we are gradually clearing some shelves (built in the alcove by the fireplace) we hope to get the filing boxes on there so that will clear space on the floor - so getting there slowly but surely!  Hmm thinking about it if Dr Tempewytch could clear his box of papers and I get rid of a standard craft lamp I have never and will never use then the boxes could go on the floor UNDER the shelves freeing up more space , crocheting will not happen until after the weekend (unless I meet a friend for lunch later this week in which case I will take something small with me), but I have started pulling a daily Tarot card again and I want to get back to NOT letting life get me down.

Stash needing stunt stitchers!

Okay the previous 4 posts were pictures only, these are the first (!) of the charts and kits that I need stunt stitchers for (as well as this there are charts etc for Celtic Autumn/Spring/Winter and Noel), I still have more stash to go through (more !!!) and then I need to throw myself on the mercy of friends who cross stitch!

Wonderful meet up

Some friends I only know from on-line were going to be in Swavesey and so we all arranged to meet up, it was great to put faces to the names and even better to have a nice chat about everything and nothing *grin*

Dr Tempe took the photo, hence no shot of him - here's hoping we can all meet up again soon