Wednesday - hibernating

Not done nuffin today. No motivation. It us clearly the sort of day on which one is supposed to just curl up in a ball in some straw and wool under a big dry tree.

I did have to go to the shops which nearly killed me (literally, walking down a steep ungritted icy hill. Grr. Luckily I took the buggy today so saved myself...though abi did not enjoy the buggy ride one bit!)

Also managed to eat most of the festive loaf I baked last night. It's just bread with cinnamon and raisins and a dot of ground cloves. So good toasted with butter.



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Tuesday - stuff

White stuff



Fluffy stuff


Stuff which looked like it was going crap but suddenly went fine



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Monday - steek!

Am knitting Xmas things at the mo so can't really post pictures...well I'll post a little one in honour of my first steek-type-thing



Loaned some knitted Xmas decs to the local knitting shop today so took pics of them all together



Nothing amazing, but made me feel a bit festive!


Also wore my new socks out today! They worked fine..



Wish I didn't have such big feet.

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Sunday - socks!

Finished my first ever whole pair of socks, hurrah!



Apologies for awful photo, here's a better one of when they were nearly finished



I would share the pattern but it's just a plain bog standard sock, so there you are.

Also today:
Painting snowflakes...


A few real ones outside...



what children do when it looks like they're doing nothing...



I was quite impressed by thus structure, and thought how it's ok to be bored sometimes, otherwise you'd never get to enjoy the funny little things you do when you are slightly bored.
The children also made this...



...mess.

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Saturday - brrrr

Tis chilly today.


We went on a tour of the local castle today, which has re-opened so recently that our lovely volunteer guide knew nothing about it! But she was lovely, and it was a treat to look inside and imagine it as a home



Isn't this window beautiful?



View from the roof!



Don't think that was there in the 16th c.

Then we pootled down to the harbour



Where there are all sorts of delights to look at.



I suppose you could even buy them but that would spoil it somehow.



Twas v cold. Must finish the other one of these. Hopefully this weekend.
And my fave moment today...



I have often imagined abi being old enough to grab a book and sit herself down on the little bench I painted. And now she is. Heart-melting.

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Friday

This Friday I am grateful for...

Good chocolate:



Homemade chocolate biscuits





Warm mittens for hiding behind...





So you can pop out at your brother!
I don't know why I used the buggy this afternoon, she was in the sling this morning like usual and its much cosier in this weather.  It is fun to get the buggy out sometimes though, and see her look around at the world, pointing to birds and playing with her brother.





Figuring out tubular cast on. Like most knitting 'things', not as difficult as anticipated.






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Wednesday-bowls

Been taking pics of random things around the house to put on ravelry. Pointless really but kind of satisfying to see the things all together on a page. There are many silly things I've wasted time knitting, today I documented my crocheted/felted bowl addiction.

This was going to be a set of 3 which would fit together. But the 2nd one is so great for crayons that I stopped there!



Random bowl. Some random tiles live in here, the children are quite fond of them for pattern making, mess making etc.



Nimu gave me this wool. It is so lovely, one of my faves ever. Most went into a cardi for dd, I'm glad there was enough left for this. Perfect for autumn.


Scrappy experiment bowl.


Noro version of same (bad evening pic!)



My names naomi, and I'm addicted to bowls!

Also today...tiger sock!



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