Wool Against Weapons ~ Sophie

 

I have started doing some crochet for this amazing pink peace scarf.  If you are a knitter want to join in you can find more details at

 

http://www.woolagainstweapons.co.uk/

 

Here's my first piece, just over half way done.....

 

 

....it is pink lol, dodgy photo! I'm doing this one plain but I think I'll get a bit more adventurous for the next one - I could become a little obsessed with this project!

 



Yarn Along ~ Sophie

 

 

I'm joining in with Ginny's Yarn Along for the first time in a few weeks.  Before Christmas I joined 'Loving Hands', a charity knitting website, so I've been knitting a few bits for them over the past month or so.  I started with some scarfs and I'm currently trying a baby hat.  Despite having had 3 babies and knitting for all of them, I never did hats! I couldn't knit in the round back then so they all got cardigans!

 

Reading-wise, I am nearly half way through Game of Thrones Book 1 - 'A Song of Ice and Fire' which is my February book for the Artful Readers Club.  I loved the TV show and the book is great too so far.  I also have an audiobook on the go, 'A Discovery of Witches' by Deborah Harkness.  It's a bit of a 'Twilight'/'Trueblood' type book.  It's a good one for having a bit of lighthearted entertainment going on in the background whilst getting on with other jobs.  It has witches, vampires and yoga so appeals to me :) 

Creative Pay-it-Forward

I'm joining in with the Facebook creative pay-it-forward which was going around last month.  I have 5 friends to make gifts for and this is my first, a ruffle scarf.

I've haven't knitted with this type of yarn before and whilst it is easy, I think it's also not easy if you are a long term knitter. I found I was knitting much slower with it than I would with normal wool. I think the colours of this scarf are lovely and I'm pleased with how it turned out. Hope my friend likes it!

Lifebook January ~ Sophie

I have been managing to pretty much keep up with Lifebook so far this year. Here's what I've done for January's lessons...

 

 

There's another lesson which I was going to pass on as 5 seemed a lot to get done, but then I watched the video and I'm tempted as it looks fun. 

Rocking Your World Friday-ish ~ Sophie

 

 

A bit late for a Friday, but here's what's been rocking my world over the past week....

 

Meeee! I fixed the washing machine.  Ok, maybe there was a massive flood in the process but I unblocked the blockage and it works again.

 

Suprise gifts.  I am taking part in the Facebook 2013 Craft Pay-it-Forward thing and yesterday my lovely friend Rachel came over with this beautiful bag for me.  Rachel is brilliant at everything she makes, I love it :)  Later in the day my mum arrived with these hyacinths. This is lovely because I usually do some of the water jar type ones with the children during autumn half term but that was quite a difficult holiday week and I just didn't get it together.

 

 

Respite care for our boys, it's giving us a much needed rest and some time to do ordinary things.  Last weekend was mainly resting!

 

Birds.  I did the RSPB Big garden Birdwatch.  We don't get many birds here.  We have 3 cats, next door have 2 and there are more further along our terrace.  I do however get regular pigeons in the trees behind our garden.  What I learned from the Big Garden Birdwatch and getting my binoculars out was that some of them are not pigeons, some are collared doves.  I also learnt that not a lot bothers them but sirens make them become alert and go from 'puffed up' to, well, 'not puffed up'!

While the Birdwatch was predictably minimal, I got a big suprise later on in the day when I looked out of the window whilst loading the dishwasher to see the staring murmuration, a beautiful sight :)

 

Ducks.  Our local park has been shut due to flooding again.  It reopened this week but there is still a lot of water everywhere.  I saw ducks swimming around a tree in a bit of floodwater - sweet!

 

 

A fantastic full moon, Jupiter and Orion in the night sky.

 

Jasmine.  I love jasmine essential oil, particularly in the bath and ordered some this week as I was getting low. The day my parcel arrived, my new jasmine plant flowered and my kitchen now smells divine. 

 

 

Artful Readers Club.  I'm so glad I joined in with this.  This week I have read nearly 40 blog posts and received some lovely comments on mine.  It's great fun.  And if I hadn't joined in with that, I wouldn't have found Virginia's blog to join in with this which I also really like doing!

 

Linking up with Virginia at

 Celtic House