My Mini City

This seems to be latest thing in one forum I visit. The more visitors your city receives the bigger it grows. Not wanting to be left out I had to create my own. You can find it (if you want to lol) here

It's been a rough week...

..at work and so tonight I decided to spend a little of the money I received at Christmas. I didn't dare splurge on yarn because the stash is threatening to take over the house at the moment and I really really really must do a bit of destashing, so instead I bought myself a year's subscription to Rowan International. Now I know that eventually it will result in more yarn thanks to the welcome gift, but at least I'm giving myself a little time to destash while I wait for it to arrive.

I'm also thinking about making some Easter chicks (pattern courtesy of HilaryD) for the children's group at Church. Ah but I'd have to buy some yellow yarn wouldn't I? Yes but it's for the children, so that makes it ok....hmmmm....clever me? ;)

Some pics from my visit to Madame Tussauds

Ok...as promised, I've uploaded some of my pics from Madame Tussauds. Actually looking through them, I didn't take as many as I thought I had...I was probably so busy ogling all the waxworks lol. One thing I have noticed though, is that the waxworks look a lot less lifelike in the pictures than they do in real life...odd! I'm not much of a photographer though, so that could be the problem. These are the ones that turned out best.

I'm Back!!

Well we had a wonderful weekend in London. At first we didn't even know if we were going to get there. Heavy snow here in Northern Ireland on Thursday evening (more or less unexpected too) meant that I spent a very depressing morning on Friday listening to repeated news reports on the radio that all flights in and out and Belfast City Airport had been cancelled, and watching the airport's website to see if there was any news.

In fact very few flights were cancelled, but there were lots of delays. We were due to fly out at 4.40pm and were assured at check-in that our flight would be leaving on time. We didn't get into the air until 7pm, but we were luckier than some. I bumped into an acquaintance at the airport whose flight had been delayed since 2pm and still no news as to when it would take off as we were being called to board. By the time we reached our hotel (and by hotel I mean Travelodge) the kitchens had been closed for the night and naturally I was very hungry, not having been able to eat all day, so we dropped off our things and went in search of some sustenance. Managed to find a kebab shop open and ate our fill before returning to our room and falling into bed, only to roll out of it what felt like five minutes later to start our very busy Saturday!

More about that tomorrow though...or maybe the next day. Right now I need to curl up in bed and catch up on some rest. Who wants to join me in my campaign to have an extra day added to the weekend?

London-bound

My sister and I are having a weekend in London this weekend. It was planned months ago, when we booked tickets to see 'Joseph' in the Adelphi. I can't believe it's come round so fast! But now there is more excitement. I've just booked tickets for a visit to Madame Tussaud's. I've always wanted to visit and I can't believe that I am really going! Expect lots of pics next week some time!

Socks in progress

I'm also currently working on a pair of socks, future owner yet to be determined. The yarn is Opal Rainforest 2 Butterfly that's been languishing in my stash for a few weeks now begging me to knit it up. One sock is completed, it's sibling (no matter how hard I try I never manage to create twins) is still on the needles.

Seaweed Scarf

Well in keeping with my resolution I thought I'd make a couple of posts and show off my current WIP's. I'm knitting this seaweed scarf from 'Simply Knitting' for my mum. I'm loving the way it's turning out and the yarn (rowan scottish tweed 4ply) is, in my opinion, a thing of great beauty. I fell in love with it on the website and it's even more loveable in real life. It's a very slow knit though, I expected it to knit up a lot quicker than it is. This is it, about one third completed.