Thanks so much for the lovely comments about the bunny baking and Edgar. I am gearing up for a sale soon (probably mid february) and am just finishing off jumpers and dresses for 12 toys and beading some cakes. I’ll send out advance emails to those on my advance list when I know a date.

This week has been a funny one but on balance there were more ups than downs. The main down was Toby being ill with an unspecified virus. He had a high temperature and snuffles and just lay on the sofa and wouldn’t eat for 3 days – he must have been feeling pretty rough as it takes a lot to slow him down.

There have been a couple of other downs involving the car, loads of spam comments and hassles with discontinued yarn that I’ve already paid for – you know the usual mundane frustrating stuff, but now Toby is better and back at school that all seems done and dusted and I can enjoy the ups (and start catching up with emails – sorry there’s a backlog again!)

The first up was when we heard that Rose’s family have reached their fundraising target and will be able to take Rose for her treatment in the USA (thanks for emailing me Philippa)

Then I snagged me a Raspberry bag. I fell in love with the beautiful sneak peek pictures she posted this week on her site and stalked her etsy shop all evening and my gorgeous new bag arrived today. Thanks so much Alice – I love it! (there are much better pictures over on her site)

To top the week off my Mum and Dad stopped off for a quick visit on their way to stay with friends for a few days. Mum looks great and is wearing just a soft collar now. It’s nice to see them getting back to some fun activities after the last couple of months!

So on balance a pretty good week. Hope yours was a good’un and that your weekend is too!

…but not exactly of the kind I had in mind!

I had to take Amy to have a tooth out at the end of last week. So we got to spend an hour together, just her and me – and the dentist! Poor kid had a cracked molar and developed an abcess. Still she was incredibly brave and over the weekend we did manage to make some time together to do something a bit more fun:

We played spas and had manicures, cucumber facials and massages – which was much closer to what I’d orginally had in mind!

I remember when I was very little my Dad would sing me to sleep with a song (that I now sing to my own kids) and in the morning he’d wake me up with another:

Morning has come
Night is away
Rise with the sun
and welcome the day

I also sing this to Amy when I wake her in the morning (to a grumbled response) and this morning the words struck me as I pulled back the curtains on another dreary and dark, rainy January morning. Rising with the sun does make you feel good but what to do on mornings like this one where the sun seems so absent? There really is something about the lack of light at this time of year that makes it a depressing time. I’ve always liked winter (much prefering to be too cold than too hot) but the lack of light does sap my spirit. Summer seems a distant memory and all troubles seem to weigh heavier on a dull and overcast day.

It’s not all doom and gloom however because when all is dull, cold and damp outside, I feel completely justified in curling up in a soft, warm blanket and just knitting the day away.

With this in mind I’ve just treated myself to this new blanket – a pure lambswool Scottish crofters blanket from The Atlantic Blanket Company bought with some of the money which came to me following my
Gangan’s death last year. I’m planning to stitch a small memorial
patch to sew on it. I think of my Gangan and Gampy when I’m snuggled up and it seems so appropriate to be thinking of them
while enveloped in a warm hug.

 

So I am happy to be right here, right now, knitting and quietly waiting for spring to come.

Thanks so much for all of the comments on the previous post – reading them really helps and I’m really grateful for the support and kind words. Thanks people x