Toby had a good birthday on Tuesday – unlimited Green & Blacks chocolate ice-cream softened in the microwave, lots of cuddles and tickles, a few cards and presents (which he’s not so fussed about) and a dry afternoon for bouncing and bubbles after school – all the ingredients for happiness in Toby’s book!

I’m feeling a little more positive too, thanks to a few indulgences. When you’re a little down there’s nothing like treating yourself to something a little special. At least that’s my thinking and my justification for buying some gorgeous new yarn for animal knitting.

It’s Misti Alpaca’s new and wonderfully soft ‘best of nature’ baby alpaca yarn hand-painted with natural dyes. I think it will make some beautiful bunnies and fabulous foxes (After I finish the batch that I’m still working on of course!)

I didn’t stop there on the treats though! I’ve been admiring the beautiful and unique jewellery in Silverpebble’s shop since she opened and when she listed her latest collection inspired by nature I fell in love with her viburnum berries necklace, so now it is mine!

I love that it’s unique and naturally inspired but the thing that I love most is that it has 3 berries, because for me they’ll symbolise the 3 people most precious to me; H, Amy and Toby.

Thanks so much for all the good wishes for Amy’s birthday and for sending me your spare good luck for her birthday sleepover. It went really well, we all had a lot of fun (me included) and the girls surprised me no end by all being asleep by midnight – which meant I had a better night’s sleep than I usually get with Toby (who had gone off with his Dad to spend the night at Nana & Grandpa’s).

Whilst the girls were giving each other makeovers, eating pizza and watching dance movies I was left alone quietly crocheting up in my bedroom and so I now have 15 squares in ‘me old china’ blanket.

I am so much happier with the more subdued colour scheme – not everyone’s taste for sure, but most definitely what I had in mind for this project.

All in all a happy weekend at the Williams house!