hrm. Feeling better lately.

Friday has now turned into Tuesday. The dilly-o with that is that Grans has cancer. It is in her shoulder, and bit are in her lungs now. You see those ads on tv, about how melanomas can dislodge, and go whoopie into your body? Fairly sure that's what's happened. We were supposed to find out what was happening with test results on Friday, but something happened, and now it's Tuesday, 10am. She's also recently fallen over (like, two months ago) and has slipped a disc in her back. So she's having trouble moving around, and her shoulder hurts (understandably) Trying to be strong, and not wibble (aww, wibbling. I miss wibbling :) but you know, being a sook... They sent her home on Friday and told her to come back on Tuesday, and 'be prepared to stay'.

Anyway. I got my hair cut.





Good times :)

Went to the BDSnB (Brisbane Daytime SnB) last Monday (and will be going again tomorrow) with Chrissy and Kaylee. Twas good, met some new knitters, and had yummy foods. Did a marathon getting ready that morning, seeing Peppa was a horrible kitty that morning, and woke us up disgustingly early. Shall take the camera...

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Hrm. Just woke up. It appears I forgot to post this last night. :)

Quickly.... projects I am working on at the moment include the Downtown Clutch out of some of my hand dyed, and the Boyfriend Beanie for Tam out of Jo Sharp Tweed Aran. Or something like that :)

Everything now is "after Friday"

Still alive. That's pretty much all. Would love to write a big long post about what's going on in my life, but not ready for it. Nothing relationship wise, more family wise. But need to know more before anything. Either way, something I have never dealt with before. I wish I was more like my mum, who has awesome control over her emotions. Also, not pregnant.

Won't be heading to SnB tonight, as much too tired. Peppa has woken us up much too early two mornings in a row, to the point where I was chasing her around the house at 5:00am, and ended up shutting her in the bathroom so she would stop annoying us. And then promptly burst into tears of exhaustion + blahness in general. Am continuing to put together AusKnitters Swap parcel. I have handstitched a project bag together of some nice floral material, and I need to find a ribbon to tie it up with. I am pretty proud of that. Will take photos once I have found ribbon :)

So here we are again...

I've taken the past week off knitting - I've been working on mum's birthday present (She Wears Seashells) and last Tuesday, my hand went on strike. It was nice enough to go on strike when I got to the SnB. So there has not been much knitting happening around here.

And I'm feeling a bit ill - I ate probably two and a half muffins worth of muffin batter while making chocolate chip muffins this afternoon. Whoops.

The SnB was great last week - nice and relaxing, just listening to new people talk. And smooshing yarmmy. Err... yummy yarn! :D So I'm heading back tonight! I've also scored a great project basket from the Ferny Grove markets on Sunday - only $8, and it's huge (and lined). I've started work on my Meret again too, after finishing it last time and it being ridiculously too small. I finished off my Monkey Socks as well, last week. Or the week before. Here's a pretty picture:



I am very proud of them! And one of the first projects for a while that I've made for me. I actually don't remember the last project I made for me. Whoops. My meret is the next project just for me too. Other than that, it's everyone else :) Nevermind, not to worry.

Swappy goodness!

Ok, so the Australian Swappers group on Rav have had a Orange swap going on for a while, and I got my parcel today!!! :D The lovely Mooska, also known as Deb, spoiled me good!

Firstly, a before shot:


accompanying this wonderful parcel is a card, which made me feel loved (and squealed a little during reading):


Some Vintage Hues:


A lovely star cloth:


*wiggles excitedly* my very first owning handspun. O_O


And the particulars:


A lovely, bright tea towel, foldable scissors (which rock), 8mm orange knitting needles, and some orange beads:


Foodstuffs! Orange dark chocolate (which is in the freezer atm :), orange tic tacs, orange mints and Ceylon Orange Pekoe tea.


And the little things :) Orange sequins, two beautiful beads, some cute buttons, a little kitty figurine playing with yarn (eeeek! :D ) and some lovely kitty stitchmarkers!


And finally, group shot!


I had been a bit worried about this, seeing... well, you can't help it. But I am sooo happy and pleased with my parcel, especially after the love and orangeyness I put into my parcel for Shan :) I looooved putting that together too! Oooh it's just full of swappyness! :D

I'm off to my first SnB tonight at the Three Monkeys in West End. I'm quite excited about that as well, but a little nervous, with the whole meeting new people and all that jazz. I'm sure it will be fantastic though.

Before heading off to that though, I shall be going for a walk with Christine - we're making the decision and going walking in the afternoons. We'll see how we go for how often we'll do it, or how far we'll go, but I need to get out and do some exercise. We're also going to bellydancing classes
that start next week over at Wooloongabba. Hooray for being active ;)