Yes, I have been shocking...

Yeah... hello there, blog. How's it going? :) I know, I have neglected you. In the past two months, I have:

• gone to Mackay, and have had duties of Maid of Honour for my oldest friend's wedding
• finished a few projects, including an Ishbel shawl for Chrissy for Xmas in July!, a February Baby Sweater for little miss Kaylee who turned 1!, Porphyria for a stashbuster swap, and Springtime in Philadelphia for me!
• continued knitting my February Lady Sweater
  
• played with my drop spindle!
• signed a contract on our first house
  
• gone unconditional on our first house
  
• settlement for said house is this Friday :O
  
• started packing up our current house
• donated some yarn and needles to Lifeline
• donated a lot of clothes to Lifeline
• continued to love working
  

Mum, Pop and Caitlin arrive today, so it will be busy busy again. Some quick photos of what I have finished though, and then to continue cleaning/packing. :)

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 :)

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 ;)