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Shop Update complete!!

Shop update is FINALLY finished.

Click here for new arrivals 

Right am off to enjoy the sunshine for the rest of this short weekend, will return on monday with my knitting progress of lacy top.

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Got more to update

I will continue tomorrow, there is more and the light is going and beer is calling rather loudly, it is friday after all!!
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Shop update

Despite the fact that I left everything plugged in and out in the sunshine yesterday and returned to pouring rain, the yarn is not as wet as I expected, so the update will go ahead as planned, yippee, (damned weather in Cardiff).

I will start updating now, but this is probably the biggest update ever so it will take a few hours at least, lol, but should be done by tea time.

Here are a few little tasters for you:

Lemon grass scrumptious lace:

lace in Sunshine:

Kid mohair in Candy floss.

Lace in 'The owl and the pussy cat'.

and a few more.... (i am very proud of this weeks update as you might be able to tell, lol)

Silence is Golden and bronze. Scrumptious DK.

Scrumptious lace in plum and gold

Scrumptious in plum and gold.

Tomorrows update

Imagine the update with it all put in the shop at the same time, lol, you know what I am like I always take 2 days to update the shop, but not tomorrow!! At least of it is actually dry,  and ready to go, camera batteries are charging, and I am loving the colours, lots of srumptious dk, lace weights, and sock, yum yum yum. I might post some pics later if the sun gets weaker, its hard to take photo's when the light is so strong. Nice thing to complain about though huh? ;-)

ps, forgot, lots of lovely fibres too :-)

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The most delicious Rhubarb, apple and elderflower compote in the world

Ok, so no photo's but at least the battery charges is winging its way to me, so there will be some soon.

Ok, so I don't really eat things like apples and oranges and things out of a fruit bowl, I like them, they just seem boring. I will eat mangoes and avacado, but not normal fruit, lol, so I have to make a concerted effort to eat fruit, but I LOVE stewed fruit, I make lots of it and put it in the fridge, and am happy to eat it all day long. Yesterday I had to use up some rhubarb and cooking apples and I made the yummiest fruit compote ever!! So here goes:

Equal quantities of bramley apples and rhubarb, chop, add a little water, AND this is the magic ingredient, add some Elderflower cordial to sweeten instead of sugar, it tastes like heaven, and cook it on a low heat until stewed to you preference, yummy with icecream or yogurt, would make a superb trifle fruit. Honest the elderflower cordial makes it taste so yummy. Sainsburys and waitrose have lots of elderflower cordials, so its easy to make. ;-)

I did some real knitting!! yippee

I actually did some knitting over the bank holiday, in amongst applying for various grants, and drinking gin and tonics in the garden and planting my fruit bushes, tomato plants and squashes, and of course bombarded my borders with tonnes of little pansies. It look superb, the vines are growing huge leaves, and should start climbing again in the next few days. I will take some pics once I find the battery charger for the camera. Even if my house is a state, I can always spend hours pottering in the garden, its so gorgeous, and I love the way it is never the same two days running. So thats it now, I will probably spend all my time in the Garden, and dyeing is so much more fun in the Garden.

So the lacy camisole I am knitting in scrumptious is simply gorgeous, and I want it finished by the weekend, I have nearly finished the back and will hopefully finish the front very soon, like I said pics asap.

Feeling good.

So, I feel like I am starting to get on top of things, and my normal frantic life is calming a little, or at least I feel more in Control. I have had a few offers of help recently from Elly and Abi, and for the first time in my life I accepted. I feel very relieved to be honest. I have started to have a little help on a Wednesday afternoon now, and  that is also  making a really big difference.

So,  I even went proper food shopping for the first time in quite a few weeks, marmite on toast wasn't cutting it, and last night I stopped work at 6 at once, and put a dress on, and some slap, and EVEN planned a project which is gorgeous from 'knitting Lingerie Style' and whats even better my scrumptious fits the bill perfectly, so I grabbed a purple skein and off I went, and it was really super, and I knitted quite a bit, the solid scrumptious is really nice to work with, its alot softer than the mulitcoloured, and has a soft haze to it,  I need to addit to my ravelry projects, see, thats what I mean, I haven't knitted anything from a pattern in years, I have felt so rushed, that I never feel like knitting anything other than what I have to, and I feel so excited again, to knit things for me, so I have beautiful clothes, it even crossed my mind this morning that I would like to try and make alot more of my own clothes, now that a serious sign that the creativity is coming back. I think that when my brain has to worry if I will be able to stay in my little palace in splott for another month, or not it takes up so much energy, I suppose, I am learning to trust that I am doing well now, and the business is successful and I have the ability to have all the things I want, I work bloody hard enough for it, lol.

The garden looks stunning by the way, the blossoms are out, and today the sun is shining and drying the 20 kilo's hung out on my tree frame, the birds are singing, and I am itching to get out and dye some gorgeous silks and things. There will be an update later on in the day.......

Happy knitting

ps, is there any significance in purple? I have been dyeing for the past week EVERYTHING in purples, as you will notice from the update, also, I am knitting in purple, have never ever done that before!!!!

I am alive I think.........

So, I have updated the shop with some of the laceweights, ploughing through orders, and have some help today, which is brilliant!! It makes so much difference.

So really to busy to write tonnes and tonnes, but here is the new scrumptious lace yarn, its the same blend as the scrumptious, and its soft and gorgeous with a delicate shine.....

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There will be an update on friday, fingers crossed, lol!!

xx

Wonderwool 2008

Well, it was fantastic, just amazing, I had so much fun, its just great to see people who I consider to be great freinds, there is so much playing and banter and cheekyness between stand holders it makes it a pleasure to work so hard. In terms of sales, it was pretty damned good on Saturday, even though it went between crazy and quiet, I didn't get to put the finishing touches on my stand before people came in and started buying, which is always a good sign. Yesterday was quieter, which meant I accidently got time to browse and buy a namaste knitting bag, I'll take a pic later, from knitting4fun.

I really could do with taking it easy today, my bones ache, and my muscles are so sore, but I have too much work to do, I really need to think about getting some help soon, Elly is coming for a week or hopefully longer in June and so she has offered to work.........I really cannot wait.

I will update the shop later on seeing as there is some lace left, I did rather alot, lol, and its the new scrumptious lace, and its plump, shiny and soft, with lots of deep delicious purples, so I'll get it on in a few hours. I then have to unpack the van, do an entire stocktake of everything for my taxes, tidy my decimated house, and then get ready for the rediculous chaos that ensues in the next few weeks, so I need to get organised asap, dyeing has to start tomorrow for 3 wholesale orders, lets keep our fingers crossed for the sunshine huh. I am also going to squeeze in some running everyday from now on, my stress levels kind of make my bloodpressure high and I know thats why I am getting migraines, running kind of makes me feel completely chilled, so it will be a nice way to start the day.

Onwards and upwards....

Evil Ravelry and Wonderwool Yipppppeeee!

So this is Why Ravelry is Evil. I thought oh my goodness look how dreadful my roots are, I need to dye my hair, so I slapped a load of bleach on, grabbed my fish fingers and chips, and sat with my laptop, emialing eating and reading ravelry seeing as it was 10pm and I still had tonnes of work to do. So I got dragged in. About 11.30, I though, hmm, should really check my hair, and then realised the time. I am lucky, just lucky that I have Iron hair, its kind of transluscent now, yeah, odd look to be sure, but at least its not falling out yet, despite doubling the recommended time. The moral of the story? Ravelry will make your hair fall out if you read it too much!!!!

So OBVIOULSLY, the yarn is dry, labelled, packed in the van and I'm read to go, gulp, um, NO. I can't actually get to the bottom of the stairs, there is still 5 kilo's drying on the rack outside, I need to clear the van out before I pack it. CRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So if you see a woman with translucent hair having a breakdown at Wonderwool, it will be ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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