Ok so I think it's been waaaaaaaaayyyyyy tooooooo looooonnngggg since I last blogged! Not sure why I left it this long. Perhaps I just needed a break from the blogging and creating malarkey. Anyhow I'm back.
The past few months have been a whole mix of joy, love, sadness, illness, new job and new challenges. Just normal life I guess. After a somewhat difficult start to the New Year I'm getting myself back on track and so the blogging is reinstated.
So whats new in Maria land? Well I have a new job. I started work as Deputy Manager at a nursing home on the coast and to be honest it's taken me 3 months to decide that I actually might quite like it!!!! It's full time and loooonnng hours but I think it's gonna be ok!
I have taken a little break from scrapping, on account of I simply do not have time (or the mojo!) at the moment. My scrap room is fairly tidy but has a weird layer of dust over everything. Maybe sometime soon I'll get in there and blow off that dust, but in the meantime I have developed a bit of a passion for crochet and have even hunted out the knitting needles from the loft!
I have been on a much needed holiday. A whole week of soaking up the sun, pampering and eating for England!!! It actually feels like a lifetime ago now but hey! I was there!!
I love a good sunrise! The dawn of a new day and all that it brings.
Sooo a brand spanking new year lies ahead! Well ok, we're more than half way through January but having had the most disgusting of chest infections (onto week 3 of antibiotics....this infection is a feisty little bugger!) to see the New Year in with, I feel like it is only now that I am beginning to plan out the year, set myself some goals, promise myself a few things and actually look forward to what the year ahead will bring.
Already this year I have finished a little knitting project. I was very lucky just before Christmas to have visited the Boden website only to find a sale in progress!!!!!! Oooooh I do love a good sale and especially when they have the very coat I had been lusting after in said sale!
Oh how happy was I????? It duly arrived on Christmas Eve....perfect timing or what? I love it!!!! However I decided that I needed a scarf to go with it. So into the loft I went, dragged out the knitting needles, and the knitting frenzy began and here are the results....
Sorry about the picture quality but the light here today is practically none existent! I've used the gorgeous Rowan Cashsoft yarn and its a pretty simple cable pattern. But oh how I love it! It was great fun knitting again and I'm planning a couple of knitted cushion projects in the future. But only once I've got a little further along with my current work in progress!!!!!
There's nothing quite like a bag full of gorgeous yarn to make my heart go a flutter :-) Balls and balls of Rowan Handnit Cotton just waiting to be transformed in to a large, large throw. I've made a start.... but have a long long way to go yet.
A glorious, chaotic, riot of colour. And it makes me smile everytime I look at the finished squares.
So thats the current crochet project!
On the home front I have lots of plans too for this year. My garden has been sadly neglected. It quite frankly looks like a shocking mess. This will be rectified. Well just as soon as the weather allows that is! Its waaayyyyy too cold out there at the moment to be digging, weeding etc. so planning is whats needed right now. I use my garden a lot. I love sitting out there, pondering life, sharing a glass of wine with friends and generally just enjoying the space. Its a lovely suntrap and nicely sheltered but teeny tiny. So sadly no room for veggie plots but plenty room for lovely blooms in the borders :-) Ah roll on summer!!!!
a fantastically productive start to the new year already maria!! that new coat is BEAUTIFUL and the scarf...wow...to die for!!!!! i can't wait for my cable lesson!
The crochet is coming along nicely too. Keep fighting the infection and get back on your feet properly.
anita
x
Posted by: anita | 21/01/2010 at 14:59
Love the scarf, goreous! Been a while since I created anything, knitted or scrapwise too.
However, have just started crochet so shall be looking for tips LOL
Hope youre feeling better, lots of love Jak x
Posted by: Jak | 21/01/2010 at 15:36