Happy Mail

The grandsons are gone;   more on that story later, as they used to say on Dead Ringers when it was still funny and therefore I still listened to it. The visit  was a lot less bad than we had feared and some of it was even fun but gosh! children are tiring. especially talkative ones who think they know everything. 

Anyway, we're still in recovery mode - and mine was not helped by getting bitten or stung this morning by some horrible little flying thing that sunk its teeth, or sting, into the back of my my neck and then flew away sharpish before I had a chance to identify it. We were on our way into Hobbycraft at the time; when we came out  we went off to find a pharmacy for some antihistamine ointment. This  turned out to be a case of Boots 0 - Tesco 1; a surprise result as the football commentators say. I cannot really get my head round the concept of a large Boots without a pharmacy counter but take it from me, there's one in Falkirk. The Hobbycraft trip was a score draw I think; they did have safety eyes, a Styrofoam wreath for Christmas and some fat quarters of very nice Christmas fabric. They didn't have self adhesive ribbon, or a pushy tool for rag wreath making or any 2mm dpns, but I can manage without the first two if needed and I'm sure I can find some of the latter if I look hard enough. And they weren't urgent. 

Once we came back I washed some towels, read a bit, knitted a bit, cross stitched a bit, and paper crafted a bit and I am slowly coming back to myself. Another couple of days and we'll be back to normal. 

And now for the happy mail. I got two months together of the Yarn Unique Artist of the Month club for reasons that are too long and too boring to go into. 

Here is June's 

I loved this, The artist is Hiroshi Yoshida. Beautiful yarn, and postcards and a cherry blossom bag. The bag is a bit small tbh, not sure what I could use it for, but I'll find something. 

And this was July - yarn and notecards based on the work of Kandinski. I really liked these too, just  not quite as much as June's.

To spur me on to have a proper go at the sewing machine I bought a small quilting kit from someone on Ravelry and that arrived on Monday

When I say small I mean teeny tiny, which I hadn't quite appreciated when I bought it, but I'm going to have a go at it next week. 

Should manage to get back here tomorrow with some photos of our adventures during the last week.