well here I am, back

It has been a very fraught few days with a very poorly husband on my hands, and although I am cautiously optimistic that he is now on the mend he's certainly not firing on all cylinders. More like one of four. However compared to how he has been it's a huge improvement, and as long as it's a sign that he continues to get better I'll take it. 

Thank goodness my phone stores photos by date, otherwise I wouldn't have  a hope of catching up on the advents with any accuracy at all, and although what I'd really like to do is rant about our local hospital  I'll save that for a day when I have calmed down a bit  a lot. So if  little bits of wool, tea lights and tiny jars of jam aren't your thing, I'm sorry. I will blog about other stuff over the coming days just not today.  

Day 5

candle is amber and sandalwood and the jam is pineapple and passionfruit.

the mini skein 

Day 6 

candle is Wild Orchid and the jam is orange, yuzu and grapefruit.

Day 7 (which would be yesterday)

spiced rhubarb and Christmas Eve

no picture of the bag because I was too frazzled to take one, but the sticker had a pixie

This is a picture of progress on the cowl from Week 1 of the Lay family yarn Christmas Market advent. I haven't got as far as I would have liked i.e. I would have liked to finish it this week, but it hasn't been a week when I've had a lot of time and I've been prioritising the advent blanket. Which now looks like this

I have somehow managed to keep up with it despite everything, it's probably about the only constructive thing I've managed since Tuesday. My corners are not as well aligned as I would like but I am cutting myself some slack on that front. 

And now I must take myself off to do other constructive things. Back, I hope, tomorrow.