The mailman has been good to me over the past few days. Somehow, whenever I feel like crap, a nice pick me up arrives in the mailbox 🙂
Donni sent me this lovely little notepad. That went straight into the knitting bag. it sure beats the little scraps of paper I usually depend upon. (And lose).

And Nat sent me this polar bear candle holder.

Isn’t he adorable? I may manage a Polar Bear christmas after all! Thank you Donni and Nat!!
I finally finished the edging on the Mystery Shawl 2. But I forgot to take a picture. Just imagine a pile of blue yarn, because that’s pretty much what it looked like. It is now pinned out on beach towels on the bedroom floor, blocking like a good shawl should. I managed to block it out bigger than I thought it would. Finished pics tomorrow, I hope!
Then a bad thing happened.

That’s one of my new Rosewood DPNS. This is why you shouldn’t just shove your knitting into your (overfull) handbag. I was not happy. But then I pulled out an emery board and got to work. The needles were a little long for my preference anyway. The emery board worked so well that I shortened them all. The broken one is now a bit shorter than the others, but the others are 15cm long, as opposed to the 20cm they started out as. I’ve lost the nice lacquered finish off the ends that I filed, but they’re still nice and smooth.
So i now have the Vanalinn gloves, Em’s neverending kneehighs and my FCEK cardi on the needles. The Vanalinn gloves are about to get my almost undivided attention, I think. I find that when I have too many things on the needles, I feel like I’m accomplishing nothing, so I need to work on finishing these things.
And because Simone reminded me that we hadn’t seen much of Twink lately, here she is.
She washed her face first.

Then she ran over to say hello to everyone.

Hi Twinkie!

So I jumped on the bandwagon, but it doesn’t seem very accurate to me….

Your Birthdate: May 31

You’re a pretty traditional person. If it’s lasted, it’s probably good. You seek stability – both in your career and your romantic relationship. In return, you’re very loyal and predictable. Which is usually a good thing. Without a partner, you feel lost. Being with someone is very important to you. Your strength: Your dependability Your weakness: You hate being alone Your power color: Midnight blue Your power symbol: Shell Your power month: April

Quick update!
Thank you everybody for your get well wishes and birthday wishes for DH.
Not a stitch has been knit this week. It turned out that I have pulled or strained a muscle in my back, and I have spent the week flat on my back doing not very much at all. Many painkillers have been taken.
But I am feeling better today, so hopefully I can get back into the swing of things, hooray!

It is my beloved DH’s birthday today. And I’ve done my back in somehow. I kept him up half the night with my back pain. And then he went to work late so he could walk Em to the bus stop and I could stay in bed. On his birthday.
I told you he’s a keeper!
He’s getting the iPod mini he wanted, and I wanted to get him something else, but I couldn’t do squat today, apart from whine about the pain 🙁
Anyway, Happy Birthday, my love!!

So, I went to the Post Office this morning, and I discovered that the Trekking XXL sock yarn that I ordered from Lisa had arrived. I came home and took a picture of it.

The pastel is for me, the orange is for DH. Then I tried to put it away. And I came to a realisation. I couldn’t fit it into the sock yarn box.
Then I realised that I have a problem. Look away now, hubby!
Behold. The Stash.

It’s not as bad as I thought it might be. Although there might be more, hidden about the house somewhere.
I do not have too much yarn. I have too little time!