A tate excursion....

Yesterday lunchtime the girls and I took an excursion to the Tate Britain gallery, which we are lucky enough to have next door to our office, this is one of our favourite ways to spend a lunch hour and we always have so much fun taking photographs and performing our own mini photoshoots!

Its the Bobbleheads!

and Goodbye!

My purrfect cat...

Round and round....

I think I have found a new craft to get into....

Circular weaving!

Image by Nothing is New

I have been inspired by THIS post by Tricia of Bits and Bobbins, she discovered a brilliant book called Weaving without a loom by Sarita R. Rainey via THIS post on the Nothing is New blog.

I am ordering my copy now HERE on Amazon! I can think of so many different and lovely things to do with this concept, art, jewellery, accessories, endless possibilities....

my lovely presents...

I have been spoilt rotten this year and consider myself a very lucky girl, I have been taken out for dinner and lunch, been bought a balloon (!), been baked a cake by a lovely co-worker and been given lots of lovely presents, my girls are very good at taking note of my hints!

Here is a glimpse....

Toasty neck....

I made this neck-warmer to keep my Dad nice and toasty during the winter months, he requested something that would be tighter than a snood but loose enough to be comfortable, so I found a nice 2x2 ribbed neckwarmer pattern through Ravelry which you can find here :

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/red-hot-neckwarmer

I changed it slightly so it was longer at the bottom part (extending to his chest rather than just the hollow of his neck) so that he could wear it with his favourite fleece which zips open at the neck, without there being a gap to let the breeze in!

Luckily he seems very happy with it and the only complaint is with the rather hairy yarn I used, Wendy Serenity, a lovely and soft Alpaca/wool/acrylic blend but can leave you looking a bit like you have been rolling around in the dog's basket!

The baby and the rose...

This is my Dad's favourite picture of me as a little girl, it's so Seventies it almost hurts...I am 32 today, a world away from this chubby little thing :-)

my super siblings....

I'm so lucky to have such super siblings, I wouldn't change them for anything :-)