That bag I have been meaning to make for an absolute age. I am very happy with it! I learned how to put in a zipper, and made a lined pocket...

So, I'm testing crochet hexagons. I've completed the first one (after the one who's instructions I couldn't follow) - the gr...

Not that I am incapable or anything, but my Big Two projects on the go/about to be got on the go are gifts for mother's day. And you kn...

Okay, I've been crocheting. I have a nice cotton circular coaster to replace the purple felted square on my desk. Then I tried out grann...

Have discovered dangerously addictive quality of crocheted granny squares. Small size & ease of completion = great small scale satisfact...

And learned to crochet. I have a brand new coaster for my coffee mug and am looking at crochet patterns. It's all down hill from here fo...

So, I haven't blogged for a while. I haven't really been doing terribly much - recovering from minor surgery, looking after my darli...

Well, I finished the beret and wore it to work, then realised that my body wasn't actually ready for work yet, wore it to the shops and ...

(Not really.) Well, I'm at home feeling somewhat sorry for myself following minor surgery. I should be fine in a couple of days. However...

Well, I am having a knitting 'meh' stage. Which is half true. I actually have things I am knitting.. the smoulder cardigan goes alon...

Not in a scary-evil-things-happen kind of way, just in a really, really busy kind of way. So I have small person birthday parties, post-chri...

Some days, even bad or difficult days, you find small pleasures in the simple things. Right now? I have a glass of milk. And two chocolate b...

Apparently, I've become a 1950s CWA housewife.. ( not that there's anything wrong with that.. ) I'm getting interested in both q...

I don't do well with waiting really. I can manage it better as an adult than I could when I was younger, and I can fake 'waiting cal...

Okay, yeah over summer now. Have I mentioned I loathe feeling sweaty? All this heat is leaving me feeling very blah on many fronts, includin...

Geek ramble. Skip to "in other news" if bored. Okay, some/many of you know this. I am a total vampire fiction geek. I will consume...

Say what you like about the nasty porn, the racist epithets and so on, there are things I love about the internet. One thing I love is YouTu...

But apparently this isn't the case. So first off. Merry Christmas (or your chosen holiday of this time of year). This is our tree, from ...

Okay, I have been totally burning the candle at both ends of late. Not with frivolty, no, no. With working during the week and the working o...

Some of you might have noticed the impending holiday season. (40 days left) Well, this year (unlike many) I am feeling more than usually pre...