2009

One of many "This was 2009" posts, I imagine, but as I seemed to have just remembered that I have a blog, here we go.

Rather that assessing how much I and my life changed in 2009, (quite a lot, and then reverted to a younger self!) I thought I'd just assess the spectcularly cool things I did this year.

1. I went to San Francisco, and it was freaking awesome. I've never felt so relaxed and comfortable in any other city.
2. I went to Brussels (twice) and developed an unwielding love for ale.
3. I went to Barcelona and was horrified at the prices but impressed by the architecture and attitude. I also discovered that I can read a map better than strangers that insist on "helping" you in the middle of the street, and I like Sangria.
4. I had a pretty good year at work, learning a lot and becoming a lot more confident in my profession.
5. I resumed my love affair with knitting, and gave out hand knitted presents for Christmas that I was really proud of.
6. I drank a lot of beer.
7. I walked a lot of miles. I hope to do this in 2o10 too.
8. I watched Series 1-7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and it was one of the best uses of my time, ever.
9. I did not injure myself. At all.

That's pretty much the best ones. I did a lot of other cool stuff, but it would take me forever to write them, we'd all get bored reading them, and I currently can't think of many more than what's listed above.

Happy new year. See you at the end of 2010 for a similar post...!

Knit knit knit knit knit

Following on from my previous post, the knitting bug has come back in full force and as such I attended the iKnit Weekender at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London last weekend, really by chance but I am immensely pleased that I did go. So. Much. Yarn. And so many other lovely things and lovely people! It gave me huge amounts of inspiration and I set about completing my first ever knitted soft toy.

Behold... Harris.


Ok, he's a bit wonky, and he does have visible ear seams. But I like him. Super quick and easy to make up, and really the mistakes I made were down to losing attention and although I repaired a potentially huge mistake, the little errors didn't seem so important. I think his wonkiness adds charm.

The best part about the Weekender? Only one of my favourite pastimes, the shopping! So. Much. Yarn...! Beautiful beutiful things but I had a budget, which I blew anyhow, but I did try and remain fairly sensible... a pattern book, yarn for specific projects, wooltops, buttons and a new needle set were my vices. The photo below is of my goodies, and a few other recent acquisitions.


Now I feel like I have enough to get started on Christmas presents...!