long week, lovely post

It has been a loooong week at work, people have been off ill and that has impacted on everyone's stress levels. So quite happy to get home tonight and find my first parcel of lovely smells. Sharing these with a lovely friend at work.

odd weekend

Well a bit of an odd weekend, we didn't go out to eat as darling hubby G was feeling rough, unfortunately this happens fairly often due to his Crohn's  we stayed in and ate jacket potatoes these suit us well when he's not well, the kids and i can have lots of different toppings and G has plain potato with olive spread . I spent some time with my friend C on Saturday we are planning lots of things for this year,  in previous years we have talked about doing stuff and not really gotten round to lots of them so this year is the year that we do things instead of talking about them. So far the plan is to take it in turns to chose the activity January's choice was C's and its a visit to Hampton Court so that's where we are planning to go next weekend. February's activity is afternoon tea out for C's birthday.  So March was my choice and i am trying to get a group of 8 people so we can go curling, slightly oddball idea but why not?.
So back to work tomorrow,  just hope this week is a little calmer than last week.

long week that ends with a few treats

Well that's it for this week, thank goodness by Wednesday I really thought I wouldn't make it to Friday evening, and I am definitely battered and bruised but I have made it through.  It is my friend C's birthday today so we had cake at work that absolutely helped us to make it, that and the emergency chocolate from our friends next door. So for C's birthday I am booking for an afternoon tea treat day in London,  something lovely to look forward to. Hopefully we will be able to go in half term. My gorgeous husband had an interview on Thursday so we are now crossing everything and waiting to hear, we decided we would go out as a family tomorrow to celebrate lots of little bits that don't really need celebrating but we do all need a little treat as a pick me up. I will try to remember to take photo's . I have also treated myself to some lovely hand sanitisers from eBay,  one of the girls I work with has some Bath and Body works pocketbac 's in a little holder that someone got her for Christmas and they smell yummy, unfortunately we don't have that store in the UK and they don't do international shipping so as we all use lots of anti bac at work i decided to treat darling daughter and I to some. They are £2.50 each so I can't get too many but am looking forward to trying them. If anyone knows of where to buy them cheaper please let me know.

come on snow, we are waiting

I so want it to snow,  we haven't had a good amount of the white stuff for the last few years.  I really love watching the snow fall especially at night, and walking when you don't need to  is fun. I obviously like to be prepared with plenty of food in the house especially as I have to make meals for my lovely mother in law.  So there is a small chance this weekend I am keeping my fingers crossed.  I hope that everyone stays safe in this weather. Of course another reason for liking snow is the possibility of a few snow days it is a great opportunity to craft and I don't feel guilty about not spending time with the family as we are still altogether.

TSNEM January done

So I  have been creative this weekend,  it feels good to start the TSNEM challenge and complete my first project. So my first arm knitted scarf is done it looks good, it certainly took me a lot longer than the you tube video tutorials, they vary between 30 Min's up to 1hour. I took about 2 hours but then I was stopping for cooking and then to go pick up my son from work. Although I found this quite a challenge I'm really pleased I persevered as K is so happy with the scarf. I am in the process of a second scarf as when I was shopping with my husband today he found some great chunky wool in Aldi, which he encouraged me to buy, so I did lol. This wool is black with a strand of grey and brown twisted together so I have mixed it with a ball of black lumio wool I will post pictures of the finished product tomorrow.
Sad times back to work tomorrow.

TSNEM January 2015

We have tried something new this month yipee. So arm knitting was the challenge we decided on and today was the day, so this afternoon we spent about 20 minutes watching you tube video tutorials.  I finally found one that made sense to me 
Arm Knit Infinity Scarf (Cowl): http://youtu.be/wEK_pifMC2g

I found this video really simple to follow. I haven't finished the scarf yet as i had to go pick up my son from work, so I am going to try to pick it up after our meal but here are some photos and a 

 from earlier if i can work it out I will post a short video later

Researching arm knitting

TSNEM so after a long day at work I have spent a lovely long time researching arm knitting , youtube  and pinterest have lots of different tutorials so I have highlighted a few to watch on Saturday when K and I are going to try to create either a scarf or blanket.
So if anyone has any good tutorials please let me know.