7.40am... hello world

Happy Birthday

to me!!!!

At 7.40am oh! Many moons ago I entered the world screaming, and I haven't shut up since lol!  I love, love, love celebrating my birthday and at the age of 41 I still feel as excited as I did at 5.  I just see my birthday as a magical day full of fun, self-indulgence and getting up to what I want.  So today I will eat what I want, drink what I want and do what I want and yes I might even  be a complete cheeky nightmare, but hey it's my Birthday.


                                                                

Scarf I *sneeze* made

I was feeling a little bit annoyed with the month of March, and I must say I was glad to see the back of it.  I know it was the month I found out about my positive assessment results  :D  I did a hop, skip and a jump everywhere I went for a whole week after it, I felt on top of the world.  Then on the last Monday of the month, I came home from college with the worst headache imaginable, followed by lots and lots of sneezing. I thought "I'll be okay  I had a flu jab in October, I will have this wee cold for a day or two max".  WRONG!!!!! I was totally floored.  I managed to go to college on Tuesday, but by the last class, I was dragging my heels.  I just about managed to prop myself up on the walk round Tesco,  my friend the trolley helped,  then my friend the car drove me home, and that was me for seven days.  I only managed to move from the sofa to the bed in between *coughing*, *spluttering* and roof shaking *sneezes*.  To say I was feeling sorry for myself was an understatement and to make matters worse there was no bread in the house, not that I could taste it,  I would've have been as well chewing on cardboard.  Something that Paul found devilishly funny.  Stooopid boy.

Anyway,  in amongst the dizzy spells, I realised I'd made something last year, and I didn't show it off,  funny the things you think of when ill eh?  However, being ill and having a Rudolph's nose I took a photo  of the said scarf  but decided to cut my head off.  Lol!

This is the Figure Eight Velveteen Scarf made from Anna Maria Horner's kit.  It uses two delicious fabrics:  velveteen and voile.  There's only a couple of seams to sew, and the result is a great looking scarf.

I also have another knitting  project on the needles.  This is Lace Shrug by Debbie Bliss (Spring/Summer 2012 magazine). I'm enjoying the knit but not sure if the colour is me.

 I used to hate purple, so what's happened to me as I've been wearing the colour quite a lot lately,  the other week I wore white linen trousers with a checked purple gypsy top.  Does this mean I'm becoming old?  Oh! Dear.

I'm an idiot

Hi everyone hope you are all well and enjoying the changeable but okay-ish weather we are experiencing you know sweltering summer type weather, then pouring with rain, then freezing, then summer again. Cardigan off, cardigan on. "Shall I wear sandals? No, it's too cold!", "Shall I wear boots? No! God, I'm sweltering".

So what have I been up to? Well.....I was stressed with college, and I decided to tidy up all my knitting WIP's (work in progress) only to find a nearly finished back to a cardigan, huh! How did that happen?

 It's terrifically plain and  beautifully knitted only thing is I can't for the life of me remember what pattern it's from, I normally keep the magazine or book next to the knitting- "PAUL, have you been touching my stuff again?" This isn't the first time this has happened to me, and I'm dead sure it won't be the last, normally when I find these knits I have to frog them.  Very sad I know but if I can't even remember what I was knitting, what's the point of keeping it and trying to make it match a pattern it doesn't belong to *sigh*.  I could really kick myself, very hard. Is anyone else out there in knitting land as stupid as me and do you have any remedies to stop this heartbreaking scenario from happening again?

Update: so well I decided to trawl Ravelry in the hope that I would find the pattern that matched my piece of knitting.  After two days of searching, I'm no further forward and to make me more miserable I think the pattern may have come from a magazine I chucked out with a hoard of others. Whaaaa!! Sob, sob.

Jayellesea's version of Sweetheart Cardigan by Grace Akhrem

Anyway while ogling all those patterns on "R" I found something to heal my sorrow in the form of another cardigan called Sweetheart.  This little cardi is similar to the finished back piece I have. Now, I know I can't keep the original piece, and,  I know I'll have to frog it but hey-ho I have a new beautiful cardi to make *squee*.

HP dv2000

Can you believe my beautiful laptop died on me for the 3rd time in a year?  It was extremely distressing, and I'm embarrassed to say I just sat and cried.  I suppose I can't complain it was a Christmas present from my O/H way back in 2006.  So, now it's at PC World having another overhaul, poor wee soul.  On the bright side,  I was lucky in the sense that I had printed off my essay and my assessment exam work before it died, someone in heaven must have been looking down on me.
So after discussing and pleading my case to Paul, he agreed I should treat myself to a new laptop, how kind of him to agree to me spending my own money eh?  Lol!

So I'm now the proud owner of the HP DV6 it's not as sophisticated as the HP dv2000 (which was the top of the range when I received it) but hey it has a fantastic sound, it kind of looks okay,  and it works.  I'm just hoping my dv2000  doesn't develop a complex when it comes home tomorrow, and it sees it's new replacement.  Awkward or what?

What else have I been up to?  Well... I'm reading this at the moment. I love this author and her amateur sleuth character Kelly Flynn.  I know it's not everyone's cup of tea but believe me, after reading about Cognitive, Linguistic, Social Development and Theorists for eight months my brain seriously needs a breather, before the mayhem begins i.e. my final exams.

The Walking Dead

I've also just finished watching: The Walking Dead based on an on-going series of comic books of the same name, written by Robert Kirkman.  It's about a group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies.  Mmmm! Goriness. To say I have withdrawal symptoms is an understatement,  I keep asking Paul when's the next series on.  Oh! And I can't believe they killed off Dale and Shane, although I would've certainly slapped the latter,  he seriously got on my nerves lol.

Flower Power

I bought these at my local supermarket the other day, aren't they gorgeous?

     I think if Paul ever decides to propose and marries me,

Narcissus will be my wedding bouquet flower.
Well, I can dream!

HaPpY eAsTeR!

Happy Easter

Everyone

I hope you all have a lovely day

xxx

                                           

Aw shucks I'm blushing!

I've been bestowed with an award.  I was just pottering around on my blog, when I noticed a comment on one of my posts. 

The message was from the lovely Stefanie over at Tecrin Tries  thank you so much.

What happens next?  Agghhh!  I see:

The award comes with the following *rules* :

• Thank the person who gave you this award. That’s common courtesy  ✓
• Include a link to their blog. That’s also common courtesy — if you can figure out how to do it ✓
• Next, select 15 blogs/bloggers that you’ve recently discovered or follow regularly. ( I would add, pick blogs or bloggers that are excellent!) ✓
• Nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award  ✓
• Finally, tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself ✓

Hmmmm! Seven things about me lets see.  Well I could cheat and just copy what I've already said in the previous post but  I'm not going to, no,  this shall be seven new things I wish to share.

1.   I love playing with Lego.  I never had this toy as a child, so when my O/H produced a significant box from  the loft; I sat on the floor and played  for hours.
2.  My all time favourite film is Breakfast at Tiffanys.
3.  When I was younger I won a lot of trophies and medals for cross country running.
4.  I can only eat chocolate when it comes straight from the fridge.
5.  I love puzzle books and can't go to sleep until I've completed one arrow word puzzle.
6.  I sing to all adverts on T.V.   I'm positive my O/H is going to feed me to the dog one day as this annoys him so much lol.
7.  I want to re-visit Prague and this time come home with a Golem statue.

Now, in no particular order, here are the 15 blogs that I am awarding the Versatile Blogger Award to ...
                                       1.   Ozzy Blackbeard Knits and Sews
                                       2.   Doodlywhatsits
                                       3.   Pink Shoes Knits
                                       4.   Winwick Mum
                                       5.   The Fantastical Faerie
                                       6.   The Sight of Morning
                                       7.   Under a Shady Tree
                                       8.   Elly Kantklosje
                                       9.   Vic's Knits
                                      10.  1 Funky Knit Wit
                                      11.  Jelly Jam
                                      12.  Country Cottage Chic
                                      13.  The Student Knitter
                                      14.  Teri's Blog
                                      15.  Art Rageous Quilter Studio
                                      16.  Lala... a Mountain Mama
 You lucky people, congratulations and I hope you enjoy your awards.
                                               
p.s. I know I've nominated 16 blogs  *blush*  but I was so over the moon at receiving an award I thought I would be generous.