It's been forever!

I know I'm a terrible blogger and I haven't been keeping you all up to date at all! I'm so sorry but life ran away with all of my play time and I've not been on the internet much at all! Add to this the fact that my laptop committed Hari Kari on me and it adds up to less online time all over.
Anyway. I have a few photos for you and a bit of updating to get on with!
Since the weather has finally made a change for the better (fingers crossed it stays like this) we've had a change of decoration in the front room. We had snow flakes adorning the doorway over Christmas and during the cold months. We've changed to:


Love hearts! They're strung underneath a shelf in the living room, and the snow flakes have been put into hibernation, hopefully not to return for quite some time!

I've been making gifts for folks, and I made a pair of wrist warmers for some ones lucky mothers day. No, not my mother, I think I've knitted and crocheted her out already! The wrist warmers were based on a pattern I found on www.ravelry.com and they're so pretty. I even dug out my extra nice Rowan cotton to do them with. I've got a photo of the test run one I did, modeled here by Jude:


She's posing on a gigantic spool of acrylic yarn that has a ric - rak like effect - fun to work with.
The pair I gave away didn't have the white on the end and were finished off, as per request, with the dark blue rather than the white. I am really quite pleased with them. if I were as tiny as Jude or the recipient, I would make some for myself but unfortunately, the pattern turns out a pair much too delicate for my sausage fingers!

I have also been working on a monster project. One which I'll describe now but I can't show you yet. It's not finished. Mind you, if anyone would really like to see it, I could take some progress pics...
Well, Hannah is looking for her own place right now, hoping to move away from her parents for the first time. At night, I've often known her to wake with panic attacks and when she's here, I talk her down. When she's at home, her mom cares for her, but it occurred to me that when she moves out, no one will be there in the night to calm her. So, I started a 'Don't Panic Panda Blanket' (Panda is her nick name). The idea is that when she wakes in the middle of the night all panicky, she can cuddle into this blanket and calm herself with it. I want it finished soon, so that she can take it home and have it smell like home when she's feeling bad. I'll never forget when I went to uni and lived away from home for the first time alone, having my bedding and clothes smell of home was precious to me. I hope to make sure that Hannah has the same reassurance I had.

I still have a million and one things I want to make and craft, knit, scrap and crochet, and I promise I'll try and update more often in the future!