Almost the end of the week

I thought it was time I did another wee Etsy treasury on here. Tomorrow night I'm hosting our regular knit and natter evening, so in honour of that, I researched handspun yarns. These ones were picked because they jumped out of the pages at me today. I love using handspun yarns - the variation in both colour and yarn thickness means the end fabric is so much more exciting than one made with a plain coloured machine spun yarn. I'm not denigrating machine spun yarns - there's a place for these and I have hundreds of skeins in my stash, but sometimes it's nice to get a surprise as you knit the item up!

Whoville handspun art yarn by malcolmandmarcus

Brown skittles handspun yarn by knittywittyivey

Purple and orange handspun yarn by disturbedpenguinpoo

Stained glass handspun yarn by Jazzturtle

Prize for most incredible shop name goes to Disturbedpenguinpoo! I'm not sure I want to know......lol

Back in cyberspace at last!

This lovely pc of mine has been behaving badly recently, switching itself off when left for a break. On Sunday it switched itself off after being left for a lunch break, and refused point blank to switch back on. It was trying, oh boy was it trying, but every time I pressed the little blue button it started, choked and then stalled with a faint, pathetic wheeze.

One call to the seller later and a diagnosis of power supply failure was made and an engineer booked. He came this morning and within half an hour I had a new lovely power supply box fitted and a pc that was co-operating again.

I must do a back up of the last couple of months work tonight though, as I've neglected this duty recently. I should know better after last summer's catastrophic failure..

Thought you'd like a sneaky peek at a new product range that

I'll be listing in my Etsy store soon.

Sea glass treasures.

Over the last week, Dad's health has slowly "recovered" from the stroke he had. I say "recovered" as it's a process that we can't expect a lot from. The brain damage from the stroke is impossible to separate from the brain damage inflicted by Alzheimers, so it's not possible to determine which condition has caused what.

He's probably not going to recover more than he has, meaning he's in a bed constantly now, he's unable to feed himself or speak any more, However, he IS interested in what's going on around him, he's eating and drinking what he's given (lots of sugar and cream, just what he likes!) and he's definitely more present. His body is so frail now that we know the next stroke will probably be the last, but as long as he has some quality of life until then, I'm content.

After a massive lull on the blog front, I've decided that today's wee treasury should be based on one of my very favourite activities - beachcombing. Personally I can't walk along a beach without picking things up, and I have a collection of stones, shells, urchin skeletons and coral pieces (collected on the west coast of Scotland) as well as my favourite items - sea glass and pottery shards.


Sea Glass Treasures...

Green sea glass necklace by CreationsByRobin

Light green earrings by Beachcomber0325

Aqua necklace by Amaritimegirle

Sea glass ring by JeDonnea