Happy Valentine's Day

I hope everyone had a Happy Valentine's Day. Shaggy loved his dragon & Toberlone gift (I call it the Hobo Dragon, what with his cardboard sign.) Shaggy gave me the most beautiful pink, purple and white bouquet of flowers. :)

We did a bit of shopping today. Shaggy doesn't usually get Saturday off, but it's Family Day Weekend so I get him to myself for 3 whole days!

We stopped at Romni and bought some wool and some yarn I need to make a gift (not telling who it's for. :p) Shaggy spotted some beautiful knitting needles in the size I needed for my project (and only .80 cents more expensive then then the other not quite so spiffy ones) I picked up a pound of Welsh White wool to spin, but it's really scratchy! It's hard to tell when it's in a plastic bag. I think next time I'll pay the extra $2 a pound for the Coopworth like I did last week (in bit's right now being dyed as I type) Oh well, it spins well at least. I'm gonna see if it gets softer with some wool wash or something.

The mohair/merino/nylon yarn is drying too. It's plied, set and ready to dye. I only got 50 yards out of it though 0.o I'm waiting for some more roving to arrive in the mail. I'm gonna ply that with the Coopworth and use both yarns to make a stripy scarf.

We then went on to the Eaton Centre and found some beautiful tins for $1 each! I would have bought the whole lot of them, but I don't think Shaggy wants 10 plaid tins about the apartment (He hates plaid >.<) so I only got two. I'm going to use them to store crafty things or even just to store the small strips of roving I spin from.

I finally found a copy of Katamari Damacy. Shaggy thought it was interesting. He's actually better at it them I am, but I'm sure I'll get better with practice.

Wandering, with yarn!

Time passes, seasons change and I've wandered back again. What have I been up to you ask?

Shaggy and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary on July 31. Time flies, eh? I didn't even have this blog then! Annnywho, for his gift, Shaggy wanted to go the opening gala of Just For Laughs: Toronto. Though the seats were super high and we could only see half the stage we had a good time. They recorded a segment with Jay Leno during the show!



I got a new cell phone with Virgin Mobile for my gift. No more expensive Bell Canada plan! Woot! And I have a much cooler phone.

I've been working on my crochet and knitting skills. I have a couple works in progress. I'm working on a scarf (knit), a shrug (knit), a Rectangle Granny Square Blanket to layer on top of my yoga mat (crochet) and a top secret project ;) And you all wonder why I have no time to blog. I just finished an awesome Domo-kun cozy for my new phone. Once I grab some batteries or a Bluetooth adapter for my computer I'll post a picture.

I've been doing some pen & paper journaling as of late. As much as I like writing on this blog sometimes it's nice to doodle on paper too. Sometimes I just have to let it all out and a nice crisp blank book is so good for that. Besides It's fun to paste scraps of paper in, like the receipt showing that I purchased Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows at 12:04 AM on July 21 . :)

Finished reading HP&TDH to Shaggy last weekend. Can't recommend it enough!

Have a happy civic holiday everyone!