Feel Good Friday

Apparently it's Feel Good Friday. So I guess I'll hop on this happy smiley shiney bandwagon, and join my blogging voice to all those others out there in Bloggoland :) The idea is from The Girl Next Door Grows Up you can see all the prompts she suggests there.

I am choosing this prompt from the 5 that are suggested:

Just make a list. List 5 things that made you really happy this week. No matter how bad or boring you think your week was, I bet you can find 5 things.

1. I have knitted and blocked a beautiful shawl in my own handspun yarn, and I love it. So do many others apparently, at least according to the feedback I've had on Ravelry. Happeh dance.
   
2. My husband has been very attentive, with lots of lovely hugs and kisses. More happeh dance.
   
3. I have lost weight. And a fair bit of it too :) Very happeh dance!
   
4. My husband has agreed to take me to WonderWool in April!!! Excited happeh dance!
   
5. I downloaded my newest audiobook, The Captive Queen, to which I am spinning some lovely fibre from Sarah Babylonglegs! The happeh dances have now quite worn me out, so I'll sit back and eat my uber-delish Buffalo Dip... nom nom nom....

First FO of the new year!

My first FO of the new year is the Oslo Walk shawl, and I will have to make more of these... I have some handspun 50/50 white baby camel/silk just begging to become one of these beauties! The beading was a real b*tch and took absolutely ages! Well... it took a few days. Then the rest of the lace, and when I got to the main body, the rest was a walk in the park. A walk in an Oslo park to be specific. The Vigeland sculpture park.

Knitted in the talented Babylonglegs' Boolace in "Cushdie" (that I rescued from her stall at KnitNation in the summer), it is more burgundy than in the cruddy picture, more like a glass of well aged port! The beads were 9/0 rocailles beads in 3 different shades of pink, bloody small, fiddly and annoying - but came out beautifully nonetheless!

Now I am nearly done with the lace edging of the Peacock Shawl by 'Kitman Figueroa' - this one in some handspun 2ply fingering weight, spun from a luuuurvely merino blend called 'Winter Grounds' I got from Yarnahoy's etsy shop. The yarn was spun and finished, but languishing in the deep recesses of my stash. It's not looking too bad at the moment, so I guess I'll just have to wait for the magic of blocking to see the end result... After I've finished it that is :)