A project finished !!

The Higgeldy Piggeldy blanket is finished and i have the photos to prove it!

It looks good the colours work well together, they are my Grand -Daughters favourite colours, so i suppose it will journey with us to Yorkshire next time. I am overdue on my promise to teach my Grand-Daughter and neice to crochet so some time spent with them this New Year will be useful. We are still getting over this dreadful flu both DH and i have seen the doctor,it is taking so long. The one consolation is the weather is nowhere near as bad as last year. DH is bravely soldiering on with the kitchen when his head is not thumping. The units look great and it is taking shape. My next project will be something smaller when i was in Galway i found some Tivoli yarn on sale

It was only 2 euro a ball and will make a nice scarf. Have another peek at my blanket then i must go back to my laundry. I hope you are having a great start to the New Year xx

Lemsips and maltesers

What can i say? We know how to party in the half-built house. So New Years eve DH and i are wrapped up with rotten stinking colds drinking lem-sip and sharing half a bag of maltesers. I figure that if the start of the year is rough it can only get better right? Onwards and upwards. DH keeps directing me towards the new oven that has he has just fitted, do you think he is trying to tell me something? The weather has turned so cold the wind is artic today, i have only left the house to run down to the Doctors (the cold is just not shifting) The good part i suppose is that i am progressing with the Higgledy-piggledy blanket and will have more pictures tomorrow.
Our phone has been off for six weeks now and i am thinking if we have managed this long without it why do we need it back on? So Eircom loses another customer, are they bothered? i would say no as i have tried to contact them numerous times over the last six weeks for updates etc...no response. The electricity went off this morning and judging by the high winds it could go off again later so i am thinking i had better prepare dinner now just in case, and find the torches....oh and make a flask of coffee. Give us a break!

Another mince pie anyone?

So Christmas 2011 is over and done. It was ok we went with The Boy to my mum and Dads in Kerry. The format was probably the same as most, i.e Dad to Mass in the Catholic Church with DH. Mum and I to Church of Ireland in Killorglin. The Boy reamained in his pit! (wise move) Back to the house cup of coffee, then start work on the mountain of food that we had to cook. The usual dinner of Turkey Ham etc, way too much food! The nice part, i always enjoy is a an hours walk in the early afternoon before it gets dark. I love this time to think, and walk off the excess. Dh came with me this year and it was very enjoyable, it was kind of him to come as i am sure he would like to have stretched out for the afternoon. We are back in Mayo now and it is strange that all the time we have the half built house we have never spent Christmas here due largely to the incompleteness of it. I wonder will we ever cook our own turkey in our own kitchen? We have to see what plan 2012 has for us, and for Ireland. Dh is tiling the kitchen floor at the moment so all cooking is cancelled for a few days,lucky i have a George Foreman Grill and a slow cooker!
Here is a picture of the half built house it is looking good don't you think?

I must add this picture was taken last year when we had loads of snow. This year has been an amazing 20 degrees warmer than last year, very strange. Nature is confused my bulbs are all coming up and buds are appearing on trees!
I am still re-working the higgledy piggledy blanket and like it better now

A few more big squares then a border of small ones to finish but sticking to the same colours. Aiming to finsh this by the end of the week with any luck!

Have a good week Elizabeth xx

Falling down

In a funk..feeling blue...bit down...fed up all words i have over used in the last few days. Is it the whole Christmas thing? i think it is a combination of events over the last few years all hidden in corners waiting to pounce, so how to deal with it? Telling myself to snap out of it, there are a lot worse off than me, I have everything to be grateful for etc etc.
Things just build up and i never realised just how much we need to be aware of our mental health and keep things in check. While i do not think i am in serious trouble yet i have been a snivelling mess at my Doctors one very bad January a couple of years ago,she was very patient and then produced a prescription for pills , I got the prescription filled but just did not take the tablets. This is December... when January comes it may be a different story! I was listening to Edward De Bono on the radio and he was saying something that i have been thinking about recently, that if things do not work for you change them.. do them differently. So a new approach to 2012 is called for,and about time too.
Because of my recent low spirits i have not been at all happy with my crochet ( or anything i have done) and have frogged the higgely piggeldy blanket i was making. It just was not working so i am going back to the drawing board. I have seen a few circles into squares blankets on the internet so may plan one of those,if i could stop randomly starting projects and plan properly i am sure of more succsess. Before i go just let me share this image of a blanket made by http:// little woollie.blogspot.com just gorgeous!