Life LackaDaisiCal

Pattern:   Color Affection by   Veera Välimäki There are 1793 Color Affection projects on Ravelry - go check them out. Knit in Madelinetosh Tosh Merino LIght in shades Manor. Mica and Onyx, purchased at The Needle Emporium I had quite a bit of yarn left - Manor - 36 grams, Mica - 64 grams, Onyx - 48 grams This is a lovely shawl - all garter stitch and then short rows in garter stitch - easy to knit.  The only problem I had was with the edge being too tight when changing from one yarn to another - so I always started the row with K1 yo K1.......you can see it in that last photo - carrying the yarns up the edge. I think I might do another Veera design next.....but which one? Happy Knitting

Even though it was snowing yesterday (seriously!) it looks like Spring with these beautiful tulips that I picked up at the grocery store... see how the colour on the cover of the magazine, the tulips, and even my cushions are so close. After two days of buds, they are starting to open up.......I love to peak inside. I'm going to try to paint them....

I love pretty things, hand made special things, things to adore, to pet, to save.....never to use. This applies to my Prismacolor 120 colour pencil set - only 8 pencils have been sharpened.....it was just too hard to do, so I quit.....they are up there in their pristine box..... I buy notebooks and journals.....my bright green Herdy notebook, my Prisma Color Covered notebook (recently purchased at Indigo ), my Harrods notebook with the Westie on the front, my lovely little leather looking notebook bought in a church gift shop in Tromso in Norway last fall......to detail only a few..... With my new found interest in watercolour painting.....I've been looking at journal type books to do little watercolour vignettes in, or to record things that I'm particularly grateful for, or what??? This just arrived in the mail today....wrapped in natural tissue paper...  inside more tissue paper, with string and a small piece of ribbon... A lovely tag... Yes, it's watercolour paper... Ei...

Although we were fooled into thinking that Spring was here a couple of weeks ago with the wonderful weather, it turned cool, no... well downright cold for a few days, but there is one true sign of Spring around this house... My Hibiscus is blooming.....in the corner of the kitchen, close to the back door....I'm thinking that it liked the relatively mild winter we had and decided to celebrate the imminent arrival of Spring.  I've taken so many photos of this plant....I never tire of the just plain gorgeousness of the blooms. I've been knitting away on my Color Affection .....not paranoid have to knit it style, but slowly, luxuriously enjoying the whole thing style.  I love this Madeline Tosh Merino Light yarn....and the colours are sublime!  The first two sections are complete - done in Manor, with Mica as the first contrasting shade.  Now I get to add in the third shade (Onyx) and do all of those lovely short rows.  (This photograph is intriguing me - how there...