Thanks, Magpie. Now I can have a fire in our fireplace!

I'm reworking the heel of this sock for the third time! Getting lots of practice with wrap-and-turns.

Knitpicks is having a sale. Cannot even get on their site, it is getting so much traffic. They've extended the sale through tomorrow, it is so popular.

*wavies*

I went to the huge shopping center that's near the new flat yesterday and I found a shop. of doom. my doom.
It's a Lana Grossa shop, and for those who don't know what it is, it's WOOL company. Finest wool, to be exact. They have nice pointy needles like I like them, too. No 20 minutes from my new place. Ack. I already bought 4 balls of finest Merino virgin wool. And got a customer card. And I'm in love with the wool. I could knit all day long, it's so soft! The Benny-Bunny cat approves, too. For the first time, he didn't play with the yarn, he just snuggled up to it *grins*

I need a new merino hat and a new merino cowl and new merino mitts and a merino shawl and and and..


In other news, christmas craziness has started. And I'm busybusybusy. And overworked..

It's the softest yarn I ever had- I'm utterly in love with it.
Glad I got some of the niceness for myself, too.
2 balls are for a cowl for a friend's daughter(she's 5 and admired my own cowl greatly) in OMG PURPLE!!!  in worsted weight. the colour is lovely, but not for me, as much as I love purple. The kidlet will love it:)
and 2 balls in dark grey, not as thick as the worsted, but not exactly sock weight, either, sooo lovely. It will become either mitts or a hat. for ME.

*giggles at the possessed Libra*

'dew, I'm jealous - walking past the yarn shop yesterday was so tempting, but I don't dare to spend anything on unneccessary things right now. It's not like I don't have plenty in my yarnbox, still - just need to figure out what to do with it!

Ad1tu, yay for furniture! I'm jealous of you, too, for finding something you like - I've been looking around and I only find ugly sofas. Only ugly furniture in general, apparently my tastes don't agree with current furniture-fashion at all. And the one I'd like, I can't afford.

My wife is currently crocheting a Ravenclaw Scarf for my 6yo Daughter...her school has broken into coloured "houses" and hers is Blue, we are reading her Harry potter each night before bed so long story short, the wife decide to make her the scarf to show her colours...we got an embroidered patch off of EBay to stitch on once the wife is done crocheting it all

I tried crocheting. Everyone pointed and laughed.

Hurricane Season is over!!!! *whew*

It is in the upper 50's right now, and drizzling.

It's also a winter wonderland here in Sweden. It was actually sunny and snowing at the same time today, so it was kind of beautiful walking home from the supermarket today, eventhough it was freezing cold and a bit too much snow in the air to look up and enjoy the view.

Sisterdew, what do you do with the amigurumis? I've thought about crocheting some, but I wouldn't know what to do with the result.

I think the most fun thing that I've crocheted was gloves without using a pattern. I wrote down what I was doing when I did the right hand glove, so I could do them same only morrored for the left glove. Turned out quite nice. I used them for 3 winters, but then they started to get holes and I had to stop using them before they unravelled.

Winter coldness over here too. And apparently it came so fast that on top of my new job, my body decided it couldn't handle things. So now I have a cold.

I'm also looking for a job right now. The employment agency here in Sweden gives you the oppertunity to meet with a job coach during 3 months for free. He will then help you go over your CV, look for jobs that suits you and go over your applications and prepare you for interviews if you are so lucky that a company likes your application enough to invite you in. It took the employment agency about a month before they asigned me a job coach, but I've been to see him once already and we are going to meet ebery other week until February or until I get a job. I am a CAD-draughter, and I was working in the offshore buisiness in Holland. There's not really any offshore companies here and it's far between the CAD-draughting jobs in southern Sweden, so I'm thinking about studying logistics. I'll gocrazy if I have to sit on the coach all day, even though it includes drinking tea and reading a good book. Sometimes it's just nice to get out and interact with people.

Sisterdew, I haven't read Lovecraft, but they look absolutely adorable!

And now I think I deserve a cup of tea and some Shadowmarch reading. (I've been shoveling snow outside my front door.)

*hellos the Mint*

I have enough job for three people.

Reminds me of my appartment when I moved in.... took me 4 whole days to get it spotless.... well and then I started living in it... hehe...

The snow is making people crazy... I mean, sure I take more care than usual while driving, but it's seriously not necessary to do ten km an hour on a road that was already mostly cleaned... And I certainly don't need stupid boys throwing snowballs against my car while I'm driving......

Got a job offer in London today.... not quite sure what to think... I'm thinking of so many things now, that I'm just not sure what to do in general... *grin*... pffff.... I must get some courage from somewhere... maybe I should visit Oz....