Today has felt productive. We finally picked up my framed pastel work that I dropped off a month ago (life has kind of got in the way since then). Mr Smartie seemed impressed with how it looks so we've actually hung it in the living room instead of the spare room as originally planned. I think it looks great and I'm so proud of it :)
Also did some less thrilling tasks like dry cleaning and posting some things for the UKarma group, plus did a fairly thorough clean of the house. It was nice to sort some things out without procrastinating for once.
The weather here was lovely today (in fact, it has been most of the week) so I finally got out into the garden and turned it from an overgrown disaster zone
into a fresh clean canvas for the new gardening year.
We even got out some of the compost that was ready, which inspired Mr Smartie to knock up a better compost bin type affair. We had been using an old plastic bin with the bottom cut out but it's basically full so he used some leftover wood from when he insulated the cellar to make a kind of frame for the compost.
It's similar to what both my parents and his have, so hopefully it will serve us well. It does take up more space than the original set up but it's much easier to get at the compost to mix it up and means we can leave it longer before needing to put it on the garden so it should be better for the soil.
I've also spent a lot of time searching for a lovely deep purple sock yarn for a mystery sock-along on Ravelry, and I've come across a lot of amazing dyers. It does make me wish I could dye yarn but until I've worked through my existing stash (or most of it at least) it seems silly to get involved in something new. In the end I decided to use some yarn from my stash and just hope I'll stumble across that perfect coloured yarn eventually. Or learn to dye!
And now, I really must knit something! My cowl is still about 92% finished and I have to finish it otherwise it'll be too warm to wear it.
Also did some less thrilling tasks like dry cleaning and posting some things for the UKarma group, plus did a fairly thorough clean of the house. It was nice to sort some things out without procrastinating for once.
The weather here was lovely today (in fact, it has been most of the week) so I finally got out into the garden and turned it from an overgrown disaster zone
into a fresh clean canvas for the new gardening year.
We even got out some of the compost that was ready, which inspired Mr Smartie to knock up a better compost bin type affair. We had been using an old plastic bin with the bottom cut out but it's basically full so he used some leftover wood from when he insulated the cellar to make a kind of frame for the compost.
It's similar to what both my parents and his have, so hopefully it will serve us well. It does take up more space than the original set up but it's much easier to get at the compost to mix it up and means we can leave it longer before needing to put it on the garden so it should be better for the soil.
I've also spent a lot of time searching for a lovely deep purple sock yarn for a mystery sock-along on Ravelry, and I've come across a lot of amazing dyers. It does make me wish I could dye yarn but until I've worked through my existing stash (or most of it at least) it seems silly to get involved in something new. In the end I decided to use some yarn from my stash and just hope I'll stumble across that perfect coloured yarn eventually. Or learn to dye!
And now, I really must knit something! My cowl is still about 92% finished and I have to finish it otherwise it'll be too warm to wear it.
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