Send me a package or 2

I like parcels! Yesterday i got 2 from the US of A!

First from Helen
Yarn, koolaid for dying or drinking at my own risk, an assortment of teas, and a electronic Sudoku, which is proving very taxing to my wee brain!
And cos it was friday Yarn Pron
With added fountain!

Parcel number 2 was Tea i had ordered from Adagio
I love me some tea but even if i didnt i think i woulda got this stuff for the tins! they are so funky! I got coconut, oriental spice and a white tea sampler, be ideal in my wee tea infuser from my SP! By the way i dunno why this looks like it was taken in the dark, it was bright sunshine!

While out taking piccies i took some of other thingsSee that wee black thing on the leaf? Tadpole!
Father! Provider of Yarn and shelter, giving me that why are you taking a picture of me look
Cala Lily my mum bought t'other day.

Great Vegetable Experiment 07, days 30 and 37

Day 30, ok yes i took these photoes last week and its taken me this long to post them, i know i knowcarrots
Peas
broccolli
Basil!!

Tomatoes, getting awfy big.

Day 37.

Today some new plants got added to see how we go
Sweet peppers and courgettes
Cabbage and Cauliflowr

Now progress of the rest
Broccoli
Carrots
Peas, just about ready to go into bigger pots methinks
Onions!
And the tomatoes

Spring!!

With nice weather and what not this past week, its been feeling like spring has finally sprung so I've been taking pictures!


And of course nothing says springtime like baby lamb! Today we went to the market where they sell the motherless lambs (sadly i wasnt allowed to buy one)

Fetch me a bandwagon, tho i remain unbiased!

hehe I'm so witty!! Anyway, like it says i jumped on the fetching bandwagon, altho given that i am so far behind in this trend does it make it cool again?? oh well here they are:
Super quick to knit, 1st i did in an evening the 2nd was done in the car to and from Loch Lomond!
Pattern, yarn is Wendy Peter Pan DK shade no 1320

Next! Unbiased, again fairly quick, taken me less than a week (can you tell who is in sweater procrastination mode? Sorry Danny) I did it in 2 different kinds/shades of sari silk for a slightly different effect...
I am looking for ideas as to fastenings any inspirations?
Pattern, Yarn: sari silk
Finally Sock Yarn Pron, in lieu of the traditional Easter Egg my aunt sent me this for my Easter:
Much better than chocolate methinks, tho i did get some choccies too! Its Opal Crazy shade 1903, pretty!!

Yarn Pron Friday

First off some v-nice Dannish Cotton that lovely Sue swapped me for kitty bikkies n some other stuff. It shall become the dollar and a half cardi from the Spring IK. Now i blame this addition to stash a) on my SP for sending me the magazine with the prtty pattern and b) Sue for showing me what she was destashing, i mean really after last time she should know better ;)
Next some Sari Silk from toggle, which as i type 1.5 of these balls has become unbiased bag from knitty, looking pretty so far :)

On The Bonnie Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond

Today me and my dear friend Miss Mavor went to Luss, upon the banks of loch lomond. It was a gorgeous sunny day! first off we made a friend:how cute is this wee chap?? very friendly too hurried over to speak to us.

Very very pretty hence the following gratuitous and potentially repetative scenery pictures
from the beachducks! (yes not scenery but well)
mountains! and a big black car...
Ben Lomond!
We went on a boat trip
I love boats! On the boat we took more pictures!View back towards Luss, inc random big hill...
Looking the other way up the Loch
Up the valley to the North, looks almost like a painting!
More large hills/mountains
Pretty church we wandered round the grounds of (hazy picture boo)
We eyeballed houses we could never afford
Good Loch view.
On a peninsula jutting into the Loch, must be very pretty!!

And of course there was some shopping to be done!
I got these for myself
Coo Earrings! so cute

I got a present for mother
Then finally we went to a random sorta factory outlet place (not terribly inspiring) but i got these:
Book of stitches, always handy and a general how to type book for those extra wee pointers noo and again!

Adventures in Dying

Last thursday i dyed. I was waiting in for parcels to arrive to i had a wee play.

I started with this
Fairly non descript beigey wool.
I skeined it and put it to soak with some salt and vinegar (like having chips!)While it soaked i made up dying solutions, common or garden food colouring diluted with water
Colours are pretty much the same as the glasses apart from the red one at the far right contains purple (can you see where i am going)
Yarn went in a bowl, and dye squooshed on with some syringes (hurrah for science family)
Yarn went in the microwave, then got washed and hung out to dry
Once dried i (detangled and) reskiened the results:

Flash Your Stash 07!

In fine knittyboard tradition I have flashed my stash! Click on the Flickr button in the side bar to go see it in all its glory!!