21 of 52 - Oh Blimey!! I didn't realise it had been that long!

Oh dear, I neglected my blog again.  It was the 9th of June when I blogged last.  So I'd best tell you what I've been up to.

I've been knitting!  I love to knit and I now have a really good excuse.  My Twitter followers and friends around the interwebs are probably aware that we have a baby on the way due at the end of November.  I mean that's pretty big news but time is marching on and now that 20 weeks is approaching, you sort of go 'eeep!' and get your butt into gear organising things that you need.  So I started to knit.

And so far, I'm getting head start.  As you might have noticed, we don't know what it is yet (and we don't intend to find out) so it's neutrals all the way.  I've even got a mint green and a white cardigan that need buttons and little finishing touches before they can be photographed.

We also have had a holiday!  woot!  It was a lovely week in a caravan in Moffat, Scotland.  The caravan was kindly loaned by my in laws and we had a lovely chilled out week.  We did go to Edinburgh Zoo and saw penguins and monkeys and lions (oh my!).

And of course there are some new things coming.  Here's a sneaky peak of my latest work in progress.

Now I must go and write a note in my diary about doing a blog post every week.  This Mummy brain is not doing me any good!

5 of 52 - Ooops!

Well my intentions went a bit awry

I have an excuse though because I have been poorly and I am now convalescing at home and keeping myself busy with a few little projects. So, I thought this might be a good time to share some of the blogs and podcasts I like and I hope you'll recommend a few to me in the comments below:

I just discovered this blog on the crafting community http://makeandmeaning.com/

And of course it wouldn't be right if I didn't include the Etsy blog http://www.etsy.com/storque/

Check out UK Handmade for all the UK crafting goings on http://ukhandmade.blogspot.com/

These are my favourite Knitting blogs (for when I need my yarn fix)

http://brooklyntweed.blogspot.com/

http://www.hoxtonhandmade.com/ Mostly I love Katie's podcast, even though she doesn't knit socks (she says) and plays the ukulele!

http://westknits.blogspot.com/ I only just found this one too. I seem to be a bit obsessed with boys who knit :)

And these are a few of other great crafters:

http://alibalijewellery.blogspot.com/ A maker of beautiful silver jewellery

http://feltmeupdesigns.blogspot.com/ A maker of cute tweets and gorgeous prints

http://cowislandblogspot.blogspot.com/ Simply because it makes me laugh!

So, these are a few of my favourites. What are yours?

3 of 52 - A few favourites

There are lots and lots of amazing sellers in the UK so I thought i'd share a few of my favourites.



The sellers are (from the top!)

AliBaliJewellery who made an amazing ring for my sister for her birthday

MooCowHandknits who made those gorgeous elbow length gloves for the same sister for Christmas

QuercusSilver who made a gorgeous pendant that I received for Christmas (I say received, I bought it and gave it my husband and said 'you can give me that for christmas....')

I hope you enjoy them too!