It may be cold and grey today, but Spring is definitely trying to appear. The birds are certainly in their finest 'wanna come and nest with me?' finery - as witness these two smart-as-paint siskin on the seed feeder today. You may also notice something slightly different about the background - that's right, no tatty greenhouse! We decided that the cheapo greenhouse with acrylic window panes was finally getting so rickety and had such cloudy windows that we would buy ourselves a proper one with real glass as a 40th Wedding Anniversary present to each other. Who needs rubies, right?
So it's been stashed in its hundreds of component parts in the garage, waiting for the weather to improve so m'dear husband doesn't get frostbite while working on it. At last, we had a decent weekend and the old one has been cleared away and taken to the tip. The paving slab base has been deemed to be level enough, so construction can begin! Watch This Space.
In other news, I finished the Lily Pond Blanket. It's small, but beautiful, and I now feel confident to take on much more complicated flower patterns than I did before.
I can now think about smaller projects for a bit, although I'm sure the blanket urge will steal upon me again soon - they're just so impressive when they're finished!
I thought I'd carry on with my forays into the Nintendo Game characters and created this little fellow in a couple of evenings. It's Mario, of course. Letsa Go!
I've ordered some grass-green Stylecraft DK and as soon as that arrives Luigi will also appear. He's cute, isn't he? I think they will prove quite popular on a craft stall.
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