Sea Pennies

The Postie brought me an exciting delivery yesterday...

New Wool!!!

I could hardly wait for my Small Person to go to bed so I could get stuck in to my newest project.  Remember, a few posts ago I had the idea for a summer shawl?  And I was mightily inspired by those ocean colours of aqua, turquoise and deep greeny blues?

Well, I went wool shopping online last week, prompted by your hearty enthusiasm for this new idea.  I thought about all the different colours you see in the ocean, from crystal clear to that lovely royal blue you get on a really bright day.  I had a great time choosing colours, and the wool that I'm using is Rico Creative Cotton.  It's only £1.50 a ball at First 4 Yarns, so it's going to be more of a thrifty make rather than a luxury one - but saying that, this wool is incredibly soft, and the colours are marvellous.

I discovered this wool thanks to Lucy (at Attic 24) - that lady is very good at sniffing out quality yarn it has to be said, so thanks to Lucy for sharing the link.

Can you see those little circles peeping out from underneath the wool?  The Summer Shawl has started in earnest, and a handful of tiny Sea Pennies have been crocheted and joined.  

I'm going beside myself just looking at it, itching to get busy with it again this evening when if all goes to plan I can grab a couple of hours hooky time with no interruptions!

As the shawl grows, the edges will become less straight - the Pennies will vary in size and the look I've got in mind is one with a wavy edge, that can be edged in aqua and white, reminiscent of foam tipped waves...can you see where I'm coming from? Does that make sense??!

It's actually been quite a creative week here in my little house, sketching, starting a new painting, writing the first E-Letter of 2011 and creating prints which are off to lovely new homes...

You may be wondering what happened to my decluttering-and-trying-to-live-in-a-tider-house malarky.

It's still going on, in between the creativity.  Didn't I just fill two bin liners full of old unworn clothes for the charity shop?  Yes I did, oh the relief to clear that stuff out!

The other thing I'm doing is putting all my files into this:

Dropbox is an online back up system for files and photographs that we normally just keep on our computers or laptops.  If you are anything like me, you will have learnt the hard way and lost tremendously special pictures and documents when your laptop crashed and broke.
Dropbox is good - you can access your documents, photoshare with friends etc from anywhere in the world. It's safe and secure and reliable, and you will heave a veritable sigh of relief if your computer ever expires with all your precious stuff on it, because you will have got a back-up on Dropbox to retrieve it all!!  That calls for a double WoOt!  

Go get yourself a Dropbox. It's free.

And on that note, I'm off - my daughter is having her booster injection shortly - you may hear the screams if you live within the vicinity of South Yorkshire...

Have a sunny, happy weekend, thanks for visiting me!

Love Julia x x x