whoops (of a different ilk)

A different sort of whoops... the kind you could report to mum back in the day because clause b of [(a)Someone's getting hurt or (b) something's getting broken] was actualised.
I trod on my spindle. In my books that makes it a spundle.
I blame the treding directly on exams, because if I didn't have exams I wouldn't a) need to spin to relieve stress/ procrastinate and b) have a shockingly messy room.

The whoops has been remedied though, thanks to our good friend eBay. I would have done the responsible thing and etsyed a new spindle except that US dollars suck and it's too tricky to find Australian producers for specific things... I want to be able to refine a product search by location but either I am too stupid to find this function or it doesn't exist.

Am also waiting to hear back from some spindle making dude on Rav but was getting impatient and might get one from him after exams anyway.

A scarf for a boy, worn by a girl

Done done diddly. I'd like to thank Yarns on Collie, American Express, The Freo knitters, ABC TV and iView and most of all the lovely Mister for whom all this labour was for. Quite frankly I am so relived it is over and I don't have to do endless rows of seed/single moss any more. What peeves me slightly is that he hasn't worn it yet and thus I am yet to get a photo of the finished product on its intended recipient. So here I am.

Behind me you will see the other fruit of my procrastinating labour, the new upstairs bookshelf. Built by my very clever father, assisted by Mister. For years we have had teetering stacks of books scattered around the house, next to peoples' beds, on the stairs, on the tables and side tables, on top of other books on bookshelves etc. Thanks to the new bookshelf, we have real estate for approximately 600 novel sized books. Four and a half of the ten shelves have been filled by me in an attempt to justify not studying for my looming exams. This shelf filling means our bigger books have places to go on various other bigger bookshelves. Yay! I could spend my whole exam period happily re-arranging our family library. But I shan't. I shall be good and get back to studies now. After I have a spot of lunch.

IWONIWONIWON!!!!

WEEEEEEEEE!!! I finally won something! I enter blog giveaways a little half heartedly, seeing as nothing has ever come of my entries but at last, VICTORY! The giveaway was hosted by Julie of Little Cotton Rabbits, a very cute little site with some great free patterns. (Digression: I knitted her cupcake as the decoration on my sister's birthday card a couple of years ago. You'd have though I'd hand selected a star from the night sky and tied it on the card, so well was it received.) The prize in question was one of her new Hedgehog patterns.... extreme cuteness. Makes me wish I had some brown tweed stashed to get it underway... alas, I think a trip to the yarn store is in order (Damn!). Julie is selling said hedgehogs and donating money to the hedgehog protection peeps... get on board.