Saturday Quick Post

I mentioned the other day in our PS group my first stocking I stitched last year for my nephew. It is a Bent Creek 2005 pattern. I received it too late from the finisher (end of January, two months in the mail) last year but my nephew will get it this year. I was so surprised to find out it's so small. I was expecting to get a biiiig stocking! Also, I sent the template to the finisher but she "cut" the bottom part in a very strange way. If she had followed the pattern, the shape would have been nice and the stocking much bigger. I am not sure why she decided to cut close to the stitches. Now that I think of it, maybe she did something wrong and eventually just had to? The LNS had mentioned she was doing her first stockings. Anyway - I didn't like that finish but my nephew won't care. Probably he won't care much about it at all - though my point was to create a sort of family heirloom he would keep forever.

I am babbling too much tonight! Must be all the work I need to do ;-)

Almost 11 pm here and I haven't found the way to the couch (=relaxing and stitching) yet :(. First I overslept. I did hear the alarm clock but decided to sleep just a little bit more... you know the system. Glad that H. called to ask about something, it was just 3 minutes before my appointment at the hair-dresser. I was able to delay it one hour, so I had a quick shower, a fraction of a breakfast and had a hair "balayage" and this time I told my fav' hair-dresser how to cut the front - it's wonderful this time. I am very satisfied with the result. Then I spent 5 (five) more hours in town, I didn't know that toy shops can be that tiring!!! Especially on a Saturday....

Anyway, I got enough gifts for my nephew to make him very, very, very happy and I also bought little somethings to add to Christmas gifts for friends. And I bought a pair of winter shoes!! Much too expensive for my taste but instead of two pairs (one for jeans and one for skirts - for the one or two times I wear a skirt every winter, but parties can happen! LOL) I found an ideal pair that will be great for both. The price was not ideal... but seeing as time is running and my to-do list seems to elongate constantly, I should say I'm happy. I am just a bit worried because the shoes seem a little bit too loose in the heel zone. Anyway. They're bought and they'll be used. We'll see if they become favorites or not ;-) Here's how they look with the fur cuff down and up.