Christmas creeping further.

I am pleased to report that we have done the Christmas shopping, booked a table at a restaurant for Christmas day (I never thought that I would be writing that, But it seems so wasteful cooking a great big meal for just the two of us). Tonight is the Christmas meal for Steve's job at the Academy the table is booked for 10pm, Spain really does dance to a different tune or clock as case may be. My girls have had their last lesson and given me a gift (much to Steve´s disgust, as he is the real teacher ) We even have decorations up. So all in all the holiday starts tomorrow, Steve never entirely manages a break as some of his students see a holiday as a chance for an extra lesson but all will be more relaxed at least.

In the village

The pictures that you see here are whats left of an area of woodland next to the house, Not belonging to us

I am always quite sad when woodland is cut down mostly because native oak and chestnut are invariably replaced with pine but also because the loggers leave such a mess. Still plenty of waste wood does our heating budget no harm.

On my hook.

Despite what I said the other day about hats, I still have some to upload ready to sell the next will be this baby hat.

The truth is that baby hats are so cute and I love the colour of this chunky little pom pom hat.

Creeping Christmas

I have never been one of those people who shop for Christmas in January or has rows of cakes puddings and mince pies lined up on the work surface of the kitchen in November. Here in rural Galicia away from the rampant commercial reminders of the approaching season Christmas really does creep up on us, so here we are scrabbling for presents and still undecided on how to spend Christmas day.

On my hook.

When I decided to reinstate my Etsy shop a couple of months ago, I rushed to make a pile of hats and scarves so that the shop would look inhabited quickly. I have had th

e shop for a couple of years with nothing much in it so I hadn´t even the new shop excuse for it´s sparseness. Having done that I realise that I want to focus on other things, maybe more original arty pieces or bigger things, blankets shawls, throws. The truth is I don´t know yet so crochet journey for a while will be quite eclectic.

At the moment I am working on a shawl. My aim is to make it simple and elegant but warm enough for a winter evening. The picture you see is a work in progress. I will post a better picture when I have a completed garment.

And the rest

 I have wasted yet another afternoon trying to make this computer do want I want it to do. Please tell me it gets better and that windows 8 is the best thing ever. I still cannot print,  explorer won´t let me blog (I have down loaded google chrome for the purpose) and I have to stop every 2 minutes to let the security software do something. At this rate I will be a bald old lady.