Selina’s craft world

Dog is coming closer to being done, so here it goes:

I also received something really cool. Something I wanted since a long time and now finally got from my lovely DH. A DSLR from Nikon! I always wanted to take real pro photos, but just never had the money or when I had the money I did not have the interest at that moment. Either way, when I wrote my thesis and got used to DSLR, I knew I had to have one.

And one of the first photos I took with it were of Snoopy and Andy. Most did not turn out so great as I am still playing and it is different than the Canon I used for college, but I did manage to get a really pretty photo of Snoopy - who already blogged about his day here.

I have been pretty busy the last few days since we’re house sitting, so there’s lots to do. Combined with me not having slept well for the last few days, life is … different I could not stitch due to the lack of sleep, but I did some spinning and finished the singles for my dad’s XMAS gift today. Snoopy decided to be the quality supervisor and checked them out. I think he has not too pleased with the evenness, but he let it pass.

Speaking of that cute, little sunshine … he has no his own blog. He thought it’d be nice if his life was better documented in some way. So please hop over to the Life of Snoopy and leave him some lovely comments I am sure he’ll be thrilled.

.. progress. I finished the head and can now move to the body and ball of yarn.

I am feeling very very bad, so not much chatting/talking/anything But today, I got something to make me smile. Our own Snoopy is now officially a disapproving bunny. Not that we did not know that yet

.. Wollmeise Sock Yarn that is. Last Friday, I sat on the computer waiting for their shop to update and then grabbed some random colours. They feel nice and have nice, vibrant colours. I will say more once I actually used any of them. Apparently, Snoopy likes the red colour.

That’s a long over-due photo of a skein I finished quite a while ago. It’s 45g and has 430ish meter length. I like it pretty much and cannot wait to knit with it .. once I finished all of the 8oz I have.

It’s been a while I showed a photo of Snoopy, so here goes two of them. They were taken yesterday while Snoopy checked out my spinning wheel. In the first one, he had his paws on the paddles, which was quite funny. He also tried to check out the bobbins and the wheel part itself. It was very funny. And then - after careful inspection - he decided to guard the wheel like a watch dog.

I am back .. on my old laptop (the fan issue one, for those who follow here for a longer time). The other one had to be sent in to ACER to get a new HDD. I will be meeting with the proff about my thesis on Friday.

While away, I stitched a little (on the dog RR) and also finished (almost) the test knitting I did for someone. I will share a photo of the finished cardigan as soon as I bought buttons and bloked.

Snoopy had a great time the past week, playing Mario Kart Wii and fighting the mean Hay Monster. He was so hungry, but wanted to go out so bad that he just combined both :

Since it’s been a while since the last video, here goes a new one:

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 .. and it’s way bigger than him

as planned, most of my day so far was spent stitching. And I made quite some progress and must say this is coming along great The doggy’s are so cute

I am not sure what else to do today. I did desgin a new pattern and will think about some other ones, but I stitched enough for one day Maybe I will knit something if I find a pattern to my liking. I’d love to start my sweater, but Snoopy is loosing hair and I’d hate those little add ons in it.

See and enjoy

My dear friend Heidi kindly asked about Snoopy as I said I took him to the VET on Monday. Thanks, we apreciate your concern He was just being checked and is doing great He can be seen eating a carrot in the video below

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I am still here, just being busy with stuff.

First the good news: my dad’s back home since Thursday afternoon and is doing fine. They sent him back home after all test results were good. He’s back to his normal self sitting outside and comanding the three of us to do all sort of things

Now the not-so-good news: My blood results show that I am in top health, yet again .. which leaves only the conclusion that I have a depression. I got anti-depresiva, which are pretty nasty My hands are still not 100% ok, but using the laptop is ok, as long as there’s no need for a mouse. I just need to get back into business again as I am already far behind and need some serious catching up to do. Still no word from college, either. ARGH!

I did not get much stitching done as the last few days we were busy with our grapes. We had at least 20lbs of them! Gues what we did! …. Grape Jelly!! A whole bunch of it. 12 big jars and 9 small jars - and the small jars aren’t exactly tiny. See here all those jars … now the bread maker will be super busy to make bread for all the Jelly.

I think Snoopy did like his little vaccation, though he had to stay in one day due to rain. That day was filled with me running behind him trying to prevent him from *playing* behind my parents couch, which turned into his favourite game.

We took him, our luggage and 11 glasses of grape jelly home by car today, and will follow them tomorrow. We got lots of things in the mail, which we need to get tomorrow as well.