The sun came out today!

I didn't have my camera with me so I don't have a picture but after all the snow we've been getting it was fantastic to be walking around in the sun and I was late getting back to work after lunch because of it.

Another great thing today: The winter issue of Twist Collective is up and I can't stop looking at that coat!

We got a new car on Tuesday (I've been waiting since then for a bright enough day to get a nice picture and it's gotten a bit dusty in the mean time). It's cute. It's red. It has the following very cool features (compared to our old car):

- it starts! Without any extra tools, batteries or people; you just turn the key and the engine goes.

- it goes backward! To be fair our old car went backwards too ... it's just that you usually had to wait for a bit and go into park first.

- it warms up! So we'll be able to see out all our windows - all winter - without ever scraping the inside of the car.

It has some other nice features like a cd changer and cup holders in convenient to reach places but really those top three make it completely worth it.

Rob gave me these stockings. All of last week was so grey and wet (except for Friday when we woke up to discover snow on the ground - pretty, but it's still snow in September) that I was getting quite depressed; these stockings are so bright and green that they banish greyness.  I smile every time I look at my feet.

I've been meaning to make some sort of holder for all my cool stockings (I don't collect the boring ones if I can help it). I'm so worried about them catching on things in my drawer. It needs to be something that will store them neatly but still let me see them all. I'm thinking of some sort of a roll - kind of like for knitting needles - with loops to hold the stockings in place. I'll have to do a bit of math and figure out how long it needs to be and how many stockings I can reasonable stuff into it.