I thought this year I'd post my daily pictures over here as well as on flickr. Just once a week. It will be a nice way to sum up each week and keep track of things at the same time. I didn't think of this until just now so I'm posting week 1 and week 2 together and from here on I'll try to post every Sunday night.

2010: Week 1


New Years Day. We were invited out to dinner at my sister's and I finally finished the blouse I'd been working on since November. It turned out it was too cold to wear it anyway but I'm glad I've got it done.


Rob put up a shelf for our cookbooks to live on. Somehow it makes our kitchen feel nicer and more ours just having that shelf there. It's also a handy spot for a few of my plants and one of my favourite photos.


Green, green, green. I spent part of Sunday cutting strips of green (and yellow and white and brown) fabric for a new quilt for our bed. I feel cheerful just looking at them.

2010: Week 2


Sunshine on frosty trees is hard for me to resist when I've got my camera in my pocket (even if I'm late getting back to work). Everything was so crisp and clear. The crystalline trees with their strings of frosty lights were beautiful.


We spent half of our lunch hour on Tuesday dealing with a mostly flat tire. Well, actually, Rob dealt with the tire and I walked around the parking lot and took pictures.


I met my friend's new kitten. This is as close to an in-focus clear shot as I got (that's my camera strap he's chewing on by the way). My camera needs a lot more light to catch something as fast as Angus.


This is the sun coming through our new door and hitting the corner of the living room. I don't know how long it was there for but it didn't last long after I noticed it. I grabbed my camera from my coat, took a few pictures, and turned away to put my camera back. When I looked again it was gone. The sun had moved that tiny bit.


I got a parcel in the mail - one I was not expecting until next week - and was tickled pink by the lovely wrapping and the sprig of rosemary scenting everything (some new clothes if you're curious).


A lovely little lunch: hot tea, warm muffins, cold butter, and a good book (in this case Yarn Harlot: the secret life of a knitter).


I spent a Christmas gift certificate today and got myself a much coveted Martha Stewart craft punch. I can now make pretty hydrangea groupings to decorate scrapbook pages and cards. I discovered you need to hold it against the table when you use it even though it's designed to stand up (I guess that's mostly for storage); my first flowers went flying across the desk and I have still not found one of them.

I need to post these guys before I forget entirely (or it's summer and too late for posting Christmas things). I finally got all the eyes sewn onto my owls and hung them up in the living room just after Christmas (I'm the type that leaves the tree up as long as possible - it's so cheery). There are all sorts of fabrics making up these owls - wools and blends, corduroys, even a velveteen that was in my stash. Picking the eyes was quite the job - I'd never noticed before how many single buttons I had - but eventually I found enough. I love to see them in their great swag in the living room. They're a friendly looking flock.


Speaking of Christmas decorations, my parcel from The Small Fox Ornament Swap arrived the other day. I was hoping for some sunshine this weekend so I could take some really nice pictures of them on the tree before it came down but the weatherman promises snow so I'll just have to make do with the picture I took on the table after unpacking them.  They are all so wonderfully different; each with its own special character. I'm looking forward to pulling them out every year and remembering where they came from:


1. Clothspin Santa from *
2. Crochet Tree from Chicken Betty
3. 'Cecil' by Sarah
4. Garland (with teeny yo-yos!) from Julia
5. Woven Heart from *
6. Pink Penguin from *
7. Bird from Dawn
8. Owl from deetlesbird
9. Holly Berries from Keri

Thank you to all of you.

*Somehow I am missing three names - I'm hoping to add them as I learn them.

Have you seen these tiny oranges? (Regular mandarin orange included for scale - then I ate it.) They were at our grocery store this year. So cute. They came in a proper mandarin orange box too - but a quarter size one. They're so yummy and sweet. The sections are like jelly beans of orangy goodness.