Okay, I'm slowly getting there ... I'm really doing my best to keep up with the season's demands, but is it me who's just getting slower and slower or is it the pace of the rest of the world that's giving me a hard time with keeping up??? Who knows, but I am sort of on my way of catching the spirit of it all - anyway, I have finished one of my handmade christmas presents for my older sister!! Here it is:

It's a wide mesh fashion scarf with lots and lots of fluffy fringes - I have used commercially dyed pure Merino wool roving which you can view in  my ebay shop to handspin about 6oz of it into a coiled knitting yarn, and the colours are Victorian Rose and Rosewood - my sister's favourite colours. I am not really a perfectionist when it comes to knitting but I am having great fun making things, well, if I can find the time...

Everyone remember Linda and her art collages? I was so eager to purchase one of her handmade items - this beautiful journal:

and I've bought it indeed!! I can't wait to receive it. I want to give it to my little sister as a christmas gift - she had a baby boy last August, he's sooooo gorgeous!! His name is Merlin and I'm the PROUDEST AUNTIE EVER!! Anyway, this journal would be so perfect for little baby notes and baby pictures, I'm really excited about it all. As payment for the journal Linda has asked me to spin some nice slub yarn for her, she chose the colours herself from a multicolour Merino roving and here it is:

It is ever so soft and my guess is that Linda will use it for a felting project, a purse perhaps? :o) You can visit her blogsite for updates on her art projects, she writes on a regular basis!

I have also finished another skein of luxuriously soft Baby Camel Down/Tussah Silk sportsweight knitting yarn. I have called it "An Elf's Dance", here it is:

Another lot I won't want to let go, sigh....This skein has come out so very well. Camel Down is a great alternative to the very expensive Mongolian Cashmere, just as soft, smooth and light. I have displayed this yarn in my Etsy store just in time before I could change my mind and keep it for myself!!!

NEXT TIME ON THE BLOG  I WILL INTRODUCE SHAVIRA TO YOU - A DUTCH DREADMAKER, AND BOY DOES SHE KNOW HER CRAFT!!!!!!! LOTS AND LOTS OF PICS TO COME SOON, SO KEEP IN TOUCH AND VISIT MY BLOG AGAIN! BYE FOR NOW