The Yarn Diet

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It doesn't really work as well as I wanted it to. I keep buying more yarn. Two days ago I resisted temptation - today I didn't. But good things come of it :)

Say hello to the lovely Noro Sock yarn!


I had 12 different colour ways to choose from - not an easy task. Had the yarn not been so pricy I would probably have blown my diet and budget completely and bought 3-4 balls.

Lovely presents

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Birthday presents are nice. Some of them are very very nice. Here are a few...
Not only do I feel lucky that these lovely things were for me. I also appreciate the fact that both friends and family realize that yarn and jewelry are always welcome. They seem to understand that, yes, I have a lot of yarn but that's because I love yarn - hence more yarn is what I like. Thanks, Lise! :)
I can't say that I have a lot of jewelry but I think that has something to do with me being a bit picky. And unfortunately I prefer the not so cheap stuff. Moe knows this. He is also the one who bought the extremely beautiful earrings - and for the first time ever he wrote me a birthday card! I simply could not thank him enough.

Tour de yarn

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My friend past away last week - it's still very surreal. And in spite of the fact that everything seems a bit pointless I decided to stick to the original plan, i.e. to participate in the much awaited 'tour de yarn'. Pindsvinet and I had planned to visit all the lovely yarn shops in our home city and I certainly needed a laugh. The whole thing began at ten this morning. We went from shop to shop and at around noon we both felt a wee bit peckish, which resulted in: 1 lovely burger with potatoes on the side + 1 glass of elder flower lemonade, and 1 very nice sandwich with ham and feta + 1 glass of elderberry lemonade :)
With our stomachs filled to the max. we continued our search for more beautiful and extremely necessary yarn. The shops closed so we headed down to a café for a cup of coffee [= cappuccino and rich monster biscuits].
Even though the shops all closed much too early for my taste, I still managed to buy this:




And what you don't see in this photo is the Rowan yarn that had to be ordered.... Mmmmmm.... yaaaaarn...... :)

I should be ashamed of myself!

A few days ago - last Thursday I think was - I told Pindsvinet that I would refrain from buying more yarn for at least 3 weeks, since our big buy-a-lot-of-yarn-from-all-the-LYSs-in-the-city-tour is only two weeks from now and my stash is very much visible to the naked eye. And I was doing so well...
... until today; I spent most of my weekend imagining different scenarios that would prevent me from going to work, for instance that a) I was unemployed, b) a blizzard would sweep across the country, or c) aliens had taken me to Yarn Harlot's wonderful place in the middle of the night. None of those things happened - so quite disappointed I got up and went to work. And because I felt that I had just been had by fate I bought some yarn! Good bye 'no yarn for me'-plan. The amazing thing is that it helped right away though I did feel just a touch of guilt at first. It soon wore off and now - six hours later - I still feel the effect of my latest purchase :)