A Snapshot of My Life, so far, this week.

It has been yet another, crazy, busy, brilliant, interesting and action packed week!
Here are just a few of the Highlights.

Sunday - Got to spend some time in the neglected garden.

Monday, had time to admire flowers from Wales - thank you Wise Owl!
and caught up with another delivery from The Natural Dye Studio amongst others!

On Tuesday, I welcomed visitors from Wales and America to The Knit Studio! Heike, one of my bestest friends and a talented workshop tutor brought 2 of her friends to visit for the day - they drove all the way from Wales to see me! I don't think they realised they would get roped in to help! It was a pretty crazy day as I was also lucky enough to be visited by a group of knitting and crafting ladies from the US who were in Newcastle for the day. They were on a Crafting Cruise organised by the lovely Melissa, who very cleverly found The Knit Studio via Ravelry. (thank you Ravelry).
We all had a great day, although I would have liked more time to chat to everyone, but new friendships were made and Ravelry names exchanged. We all drank lots of tea, made by Joan and Donna (thank you) and served in my Nana's best china Tea set! Some ladies even managed to join The Miss Spiritual Tramps Knitting Circle at the Bridge Hotel before they left.
The photographs Heike took are great - please take a look at her great Blog to get a better idea.

Wednesday, was a day of tidying up, catching up on forgotten jobs and frogging knitting done during the previous few nights!

And, a little more worrying, I started to wonder how to use this! Yes, like I need something else to take up my not so spare, spare time! This beautiful spinning wheel has been loaned to me by Sarah. It looks great sitting on the windowsill and can be seen quite clearly from outside. So, on Wednesday I started to leaf through a book on Spinning and daydreamed awhile....

Preview Night!

Sarah and Euan relaxing after the frantic activity of the last few weeks!

Preview Night was attended by the members of 2 local Knitting Groups - the Centurion Knitters and Miss Spiritual Tramps.

Due to a rearranged appointment at the Orthodontist, Preview Night co-incided with Sarah getting her braces fitted! So, had it not been for the help of a group of close friends who stayed and unpacked yarn, filled shelves, priced items, tidied up, cleaned floors, laid out glasses, put out cakes, baked cakes etc while Sarah and I were away - we would not have been ready. So thank you everyone - I really appreciated your efforts! It looked fantastic when we got back!

Naturally because I was a tad 'stressed' I completely forgot to take any of my own photographs apart from the one above, and a little while later of this....

The Knit Studio's first Knitting Group - hooray.
If you head on over here you can see the photos that Meriel took of the evening (thank you)!

Fantastic Photographs

I have just clicked on a link and looked at some brilliant photographs taken by the talented Brenda.
I love them - they have managed to capture The Knit Studio 'feel' perfectly!
Click Here and have a look.ETA If you click on the Blue Cat you will find even more photographs! (Thanks Dad - Doh!)
Thank you so much Brenda - we love them.