Lots of yarn

Long time, no post again today - sorry folks - I've been really busy with work and college and everything at the minute - I don't remember the last time I had a free evening.

My husband has got involved recently with my crafty-ness and got it into his head that the one thing that he might be able to do to help me was...shopping! He's been scouring eBay to find any bargains. So this week, the excitement has begun (and possibly ended as we don't really have the space or money for much more!!) I came home from work one day near the beginning of the week to find this humongous box waiting for me by the back door.

As always, I was really excited to see what's inside

 Yarn under there

 A whole box full!!! This is amazing!

A few random bits in there, small balls of yarn that's been taken from a bigger ball. A half started pirece that you can see on the top there. There was even a freebie from a magazine at some point. It was pretty cool but I wasn't too excited by this once it had arrived. There seemed to be a lot of bits of nothing particularly useful if I'm honest. I suppose I perhaps shouldn't have expected quite so much from such a large random box.

However yesterday I finally got round to looking through it all properly. Once it was all sorted and I'd seem what there was, it's actually a lot better than I'd first anticipated.

This looks a lot better! And below are the only bit's that I really can't see a use for and therefore unfortunately I think are going to end up in the bin...

Not bad really for such a random and huge box.

I finally got kicked into gear to look through and sort this out yesterday as when we got back from the Armed Forces Day celebrations there was another package waiting for me. This one was absolutely amazing and I was unbelievably excited about it.

The four packets of multicoloured were what arrived yesterday and I had even forgotten about the other mini pack that came even earlier in the week. The first pack was 5 balls of the blue yarn that you can see on the top of here.

Here's a massive treat for you all - I have finally plucked up the courage to include a photo of me. This will be a very rare occasion - possibly never to be repeated so make the most of it...

...are you ready?...

...here goes.

Me all dressed in red white and blue for Armed Forces Day and very proudly holding my new arrival of yarn.

I am so excited - I'm going to make a patchwork style blanket with these. I love the multi-colours and think it'll go really well in my little seat in my craft room. I think I do need to get a few more bits finished first but this will definitely be the next project.

Finally a little bit of catch up for you. Here's the card that I made for both Dad's for Father's Day a couple of weeks ago

And this week I was asked to make a slightly embarrassing card for someone at work's 30th Birthday. I have blurred out the photo's just in case he didn't want to be on the internet but you get the idea.

I have now finished quite a few blankets which I will be donating to the hospital in the next couple of weeks so watch this space for a blog dedicated to them.