Cats and Crochet

I was working from home today  - which is great because I can linger in my pyjamas long past a decent hour! However, it's not all good - time seems to disappear at an alarming pace and before you know it I have missed elevenses and lunch. So, feeling slightly hungry, I closed down the laptop and put the phone away and I have made myself a cup of coffee.

I treated myself to a cat poster and badge from Audrey Jeanne - it was lovely to receive a box from France yesterday - I am now on the hunt for a frame.

Still on the cat front - I couldn't resist this book when we were in Oban last week about the Tobermory Cat - the photos are very funny - the cat seems to spend most of its time holding up the traffic on Tobermory High Street. We didn't get over to Mull last year - so we will have to make amends in the coming months! Tobermory is a big day out - they have a bookshop and an ironmongers as well as lots of other shops!! - and it just looks so cute.

I started to make a kindle cosy before Christmas as a present for someone - however, I ran out of oomph and abandoned it to the "projects never to see the light of day again" pile. I came across it at the weekend and realised that it was just the right size - when folded in half - to become a mobile phone cosy! Hoorah! So I just had to sew up the seams - don't you just love it when projects get finished!!

Talking of finishing projects - I used up a ball of yarn that I had been crocheting with unsuccessfully - it just didn't want turn into anything - so I unraveled it and found that it was a good colour match for the edge of the my granny square. Maybe I was feeling chilly, but I was drawn to folding it in two and using it to keep my shoulders warm.

It was a good reason to use a lovely brooch given to me by a very good friend last year when I was at a very low ebb. It's a needle felted landscape by the lovely Lisa of Lil Fish Studios - check out her blog!