CountryMouse's Refuge

Low-key, but that's okay. :-) Cat'r's present to me was the "Deadwood" DVD boxed set, which was *supposed* to arrive on the 14th, but got here way earlier. :-P He made me the cutest hand-drawn card too! Heh! <3

Bunnicula said he has a card for me; but he's too weak and too germ-y at present for me to let him give it to me. So I can wait. :-)

I got the CUTEST Valentine from monkey, full of sparkly hearts and X's and O's!! That was so sweet! :-)

Cat'r read to me from Kage Baker's latest Company book, The Life of the World to Come. Wow, talk about your hot and passionate book openings! Whew! :-D

I finished a pair of arm warmers/fingerless mitts for myself yesterday. They are made from TLC Amore in Plum Print (a plum/blue ombre). Now watch: no more cold weather. :-P

I bought something very extravagant: a hand-made wood Q Tunisian crochet hook (which I need for one particular pattern). It arrived yesterday. Wow, that thing could be dangerous!

I finished (last week?) the scarf and hat that match/complement Cat'r's scarf and hat set (his is in a black and reddish mix; mine in an off-white and reddish mix). I am not happy with my hat though: I should've made it on the next smaller loom. I'll make another...soon soon.

Next I want to finish a poncho I am making from Lion Brand Color Waves Purple Vista. It has a sort-of boucle texture. Very simple: single crochet a rectangle, then join in a...well, I-don't-know-what way, I will have to look at the pattern in the magazine I have. :-D Then it will be trimmed with some LB Incredible ribbon "yarn" (I *think* I got Purple Party) for fringe. :-)

Then I've got to get going on things for Spring. I have this notion in my head I want to go to church on Easter. It would be the United Church of Christ I used to go to back in the 60's. It's still there, and I am feeling way nostalgic for it. No, not going Christian; just want to experience the Easter/new-clothes/child-like feeling again. :-)

(I need to xpost this to CM's Diary)