more hamsters and stuff

Just when you thought the hamster mania was over...

There will likely never be an end to it, so you might as well get used to it! See, I was sitting here feeling kind of lost, wanting to do a blog post and not knowing what to talk about. and there they were, my lovely hamsters in front of me. This in turn made me smile, which is the best thing about these hamsters you see, and I decided to take a few quick portraits of their cute faces. I chose them at random and snapped the shots within a few minutes. Not too much thinking on my part, that was half the point. I'm quite fond of the result! Another good thing about the hamsters is they don't complain, and they REALLY like to have their photos taken. They like name suggestions too, but usually decline when pressed to settle on one. 
 

Well, as for me, I've been essentially in some kind of whacked travel agent world this past few days. My plans to be all things creative got side-lined to try to help organise the nitty-gritty details of my Mom's upcoming trip to Ireland. it's all exciting and wonderful, but there were a lot of details to figure out, and then re-figure out, and they are still being figured out, but at least progress has been made. Essentially this has taken up the hours that I would have otherwise been at work and I have barely touched the yarn that I hoped would be transformed into something pretty (or at the very least funny in its lumpiness). I did manage to work on the smaller granny square for a few more minutes. Here it is with the first one I did so you can see how different the sizes are for the same amount of stitches. Kinda crazy that.

I'm glad I worked on it a little because I was already forgetting how to read the pattern! It's no fun getting over a hump of learning that you already achieved, so I have to make sure that even if I'm not doing a LOT, I'm doing something.

I might have asked this before, but is it wrong that I want to get more hamsters? 

granny square #1 & new year mini-babble

Not the best it could be, but certainly not the worst! After two flub attempts, (and I'm still not entirely sure there's anything wrong with the second one), this is what I've ended up with. I think once I get my stitches more uniform and consistent that will make a lot of difference. All in all, I'm pretty happy.

New year? (okay, well a fortnight in, but whatever) New attempt at blogging. I'm going to try to stop myself, well... stopping myself. Without going into the numerous reasons I might do this either consciously or subconsciously, I will just announce here and now that I will make a genuine attempt not to... even if I seem to have nothing of substance to say or desire to babble on with streams of consciousness that may ensure anyone following will cease to do so.

Onwards and upwards.