Day: August 2, 2009

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Out & About

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Today we ventured into Dublin city centre.  Our bus eventually got us in through the hoards of GAA Fans.  Our mission was to go to the National Art Gallery and see the Harry Clarke illustrations of Hans Christian Anderson.  OMG but they were very pretty and talk about detail!

Once we’d finished in the gallery we went to the shop and picked up the book that went with the exhibition. Just as we were leaving I noticed the Cath Kidston shelf. Naturally I had to treat myself as you don’t come across her stuff too much over here – or at least not where I’d look. Anyway I proudly pranced out of the museum with:
Make by Cath KidstonMake

CK Flexi Journal CK Flexi Journal

CK Home Ideas Journal

Now who’s a lucky bunny?

To top things off as we were making our way to the bus stop we popped into Arnotts in the Jervis centre and I picked up a pack of three Gisela Graham grey floral bags
Bags

We also picked up some of these in a peach colour
Hooks!

So all in all an expensive day out but it was worth every cent! Time to go and read my new books.

craft

Crochet & Podcasts

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I have a few podcast subscriptions and ended up with over 160 unlistened to. One of them is from a radio show that I just don’t get a chance to listen to and for some unknown reason I hit a wall when it came to listening to the various programmes. Then I had a revelation I could just skip them! Now I’m finding that after a few minutes if it’s not something I’m in to then I just skip onto the next one. I was down to 50 however I’ve just discovered a new Podcast. So with one or two updates I’ve now got 62. I’ve also discovered that they are great to listen to in work to block out some of the noise – does that make sense? I am listening to these programmes so I don’t have to listen to the noise going on around me – replacing one noise with another!

Recently I’d been trawling through patterns on Ravelry (I’m duu there) and every once in a while I’d come across a pattern that was on Lion Brand Yarn. This is a fantastic site but for a while I didn’t bother with it. When I was redirected to the site I looked as if it was blocked or something and I never really bothered to read the page properly. However I eventually did and I signed up – it was free and it has loads of patterns in there. That is where I found YarnCraft it looks to be fairly good and there is an associated podcast – this has just bumped my number up – oops

Anyway I now have to go and update my iPod 🙂