To Dry For

It's been another busy week and so another slow one on the blogging front. I spent a brilliant weekend in Glasgow seeing the wonderful Ben Folds play on Friday night (I got myself an awesome t-shirt as well, check it out below), made even better by the fact that he played Still Fighting It, Bitches Ain't Shit AND Army, my 3 all time favourite songs of his. Saturday was spent learning crochet, sewing and knitting at The Life Craft, a nice but slightly strange experience that at one point involved the police and a member of staff's full-on life story, I'll blog about that later on in the week once I'm a bit more caught up with work. We stayed with our friends Mikael and Claire, watched films, ate home-made waffles and generally caught up on the chat. It was lovely.



I'm trying to be organised about presents at the moment, since I have so much going on at uni and I know closer to exams I'm not going to want to think about it. I promised my friend Alison I'd buy her this amazing Corgi teatowel from To Dry For for her birthday, which isn't until June but while I was browsing the site I saw 2 more that would be perfect as presents so I just ordered them, free shipping as well! I can't show you the other two since they're for folk who might read my blog, but I thought I'd share with you my other favourites from the site instead. There are so many amazing designs, you should definitely check them out and the postage is pretty cheap, even internationally. I'm going to frame the ones I've bought to give as art for the wall, they're too nice to use to dry dishes!



These are the ones I'd buy for myself if I had any spare pennies:

Triceratops Meat Chart



I love Robert Ryan and this teatowel is no exception. It would make a great Valentines gift.



Make Do and Mend, I'd definitely hang this one in my craft room!



Can't wait for my order to arrive, I'll definitely be blogging about the 2 I can't show you as soon as the birthdays have passed!

Crochet blankets - the best kind of blankets

Apologies to those who've been with me since my geekzoidtastic days, you might have seen this already. I've actually been really busy crafting recently, but everything is either unfinished or packaged up because I'm rubbish at remembering to take photos. So, to keep the blog-ball rolling (and also because we've got a slightly irritating house guest at the moment so I can't get any studying done), here's an old one from the summer.

I crocheted this for my friends Claire and Mikael, who got married in sweden over the summer. I love crocheting blankets, they're so easy and so good to do whilst watching TV, you don't really have to be paying much attention. They look quite impressive when you're done and people seem to really appreciate them so everyone's a winner. Also, I just saw this in a photo of their new flat that Claire posted on facebook (I know, I'm a facebook nerd, it's the saddest thing) and it makes me happy to know that it's taking pride of place on their new sofa.





We had a minor hedgehog emergency yesterday. This is the second time it's happened, Viola tries to go into hibernation. She gets really cold and sluggish and doesn't respond to you at all, especially suprising considering normally she's super huffy and trying to spike everything in sight. Hibernation is dangerous for African pygmies, 90% of the time they don't survive so you have to keep them warm enough so it's not an issue, cold triggers hibernation for them. After 10-15 minutes of being wrapped in a towel and held next to a heated wheatabottle she generally perks up, but it's a worry, what if it happens when we're not there to check on her? We're away to St Andrews in 10 days for the weekend and Andrew's flatmates will be feeding The Trons (the new nickname for the hedgehogs. When we first got him Hobbes quickly became Hobbetron then The Tron, now he's barely called by his real name.)

So, I went to Edinburgh Fabrics and bought some fleece (£1.50 for a quarter metre, bargain) to replace the strange bedding material she came with and we went to Pets At Home tonight to stock up on warming things. The best buy was definately this, how adorable is the name SnuggleSafe?! Her hogpod is now perched on top of that, so hopefully that'll stave off the cold overnight. We also had to buy an extortionately over-priced bag of her old food since she's refusing to eat Hobbes' food. Bloody woman, she's so high maintenance.