Words from Duvet HQ

Ugh, I’ve got a cold.  It’s not so bad that it’s stopping me from doing stuff that I need to do, but it is bad enough that I had a two hour nap yesterday afternoon and I never do that!  I’m back in bed wrapped up in my blanket after waving not so small daughter off to work and my husband off to meet his friend – and I’m very grateful that I am not doing the not-so-small-daughter-to-work-run this morning!

I’ve got loads of photos from the beginning of December that I wanted to catch up on, but I hope you won’t mind if I keep it quite short today and hopefully I’ll be able to post again next week before Christmas.  It’s incredible to think that this time next week, it will be the day before Christmas Eve – I am not ready so I am going to have to get on with some wrapping and card writing today, with maybe the promise of another nap in the middle of it.  These dark winter days should really be a time of resting for us and instead we have some of our biggest celebrations with all the preparation that goes with it – it’s no wonder that there are plenty of bugs going around!

I think that my cold is as a result of stopping after months of working at top speed so I’m not worried that it’s anything more than that.  I’m drinking gallons of honey and lemon and coughing like a life-long smoker but other than that, and feeling more tired than usual, I hope I’ll be back on top form again next week.

Before I get into the rest of my photos, I want to say thank you again to everybody who has bought a copy of Project Super Socks – you have absolutely blown me away by the number of books that have been sold through the blog and Amazon, and I really hope that you find it to be as useful as your needles and yarn!  Thank you also if you’ve left me a review, you’ve made my heart really happy with your lovely words xx

This happened on last Sunday and books don’t stay top of the list for too long so I’m going to share it here so that I’ve got a record of it … and also a last celebration on the release of Project Super Socks 🙂

Wow, I couldn’t believe my eyes – thank you!

If you’ve been onto the Amazon site this last week, you may have noticed a price change – that’s all down to Amazon, I don’t have any control over the price once it’s on their website; I can only give them the RRP and they do what they like after that.

The books are now on their way to A Modern Yarn in Formby and Moorlands Wool and Crafts in Leek, Staffordshire as well so if you’re local to there you can look out for them arriving over the next week.  I should really create a suppliers page for the blog now, shouldn’t I?  I’ll add it to my list!

It was all hands on deck last week when the books were going out from here – I do have some more stock in now, but the last posting date for before Christmas is on Monday 18 December so if you want a copy before then, Amazon (paid link) may be your best bet.

I had a good system going for packing them up, and I even had some extra help …

I’m not actually sure how helpful they were in the end, but they did count the number of cardboard sleeves I had for wrapping the books in before going off to check out their food dishes just in case I’d managed to sneak some food in when they weren’t looking (no chance – this pair are bottomless pits – they’d be the size of small houses if they could open the food tins themselves!).

I’m feeling the need for more honey and lemon so I’ll leave you with a last couple of photos for today …

I’ve not had an Advent candle for years!  Not so small daughter had her driving theory test in Liverpool a couple of weeks ago (she passed – hooray!) and whilst I was waiting for her and doing a bit of window shopping, I spotted a branch of Sostrene Grene.  It’s a Danish shop which sells all kinds of lovely things for crafting and the home – there’s a branch in Manchester and big daughter would often go in when she lived there, but I’ve never been in one and I’ve always wanted to look around.  The website tells you that “A visit to Sostrene Grene must always be full of hygge” and I can tell you that it is – what a lovely shop!  Hygge is the Scandinavian word that loosely translates into English as “cosy” and there was definitely that feel about the place.  Goodness, I wanted to stay in there all day, and then buy everything to take it home with me!

In the end, I settled on the Advent candle and a couple of stocking fillers for the family – and then not so small daughter wanted to go in after her theory test so I got to enjoy it all over again!

I do hope this post finds you in a much healthier state than I am, and I am very glad that I can’t pass germs through the screen to you!  Have a lovely weekend and I’ll catch up with you again soon xx