My Pocket: Here I am.

Well, where were we? Feels like I haven't been here for ages. For a change I have actually been busy though, normally I'm Miss Lazybones content daydreaming away. I did my daydreaming fidgeting on a chair in the classroom for six days last week. The beginning of the second year of college. I don't mind getting back down to business, best get on with it right, but oh were the homework-free days lovely...

I stitched this needle case in the sunshine on our porch:

I found a table for my craft corner but have yet to put the shelf up (with my new powertools kindly left by my very good friend next door when he moved - thank you Kwabena!).

My new desk!

I sanded and stained the top and I love the old worn feeling it gives to the wood. The green Stokke chair is another gift (thank you Kwabena!) and I'm intending to live in it for hours at a time poring over my study books.

I've read so many books over the break that I lost count - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (wonderfullly touching way to mess with your head), Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman (magic, witches, gypsies, soul animals and strange worlds - yes please), Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes (third time I read that one, the power of fairy tales in women's lives - the only self-help book I read now), Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian (any book where adults are wise and children are allowed to exist as they are is good in my view, but this one is excellent), The Plains of Passage and Shelters of Stone by Jean M Auel (I began reading this series when I was 15 and I still find them enchanting and inspiring - simple, natural life).

Well, that was my break, now back to the heavier books...