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Summer happened so fast.

It's nearly time for our family (that is me, Rhys and the 2 poorly rats we brought) to go back "home" to Newport. I'll have lived there for 2 years this September and it's still "home".

Anyway I thought I should catch up on a few weeks of photos. Most of these are from my phone and have been run through Instagram Filters. I'm CraftyLittleRat on there - sorry if you see these twice.

 These last two weeks I've raced through books. This pile here were all about Stories, Myths and Legends.

I'm using GoodReads (Again Crafty Little Rat) to keep tabs of what I've read and want to read. This Holiday I've read,

An Abundance of Katherines
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
45 Pounds
Icelandic Folk Tales and Fairytales
Beasts of Myth and Mysters
Scandinavian Troll: It's life and History
Celtic Myths and Ledgends
Icelandic Trolls
Lincolnshire Folk Tales
We Were Liars.

I'm starting now on The Book Theif - Which I've heard is exclent.
 I finished my World Cup Socks - though I've not managed a better picture than this one as of yet. Old Hand Dyed yarn, Anastasia Pattern on Ravelry.

 We went to Woodside Wildlife and Falconry centre near Lincoln and Rhys bought me a Capybara cuddly toy. He's now called Che Guevara - I had to have him as I love all rodents and it's so rare to find one.
 I took a great picture of the Peacock there too. I'm thinking of sending it in to Countryfile and the calender contest. No Filter on this one.
 Annual Treat of Spam Fritter and Chips at Skegness sea side.
 Got caught in the Wool shop in Louth. Lovely people, I only went in for some Cable Needles but came out with a Giraffe kit and some Buttons as well.

 Finished Logan the Moose from the Toft Alpaca Book. I won tickets to go to the Book Launch which is a week on Friday. I'm very excited and happy that I can spend time with my friend Angie who's agreed to come with me.

 Slow but steady progress on July's socks. I should really have gone up a needle size for the patterning. I'm doing a wide afterthought heel so hopefully with a bit of blocking they'll fit. I'd just placed the afterthought heel here.

 More Yarn Goodies - This time from the Grimsby Wool shop. I've not tried Heart and Sole before, bit it was a great deal I couldn't refuse. Who never needs more sock yarn anyway?

 
I got some more Loom Bands this holiday as well. I do enjoy making things with them, even if it is really for 12 year olds!

 More books! Though as I said up post I've already read two of them and started on the third. Some beading bits as well.
 I  restuffed Shaddowfax (The Pony's) neck this holiday as well. The stuffing had settled making it hard for this head to stand up. Barry Bear - my parents child substitute and my little brother wanted a pair of reins for him as well, which I made out of Loom Bands.

 The Humber Bridge yesterday on our adventure to Beverly.
 The East Riding of Yorkshire has white phone boxes - a fact someone on my team loves to remind us of so I got a picture of Rhys stood in front of one for him.
And I finally now feel like I've had a proper holiday as I dipped my feet in the sea. Following the morning in Beverly we went through to Bridlington. No one was keen on going for a paddle when we went to Skeg, but I left Rhys with my bags and told him that because I beat him at Crazy Golf I was entitled to a paddle.

Today we're off to go see How To Train your Dragon 2 and I'm hoping to get a look in the Cleethorpes Wool Shop before we go! Lets hope it doesn't close at lunch!

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