This blogger wonders: will a fair few photos make up for the lack of posts that resulted from her extended absence?
First off- I bound off and blocked the Mitts a few days ago.

I also read Harry Potter and I have to say that J K Rowling did a pretty good job on the ending.

I ended up staying up until almost 4 in the morning to finish it…
Austin was gone at the beach with his family on his birthday, so I’ll have to wait until the next convenience to give them to him.

I made the collage card, but it’s just one piece of paper that I wrote my message on the back.
I also did something very unlike me and made a couple of stash enrichments over the last few days. My mom and I took a tour of a few yarn shops in Portland. First we went to Northwest Wools, where I fell in love with and invested in a huge hank of undyed, handspun, fingering-weight alpaca:

660 yards of luscious softness. I plan to find a nice lacy shawl pattern to use it up for, maybe I’ll dye it first, maybe not.
We also visited a couple others, one of which was called Lint, which had every single item for 40% off since they were about to close. While browsing, not planning to buy anything, I noticed that they had two matching balls of Rowan Kidsilk Haze sitting lonely on a shelf. You know, normally, that yarn would sell for about $15 a ball, but they were 40% off. So, I figured that I probably wouldn’t be able to find it anywhere else for that little, and snapped them up.

I love how delicately fluffy and soft the yarn is, and the pretty shell pink just adds to that. I looked up the color on YarnDex, and it said that this particular shade was called ‘Fondant’ but I could think of about 10 other names that might do it justice. I plan to use these for a Wisp, but not for awhile until I can finish everything else I’ve got going. This yarn is even thinner and more fragile-feeling than the laceweight I used before, so I’m looking forward to working with it.