Thursday, November 27, 2008

I joined a club tonight




When I mentioned to my mother that I was looking into signing up for classes in digital photography, she mentioned that one of her friends was a member of a photography club that met weekly and held competitions and critiqued each other's images and generally learnt from each other how to take better photographs.

Now with that suggestion, I leapt at the chance to get out of the house with someone other than my mother and went along with her tonight and thought it was really good. I am in no way up to their standard and most of them are a bit older, but I think it may well be an enjoyable evening and I can learn a lot from them.

Anyway, this is a slightly different angle on the view from the house. I liked the way in which the sunlight on the houses was reflected in the water. I'd like to try and get that shot at high tide though, I think it would be a lot better. The whole creek area looks a lot nicer when the tide is up, smells a bit better as well.

As for the whole knitting thing, I've finished a couple of pairs of child socks, just need to sew up the toes. I've also been working on a crochet scrap blanket with the leftovers. I'll try and get some pictures of then when I have some time to spare during the day.

Monday, November 24, 2008

talking pix

I've been photographing the stash. One day I will learn to get good stash photos. This is some crochet cotton I eventually plan on turning into snowflakes.

I'm making a crochet 'paperchain' tonight

Sunday, November 23, 2008

my crochet cotblanket



A variation on the granny square theme, all done as 5, 10, 15 or 20 rounds, then pieced together with a border added. It came out as just about the right size for a cotbed, so will do great for baby.

I'm glad people liked the piccy I put up yesterday. I really do like that view. I'm really quite looking foward to taking the camera everywhere and getting some good shots of the countryside and towns round here. It's all so different to what I'm used to, so it's exciting.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

this week in cornwall




Lets start here.

If I'm going to do a bit of a tour about Cornwall as I explore the place as well as showing off the family and the knitting, I may as well start here and make you all jealous. This is the view from my bedroom window. Nice, isn't it.

Friday, November 21, 2008

settling in

I'm going to start blogging some more, take the camera out and show some of the local area, show off my knitting regularly as well.