Touched and Inspired

I was just sitting in my office this morning and a co-worker from another department (with whom my team has been frantically working to roll out a new web system) suddenly appeared and gave me this:



How lovely! And it's my initial! Apparently it is a custom in Holland (he's Dutch) to gift people with chocolate in the form of their initial on December 5th. He missed that date by a little but who cares?! It's chocolate and it's from Holland - need I say more? I'm so touched (and apparently such a sap). Gifts are in rather short supply for me this year I'm afraid (which would account for my absolute delight at this unexpected one!).

So now, my mind is busily at work coming up with something to gift him and his team with. I think I have just the thing - pictures to follow!

Say Hello To My Little Friends

We're all still recuperating from our trip to Pennsylvania for Thanksgiving. Mostly I'm going through withdrawal from all the extra knitting time. The tatting I completed while I was there will soon be for sale in my Etsy store. I'm not sure it will sell for anything but at least it will make me feel like my hobby isn't a complete financial black hole.

The most wonderful thing that came from our trip (aside from the snow) is a new computer complete with internet access and printer and even a new digital camera (though I won that separately in a work related contest). I'm so excited! Now I can blog at home without looking over my shoulder or feeling guilty for stealing company resources. :)

New projects to show (and the inspiration for the title of the blog) are:


Yep you guessed it, that's the Bob pattern from the Mocimochiland blog. I had so much fun knitting it that I knit up another one for my mother and surprised her with it. I think I'll knit up a couple more to give as gifts this season. They're so fast and really pretty fun. I did have some help knitting these though:


As you can see, she's hard at work supervising. In fact, she was so engrossed in what she was doing that she didn't even see the potentially hostile alien being creeping up on her:


Okay, enough horseplay, can you tell that I got a new camera and got a little snap happy? I have to get down to business if I ever hope to finish all the Christmas gifts in time. Besides, our connection was so slow last night that I couldn't get any of the pictures uploaded so here I am blogging at work again.