Second shawl of 2010

Well, it's February, so it must be time for shawl no. 2. In fact I finished this a couple of weeks ago, and was waiting to get some great photos before posting about it. But since my skillz are lacking, here's what I have:

Pretty, no?

I also finished my Vine Yoke Sweater (another design by the utterly gorgeous Ysolda) and IT FITS OVER THE GIGANTA-RACK PEOPLE!!!!!! Looky... (again, poor pics, sorry!)

The reason that it looks as if it is gaping a little over the belly is that one of the 9 buttons I bought mysteriously disappeared, so I was missing one. The children swear they know nothing about it, but I have my suspicions...... Anyway, after this was taken, I moved the top button to the middle, so problem solved.

Especially unflattering picure of my bum - but it does show how nicely this cardigan goes in and out with me.

There have been other things on the needles this month, but these are definitely my highlights.

Half term trip to Cornwall

We made a last-minute decision to go down to Cornwall during half term. We stayed in a 'lodge' at Hengar Manor near Camelford. We went back to Tintagel and the Eden Project, both places that we went to last Easter when we were in Cornwall with our friends. Lots of rain, but glorious sunny spells in between.

Eden featured Shaun the Sheep and flowers appearing

And the boys relaxed

A good time was had by all.

Leotards in action...

B & J had their first competition today. Here they are in one of the set moves. They did really well until they forgot a bit of their routine! But they didn't let that upset them and they carried on. They came in 3rd in the boys under 11 pairs, so they have both come home with shiny bronze medals, and seem pretty pleased with themselves.

Of course there were only 3 pairs in their group, so a medal place was likely......