5 months later

Yesterday I went to the library and saw a free newspaper called 6 Degrees. It appears to be similar to The Coast with a bit more context and no Dan Savage (as far as I know). It's an English paper for all of Finland and had some great things in there such as articles and advertisements of events for each big city or town in Finland. Which is nice.
There are also movie ads...and I noticed that "UP" is coming to theaters October 9th - the day after my husband's birthday...but more so 5 months after it's May 29, 2009 release date in North America.
We've seen all the movies up to date so far prior to leaving Canada - so at approximately 5 months between each film (or more) we should be theater free for the next 2 years at least!! I think GI JOE was the last movie we saw...so yeah we should be theater free for awhile. I don't even know where the theater is here.

I visited the library again today (but didn't go up and down the stairs as much - which helped I think) and managed to get 3 books reserved (one will come next week from another library) on needle felting. I had gone yesterday but the books the librarian helped me find were all about wet-felting techniques. Which is messy (depending on the size of the project) and not exactly what I wanted.
The librarian was helpful and it is 1 Euro per item reserved - to be paid at time of pick up. Which isn't that bad considering they have to either e-mail or mail you a letter to inform you that your book is ready for pick up. I opted for e-mail as I try to go as paperless as possible in terms of bills and whatnot. That and it makes it easier on Tim and I when Loki's barking at the mail man if he's not quiet enough dropping the mail - HA.

I am presently working on a pig - why I don't know. I do have quite a bit of pink wool left - so that could be it. I need to pick up some more yellow if I am going to attempt a better duck for a future order and I definitely need some red for some Christmas cards that are on hold.

I had no idea how much red was used in Christmas/winter themed cards. Candy canes, Santa, Rudolph, poinsettia flowers, mistletoe berries....the list goes on. But I think that will be October's adventure - completing all of the Christmas cards before baby Riggs makes their big debut in early November.

I feel wretched. Not ill or sick or in a tonne of pain - but I just cannot get back into crocheting for the life of me. I have a scarf started for a gift and a single slipper completed for Tim's birthday (Oct. 8) and I just do not have the tolerance or patience to finish the 2nd slipper. I'm sure it wouldn't take more than an hour and a half but I cannot do it.
It took me awhile to get some motivation to do some needle felting tonight. Usually when I got into a creative block - I just tighten up previous works and felt them some more...or play a video game for a bit or read...but it took me atleast 2 hours to figure out that I wanted to make a Pig. I'm taking some advice to heart from my colleagues in the Felting Forum I'm with - so I'm going to do the head first completely - and then hopefully be able to work on my symmetry and proportions this way.

I'm also going to try wet felting some soap. The purpose? To decorate the soap with a cover of felt, which acts as an exfoliator for the skin (great for those that have dirty hands all the time - i.e. gardeners) and helps to keep the soap life longer. These may be the Christmas presents for abroad instead. We'll see.

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