Sleep

Despite the quietness here, it's getting somewhat difficult to sleep in the mornings, at least this week. For one, it's getting much brighter in the mornings, and the birds are getting chirpy quite early, but also Fimmvorðurháls, where Eyjafjalljökull volcano erupted last year precisely, is just up the road from me (well, litterally just up the mountain actually) and I'm not quite sure what's going on, but there has been a lot of traffic to and from there in the last few days, mostly starting at 6 am in front of my windows. I'm talking of big buggers here, like the caterpillars from Björgunasveitin, and also a helicopter which was buzzing around all evening yesterday.

Maybe it's just for a film or something.

Anyway, I guess it led me to have strange dreams last night.

The weather has been eXtrEmely bad lately, alternating snow, hail and gale all weekend and yesterday, and I woke up in a jump last night after an outburst of thunder (rather rare here) with hail hammering at the window. It was so unexpected I actually thought it might be the volcano erupting again, but I guess if it had been, we'd know about it by now...

Alice came here this weekend, and it was so horrible out that we decided to spend most of our time indoors (I feel I'll turn to dust if it carries on any longer!) ... knitting (what a surprise!) (not!)

Anyway, this is the result of the weekend, a new pair of mittens for Alice, because she gave me her favourite pair 2 years ago and since then she lost her other pair, so it's only fair! :o)

Back

Not quite sure how satisfied I am with the "flowery" pattern, but the rest is nice, and álafoss lopi is so pleasurable to work with!!!!

Front

And this here is a hat I started last week... I bought loads of beautiful álafoss and wanted to make a sort of "Easter coloury looking hat", so here it is... I possibly wouldn't wear it, but I'm sure someone will love it someday!! :)