Showing posts with label pretty things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pretty things. Show all posts

Sunday, 10 August 2008

Things On Our Living Room Floor

A rug (recently vacuumed. Our normal standards of tidiness don't warrant photographing):This rug was a wedding present, and a much appreciated one given the Swiss loathing for carpeting. All of our floors are hard and cold and not at all pleasant for sitting on, so this rug (which is really thick and densely furry) creates a lovely oasis in the living room.

The other interesting thing on the living room floor at the moment is this:

Which is the beginning of a blanket I am making. Which I suspect might take forever to finish, and I also think that I might start to regret the uneven size of all the squares and the boring arranging I have to do to make the edges all neat and even (hmm, maybe I won't make the edges even. That's an intriguing idea), but hopefully one day it will be all pretty and useful and finished. The purple is much more purple than it looks in that photo, too.

Thursday, 30 August 2007

Look What I've Got!

Yesterday, and for no apparent reason (except possibly because he didn't give me anything for my birthday this year) Reto gave me a present. Look!

No, it's not a gratuitous shot of my crotch, it's a pretty new belt! And it seems to look a different colour in every different lighting situation. Sometimes the gold is all shiny and prominent, sometimes it looks really pink, sometimes the purple stands out more than anything else. How excellent!