Knitting, Parcels and Nibbles!!

I have had the best last few days!!! On Friday night Sue and Graham took me to the Thai restaurant at the end of the road for my first trip into the world of Thai food! It was really nice and very reasonably priced!

Then on Saturday Sue and I hit Staines and brought some really great bits from Julian Graves, I am stocking up on all the ingredients I will need for all the baking I need to do for Christmas.

I then met up with 6 other members of the Staines Knitting Group and we all went and invaded the Pincushion in Windsor! (I pre-warned Des the owner that we would be invading) and we were met there by Dani who then invited us back to her house for home made cake and tea:





We all had a great time and everyone of us came away with new yarn for our stash! And I brought some stuff for a Christmas swap with a pen pal.
When we got back Lou and I had a drink in the pub and then had dinner in Nandos which was yum!

On Sunday My Mum and her wife Jan (yes her wife) Came to see me and we went out for dinner. We had a meal at the new Harvester in Staines and it was lovely. I had a really great time with them and cant wait to spend the New Year with them.

On Monday when I got home there was a parcel waiting for me on the dinner table:



Its the Peaches and Creme I ordered from Create and Knit on Friday! I cant believe how quick its arrived. I started using it straight away and managed to get 2 sets of Scrubbies finished (they will be Xmas pressies):


Only 3 people made it to knitting group last night including me but it was nice, for some reason I just couldn't knit last knit, things kept going wrong so in the end I just read my knitting mag. When I got home there was another parcel waiting for me! It was from my 1st ever Ravelry swap and it was from Knittingbunnies in Arizona:











It really cheered me up and I feel like ive been spoilt rotten! I posted out my 2nd swap parcel yesterday to Chelsea in NY and will be getting one back in the next few weeks. I also have another one to send out to Tia in Oregon who is one of my penpals!

Tonight I plan on finishing up a few more Christmas presents and baking up a few treats. Im going to make tiffin and cookies. Im seeing Nicola and her boys on Saturday in Staines and Marius, Loredana and Joshua on Saturday afternoon so will need to go armed with treats and nibbles!