Happy first day of summertime! It's making me a bit grumpy though I must admit - I want my hour back!

I'm working of some jewellery pieces today. I like listening to the radio when I'm making things, it's nice to engage two different parts of the brain at once. And making is a rather solitary business, so it's nice to hear a human voice.

Lately I've been listening to This American Life, which has over ten years' worth of archives to listen to. I really enjoyed the last section of this show. It's Russell Banks reading an edited version of his short story "Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story," which appears in its full version in his collection The Angel on the Roof. He has a wonderful reading voice.

Spprriing!

On my balcony microclimate a couple of weeks ago. Come back sunshine!

Something nice to wake up to.

Missoni

So much knitting inspiration from Missoni. I love the soft colours and the easy comfort of it all. I'm not usually a big Missoni fan (too slick, maybe), but this is making me hope for a cold Spring.

Brrrrr...

It's snowing in London. A lot. I can't remember snow settling like this since I was a little kid. London is full of festive, snowman-building, snowball-chucking people.

After marvelling at it all we repaired for some mulled wine.



In other cold-weather news, I finished knitting my long fingerless cashmere gloves. I love them.

Christmas

It's that time of year again. December is running away with me, it's scary. If you're thinking of ordering from Glint this year, here are the last order dates for Christmas delivery:

UK and the Channel Islands - Saturday 20th December
Western Europe - Thursday 11th December
USA - Thursday 11th December
Japan - Tuesday 9th December
Anywhere else - please contact me

These are the last standard order dates but please contact me earlier with custom orders or if you are ordering anything particularly involved!

UK Design Fair

Thanks to everyone to came to see me at the design fair this weekend! It was a great show.

As always I had to buy something for myself as well, and I got the bargain of the century with 6 Soop mugs for a tenner. They are supposed to be seconds, but if that's the case then Wai-Lian must have extremely high standards because they seem pretty perfect to me...Jammy dodger anyone?

What I'm doing this weekend...

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Come along and see me at the
UK Design Fair, 28-30 November 2008, Shop 14, The Old Truman Brewery, corner of Hanbury Street and Dray Walk, London E1 6QL Map

There's a late night shopping evening on Friday 28th, 5-9pm, and I have some free drinks vouchers to give away - just ask!

And Happy Thanksgiving to all of you in the US.