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I am fairly up to scratch with my studies, and so the main part of this autumn half-term was spent on leisure and other forms of my own personal  benefit.

To begin with, I had ordered three Lundia bookcases to hide some of the chaos that is my study-cum-living room. I wanted to bring some order to my favourite sixteen square metres, and I wanted the possibility to continue the same look on the other side of the room in the future. I had ordered the planks, panels and worktops mid-August, and October 14th was the first possible delivery date. I had it moved to this week because it’s my Autumn half-term holiday. Good things come to those who pay through the nose wait, I suppose.

The before situation can be seen on Kees’ blog, and below is what I apparently looked like after Kees, Nantko and I had moved it all and I got supper on the way. Notice the emptiness behind me…

This is what things looked like a few days later, with the Billy and my comics collection moved to the left and after I had assembled everything and put most of my stuff back in. All the top shelves will be behind mauve-pinkish doors once the hinges get stolen from Ikea come in the post.

  

After two days  of marking tests and writing planning schemes for work I decided it was time to get some R&R before all school breaks loose again. Therefore this morning Marion and I took off to the textile craft fair in Rotterdam. It was held in a beautiful architectural landmark, the former Van Nelle factory.

I had just finished this cute amigurumi penguin the night before, and he seemed to enjoy his first view of the outside world while Marion and I KIPped on the train. He had made himself quite comfortable on my -also recently finished-  purple beanie with pink skulls. I decided to call him Pengurumi until his next owner decides on another name.

Saint Salarius had just visited me the night before, and after paying next month’s rent and various other bills it was now time to blow the rest on yarnabilia. I bought 9 skeins  pure brick-red silk tweed yarn (on sale) for a sweater to be knit next spring, various bits and bobs for making more amigurumi, a book on modular knitting and 700 grams of gorgeously soft BiFL roving (to be spun this winter and knit into yet another sweater next autumn).

Pengurumi was quite exhausted by now, and had a little rest in the Ravelry / Dutch knitters‘ corner.

Marion had managed to restrict herself to only one hank of hand-dyed sock yarn, although that wasn’t her only purchase; perhaps she’ll own up to blog about that herself. Or perhaps not.

One more day before school, and the end of daylight savings’ time tonight. Take a deep breath..