i'm back!

hello strangers...

i'm back in the real world and thought it was about time i said hello!

it's been weeks, but it feels like months or years. i left you a newly wed, now i'm back from my honeymoon and coming to turns with the fact that i will now always just have to be a regular holidaymaker and wife!!! well, it's a good job the honeymoon was bloody good then, isn't it??

ok, here is where i feel i have to make an apology considering this is a knitting blog.

in a huge act of generosity to my new husband, i didn't take any knitting with me on holiday. it was supposed to maximise quality time, and it did : ) but beware that it makes this post rather light on the knitting content! this week i have been trying very hard to finish bear to show you, but i still need to sew on the legs and finish her sweater so that's not quite ready yet. my other reason for the lack of knitting content is that i'm going through a bit of a dry spell. i can't find anything to fire me up and get me going, not since the delight that was the sunrise circle jacket. but tomorrow i'm going yarn shopping and hoping to remedy this. if anyone has any motivational tips i'd really appreciate it though!

right, time for me to show a couple of pics... if you're only interested in yarn, you may want to look away now... (one knitting-y photo will sneak in, but it may not be enough!)

this is where we spent our first night in france. it was a beautiful chateau, but a bizarre experience...

drive through the alps was hugely impressive. slightly scary too!

we stopped off on one of the italian lakes for a couple days - ate amazing pizza and had a lot of lakeside fun!

ok, and here i'm going to take blogger's hint. apparently, no more photos! so i'll have to post the wonders of venice and lovely lovely tuscany later. and that solitary knitting post will have to wait! hopefully i'll be back soon with a fully completed bear, too!

good to catch up on everyone else's news, and thank you to everyone who left such lovely messages on the other post!

becks x