I feel so good today and I can't work out why. I really hope it lasts! I have this tingling feeling of antici... pation, but I can't put my finger on what it's about. I really think I'm just high on the weather today. I think it's the air - ever so slightly cold and crisp, intoxicating, a pleasure to breathe. And it's brilliantly sunny. The sky is bright blue today, and cloudless. I got to wander about for an hour this morning before work, doing errands, and I didn't want to go indoors.
And my kneesocks. I'm wearing my psychedelic kneesocks today under a long denim skirt. They're totally unflattering, especially with my pink Kickers - I have nice ankles and this ensemble makes them look clumpy. Still, I feel good! Possibly so good that today I felt like defying the unsexiness of the kneesocks/Kickers combo and just going for it. And the wool I bought. I love the teal colour which has just come in for autumn - it's dark turquoise really, isn't it? I found some teal wool in a charity shop, only one ball sadly but it's lovely - bouclé shot through with a fine copper fibre. I'm going to knit a stripy scarf with that, taking the other colours from my new winter bag, so it matches - turquoise, lime green, black, peppermint cream. Got a gorgeous soft lime green from the wool/sewing shop by Waitrose on Western Road - it's not often you find a lovely lime green which isn't almost fluorescent).
The bag is really a summer bag - another Ollie & Nic sale bargain (£58 down to £30) but it's my winter bag because it's entirely waterproof so will survive when I'm standing at a bus stop in the pouring rain, and it's huge (I think it's meant to be an overnight bag!) so has plenty of room for hat, scarf, gloves, college stuff, work stuff and bit of shopping. I'm considering experimenting with something I've never tried before - brown (no, not as in Golden Brown...). Deep, chocolate brown. I've always been very anti, mainly to do with my hair being dark brown (and the possibility of it being the top of the slippery slope to beige). But lately I'm coming round to the idea of using it as a neutral, against hot pink or turquoise.
So I bought a ball of brown wool and might work some into the scarf, to test drive the colour. Then I'll go shopping for some dark brown trousers, I think. And I need to seriously apply myself to getting some new boots. I only have one pair but they're three years old now and in a downpour I get sopping wet feet. Oh dear, that'll be £70 at least... when am I ever going to have money in my savings account? Better get on and try and sell some bags...
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