I learned to crochet!
I traded some of my photos for a bunch of skeins of cotton and rayon handpainted yarn from http://yarntopiatreasures.etsy.com and just had my cousin-in-law and aunt-in-law teach me how to crochet! I really love it and this is the first piece that I made. It is a double wrap button closure scarf in my favorite autumn colors mix. Heaven. My next venture is a super soft cowl neck scarf in greys and pink/purples. It shall be awesome. I'm not sure that I needed to learn another craft but I'm very happy that I did!

By the way, I've just separated my flickr accounts so that we now have one just for Sweetland Retreat to show the progress of our renovations. We will set up a new blog and website after Christmas and I'll post it here. For now the photos of the move in have been transfered, I'll make a new post in a few minutes.