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Woolly Wonders Hit Caernarfon!

It's going to be a busy week ahead with both big and small decisions to mull over. The small being a giveaway/ competition over on the facebook page. It's almost reached 100 likes and therefore cause for a mini celebration! Now I just need to decide what is sufficiently tempting without being major extravagance, what to choose mmmm.... The large, I'll tell you about soon if it comes to fruition. Scary and exciting in almost equal measure! In other news, my work may be featured in a magazine soon. Well, 'featured' may be overselling it, but I may have a little corner to nestle in as part of an interesting article...

Signpost of Flowers
I hope all this has teased and tempted you dear readers (or reader, if everyone else has had a better offer). In the meantime, here's something uplifting. As regular readers will be aware, I'm a little bit obsessed with my adopted town Caernarfon & its fortunes. This weekend there's a fiesta atmosphere as Gwyl Arall ('Another Festival')  http://gwylarall.com/ is livening up the place with a curious blend of literary, musical & other cultural events. Today I'm off  to see Francesca Rhydderch talking about her novel 'Rice Paper Diaries' (about a Welsh girl in wartime Hong Kong) in the Yacht Club then Rhian Edwards reciting poetry in a pretty garden. With eating always near the top of my agenda, I'll also be hoping to try lovely summer 'street food' in the Palas Print's garden and then fit in an ice cream in between events with a friend. Yes, Latitude looks amazing but here is a pretty lovely place to spend a Sunday too :-) 



Bye bye library flowers :-(
Yesterday's highlight for me was undoubtedly the yarn bombing spotted around the old town, lots of woolly wonders to find which really made me smile (#GwauDre). Think I found them all & I enjoyed the mini expedition to seek them out. I'm predicting the more tucked away ones will still be being spotted for some time. Some/all may disappear or be vandalised and I'll try hard not to be disappointed if/when it happens.  My source, Ms Slipstitch, reports that by the afternoon yesterday, two very pretty flowers had already wandered off from the library sign they were sweetly perched on, shame on you thieves *sigh*.

Adorable phone cosy

Still, hopefully many still remain to be enjoyed by everyone else. The next blog post will feature a mini interview with Ms Slipstitch speaking as one of the local knitting group who carried out the woolly bombing/storming and some more pics.

Market Hall Gates, much improved

Bench scarf


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  1. Janice Jones25 July 2013 at 03:26

    Love the yarn-bombing - street art at its woolly and wondrous best! If only I could have persuaded She Who Wields the Needles to don her knitted beard . . .

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