A great day for surprises!

Today turned out to be a pretty awesome day!

Firstly, my amigurumi books that I ordered came through a day early from Amazon! I have 'The Complete Idiots Guide to Amigurumi' by June Gilbank (she also has an awesome wesbsite too... http://www.planetjune.com/), 'Creepy Cute Crochet' by Christen Haden and 'Scary Cute' by Anni Obaachan. There are some super cute amigurumi's to make in the books as well as helping to teach me some of the other stitches that I don't yet know about!

My awesome new books

Secondly, I actually had enough time on my lunch break to play a nice chunk of Okamiden. I got past the first boss battle, and am really enjoying using the DS and stylus for the brushstrokes and combat. I could have easily continued playing even for a while longer, but my battery began to die...so I will play some more this evening once it is all charged back up again!

Lastly, I had a lovely surprise from Catherine!! She gave me this awesome kit which has different sized eyes for amigurumis, and detail stuffing tool and some stitch markers!!Thank you so much for this awesome little pressie Catherine!! Really happy that I am building up this little kit of all things to do with crochet :)

So happy to have the stitch markers! I am worried every time I leave my work partially complete usually!

Last night was also super successful as I finally managed to complete my first peanut amigurumi!! It has no eyes, as I didn't have any then, and I still am lacking a yarn needle, so cannot tie off the tail to complete him, but I am so pleased that I feel like I have finally figured out what it is I am meant to be doing. I will probably attempt a more complete peanut guy (with eyes and ears) before moving onto any other patterns, just to make sure I really do know what I am doing and that this wasn't just a fluke!!

My Peanut!

All in all it's been a pretty good day! Will have a read through my books and play some more on my DS tonight I think :)