And here is the finished yarn, after drying:
I simply love it. It's a tad washed out in this picture, but it's a delicious color of chocolate-brown, with a very slight color variation of a darker shade. This will become a pair of socks (as it's Knitpicks Color Your Own Sock yarn-- the 100% wool), but I'm excited to try dyeing with the black walnuts again. I think the squirrels may have swiped all our black walnuts though...
I'm moving along great on the Dimple Socks, much farther than this picture attests:
In fact, I'm just about ready to cast on for a new pair.
In house renovation news, we have a hole in our house:
The resident handyman (my dh) replaced a huge window in the living room this weekend. Too bad it poured rain all Sunday, or the other hole in the house (I failed to take a picture) would be fixed, too. Arg.
I also made a little jelly.
What started out as this huge bag of grapes from MIL:
Became this:
16 jars to be exact. I'm thinking it will make a great office gift for Christmas. Yep, I'll probably still be here around Christmas-time. I wasn't initially planning on working here for that long, but last week I got a promotion. It's definitely not my dream job, but it's a great opportunity (and I can get up to pee whenever I want LOL), and it is a bit more money. I started out as a temp, was hired full-time as the receptionist, and am now a legal administrative assistant. It's amazing how much differently I'm already being treated. Isn't that sad? Attorneys who would never say more than two words to me are now asking me how my weekend was, and trying to start a conversation with me. Grrrrr.