Do you like Lolcats? Some of them can be rather silly, but many put a smile on my face (which is why I have a folder full of them on my computer which are shown on my desktop in random order). None of them are generally even remotely relevant to my stitching, but today I felt rather like this:

And why? Because the lovely people at the Viking Loom sent me this:

Looks tempting enough even when it’s all wrapped up, doesn’t it ? But then I got to take them all out of their plastic coats and see them in their full glory.

The theory is that this will help me clear out some of my stack of Ghost Projects by turning them into Useful Boxes To Put Things In. In practice, some of them are just crying out for those small goldwork designs I’ve been doodling and scribbling over the past few months…