Stamps Is Keeping Busy

Its been a while now since I posted to Stamps Blog. But he has not retired he has been very busy making Little Hats for the Innocent Irish Big knit. My colleagues from work and the ladies of the Ravelry Group have also been very busy and between us we have made over a 1,000 hats. Which is amazing and will go a way to reaching the overall goal of 80,000. You can find out more about this at Innocent's Website.
http://www.innocentdrinks.ie/thebigknit/

Here are a few pictures taken when Stamps got involved. These are just a few of his favourite hats made by my colleague Brenda. Aren't they amazing. I was delighted to receive these in the post a few weeks ago.

A little Woman

And a little man

This one is my special favourite. The work and detail is amazing and its beautiful too.

The whole bunch together but they are only a very small sample of the hats we received we got hundreds. Thanks to all my colleagues at work for all their hard knitting.

Stamps got excited when he saw all the lovely hats and wanted to make a few himself. Ah bless, he gave it his best try. Thanks Stamps.

He also gave me a lot of help sorting the hats and filling out the forms for Innocent. He was amazed when he saw how many there were.

He had to take a little break half way though the task. He was caught trying to make a 'Snow Fairy' in the middle of this bunch made my Kevina. Really Stamps get focused no playing now.

All the hats have been sorted and bagged up and ready to go to the Fruit Towers in Baggot Street.

Stamps jumped into the bag just to do one last count. Yes Stamps it was an amazing 590 hats all made with love by members of the AIB Staff.
Stamps fell in love with Helen when he arrived at Fruit Towers in Baggot St. Here he is giving her our letter and our hats.
Its an important task Stamps, which you carried out with grace and style, as usual.

One last picture of Stamps at Fruit Towers but he's still knitting away, getting as many hats made before the deadline 14th October which is only 4 days away. How many more can you make Stamps?

Look out for what happened when Stamps attended the Big Knit in at St Stephen's Green Shopping Centre last week.

Details to follow very soon.

Love

Gerryberry

Stamp's Diary of his visit to Ware

The Diary of my Visit to WARE.

I was very cold when I arrived so I sat on radiator to warm up after being in the postmans cold bag.




Hello Pickle, I really love Cats.




Here I am helping Trish's hubby to get the ticket in Asda carpark in Harlow,Essex.




Sitting in the shopping trolley.....yummie fresh rolls for lunch.



I am standing on the lock gates......too cold to wait for a boat to go through.



Here I am on the bridge, with the waterfall in the background, Trish's hubby is holding me as i didn't want to fall in the very cold water.



Here we are at the signpost into Ware.

Stamps in Somerset

Stamps was in clevedon on his hols. Somerset in england the cider country. He didn't partake in the cider consumption but loved the seaside! He got a Clevedon Pier pin for his coat.



He is now with Trish in Hertfordshire. Watch this space. Pictures soon.

More from Scotland.

And there is more from Scotland.




Stamps enjoying the Scottish sunshine before heading off to the Underground





Stamps on the Glasgow Underground. This was part of the Special PicKnit . . . and Underground Sit-in (complete with knitting)





Stamps with Casey, Jess, Antje (The Yarn Cake owner) and Johanna ( she organises the PicKnits)





Stamps sunbathing





Ysolda was at the picknit too





It was a busy meet that day . . . lot's of knitters in the park




Stamps makes some new friends before heading back home.

Stamps Visits Amanda in Scotland

A little while ago Stamps went to see Amanda in Scotland and she gave him a great time. He even to meet a good few knitting celebs. Here's a brief summary of his trip below:-

Stamps arriving in Scotland.


Stamps in the Botanic Gardens, Glasgow (there for the fortnightly PicKnit)



Stamps looks around the Botanics and enjoys Kibble Palace



He also likes the other big greenhouse in the gardens



He looks around the flower beds



He knits some little smoothie hats for the Big Knit Campaign (knitting and cake . . . the reason for visiting the Botanics on a lovely Sunday afternoon)



Amanda and Stamps arrive at the KnitCamp event in Stirling



He's all ready to browse yarns in the market place



Stamps meets the amazing Wooly Wormhead on her stall at KnitCamp



Stamps dives into a box of yummy yarn at the Yarn Yard stall.

Places beginning with C

Can you tell where Stamps is standing? No it's not a prison, or a jewelry store or a wishing well...

It's one of our many many castles in Wales. This one is on the hill above our town and is called,(strangely, considering it's condition) Newcastle. That's because it replaced the old Roman fort that was originally on this site.

There it is in full view. It's only a little castle, but it's our very own.

As a treat for being such a good climber and getting to the top of Newcastle hill, we took him to the cinema. Looks like he hasn't stopped climbing yet. This huge stuffed dog was in the lobby advertising the new movie "Marmaduke" Can't wait to see it.

Bridgend - town of many bridges.

This is another of our sweet little towns - Pen-y-bont or Bridgend as we all call it. Outside the main council offices Stamps finds three large signs.
One is the Bridgend crest and the other two are the towns that we are twinned with. Langenau in Germany and Villenave D'ornon in France. We sometimes exchange students from schools and colleges; it is great fun. But as Stamps says, "that's two towns you are twinned with; surely that should be two towns you are tripletted with" LOL Stamps; you are a funny one.

Bridgend is also known as "little Venice." The river runs right through the center and in one mile of river there are 11 brdges of different kinds crossing it including one that runs the entire length of the river. Those little weirs don't stop the local canoe club from using it. The water level is usually much higher but we have been having lots of sunshine these last few weeks - lucky us hee hee.