Faerie Crafty: Home Sweet Home

So we've been here almost a week now, and I've finally found a few minutes to sit down and blog. For the first 2 days I was here I was cut off from internet access, and then we lost a whole day traveling from my grandparent's house to my hometown. I've found a new appreciation for many things that I've seen a hundred times before, everything is so beautiful after you live in a huge city like Montreal and then return to rural Newfoundland. Our first stop was King's Point where my mom grew up, my grandparents still live there so we visited them first since they live a little closer to the airport than my parents.

Here is a beautiful scene from King's Point "out the bay..."

I did a little shopping while there and found some beautiful Briggs and Little yarn for way too inexpensive. I almost collapsed when I saw the price:

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I bought enough to make a sweater, in the oatmeal colour at the right of the photo and then was told that for each 2 skeins bought I was entitled to 1 skein of their Anniversary Twist colourway for 1.50 each. So I bought 5. Its a scratchyish wool but after knitting a swatch to test for needle size I think I like it, it smells so raw and natural. I love it.

I also finished my first Monkey sock which has been claimed by my mom for skating socks (she skates in winter only)

The second sock will be on hold for a while as I have a paid project as well as my jaywalkers to advance on, especially since she doesn't really need them until winter.

After two days we travelled home to Burgeo on our way we stopped in Corner Brook where I went to school for 3 years. On our way there I saw this picture:

Huh?? is that a ball of yarn and knitting needles.

Yup.

It's a little hard to tell because we couldn't stop since we were on the highway. I'm going to try to get a better picture on my way back. I don't think that this indicates yarn shops, but rather the availability of Newfoundland Hand knits and handmade crafts, but I thought it was amusing nonetheless.

Corner Brook is a beautiful city, that's located in the Humber River Valley. Here's a beautiful shot of the bay in Corner Brook where it leads into the Humber River.

Next we headed to my favourite Newfoundland restaurant; Jungle Jim's where I had a delicious Pina Colada:

After our supper we headed home, the road to my hometown is very long and barren but just filled with beautiful picturesque scenes. I'll show you just a few but I'll put everything online once I'm back in Montreal and have a better internet connection. Most of the local highways have a nickname in Newfoundland the road that leads to Burgeo is called the Caribou Trail:

One of the many rivers or brooks with the Annieopsquotch Mountains in the background

One of thousands of Moose on the island, this one is either young or female, we weren't close enough to know.

There are lots more pictures to show, but this is already a very picture heavy post. Once we'd arrived in Burgeo, I went to run a few errands with my mom and to my great surprise found even more Briggs and Little homespun in almost every little store in town which is pretty decent considering we have a small population of around 1600 people. I was even more shocked this time about how inexpensive it was:

I only bought 3 more balls, just enough to make a beautiful pair of tradition fair isle mittens, very common in these parts.

Anyhow, I think this post has gone on long enough, so I'll leave you with just two more beautiful scenic pics.