Pictures. As Promised.

First up, because I love it so much. Is the yarn I got at Craftstravaganza. Or, Craftapoloza. As I like to call it. :)

Dudes. Is that not the prettiest yarn you've seen in a long time? It's from the very sweet and very talented Aisha Celia Designs. She had some really great handspun and variegated ones. But this was the one for me. Well, I would have bought many many more had I had more money. :)

Next up is the little sweater I'm making for J.

It's the Wonder Years pattern that you can find online or over at Ravelry. Loving it so far. Making a size 3T.

And finally, a little sewing. A quilt that I finished sewing the top while I was pregnant with J.

I was hoping to get it done before his bday, but that's not happening.

The pattern is Yellow Brick Road by Atkinson Designs. I used a bunch of fat quarters I collected while pregnant and shopping. :) Not sure yet what I"m going to bind it with. The backing is just a solid green kona.

Dude.

It's been so long since I've blogged that I forgot my password. Nice. :)

So. Let's see. What is exciting as of late?

Hrm...

Couple weeks back Hubby, J and I went to the cities to hit the annual Craftstravaganzia at the state fair grounds. I bought a lovely skein of yarn from a local dyer, and as soon as I can find the camera, I'll post a link and a pic. I could have seriously spent a ton of money at her booth. But I was good. I only bought 1 skein of sock yarn.

I've been working on some kai-mei socks, out of Yarntini cabana boy. They're lovely. I'm on the second sock, and the ribbing part is nice to knit while watching tv.

We did a little yard landscaping last weekend. Again, as with everything, pics someday.

Cast on a shallowtail shawl last night. Yarntini Concord. Lovely dark purple color.

My baby turns TWO on thursday. I'm not sure where the time has gone. To celebrate we're having a little gathering on saturday. And Hubby and I are going to try to make him a sandbox. Being as neither one of us is really handy with a saw, we'll see how it goes.

Working on a little button front cardigan for J. It's dark grey with light grey stripes. I think it will be super cute. I'm knitting a 3T in hopes it will fit him next winter.

I work at noon today, so I'm just puttering around this morning. Still in my jammies. I think I'll go toss some laundry in and maybe do the dishes. Super exciting, I know. But first, I think I'll dig out some fabric. I designed a quilt in my head last night at work. I cut out some paper this morning, and I think it'll work out nicely. So now on to find fabric. :)

But really... I should go finish polishing my toenail. Priorities!

Knitting Olympics. Pt 2.

Is anyone laughing out there? Because I sure am.

Did I think that time would change and that I could knit faster then light?

I've made it up to the elbow on my brothers sweater. I picked out yarn for ester. I knit a baby hat.

Hm... how may days do I have to go?

Kitting. Olympics.

So. I've been thinking and pondering about my knitting a lot. I want to join in the knitting Olympics again this year. I've done it the past two times, and it's always been fun to see what I can do when I focus on something.

So, I've been hemming and hawing about what I'm going to do. And I have giving myself a good challenge. At least I think I have.

First up, I'm going to finish my brother's cobblestone. I've got one sleeve and the yoke to go. Simple. Easy. Almost done. I will finish it.

Second, I'm going to frog a sweater that I started for Johnathan. It's 6-9 month size. He's 20 months size.

Third. (Can I make 3?) I'm going to knit something for myself. Either Ester or Citron. Ester would be made out of some grey Paton's wool I have in stash. Citron would be made out of semi-solid sock yarn (yarntini club! yea!) color to be decided. Both are printed up and ready to go. I just have to dig out the yarn. I think I'm going to work on my brother's sweater first, I just have to pin down one of the other things to work on.

Hello 2010.

I'm glad to be done with 2009. 2010 is going to be better. It has to be.

It's been super crazy busy around here. The holidays, working, sick babies, cleaning house. On and on it goes.

Knitting has been slow and in spurts, I've been focusing on finishing up Xmas gifts that I sewed. Those mostly got done in time thankfully, and now I've just got a few small projects to finish up for my friends.

I lost our new camera. I'm not doing so good with cameras as of late. I broke our old one, and now I can't find the new one. I know we had it at my parents at Christmas, but I can't seem to find it since then.

So. Really. Nothing new here. I've got the day off and I'm going to try to finish laundry. And keep my baby from covering me with snot.

Hello again!

So I took some time off from blogging, because it's been needed.

So. I think I'm back now. At least until life gets crazy again. :)

I got a GC from B&N for my birthday and can you believe I"m having a hard time spending it? I can't find a quilt or knitting book that I want. WTF? Now, there are some knit books I want, but carry at work, so I get a discount and can't see spending my $$ on books I can get for cheaper. But seriously. I've been looking on line for an hour and am stuck.

Any suggestions? I like modern/contemporary quilts. (like Quilt Baby! which I have) and All kinds of sock books. But I really think I own every sock book out there.

Anything out of my box that you can suggest? Otherwise I'm just going to have to spend it on Godiva Chocolate.

Thank you all for your kind words and thoughts. We really do appericate it.

It's been a week, and every day gets a little better. There are still times when I pat a blanket that's on the couch to make sure he's not under it before I sit down. Night time is the worst, when we'd all be in bed snuggling and watching tv. I still can't sleep with my legs straight in bed. I still keep them and wonky angles as if he's still curled behind me knees.

Godspeed little dude.

We lost Siris today. He got hit by a car and now he's gone and I am a mess.

Sick sick sick. We're sick with ick.

So the whole family has caught some sort of icky cold. Between the three of us, I think we got about 3 hours of sleep on saturday night due to Johnathan coughing and just being miserable.

Today I stayed home from work, and sent the baby to grandmas for a few hours so I could sleep. It was awesome.

He's now home pulling kleenexes out of the box one buy one. Oh well. He's not screaming and we'll use the kleenex, so whatever. :)

Oh, he just held one up to his nose and made 'blowing' sounds. Copying me. So cute!

Anyway. I think the rest of the day is going to be about house cleaning, and maybe I'll quick whip up some supper. I have a work meeting tonight, and they'll feed me, and I'm taking J. So that leaves my hubby to fend for himself. Which he totally can do, but I just found this awesome recipe for a white bean and avacado wrap, which I totally want to try.

And now it's snack time, so I better go. He's no longer interested in the kleenex.

dude.

I'm not dead yet. Really. I just work 87 hours a day and still haven't fixed the lap top. I think we shoud do this soon. Like, maybe next week? I don't know. I'm sad that I don't get online as much as I'd like to. I feel like I"m missing out. :)

Speaking of missing out, I'm missing sock summit. Boo.

On a happy note, my little dude is 14 months. He running and climbing and just acting full of energy. ALL. THE. TIME. he gives hugs and cries for Mommy! when he needs something. It's super cute. But, he gives me at least 1 heart attack a day, by climbing on top of the couch, or climbing on top of the dog, on top of the chair. It's nuts.

Well hello!

Happy July! Where did June go?

I've been super busy, working 3 job plus tending the baby. I hardly sleep and I knit even less. :) So. Really, there has been nothing really interesting going on. Plus it's really hard to use the computer when the baby keeps stealing the mouse ball. The laptop cord is gone, so I borrow time on my hubby's computer when he's not working, so that gives me about 27 minutes a day between all that stuff plus sleep.

So. Onward and upward. :)

How have YOU all been?

Happy (belated) Birthday!

Happy Birthday on Wed the 27th to my little booger.  He turned 1 year old! We're have a party tomorrow, and I'm taking moment out of decorating cupcakes to post. 

It's been a hell of a year, but I wouldn't change it for anything.  (but a little more sleep next year would be great, k?) 

oh. Hai!

Hello Blog. I forgot you were here. :)

I've been super busy. And stuff.

My baby turns 11 months today! Holy crap! Where did the year go? Seriously?

I think I need more knitting hours in the day. I've fallen way behind in the SKA knitting. I didn't finish Feb, I won't finish March, but there may be hope for April. Maybe. I've got to finish this dog sweater I've got going. It's a reknit in a larger size, and it's going a little slower than I thought it would be. I'm hoping it will be done by the end of the month.

Other than never sleeping, working here and there, and tending a almost 1 year old. Things are the same here.

Stuff.

So. What's been going on here? Lots of stuff. I've been working everyday to cover a girl that's on vacation. She comes back this weekend, so I'll be back to my 2 days a week.

Friday night we had a scare, at 2:30 in the morning a dude tried to get into our house. Turns out he was peeing on the lawnmower mans' lawn when he got home from work, and when the LM yelled at him, and called the cops, the dude FOLLOWED him into his house. LM's son ran after him, and he ran to our house to try to get in and get away. He was on the deck trying to open the door, and the dogs were freaking out and my husband got up and said 'what the f*ck!?' and the dude said "let me in!" as he ran away. I called the cops, and they were here in 10 seconds, as they were already on the way because LM had already called them. They swept the neighboorhood, even looking under the tarp that covers the pool next door. Crazy! I was pretty freaked out, and didn't get back to sleep until after 4 am. Then the baby got up at 7. We ened up takeing a couple naps together that day. :)

At work they got a new system, and need all the data transfered into it, so I get to work from home via remote desktop while the baby sleeps. Works in everyone's favor.

Dude.

I broke my laptop. It fell off the couch and the little plug part broke off into the plug part on the computer. It still sort of works, but I need a new mac cord. One that doesn't jiggle lose.
ack!

So I borrow my hubby's when he is not looking.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! :)

So, since I walked away from the casino with some monies in my pocket, I decided to run the contest like this.

I counted up all the yarn, 1-16. (Each person's vote gets 2 entries into my contest) I used the Random Number Generator, and Number 16 popped up! So, that means Aitara, you'll be getting the lorna's laces Franklin's Panopticon.

Congrats! And thank you all again. :)

A Big THANK YOU

To everyone who voted in the Zuda contest. My Husband thanks you as well. :)
So. Yarn drawing tomorrow. Why tomorrow, you ask? (I know you do. You can't wait, the suspense is killing you.) Because tonight, my hubby and I are escaping! We're going to the Ever Exciting Mystic Lake Casino and Hotel. We're not gamblers. Nope. Not in the least. But the rest of the family is, and they're all heading down, and they got us a room. So, we got us a dog sitter and we're taking Johnathan and we're going for our First ever overnight trip! Woo! The last time Hubby and I went away was...um... 9 months ago. We stayed in the hospital. Yea. Not a vacation really. I'm so excited for the 1 hour car ride. It's free knitting time! And, if there is a ton of family around, they like to steal the baby. MORE free knitting time. :)

Speaking of Johnathan, the little monkey turned 9 months yesterday! He started crawling a week ago, and it's been go go GO! Ever since. He had his 9 month checkup yesterday. He's 30(!!) inches long (94%) and 17 lb 14 oz (11%) He's a string bean. :) I will leave you with a little picture of the ham.

FREE YARN!!!

Did I get your attention? :)

Okay. So you all remember how my hubby is in that little comic contest? Well, it's the final week and he's doing a push to get out the vote. So I thought I'd do my part. If you go, vote for him, make him your favorite, and give him all the stars you can, I will in turn, give you yarn. for free! I will let you pick out anything I have in my stash on ravelry. Don't forget my sale/trade page.

All I need is for you to do this, go make an account, do the vote and favorite thing. Friend my hubby. Then post here with your user name and your top 2 choices. On March 1st I will have a uninvolved party use a random number thinggy to pick the winner. And I will send you one of your two choices. If you've already voted, thank you! Now friend my hubby and put your info here. Hell, if you have a Significant Other, get them to vote, and post here too. It'll double your chances.

Oh! And if you could, pass the word along, that would be great! Heck, I'd even give you an extra entry. Go post it on your blog, and link it back to me. That would be great! The more word out I can get, the better. I'd love to see a bunch of knitters win it for my hubby. :)

-I'll give you an 'entry' on the stash page. Meaning if there are 4 skeins of lace weight or 5 skeins of wool, you'll get all of them. Not just one.
-I'm pretty sure some of this yarn will never make it to the sale page. So this is the only way you'll get a couple skeins. That and you sneaking into my house at night to get it.
-I do have a few skeins of sock yarn not in yet. Some vesper, and sKitches and some lovely German stuff. Pick 'surprise me' and I'll send you one of those. :)

Thank you all. And good luck!

So, last weekend Michael and I went out to eat at probably the fanciest restaurant in town. Now, I know that we live in the middle of the Midwest, but still. It was a fancy place. Hubs wore a black button down, and a suit coat and jeans. Very cute. Very hipster. I worn a fine gauge v neck sweater, a dark grey denim pencil skirt and black boots. And we were by far the A) youngest couple there and B) The almost best dressed. (And older gentleman was wearing a tie)
So. What can't people dress up any more? I mean, I saw middle aged women in fleece shirts. You know the kind you get at old navy for 5 bucks. I mean, we walked out of there with almost a 100 dollar bill. And I only had 1 glass of wine. And the food was AWESOME! But yet, I felt weird because I felt overdressed.
Is it because I live in the middle of the middle west? I've been to funerals where people wear jean cutoffs and the ratty old t-shirt you won from the MN state lotto. You know, stuff you'd garden in. I've talked with professors in college who have had to have classes to teach kids what is appropriate to wear to a job interview. That short skirt and hoochie mama shirt that shows off your boobies? Not appropriate.
What's happened to this world that people don't dress nice for 'special' occasions anymore? Am I the only one wishing that people still dressed for dinner?

World Class Favor

So. Ya'll know how my husband is awesome right? Well. He is. See, he's got this comic in a little contest over at Zuda Comics. (they're like, affiliated with DC comics of something) Anyway. He go in the contest, and it runs the month of February. Could you do me just a tiny little favor and head over there and vote for him? You could even make a profile and tell him how awesome he is. Make the comic your favorite! Give him 5 stars. He'll thank you for it! :)



That will take you right to it.

Thank you!