All sea monkeys must be supervised

Holy crap!! We haven't updated since July???

Ok, I promise I'll try to blog more. Honest.

I have knitted a BUNCH. If I wanted to share everything with you, we'd be here till January lol. But I will share with you my Icarus that I finished. The project page is here if you're on ravelry.

I started this waaay back in January (of 09, not like, 07 lol), and just finished it last month. I LOVE IT. I would wear it always if it wasn't so delicate.


The yarn is jojoland Harmony, color "05," it sounds so romantic and pretty lol... It used less than one ball, around 650 yards.

Why yes, this is my second Icarus. The first went to Angie, you can see it if you click here.

I love love love that shawl. I want to knit it into a throw blanket or something someday. But for now, I'm done with it. Next on the agenda is the peacock feathers shawl... and yes, yes I am insane. Thank you for asking.

I also finished a pair of socks, plain, my own pattern...

Yarn is Araucania Ranco Multi and... I'm not sure what colorway. Pretty though lol. And a few pairs of fingerless gloves that look like this...


Only... pretty and not weird cause the camera freaked out. The pattern is Smariek's four rib braid cable mitts, the yarn is of course malabrigo. I also made a pink pair, and I have plans for a possible matching hat (for the red.)

In other news, Angie will be moving back to Ohio soon, and so will I... more details as it happens. Right now, I'm living (temporarily) in Vermont. My husband is working here until the end of December. I LOVE it in Vermont, but I just want to go home now.

Nothing else really new... how is everyone in blog land? Miss us? :)

Criss Angel is not the messiah!

Hey everybody!  I've been waiting to blog till I got my new digital camera (I'm still shopping around for the best deal but it looks like I'm going to have to suck it up and pay full price, damnit lol) But I have something really important to blog about and it needs no pictures so...

I got something really awesome in the mail today.  It's my permanent resident card.  What that means is that since the 30th of June I've been a landed immigrant here in Canada.  I can work here, go to school here, basically do everything a Canadian can except vote.  And in a few years I can apply for citizenship, which I'm going to do.

It's been a really rough journey to get here.  They should include a warning on the things you'll go through when you start this process.  I haven't seen my family in nearly 3 years.  I lost a dear friend because the distance was just too much and he's not a phone or chatting on the internet type of guy.  I lost my grandmother.  We paid nearly $3,000 (this is an estimate, I didn't keep track because I didn't want to know).  We took a trip to Calgary where I got sick and then suffered the whole trip home.  We've lived in a house with a person who doesn't like me and doesn't want us here for three years.  And there were several times we nearly got divorced because the stress was just too much.

But all that's over now.  I'm trying to get into school in October to study graphic design.  And next month?  I'm gonna go home and hug my mother.  :)

It's a very tangled web of Kahootsness

Hey guys! Look, I'm alive! We both are. Angie's been in a not blogging mood (but say hi to her!!) and I've been out of commission. My husband had lost his job, and we were living with my mom, which was horrible. So I was anxious and depressed, but I'm doing much better now because we're out of there. He got a job with a traveling company, which means that his company foudn him a temporary job and they're paying for our place to live, plus he gets paid normal salary and then extra stuff, which is really nice. We're staying at a hotel (because they couldn't find an apartment that would let us have both dogs and the cat) near Burlington, VT. lol I love the area, it's gorgeous, though the people are sometimes not very nice.

I left my camera cord at home, so I won't have pictures for a while. I can tell you that I've started some new stuff, and I've been working on some old stuff (like, for instance, Sheherezade), and I've recently gotten some new sock yarn. I'll show you asap, ok?

How is everyone in blog land doing?

You are 46% Bacon

Today is MAY 14TH.  MAY 14TH!!!!

Why am I so worked up about today's date?  Here's how I was dressed to go for a walk tonight.

Confused?  Here, here's another hint

Why yes, that is snow.  I think I died and went to hell.  Except I believe in reincarnation.  *cracks up*

Anyway, I didn't blog to show you that.  I blogged to show you this.

That's Olivia's birthday sweater.  Well, it's the first one.  I want to make another one that has a hood.  Probably a tomten like last year (there aren't any pictures of the tomten there.  Apparently I didn't get any.  Just Olivia's first birthday pics).  It's Bernat Baby Sport in "Rosey Posey".  I'd say the color is close in that picture.  It's just a tiny bit lighter than that.  I loved knitting this sweater and I think I managed to crank it out in 48 hours.  I'm not sure.  I used size 8 needles to get 4.5 spi so that it would come out around a size 3/4.  It's actually a little shorter than I planned because I failed to account for the weight of the sweater stretching it out when I did my last measurement before starting the garter on the bottom.  Oh well, I don't imagine it'll fit for long anyway.  I hear she's a chunky little monkey.  *smile*

You're a zombie, haha!

Hey guys! Sorry it's been a while for me at least, but life has been rough. My husband lost his job, and so we have to move. It really stinks, we're going to be staying with my mom for a few weeks, and it's going to be sooooooo hard on me. So, as a reprieve, or just because I can, I made a bunch, and I mean, a BUNCH of baby booties.

The green ones are crocheted, yeah, I CROCHETED them. They're mock baby crocs. I used cotton-ease in lime, and a size h hook. The other two in that picture and these two...

Are seamless saarje's booties, aka (in Angie's post...) those "hard to pronounce booties." These ones, the green and pink ones, are my favorites.

The red and gray ones are made from Claudia Hand painted in the special buckeye colorway; the blue, green, and purple ones are Bernat Sox in color Hippi Hot; the pink and green ones, and the purple and yellow ones, are Bernat baby jacquards, in spearmint candy and easter basket.

I also made these booties...

Which are the simple t-bar shoes from the book 50 baby booties to knit. I made them out of Bernat softee baby in pink, obviously. :) See, I told you, lots and lots of baby booties.

I've also been working on random socks, and I test knit a pair of secret fingerless gloves for my friend Knitasaur on ravelry, out of malabrigo, and I made a matching bucket hat. The color is Pollen.

The inside is also malabrigo, in Oceanos. Aaaaand I started, last night, an Estonian Garden Scarf, in malabrigo lace, color verde adriana.

And Oliver is totally bored by all of this. Isn't he getting big?

It's like playing charades with a blind person!

I've beaten the camera into submission so that I can finally blog again! lol  So recently Krystal told me that someone needed baby stuff and that's all I needed to hear.  I made a blanket, a pair of socks, a pair of those hard to pronounce booties, a little pair of cotton sandals, and a hat.  I love to knit for babies so any excuse is a good one.  

The color on everything is right except the blanket isn't so... neon.  You can hardly see the little colored speckles in the booties, which totally disappointed me.  I love the little speckles.  I'm seriously going to have to force myself to put those in the mailer on Monday!  I actually made the hat because I noticed that readingknitter01 (the lovely lady that started all this baby knitting insanity) had the first hat I made like that in her favorites on ravelry.  I just made this one bigger because I don't think a very warm hat in a newborn size is really a necessity for a baby born at the end of April in California.  lol  Want to see a close up of the edging cause it's so cute?

Of course you do!  lol  That color is totally off.  I fidgeted with that picture forever to try to get it right.  My camera just doesn't like that color.  I do though.  I'm making a mitered square blanket with that color and a darker blue.  I don't have any pictures of that though.  It was interesting getting the three pictures I took.

Yes, three pictures.  *praying Mom doesn't read the blog*  I made Mom a scarf for Mother's Day.

It's the Estonian Garden Scarf pattern by Evelyn A. Clark in my beloved Zephyr in "blueberry".  I loved making this scarf.  Even when it popped off the needles *sob* and I lost about 10 repeats.  I worked on this mostly while watching Twilight so in my head this is the Twilight scarf.  I loved making this so much that I cast on for another one today for me in dark grey Merino Oro.  I'm not loving the Merino Oro though.  We'll see if I can keep plugging along or if there's another ball of Zephyr in my future.  Oh what a sacrifice!  *grin*

(PS readingknitter01 didn't really start the baby knitting insanity.  It's been all baby knitting insanity all the time for me since I learned to knit lol)

Mickey Mouse... wanted to kill them.

Hi everybody!!!

What has everyone been up to? I've been sorta busy, sorta not. I threw out my back the other day, doing nothing, and I was seriously ticked about that for a few days. I haven't been doing much knitting, mostly just playing video games. Remember the sock from the other day? I'm almost to the heel on the second one (I'm on the gusset already) so it should be done soon. Other than that... not much in the way of knitting.

I did start this scarf in Malabrigo Lace, color Verde Adriana. But, I frogged it because... well... well, see, here's the thing. I like the picture of the scarf. I like the fabric I was getting. It looked just like it did in the picture. But... I don't like it. I don't quite get it. I'm going to try this scarf instead.

In other news, I'm off to do surgery.

Wish "new duck" a happy recovery! :)

Update: The surgery was successful, and new duck is once again a fully functional member of the toy department here!

Unfortunately, due to a slight error in judgment (in other words, the surgeon was a little buzzed)...

The leg is now off center. Oh well new duck... now, fly, fly away! Or... be tossed to the other room to be once again shredded by Storm. Whichever.