February 28, 2008

A Rite of Passage...

If we'd had any doubt that puberty was happening to Thing One, today's arrival dispelled those doubts.  BEHOLD, THE FIRST ZIT:

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Nine and half.  She's nine and a half years old, people.  Since when do people get zits at nine and a half?  This scares me for her future.  She's always been so pretty; I'd hate for her to be a pizza-face in high school....
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More Finished Objects

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February 27, 2008

Stitches West

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YES, I got to go this year.  Yippeee!  This is me and Suzann, having coffee before we braved the Stitches Market.  It was great to meet another online knitting friend in real life.

HIGHLIGHTS:  I saw Vickie Howell.  She ran past us, looking all stressed out like she was late.  She spent the rest of the day in the Southwest Trading Company booth, signing stuff, etc.  This probably sounds catty, but I must say that it was nice to see someone with such a cutesie-pie image looking...like a normal person.  I also got to meet Cirilia, who is just as nice in person as you would think.  I wanted to yell at Kathy & Steve, "But is she letting you TALK today, Steve?", but the line at the Webs booths was way too long.  I ran into Jenny & Nicole at the Brooks Farm booth (Jenny, did you buy that large amount of yarn you had draped over your left arm?).  I spotted Cookie A. over by the Ravelry table, but I didn't go meet her or anything; it seemed a little dumb to say, "Hi, you're Cookie A.  I haven't knit any of your patterns, but I think you're cool, and I'll get around to knitting them one of these days."  (I thought about Kinnearing her, but didn't.)  I stopped by the Full Thread Ahead booth to say "hi" to Lu, who looked great in her Simple Knitted Bodice. 

YARN:  Yarn.  Yeah.  You're thinking I'm going to come out with some big confession about the buttload of yarn I bought, aren't you?  Well, guess what - I DIDN'T BUY ANYTHING!  Yupp, I know that's hard to believe, but it's true, and here are the reasons Hubby forbade me to buy anything:

- I had to pay $700+ to the dentist on Thursday for stuff from last year for me & the Things that insurance didn't cover.
- I had to buy bras on Friday, and that came out to $156 and change.  For TWO bras.  (See, having ginormous boobs isn't all fun & games; it's hard to find bras that fit!)
- My stash has already outgrown all my newish stash storage stuff.

Why, oh why, did I ever let him learn the expression "Knit from your stash"????  Of course, as a non-knitter, he doesn't "get" the idea that the size of my stash and the desire to purchase yarn have absolutely nothing to do with each other, but that's OK.  After all, I'm a kept woman, and when the one who makes the money says I shouldn't spend any money, who am I to argue, eh?  (Time to list some more of my stash for sale on Ravelry....)  Besides, there's always next year.
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WIP Update

P2150005_edited This is a tiny little teaser portion of a swatch.  I could tell you more, but then I'd have to kill you, lol.

P2240004 P2240002 P2240003 Bobcat's scarf.  That's half of the first border.  After the next repeat, then you do the middle (easy peasy), then the same border on the other end.  It looks OK now but, being lace, will look ever so much better once it's done, washed, and blocked.

More WIP pictures later today....

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Zen Night @ Knitting Group

I forgot to tell you that we had a "Zen Night" at our knitting group a couple of weeks ago in order to clean out our stashes to get ready for Stitches West.  I took a box and a bag full of yarn and came home with this:

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A bunch of it is ack(!)crylic baby yarn for charity stuff; I don't think I'll have to buy yarn for the bereavement stuff or other charity items for a looooong time.  The two giant hanks are Kauni.  Kauni.  For free.  As if I don't have enough stuff in my queue, now I want to make a Kauni cardigan.  Right.  A fingering weight cardigan for someone with a 48" bust.  With steeks.   Mmmm....not gonna happen this week, that's for sure.  Thing One has already claimed the fucshia Wool-Ease as being for something for her.  I thought Thing Two would want the two balls of pale blue cashmere blend, but she thought the blue was "too grey", so she claimed the light blue Patons Classic. 
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Who got it next?

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Thing One didn't get the bug nearly as badly as Thing Two did, though - thank goodness!  She only missed one day of school, but we definitely didn't get to go away or anything over the long Presidents' Day weekend.
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Overheard


Are we rednecks because we use a tool to operate a household appliance?

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February 16, 2008

Valentine's Day

Well, Thing Two managed to get better in time, so we were able to keep our babysitter and our dinner reservations and go out after all.  Yippee!

Even though we were going out, I still made a nice dinner b/c I figured if Jen was spending her Valentine's night babysitting and not on a date or something, she should at least get a nice meal out of it:

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Hubby & I tried out a new-to-us sushi place, then...uh...um...killed some time before we came home.  After Jen left, we watched Lost and that dumb we-watch-it-because-it's-on-after-Lost show, Eli Stone, then crashed out.

We also gave Jen some Hershey's kisses and a quick Zigzag Scarf out of Cascade Jewel.

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A bit of the remaining Jewel became a little rose brooch for my friend Erica, who needed a Valentine pick-me-up:

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February 11, 2008

It's Goin' Around...

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Apparently, Thing Two wasn't the only kid from her class who was absent today; there were only 12 kids in class today!  Last night, she kept saying she didn't feel good.  When she woke up this morning, I could tell she was sick.  Took her temperature - 101.5.  Uh, yeah.  No school.  Motrin brought it down, but by 3:00, it was back up to 102, so more Motrin.  She's been coughing off and on today, too.  Well, no school tomorrow...
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Charity Knitting

Two bereavement hats for CPMC:

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Square blankie for a local battered women's shelter:

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