sweet

Hmmmm

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I think I will go and analyze it a little bit. What Angharad Means

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality. You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals. You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life. You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone. Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don't appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs. You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out. Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia. Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person. You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You're always up to something. You have a ton of energy, and most people can't handle you. You're very intense. You definitely are a handful, and you're likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun. You are balanced, orderly, and organized. You like your ducks in a row. You are powerful and competent, especially in the workplace. People can see you as stubborn and headstrong. You definitely have a dominant personality.

What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

Worth a laugh

Bunnies. Doing things.

:)

No-not those sorts of things. Well, not all of them anyway.

Snow break

We've been in Sister's Oregon for the last few days, visiting Eric's dad and his wife. Besides seeing the grandparents, I love coming here because they live a whole 2 miles away from the stitchin' post. As soon as we got here I made my usual excuses and ditched the fam to go get some yarn. I am almost a year over due on my sister's birthday present, and so I started on these:

They were such a quick and easy knit (from Altered Knits by the way) that I had to make another pair:

And by the time I had finished them:

I had it in my head to design my own so now I have this:

But I only have one of them because it came out a little too small, so now I am working on this:

Thank god for grandparents and the endless hours they spend with their grandchildren.

It hasn't all been knitting and, well, more knitting. Tabitha made good on the cough she had last week, which we thought was improving, and developed a full blown duel ear infection mid air on the trip down. I spent our first morning here knitting in an urgent care waiting room. But at least this was the view on the drive there:

She's already feeling better.

:)

These days, everyone's a photographer

Including me!

Footography

Joshua Tree cacti

Random wood.

This is just too cool

Oliver is king of the mountain.

Guess why I took this picture. Butt why indeed! Ha!

We took, between the 3 of us with cameras, over 1000 pictures over the 3 days we were in Palm Springs for New Years. Can any one spell obnoxious!!

:)

My new camera is awesome

The gorgeous view doesn't hurt.

Taken in candle light.

Cheesy.

:)

There is something fishy in that...

....soap!

Corney-but a nice and easy craft for the kids to give to their friends for Christmas. It's about as simple as it looks-melt and pour soap in a little plastic baggie with a plastic fish in it. Tie the bag while it's still liquid and voila! The hardest part is keeping the fishie upright while it solidifies, we had a couple of  dead looking ones before we figured it out.

:)

Guess what i got for Christmas

Now I have no excuse for cruddy blogging!

Merry Christmas!

:)

Passing the buck

I have completed an awesome number of thigns recently, but have I had time ti take pictures?? Nooooo. So I am copping out and giving you a list of lists-other bloggers who have gone through the trouble of compiling list of all sorts of things:

Bella Dia-On line tags! Not to mention her holiday story collection and the daily craft to go with each one! She is my self esteem issue.
How About Orange and her paper ornament list.
Happy Mundane has some great hand made ornament ideas.
And Thimble, who has to many ideas to list separately.

I actually have one very easy but very visually (to the craft delayed) impressive gift that the kids and I whipped up yesterday-and I will do my bestest to post about it tomorrow. When I have pictures. Though when I will have the time to pull an extra day of hours out of my ass so that I then have the time to take pictures, I just don't know.

:)

Holy cow, a FO!

You are not dreaming-that is my lace. BLOCKED! The expert knittings among you will notice I did not crochet the edge, mostly because once I cast off I had a whopping 2 yards of yarn left-how's that for knitting precision? Usually I run out 4 stitches shy of finishing the whole damn thing. But not this time-I think the cosmos knew what would happen if I had-after more than a year and a half of knitting and my mom's 60th 50th birthday days away, there was no time for the mega tantrum I would have thrown. I also could have/maybe should have blocked the fans a little wider, but it turned out well, and I just thank god it's finished.

:)

Amy Butler bags

I don't know how I missed this but here's the info on the actual bags:

http://www.amybutlerdesign.com/products/bags_detail.php

In my search I came across the flickr site with all the pictures of bags people have made from her patterns. It reminds me that I have all the pieces for the weekender in my craft room, cut out and everything. I should finish that. Really. I find her patterns a little complicated and that timtex stuff is tricky so I get annoyed quickly with it. But I should persevere, the result looks very worth it.

Also some pictures from work:

:)