WIPs

Wow...I just added a new project I am working on to my Ravelry and I see I now have 8 WIP's(work in progress). That's baaaaaddd........I know I will finish the newest one soon. I can't say what it is in case that person sees this post. And I have a blanket I am making that won't be done for ever. But the other stuff-I should really get on that...... I have:
1. a dishcloth I started forever ago after completing one and needing something simple to keep working on
2. the blanket
3. the new project that I can't talk about
4. Kitty Dim Sum cat toys-I made 2 but didn't finish a third that I started
5. Socks for my dad that were supposed to be for x-mas that I told him he would get "some time"
6. My garter belt from Naughty Needles that matches the wrist warmers I made already-it's slow going-the yarn is sooo thin
7. A baby bib I started before Christmas
8. A baby sweater I started when someone at work was having a baby(which is now almost a year old). It's an awesome sweater though. I really should finish. I did it in burgundy with off white collar and cuffs and it will have swallows on either side of the collar in the off white too! Too cute!

Hmmm.....I think I will tackle the cotton stuff alternately-cotton always gives me a burn on my finger. Then maybe the socks. :)

I wonder if I can knit and bike at the same time...

What to say, what to say? I'm still very much enjoying my time off, but the money coming in is not enough to stave off the bill collectors, so things are getting a little stressed for me around here. Hopefully Chad and I will be back to work sooner rather than later and things can get back to normal-although my knitting time will be greatly sacrificed :P
Last week I finished a very early b-day present for a friend which I unfortunately can't post here yet because she MAY stumble across it on here. But I will say that it is wicked awesome and I hope she likes it.
I'm also working on a bag that I am making up as I go that, if it turns out, will be up on my etsy page.
And I think tonight, for knitting night, I am going to start a devil hat for my friend Sarah, who learned how to knit and purl last night when she was over.
Yesterday Sarah and I went out and each bought an exercise bike. I couldn't really afford it, and Chad was very much against it since I had an elliptical for about 2 years and barely used it, but even thought my bike has left me broke, I am determined to have it and use it to death. My weight has been slowly making it's way up again and I can't let that happen. I have the time to work out, so I should be. And now we have cable again, so I get to watch tv AND workout at the same time. Then knit. Then workout :P ha ha ha ha ha ha
Sorry no pics this post, maybe next time :)

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Your smile for the day

I'd like to thank my adoring fans...

My darling, Mama Brook, has awarded me with a "You've made my day" award! So sweet of her :) I'm going to run away with her some day ;)
So, following the rules, here I go!

1. Mama Brook and Frisk the Frigidaire-a girl after my own heart
2. My House Brew-The housewife I wish I could be
3. The Thrifty Knitter-the knitter I wish I could be, designing all over the place
4. Once more, with Knitting-my friend's wife, who is too adorable and is a knitter after my own heart
5. Fil A Suivre-this girl is crafty like me, so I love her!

Here' are the "rules":
1) Write a post with links to 5 blogs that make me think and/or make my day
2) Acknowledge the post of the award giver
3) Tell the award winners that they have won by commenting on their blogs with the news!

Mmmmmm....coookiessss....

Me love cookies! ha ha

Lots of finishes

Last week I finished 2 of the Sophie bags I was working on. I wish I had more Cascade to make more-I love the pattern! I'm addicted to it! ha ha ha ha
Also, I got my order of belt buckles in, so I am busy making those this weekend, and right now I am watching Harry Potter and taking a break from making earrings :) Busy busy!

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I won!

Check out the sexy canister set I just won on eBay!!!!!! I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I always wanted a canister set!

Stumped

What do you do when all you want to do is bake cookies all day, but you're on a diet? Oh, the torture!

So far so good!

Well, it's been 5 days since my resolve to better myself. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I did lots of exercising, yesterday I took off(but actually walked for a good hour or so to visit my Grampie in the Infirmary while he rested after his ankle surgery), and today I am going to be doing that long cold walk again and hopefully something later tonight too. I've been eating good, and not too much, and I have dropped 2 of the pounds I somehow put on last week(my boyfriend's mom brought us lots of cookies-that's why). I feel good. And I am hopefully going to keep this cheerful optimism for a while.
On the knitting front, I finished my criss cross gloves but have not taken pics yet. I had purchased some ribbon for them last week, but it's too crunchy for them so I am going to have to substitute something different next time I get out to Michaels. I starts the front of the garter and am....close to halfway. It's taking a lot longer than the gloves. But I am still on my original skein of yarn! I am so in love with Louet! I also started some Kitty Dim Sum from www.knitty.com. I need to go pick up some catnip today while I am out :)
My purse frames finally came too! So I am looking forward to making some bags and coin purses this weekend! :)
Have a good weekend, all!

It's Time

Well, I've been feeling a little down lately, stressing about things I can't change and things I can and all that stuff. I decided this morning that it's time to stand up and take responsibility for the things I can change and have screwed up and set things right again. It's time to be productive again and not waste all my time watching tv and being lazy. Granted-I WILL miss the obscene knitting time, but I have to reward myself with knitting time after actually accomplishing something, like working out an obscene amount. Like I just did. I swear I feel like I am not going to be able to move at all tomorrow, but it was worth it.
On the knitting front, I am done one of my criss cross gloves and just have a little ways to go on the second. I'm very excited to have them done! And so soon! Then I will try steam blocking them and maybe they will be all ready to wear tomorrow-not that I'm going anywhere :) I don't know what to work on now, though. I still have the Sophie bag that I started, but I just don't seem to feel like working on that RIGHT now, so I need to find something else to occupy me. And make some more jewelery too.
Today is a good day, I think. A new beginning.

Life is killing my buzz

Okay, so the shiny new-ness of being unemployed and having lots of time to knit has worn off. I am broke. Very very broke. I'm still loving the free time, the sleeping in and the knitting time, but I am starting to stress out again, which I don't want. My system is finally back to normal from the last 2 years of working/eating out/stress, and I don't want to go back to being sick :(
We have company this weekend, so that should be fun, anyways. Started the criss cross gloves on Wednesday night and have reached the thumbhole part and am stopping, because I am not entirely sure what to do. I have instructions there for it, but I'm nervous there's something there that I'm supposed to know that they didn't include in the pattern. I've run across that before. All I know is it says nothing about putting the stitches on a holder, but I have watched friends do mittens and they put the stitches on a holder until the end and then got back and knit them. So I'm waiting until Lisa is around to help me. :P Just in case. Always ere on the side of caution. They are turning out great so far, though!
That's about it, I suppose. If anyone wants any jewelery, check out my etsy page, I could use some sales. :(
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Ahhhh....unemployment

Not too much going on lately. Frogged a bag I had started and then reknit it and felted it. Just waiting for it to dry now. Started a simple dishcloth pattern while sitting at a tattoo shop with a friend all afternoon yesterday, but cotton always makes my hands hurt so i didn't get very far.
Not really sure what I want to work on at the moment. I have a bag I started before Christmas that I need to get working on, and I want to get my criss cross gloves and garter done, but I haven't even cast them on yet. Also found a pattern on ravelry for some socks by a local woman using local yarn that was in my prize from Tangled Skeins. Would like to make those too. So many decisions!!!!!
I've managed to watch all of Season 1 of the X-Files this past weekend and last week was Season 2 of Rome. At least I managed to fit some exercise in there. Everything but my hands are going to atrophy! ha ha ha ha ha

I've become art!

A wonderfully talented artist that I know has been doing some portraits lately and recently asked a few of my derby girls and I if she could paint us from some online photos of us. We all agreed, and she is now finished her second one, which is ME! I'm so excited, I could hardly sleep last night and then I woke up and it is done and online! Check it out!!!!
http://www.angelahardy.blogspot.com/