10 Things I Have Learned

While getting ready for Christmas this year.

1. Anise Oil crystalizes at 59 Fahrenheit
2. Rose Water has a very interesting flavor
3. French vanilla pudding, while very tasty, is not the best choice for a peppermint pie
4. A can of pie filling will work well to crush candy canes
5. The Bookery is an excellent place to do Christmas shopping
6. It is much better from a sanity point of view to pick things up throughout the year
7. Things would be much less stressful when one sticks with the original gift idea
8. I really do need to improve my aim with a dart gun
9. December isn't the best time for holiday concerts
10. There is knitting wrapping paper

Es Schneit!

Really!

I went to get the mail at lunchtime yesturday (Saturday) and it was flurrying.  It didn't amount to anything and it didn't last long, but it was definately snow.

Oh crap

I think I'll be short on beads.

I'm finally at a point where it is more feasible to count the beads for the Chambered Nautilus (Ravelry).  I don't think I'm going to have enough to finish the shell.

Uh Oh

All pattern links are to Ravelry.

Somehow, 4 shawls got started in the last week. 

Percy Shawl, in sock yarn

2 Crow Prints Shawls, 1 lace, 1 fingering

Chambered Nautilus, lace weight yarn with size 8 beads.  There's 6 feet of beads that I prestrung.

This is in addition to:

Liquor Makes You Sicker tsocks 

2 plain vanilla pairs of socks, on 2nd sock for both

Rhinebeck Black Hole

Fylingdales


I think I have project ADD.

Mom is Mean

Mom is mean.  She put us in boxes and in the car. 

She took us into the building with the yucky smells where there are DOGS!

She let the even meaner lady stick the thing in ears.  The even meaner lady hurt our tummies by pressing HARD on them.  We told her to LET US GO, but she didn't listen.  She then stuck a sharp thing in us!

Mom says that we will get even less food b/c the meaner lady said Gil was too heavy.  Gil is not a big puddy, he is a little puddy.  Grandma said so.

Grandma gave us a treat when mom FINALLY took us home.


Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

Rhinebeck!

The third weekend in October is the New York Sheep & Wool festival, aka, Rhinebeck. 

Mortal and I went up again.  Mother abandoned us for a breast cancer walk.

The weather was nicer than last year. No snow :)


I did not finish the black hole in time. I am aproximately 11 inches up the body. I haven't even switched to the plain stockinette yet. This is not boding well. I did 4 rows in the car, but that was it.

Let the record show that I did volunteer to drive and I even asked Mortal at numerous times if she wanted me to drive. She said no. I wonder if this had anything to do with the minor incident that occured last year.... I needed to slow to a gradual stop, so I took my right foot off of the gas and went to put my left foot on the clutch and my right foot on the brake. Except, there was no clutch and both feet came down on the brake. This wouldn't be a problem if her car had the correct number of pedals.

Our first stop was to ooh and ahh at the judged items.  There was a beautiful beaded Evenstar there.  The grand champion item was this gorgeous shawl.  I also saw these really cute felted mice.

I had to remind Mortal that the hotel did not allow pets.

This is the fiber haul.  I also got a skein of laceweight, 2 skeins of sock yarn and three tsocks.

Right before we left, the fiber for the Monster Mash SAL came.  Meet Nessie, two coordinating batts.  They will be a shawl, eventually.

The day before Rhinebeck, this lovely laceweight came.  1400 yards of blue with a little bit of green here and there.  Colorway, Poseidon.  Destined to become the Chambered Nautilus shawl.

Now, does anyone know how to alter the space time continum so that I can get the two sweater WIP's done, Nessie spun, Absinthe tsocks finished, milk bag designed and finished, HAED finished, beads for Nautilus and Evenstar strung and the shawls knitted, the Embers and GwtW shawls done, and the poleworth for October Frost spun?

This is neat

Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.


All the possibilities here.