Best and Worst Book of 2006

Well, I usually do a top ten book list but I am embarrassed to say that in 2006........ummmm....I only read 10 books!!!!

Yarn has taken over every waking minute of my life! LOL

The best book read for 2006 was: Yarn Harlot, The Secret Life of a Knitter by Stephanie Pearl McPhee. ( duh!!!!, yarn related)

The worst book read was:The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. What a depressing book! Don't I have anough blah in my real life????!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Hope this finds you all happy and safe!

Let's hope you aren't tipsy and wearing a lampshade on your head like Gretta here! LOL

Here's to 2007!!!!!

My resolutions..... Knit more, crochet more, read more, and LOSE THE FAT!!!!!

Yarn Chick Christmas

The Yarn Chicks got together before Christmas. I gave them all dishcloths as a token of my yarny joy.
Dee's daughter, Little Mist, joined our ranks. She learned to knit from Suzy and is working on a fun fur scarf. I worked on The Brat's pillow. Dee worked on a buddy poncho in white. And......Suzy taught Sassy to knit!

MERRY KNITTY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Hello to all my faithful readers! All 4 or 5 of you! haha

The Christmas knitting and crocheting is almost finished. Yeah I know, I know, it's 10 p.m. and I'm typing on here when I should be........... FINISHING!!!! DUH!!!!

I really only have a pillow for The Brat to crochet together and 6 bowls to felt. And I don't even really need the bowls finished till New Year's Day.

I will post pics in the next few days of finished projects.

Wanted to share this picture with you now, though not a very good one. While out doing last minute shopping today, saw this tree at American Eagle. It is decorated with giant yarn balls! Totally awesome!!!!

Hope your holidays are filled with lots of yarn and friends to hang out and knit with!!!!

Ponchos Finished !!!!

Dee and I finished our ponchos today. They turned out cute! Her's is the black knitted one. Mine is the pink crocheted one.

Now to find the right shirt to wear under mine.....

Knitwits

I have made two new knitty friends. We got together this morning to knit, crochet and eat......I did most of the eating. LOL

As it was really, really early no one much felt like being beautiful and so they covered their faces. As you might have noticed, I didn't even have a picture of me taken. Smart!

They, Butterfly and Lishy, are holding up Christmas dishcloths that I made and gifted to them.

It was fun and we are planning another meeting for Saturday.

Yippee!!!!

Is it too late for a Turkey pic?

I know, I know, Thanksgiving was last week but these cookies are so daggone cute! I made them for Yarnchick night.
They tasted good too!

Gobble-ey Gook

On Saturday Butterfly called and asked if I wanted to come and knit with her and her friend. Had a great time! Thanks girls for inviting me! I just love having friends who love yarn as much as me!

The Yarn Chicks got together on Monday night. I worked on some slippers. Dee worked on our buddy ponchos. Sassy worked on a pillow and a baby hat. Miz Suzie even came, we were all glad to see her. She worked on her ribbon scarf and taught Dee's daughter to knit. It was a fun night!

Hope everyone who reads this has a HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I will be spending most of the day with the "un-laws". I found a fun new easy crochet dishcloth pattern and will be taking the sugar and cream with me to get some finished for Christmas gifts. They are supposed to take an hour to make one. Let's see how many I can get done tomorrow while everyone else sleeps off their meal.

And lastly on a sad note:

Tomorrow , Thanksgiving, is my best friend's birthday. She took her life 4 years ago. I still greatly miss her. I also miss the innocence of my life before this happened. I will never be the same.

Buddy Pochos

It was another Yarn Chick Night! It was supposed to be at my house but I'm having issues with the neighbors so Dee moved it to her house. Thanks Dee!!!

We decided to do another "Buddy Knit" . This time ponchos. Mine is crocheted .


Dee's is knit. We are using the same brand of yarn. Yarn Bee Icelandic Jewels. It's a soft fuzzy yarn with ribbons in it. Pretty!

Dishcloth Divas

Caroline was working on a dishcloth for her M-I-L. I liked the pretty red color. She likes to make up her own dishcloth patterns , which I think is cool!


Laura was intrigued by the whole dishcloth thing so I magically pulled out a ball of Sugar and Cream from the knitting bag and Caroline got her started.

Sassy's Blanket for Her Man

Sassy has been working hard on this blanket for awhile. I am really proud of her because this is her "first" crocheted item.

It looks like she's crocheting a jar of salsa, HAHA .....but......

TADA! She finished her blanket at the yarn chick night! WOOHOO!

9 patch in "the wild"

Couldn't pass up the oportunity to grab a picture of a dishcloth I made in use. It looked good in Dee's kitchen.

Caroline was also so sweet and brought me a knit dishcloth she made me. I ran home and used it that very night! I make them all the time for others, but this was the first I actually used. I will snap a picture of it when I get a chance.

Jiffy Shrug

I made a quick shrug out of Lionbrand Jiffy and some fun fur I had in my stash. It made me look like a lumberjack so I had the chicks try it on. It looked best on Sassy so she's the proud new owner of it.

Craft Night

The Yarn Chicks had a craft night on Monday. No yarn involved! We made pumpkin centerpieces. As usual, when you get us chicks together, there turned out to be more talking and eating, less crafting. LOL

Sassy shows how we put rubberbands on our styrofoam balls to give them grooves.

Dee is tracing hands out of felt.

We lost Laura to Wife Swap. I don't think she's ever seen it!

It was a fun night!

The Yarn Chicks are coming to my house this Thursday so more FUN ahead!

Pumpkin Head Fred

Tada! Here he is finished in all his crooked eye glory!

Pillow For Baby

I went to visit the "mommy" and her new baby on Friday. She had given me a crocheted square from her grandmother. I wanted to do something special with it. I had already made "mommy" 2 different blankets so I knew I really didn't want to make another. So I came up with the idea of the pillow. I think it turned out so cute. The red and cream side is from her grandmother. The cream side with the "star shine" pattern was mine. I thought it would be a nice pattern meaning that her grandmother's love was shining down from Heaven on the new sweet baby boy.

She loved the pillow! I am glad! And it was nice to see the other blankets around the house being used.

I, of course, forgot to take my camera to get a picture of the baby. =(

Fall Break Fun

We have a four day weekend! Yippee!!!

Maybe I will get something productive done, like cleaning my house or finishing a knitting or crocheting project.

It was so nice to sleep in today!

I still have four magazines I'm on the hunt for, so probably I'll drag myself out in a little while to go hunting for them. The Brat will be so excited! NOT! She even had the nerve to tell me she wished we didn't have Fall Break because I was boring and school was better! The horror!

Work Area

My sister , The Gadgeteer, had a cool thing on her site where she wanted others to send in pictures of their work areas. Well, I thought no one wants to see a picture of my frumpy bed where I do most of my knitting, crocheting, and reading. So I took a picture of my desk where I spend every free moment away from my other obsessions.

From left to right in the picture:

I have a giant paper clip of various notes. Notes on books, crafts, friends emails, etc. In this stack is also the TLU notebook of the many thousands of books I've yet to buy or read.

The next stack is some sticky notes,my knitting notebook, my journal, and my pda. On top is a koosh ball to fiddle with when I am waiting for something to download or print.

Then there's a basket with giant pins in it and a Golden Ticket postcard.

Then there's a stack of mini notebooks with an adorable little pink pig on top. I think
I got it at Bob Evan's. In front of them is a mini brick that a kindergartener gave me several years ago.

Then there's my Chicken Dance Elmo which The Man gave me a couple of Easter's ago. In front is some bolts on a magnet base to make little sculptures.

Then there's a giant clothespin and a basket of big paperclips. In front is 20Q. What a fun game!

A basket of sticky notes on a little rug my Brat made me when she was in the second grade. In front of this is my name in wood that I've had since I was a little girl.

And last but not least ...the best thing on my desk. My Fujitsu notebook! My sis gave it to me a couple of years ago. Love, love, love it!!!

So there I've rambled on and you are probably snoring, but now you know where I like to hang out.

Much too many magazines!

I went a little crazy with the debit card! But I just had to get all the new issues of my magazines! There are still 2 others that are supposed to be out but couldn't find them. Darn it!

I started the "Lady in Red" that is on the cover of Crochet. I don't think I look good in red so I am crocheting it in Papaya. The pattern is so pretty. Hope I can stick with it till it's finished.

Book related Buys

Picked up 2 knitting books. One is a mystery and the other is chick-lit. Can't wait to read them! I also picked up a copy of Book Reviews magazine. This mag is getting harder and harder to find. After finally finding it , I am kind of disappointed. I only got 2 new books for the TBR out of it. =(