The Curly Knitter

Is she looking for me?  I think the kitties miss me.   Thankfully I’ll be home tonight to pet them and feed them some much needed treats!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Maybe Bootsie can find her?

I’m busy so I’m distracting you with kitties!

So Wednesday was the blessed event. Ray’s birthday and the day of the year that I do something wacky to his desk.

This year, I had a contest to get new ideas for this event and I must say, there were some really good suggestions.

The first winner is Heather. She won because I loved her dixie cup idea:

The second randomly generated winner is Llamabean!

Congratulations to both of you!

So here’s what happened:

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

I had a plan that may or may not have included the dixie cups and that definitely included some other things that I could not obtain in time for Wednesday.  On top of that, I was notified through the grapevine that dear Raymond was planning to come in early and foil my plans.

So, I did nothing.  For now.  He knows this is not over.  I’ve just bought more time to plot.

I did call him on Wednesday morning.  I said Happy Birthday.  I then asked him how his desk was.  He nervously chuckled and said it was fine.  My response:  “Are you sure?”

I love to torment him.

So for now, I didn’t want the week to go by without announcing the winners and I do apologize for the whole build up and let down, but soon, I will definitely have a decorated desk to show you.  That’s not a threat, it’s a PROMISE.

So thanks everyone for your comments! Heather and Llamabean, congratulations…I have some fun prizes for you both! Llamabean… please email me your address.

Yes my friends, I am off to Kansas yet again.  This time I insisted on changing hotels that had a better plan for safety in the event of a Tornado.  The place we were staying at told us that everyone goes under the stairwells and the “leftover people” go to the laundry room.  This of course did not sit well with me.

So I decided to switch to another hotel that has a big central open space inside where people would sit against the walls (supposed to be safe as they are supporting structures) together.  My 25 year old travel companion is excited about this change in hotel too as this one has a 100ft water slide inside.

No, I’m not kidding.

You can be sure that I brought along some extra knitting.

Anyway, the posts this week may be sporadic since I’m away but I’ll definitely be back to “normal” next week.

Have a great week everyone!

Thank goodness it’s Friday!  This week I had the chance to take a day off and spend it with my parents and my grandmother who is visiting from Florida.  My great uncle also joined us for lunch.  It was a nice day.

We relaxed outside drinking coffee, had a nice lunch and did a little shopping.  I miss my grandparents and it was so nice to be able to spend some time with my family.

On Sunday, Mother’s Day, Peter and I are hosting a brunch for our mothers.  Both sets of parents will be there as will my grandmother.  I’m so happy to have more time to spend with her before she goes home.

So to all you mothers and soon to be mothers out there, Happy Mother’s Day!

Yikes.  I did only give myself three passes for yarn until October right?  Ouch.  I should have said ten.

I used my second purchase just over a week ago at WEBS when we went to see the Yarn Harlot speak.

I got five hanks of Cascade 220 that match some buttons I picked up at Rhinebeck to make this:

I also got a ball of navy and a ball of pink sock yarn to make these mittens:

I think I’ll use the pink as the main color and the blue for the flowers.

So two purchases down, one to go.

Lately I’ve been trying to unclutter my space, life, and mind. I gave away some yarn and destashed some.

I recouped enough money in the destash to afford to buy my sewing table and some fabric.

Here is the table:

It folds up to look like this when not in use:

Grumperina had posted about this table a while back and I fell in love with it. I need to finish clearing out my craft room a bit but this will fit perfectly and hopefully allow me to sew more as I won’t have to keep hauling all my sewing stuff down to the kitchen table and back upstairs every time I want to sew.

YAY! I am so excited. Once the craft room looks less like yarn and fabric exploded all over it, I’ll show you the layout!

BTW…Ray’s birthday is tomorrow… I did not forget about my contest.  I have two winners and will announce them along with some pictures of what I ended up doing tomorrow.

My friend Joy posted on Friday about her summer goals.  They were very impressive but also very attainable.

I figured I’d take a stab at some goals that for me I think will extend through summer for the rest of the year:

1.  Work on my basement.
2.  Keep  up with the gardening.
3.  Paint the Porch, Hallway Trim, and stain wood fences.
4.  If money allows, re-do the bathroom and get new couches.
5.  Spin more.
6.  Take more walks outside in the sun and work on overall health/fitness.
7.  Take picnic lunches to the park.
8.  Sew more.
9.  Have all my home-made Christmas gifts complete by October.
10.  Strive to live a bit more simply.

Last weekend, Marianne hosted her house warming party.  It was so exciting to see her new place and gorgeous spacious kitchen with pretty cabinets.  Very fitting for the cook that she is.

In the spirit of things, I decided to make her a house warming gift.  She has not so subtly hinted that she’d like an apron, so I grabbed some fun fabric (had to include purple of course) and I stitched up an apron for Marianne.

I think she likes it.  =)

Congratulations Marianne!  Can’t wait to hang out more in the new place!