The Baby Blanket of DOOM

....Is finished....
....as in done.....completed....no longer in progress....
It feels weird....

This thing turned out HUGE!!!















It really surprised my how sad I was to see it go! I guess when something takes that much of your time and energy it becomes like a pet... Giving it to Ms. E. was like... taking the pet dog to the shelter... Sure it was the scraggly mean pit bull that attacks you in your sleep... But still the pet dog...

I dunno it was weird... A Wal-mart bag didn't seem appropriate for the amount of work... so I packaged it up all pretty...



My hands are still sore form the marathon knitting that happened Saturday and Sunday trying to finish it. So I'm taking a week or so break from all knitting for a while.










I made Dad take a picture of me with it....


(Look at me! Rockin' the uniform skirt! Heehee I never wear the uniform shirt, just a normal Tshirt and the uniform sweatshirt over it! HA! I'M SUCH A REBEL!!!!)

No, I'm still here!

Hi! I know I haven't posted in forever! I forgot for a while and then when I remembered.. I really didn't have much to say...

The baby blanket of DOOOOOOOM has sucked out all my life force (and all my knitting mojo, so nothing new really). But there is light at the end of the tunnle. So. Close. I am planning to have it done by Monday.

By the way my foot is better!

And I got my hair cut! OFF. SHORT. I LOVE IT!

BEFORE

AFTER

SO MUCH BETTER!

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And I'VE BEEN TAGGED! I was tagged by the lovely knitter Shaina.

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1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.

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2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.

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3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.

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4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

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Alrighty then....

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1- I knit 'English', but not like most English knitters. I'm a "Flicker"

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2 -Even though I'm right handed I wear my watch on my right wrist. (ok I know that one kinda sucked...)

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3 - 54% of my I-pod is NOT in English. The non-English songs are mostly Japanese, Romanian,

and Spanish.

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4 - My room is PURPLE, LIME GREEN, and TURQUOISE, STRIPPED!

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5 - I LOVE 'lolli' clothes, but I don't have any because I cannot sew, and nowhere sells them

around here, and I can't buy them over the internet.

~Don't know what 'lolli' is?~

Check out the clothes at one of these sights.. (ranked by my faveorite!)

Baby the Stars Shine Bright

Candy Violet

The White Peacock
La Dauphine

6 - I'm a Risembool Ranger! The Rangers are the Vic Mignogna fan group! I'm also in the Mini Skirt Army, even though the huge fang-group (friendly) rivalry between them. (I'm more loyal to the Rangers but don't tell the MSA that!)

7 - Almost all my Ravelry queue is made up of fingerless gloves. I don't know why, but I love them!

Whew! That was hard comming up with all those!

And with who to tag! I'm late, so I'm sure some of who I'm tagging has already been tagged... but I don't have time to check right now... (MUST....KNIT....THAT....STUPID....BABY...BLANKET!)

Meghan
Lola
Meira
Charlie Chuckles
Abby
Jess
Luciana

The Forum Story

It all started several months ago when Jesse, Wendy and I were all on the phone. Wendy mentions making a forum for us and all our friends to talk on because no one seems to have the same IM/phone schedule.

fast forward to last week.

I'm checking the Risembool Ranger boards, and it hits me "This isn't 'their own board'... its from a sight! Didn't Wendy say something about a forum... I wonder if this will work? I'll have to send her the link...."

So I did and it started the whole forum thing over again. Apparently I'm the only one who even remembers her mentioning it. So Wendy and I decide that we are going to do it ourselves and then present it to the rest of our friends around Valentines day.

So while we work out the details (*cough*like what to name it) I made a demo forum to decide if we even like the site! We had trouble naming that one too.. "Just make something up its just the demo!" was all the advice Wendy had.. So, I named it after the song I was listening to Oh My Juliet by LM.C (only the greatest band on earth). It's actually not a bad name choice since Wendy and I are hopeless LM.C fangirls....

The point of this WHOLE story is that I decided the demo needed a banner... and I had never tried photoshop before.... I came up with this!

(Want my theory as to why Maya has weird faces in almost every picture he's in? I like to think its because Aiji refuses to have any expression at all, and Maya has to show emotion for both of them...)

Anyway, I'm totally proud of my first photoshop thingummie!

Knitting update for all of you who read through all that:

Knee socks:

There would be more to report here, but I'm to lazy to figure up my -Es... probably do that this weekend

And well, the baby blanket? well, we shan't talk about that...

New Year, New Knitter

Ok. First I'll say what I meant to say in the last post:

The clear shoes are comfy!! The flappy thing under the laces (very technical term there) takes a bit of getting used to, but other than that perfect! I love them so incredibly much!

And AJ asked how I got Bella to sit still for a picture with that hat. Well, I'm not sure if all kittys do this, but both of mine did. When I put it on them... It like, sorta paralyzed them or something. I don't get it, but they just wouldn't move, at all. I tried to move one of them (get them to pose better) and it was like they were a statue. I picked her up completely and she stayed in exactly the same position. It was really weird. But after a minute or two they snapped out of it and ran off.

I'm not really one for New Year's resolutions, so there won't be any posted, but here's what I did New Year's eve!

Well, Kaiti and Sara came over and shot fireworks!

We were having a Harry Potter wand battle with the sparklers here. There's a better picture of us with the sparklers, but I had a really weird almost demented looking smile on my face.... *recycle bin*

There we are just after midnight!
See us in out little hats?
Yeah we haven't undecorated Christmas yet, laziness mostly...





And I taught Sara to knit!!! I think she got a little annoyed with all the pictures I took of her and her new talent. I've made a new knitter! *wipes tear*


In this picture she is pointing to her slipped stitch. She was SO proud that she only messed up once in all that!

And it's officially 2008 so I can start the ribbed sock for the 2008 sock KAL I'm in on ravelry! I'll put up pictures and the patter/yarn later. But of course I have to meet my 10 rows of baby blanket a day before I can work on it. That thing is pure evil. Last night I had a nightmare about it. A giant half knit baby blanket chasing me through a yarn shop trying to poke me with its needles. Well, that's what I get fore watching Blood: The Last Vampire before I got to bed. *sigh*

Happy New Year to you all!

Method to the Madness

At this point its more about containing the madness and trying to put a method to it.

I think I've said before that Mrs. E. (the secretary at my school) is paying me to make a baby blanket, for her grandbaby. (I was going to explain why she is the most evil woman to walk the earth, but then I realized I was babbling on about something that y'all don't really care about, and even if you did isn't really important.) The only reason I'm making this 'stoopid baby blanket' is because the baby can't help that his grandma is evil and still deserves a hand knit baby balnket.

Its the Bamboozle Baby blanket, I'm having to double strand from two balls of blue and white striped yarn (I'll tell the name of the yarn in another post, but I'm lazy and there are things I should be doing instead of this right now...) The repeats aren't long enough to make actual stripes so I couldn't stand the pooling and so now I'm trying to match up the blue in one ball and the white in the other... its really a pain..















The plan: 10 rows a day (180 stitches per row! eek!) and I'll still be pushing it to have it finished by February...rats! stupid procrastination... gets me every time.. At least its good for sitting in front of the computer watching anime...

I'll do a New Years-ish post tomorrow or the next day, cause right now I have to go get ready to pick up Sara and Kaiti

'Till then, I leave you this.




Raindeer kitteh no want picshur!

(Bella, consider this payback for interfering with yarn pictures...)

Knitting with no pictures!

I think I'm getting a bit bored with the blog. It's starting to feel more like a job than fun. Since this feeling of procrastination even toward the blog seemed to start when the camera "went on vacation" I think that might be why. I think that the blog just isn't as much fun when there are no yarn pictures to gush over. Yeah, I have mamma's horrible old camera, but even if I could get a few good pictures with it, I can't find the connector cable to hook it up to the computer... I'm considering putting the blog on hiatus until Christmas when I get a new camera (or possibly just before Christmas with a all text Christmas eve post?)

Any who, I'm still just considering that. (let me know what y'all think in the comments)

So knitting without pictures!

Last time I said something about the Jaywalkers being in time out... They are still there.. Did I mention that they got throw clear across the room on the way to time out?

I've done three mitered squares for Mrs. E's baby blanket. Why is it whenever I make mitered squares they turn out more.. trapezoid-ish? I just hope when I put them together that they turn out ok... I think I'll do four, sew then together, and wash 'em and see if they fix themselves (or are fixable) if not I'll regroup with the whole thing. I'm making the pattern up as I go along anyway, so it shouldn't be hard.

And again, I haven't touched anything else.

I know that music playing annoys some people, but I'm working on putting up Christmas music.
It's the Elmo and Patsy "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" CD.

Also since on some computer monitors the black background is hard to see, I'm testing some new color combos on the other blog. (I don't think I've mentioned before that I started a blog about a year ago, but didn't like the name and gave it up. I still have it, but its not viewable. I'm glad I kept it now, for testing things like this on it comes in handy!)

And one last thing. I got the final (I'm pretty sure its the final) volume of the Utawarerumono anime! *happy dance*