SFARI 2008

I just got back from the first annual (having it biannually is also being considered...) Mississippi fiber retreat! It's being called S.F.A.R.I. for "Stinkin' Fiber Arts Retreat Initiative".. the "Stinkin'" part is a long story which my friends have said is kinda boring.... I guess it was a "had to be there" thing. And I now have a button for my bag! (Sorry the picture is blurry)

Mom and I spent the weekend near Starkville (where Mississippi State is for anyone who cares) in the Roy Black dorms of an old community college! Yeah it looks okay here, but it wasn't very nice inside... coulda been a lot worse though.
We got a group picture! Lots of people from Ravelry that look nothing like I imagined they did from reading their posts and stuff... going from Internet to real life is kinda weird...
I am on the couch sitting between the green and blue shirts by the way.

It was funny sitting there and knitting with them.. every time anyone finished a project they got cheers and applause! hee hee.. I love this picture I got of Ms. Chanda modeling her baby hat!
I would have more pictures but my camera batteries were dead half the time... so yeah...

LaLa brought yarn to sell! (Here is a link to her ravelry page.. and here is a link to her blog. I heard she is getting and Etsy so check out her stuff its really awesome!) I bought 2!!

This is the called "Twilight" And this one is called "Magical Melons"

Please give me sock pattern suggestions!! I LOVE these yarns but have NO IDEA what patterns to use! Help me!

I just love this picture of Bella with Melons... to anyone who doesn't know her it might look like she is hugging the yarn.... but to those of us who do know her.. we know she is try to claw at it with her back feet... poor little dain bramaged kitty...

BY THE WAY

We had people from Arkansas at the retreat too... so if any of y'all live near MS you should try to come next time!!!

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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

SNOW: The good and the painfull...

OMG! IT S-N-O-W-ED!!!! IN MISSISSIPPI NO LESS!!!!!

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Look! Ain't it purdy???

Look at the really pathetically small snowman I made!

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And the doggie footprints!

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Have I mentioned before that the klutz gene is strong in my family?? I was out in the snow all of about ten minutes before I slid and sprained my ankle and knee. That was Saturday... Today is Tuesday and we went to an orthopedic doctor because it didn't feel any better. So now I have this:

lovely fashion statement! Fortunately it isn't fractured. Just a REALLY REALLY HORRIBLY TERRIBLE really bad sprain... The ace bandage felt a lot better... *sigh* it hurts! *sob* and the crutches are making my arms sore.

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It hurts pretty bad right now so I think I'll go take a nap.....

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but....

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OMG IT SNOWED!

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...

Watch this space!!

I PROMISE PROMISE PROMISE I will blogg tomorow. Padawan has been instructed to torture me until I do it!! I will!