One the Day I Was Born

The rules are to go to Wikipedia.com and type in your birthday month and day only. Then post 3 events, 2 births and one holiday that occurred on your birthday, then tag 5 friends....

I pass on the tagging just cause I'm such a rebel... heheheh. But as per other meme's (translates into "me-me", selfish little thing) out there I've seen, I'd like to know the "who" "what" and "when" for my birthday, which by the by is Valentine's Day... blush - Explains why I'm such a 'sweetheart' hey... Hey its my fantasy! LOL

Back to the meme - cause its all about meme Not Mimi, but meme..

HOLIDAY
February 14 is internationally known as Valentine's Day, named after the Saint Valentinus of Terni, in Italy, executed in 273.

EVENTS
1779 - James Cook was killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.

1895 - First performance of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest at the St James's Theatre in London. (Love, love, love this play!)

1966 - Australian currency is decimalised. (The year and day I was born, kinda cool)

(plus who can forget...
1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.)

BIRTHS
1960 - Meg Tilly, Canadian actress (she's Canadian, eh, and sister-in-law to Chucky)

1972 - Rob Thomas, American musician (Matchbox Twenty)

1945 - Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein (like as in A Knight's Tale - Sir William Thatcher/Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein of Gelderland!?.... I know its not real, but this is another one of those "panned" movies I adored.)

I hate spiders...

You wouldn't know it by some of the photos I taken though. Must be a love hate thing. A couple of years back when we were in Ladysmith I shot this "cutie" after his demise in a backyard swimming pool. Thank the good Lord for the macro setting on my camera, that's all I gotta say. Click if you dare.... ew.



I don't mind spiders with long legs... They remind me of Charlotte... (Insert tears here.) So sweet....

But! Its the really wierd looking ones with big abdomens and... clear... bodies... that make me yak. Last weekend end at the Lake, I went on a shooting spree. This was one of my "best"....



The things we love to hate...

My first "Sweater"...

So... What do you do with two balls of craft yarn you buy at the dollar store?
Make a sweater, of course!

The boy has a Webkinz stuffy he named Pugsly Elflato. Poor thing, he looked cold. He needed a doggy-sweater. Its really just a simple stockinette square in two colours all nicely seamed to fit his highly flexible body. No gauge required.. heheh




I think its still a darn cute first sweater. Everyone, "awww...."

Play Me a Song, Piano Man...

The boy's piano recital was awesome. He did two songs, a duet with his teacher Yankee Doodle and Flute Song. There were about 20 other students there all doing two songs, so, it was quite the concert!





Karen was so good with him! We're going to miss having her as his teacher. After 25 years, she's decided to retire. We can only hope his next teacher will be as patient as she was.





We made a evening of it. Both grandmas came over for supper (BBQ Roast on the rotisserie) and after the recital there was an assortment of food and beverages. We mingled for a while and got home about 9:30pm. When we got home we gave him his "graduation" present. A Nintendo Wii. Spoiled kid... We're just really proud of him.

Everybody Dance!

Geez...

I'm sooo off. Truly. I wake up, get ready for "the day". Go to work, do that. Come home, go directly into jammies. Do supper, clean up. Veg-out in front of the TV. Get ready for bed, which basically is just turn off the TV. Let the dog out, let him back in, lock the door, turn off the lights, grab my iPod and go to bed... (That last one sounds kinda wierd but its true.)


(This is the very pretty cloth Dorothy sent me for our Valentine's exchange... I am so not worthy.)


Lifes funny sometimes. You just don't wanna do "it", you go through the motions but it loses its panache. Then something fun happens and you feel excited again! My friend got married! That was a blast... The wedding was a hoot! I'd show you pictures but she hasn't even seen them yet, still on the honeymoon...


Aww. The boy's first Piano Recital is coming up this weekend. I'm more nervous for him than he is. He's doing Flute Song and Yankee Doodle. I think he'd rather do Smoke on the Water and Iron Man... He does those all the time. Funny what you teach yourself when you're first learning.



Plus, this week... Dave did a new Chub Creek Podcast! Woo Hoo! It was super... Listened to it three times today. Dang two months holiday hey.... Good for you, but man, did I go through some serious withdrawls! I tried to listen to every episode since day one, some I did, even twice, but a couple I had to stream online as iTunes wouldn't download them.... Anyway, i'm just glad to hear your back, Dave. Missed you, big time.

And Gary... My other "new" buddy. You, my friend, are a breathe of fresh air (and you curse like I do too just don't tell my folks that). Somehow I pictured you totally different, though. Wierd how you hear someone's voice and you get an image of them. Then, when you actually "see" what they look like, it doesn't match at all.... I could have sworn you had glasses... On his blog he's got that he's reading Sam and the Flirefly. What a great book that is! Sam's awesome, fireflys are cool... Oh Gus. He had no idea what he was getting into. My brother has this book memorized... Seriously... We had it as kids growing up but my Mom spring cleaned it out of the house at some point. I thought it'd make a great gift for him so I went out and bought it for him for Christmas a few years ago.

"Now is the time for fun", he said.
"Who" said Sam, "Who"
"Who wants to play?"

But no one said a thing.





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I've been knitting dishcloths like there's no tomorrow. Seriously, it felt like an obsession.

I did three 4 corner's cloths for Abigail's blog that I still haven't submitted to her like I said I would...

My sunshiney one...



My pretty in pink one....



and My Blue Period...



This was actually the first one I did. Note the "seaming". Yew. Nevermind, don't look at it.... LOL
Everyone has a blue period, don't they?!

Then, I needed to do some "Scrappies". Their ballband cloths made from leftovers. Poor leftovers. But they turned out so very beautiful. Ducklings in to swans, really.


Hardly leftovers, at all! I actually don't wanna use them. Its amazing what colours can do when you let them mingle...

What else....


Hey, I'm hungry... Besides, who doesn't love homemade fries.....mmm pass the vinegar and sea salt. It was a Saturday morning craving, no I'm not pregnant... Shut up arteries!

Finally, its pointy...



My diagonal cloth for my dkal I did in three or maybe 4 colours. I need to look at the photo again. Its my easter cloth. Which brings me around to, I've been really friggin lazy. Easter! Cripes... That was 2-3 months ago.

Here's to Spring, wherever it went...

May 12th... The Day B4 Mum's Day...

Its my Lil bro's birthday.... Yes he's not so little, 39 in fact... 6 foot something and more than 100lbs... Hey, come on, he needs his personal space.

So, whats going on for you birthday, Jas? My brother works like a maniac. He's the online editor for some really cool shows - Thirsty Traveller, Ocean Wanderers and Eat Shrink and Be Merry.

Yup, he's in the know with some of Canada's Greatest talents... Kevin Brauch, I'm bragging because I'm allowed to. blaahhh. Graham Greene, Kiefer Sutherland (I love and adore this man!) pre-24, ummm. some other guys... other than Kevin, Graham and Kiefer, its all a blur... OMG. Jas, your sist is a groupie...

Happy 39th buddy, I love you. Long live your force. heheheh

Did I mention he has a podcast?! www.champodcast.com Its good damnit, check it out. nittynight

Its Dad's Turn Now!

Daddy-kins..

You may never have been able to give me a pony, but.. you always gave my your heart.
Happy birthday, Mushroom Man!

Kiss...

Change is Good

Hey there,

So what do you think?

I've been toying around with the idea of changing the look of my blog for some time now and decided, today was the day! Pretty exciting, hey?!

Originally, I thought it'd be cool to design my own, but I'm not html savy and was frankly, intimidated by the whole process. I wanted it to reflect "me". A reflection of my career, my hobby (knitting of course), and my interest in digital photography. They're all quite artsy, yet I wasn't sure how I'd meld them together.

THEN, while surfing the www, I ran across this interesty bity thing and it struck my fancy! Who doesn't enjoy doodling every now and then?! I know I do! I'm still tweaking here and there but I think its coming along quite nicely. I just need to separate some links a bit, get my groups on here (sorry, those are missing yet), add my button, and tada! A new me... sorta.

Looking in some of my back posts though, I noticed that some of the pix I have don't exactly "fit" on the page, but, what's a girl to do. Now to reassess where or how I photograph my knitty-pix so they match the new blog! Until then, please bear with me.

Anyway, let me know what you think. Is it easy to read? Too distracting? Too busy, not busy enough? I'm interested in what you have to say. I've also added a Comment Box (cBox) on the right hand side for "insta-comments" on my blog. I can't wait to see what will show up in there! Just please, keep it PG-13, that's all I ask.

Well, talk to ya soon!
Hugs all around...

Back in the Saddle Again....

Hey there,

Forgive me. Its been a while, a very long while, since my last post. (I feel like I'm in confession...) I've actually been too busy to do much blogging of any kind! Reading writting or otherwise. I even missed my own 1st Blog-birthday.

I have become addicted to Chub Creek, and am listening to just about every Podcast Dave and Gary have done. Some even more than twice. My 45 minute commute to and from work everyday has helped with that. Their music is great and so are their skits, stories and ramblings... I laugh, I giggle, I stop and think. Great job, guys! I feel like you're both long-lost friends somehow...

I've done quite a bit of knitting, which is great, but I've missed alot on everyone's blogs too. Which makes me feel extremely guilty. First, I need to send a big huge world wide apology to Dorothy (I don't know if she has a blog or not) from my Canadian Dishcloth Group. We did our Valentine's cloth exchange and she sent me a beautiful heart lace cloth in blues/greens/whites Cottontots. I know she did a lot of work in it and pushed outside her comfort zone as she told me she had to frog it once and rip back a couple of times to get it right.... Its beautiful. I have to post a photo of it to share. But, the cloths I knit for her are still in my cloth drawer at home... I haven't sent hers out yet and I feel horrible! I banished myself from exchanges for a while as punishment and still intend to send hers out to her along with a plethora of goodies to make up for my misgivings... I'm such a heel.

What have I knit? About half a dozen dishcloths (3 four corners cloths, my extremely tardy exchange cloth, a couple of right anged cloths,) and my piece de-la-resistance, of which I have no photo for... My new baby niece's log cabin baby blanket. I did about 2/3's of it and then gifted it to my SIL telling her I still needed to finish it. Its not quite big enough for me, yet. Its "newborn" size but I want it to be bigger than crib size. The beautiful thing about doing it log cabin is, I can always keep adding stripes to it to make it as big as I envision. Or, start a new ones and stitch them all together for a truly unique blankie. Its in Bernat LuLu - mint green, blue and peach. I double stranded it with white so that it was thicker and easier to knit with. The single strand of Lulu was making me nuts and I fought with it lots! Its so "lashy" I couldn't see through it to find my needles.

Right now I'm working on a teatowel for under my wooden dish rack that I'm making from Eco-fil. Its a dark plum colour. Quite purdy if I do say so myself... Eco-fil is so nice to knit with! The end result is quite soft compared to the Handicrafter I'm used to. Classy stuff, that kitchen cotton! LOL

I'll post the pattern (and photos of this and others) as I go along. I'm mixing up some stitch patterns to get the desired look I wanted. Its going to be lacy, yet solid, mostly stockinette, with a seed stitch border.

The other thing I've been toying around with is updating my blog template. A new blog-year, a new blog-look... There's a couple out there in cyberspace that have turned my crank, but what I'd really like to do is design my own. Unfortunately, I just don't think I have that kind of time right now, so I'll probably just end up with a premade one I find.

Well, I just wanted to pop in, say "hi & wave to everyone". I gotta get back to work now. The boss isn't paying me to blog, afterall! LOL

Hugs all around...