The Elves have it....

Love Lord of the Rings. Love the Hobbits. But, even more so, I wish I was an Elvin Princess. When Diana included a link on her blog to a site that gave you Hobbit or Elvin name, I had to do it.

Call me, Tári Telperiën (ooohhh so pretty)
Maybe my new Second Life name? hmmmm

Happy "Stash" Day, Canada!

I've decided to make this unofficially "Play With Your Stash" Day.

I need to get in there and squeeze until a project comes out! Then I can cast something new and fun on that I've wanted to do for some time now. There's yarn in my stash that's "spoken for". I've got yarn for a booga bag, round felted handbag, a couple of harlequin hats from kits I bought before my LYS (sniff) closed, a poncho I started (meh), tons of cotton for dishcloths, baby blanket yarn, some fun fur... I don't even know what else.

There's so many projects I'd like to knit (I have got stop surfing for free patterns) that I'm almost overwhelmed. It all looks so pretty. There's just so much amazing knitting out there being shown off in everyone's blogs!

I figured, what the hey! Canada Day was just the day to do it on. So with that, I'm going to, make the bed, grab a nice hot cup of coffee with lots of sugar, yank out all the yarn from my closet and a pen and a paper and go nuts.

Happy Birtday, Canada & Happy "Play with my Stash" Day!

Knitting Blog?

Didn't I start this to be my knitting blog? So where's the knitting?! Sheesh!

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