Have you seen this? How cute! I'm not sure how my cats would feel about wearing a sweater though. I dressed Kayne up one time, and she just fell over. I'd set her back up straight, and plop she fell right over again and just laid there. It was quite amusing, for us not her. She didn't seem very amused. Here is a picture of all three of my kittehs when they are super amused. They love their entertainment center.
I have so much going on that I have very little time to blog. I cast on for the Origami Cardi from IK. I am using a different stitch pattern for the edgings. I've been working,playing with horsies, taking care of my zoo, working out almost every night, helping a friend with a website, and on and on and on. Marco was just diagnosed with asthma, so I've been dealing with that, poor baby :( My knitting classes have picked back up again, so that's one less free night a week. It's no wonder that I'm up at 3am blogging. When else do I have time?? I'm just going to stop sleeping. Who needs it! For now here is a slide show with some random pictures. I hope to get back soon with a better entry. I hope you all have a great weekend!
Ok this is one of those posts where I'm not really sure what to say but I do have some pictures to show you. This predicament usually creates major blogging procrastination. I decided to just upload the pictures and just start typing. Let's see how that goes.
I was lucky enough to marry a guy that came from a super crafty family. Rob's a great artist, does amazing work with ceramic tile floors, and is a pretty darn good "Builder of Stuff" if you ask me. We are also a very recycle friendly couple, and Rob often builds things from recycled materials. Remember my yarn shelves? After a trip to the pet store, Rob decided that he could "totally build one of those cat thingies". Let me just tell you, when Rob gets something in his head you better watch out. First thing he does is go to carpet stores to get some free scraps and then made a trip to the homedepotlowessomethingorother store to get what we didn't have around the house. He showed me all the materials he had acquired for the project and I basically came up with a design. He called me the Executive Creative Producer hahaha. Anyways, he did most of the work and I did the "here hold this and grab that over there and hey could you please bring me this..." A day and a half and a bunch of sweat later, and our kitties have this...
Marco is home and doing great! Kittens are so resilient. You wouldn't even know anything happened to him. I had them give him something for the pain and he slept for a couple of hours when first got home. After that, he just walked around checking the house to be sure that everything was as he had left it.
My mom got her jewelry in the mail today!! I'll post pictures a little later. It's been a very long day and I am having trouble keep my eyes open. I'll see you soon :)
Better yet wish us both luck. I just took my baby boy to the vet where he is, as I like to say, parting ways with his fuzzy dice. Needless to say, I'm not talking about the ones you hang on the rear view mirror. Mr. Esquandoles just so happens to be the sweetest cat the world ever did see, and I am a total bundle of worried momma nerves right now. A true testament to his sweetness, is the fact that when I walked in the bathroom and saw this...
The Spring Knitty is up, and it reminds me that I really need to make some knitting friends or join a knitting group. I miss flipping through the pages of magazines/books and snickering or ooohing and aaahhing over the patterns. So then I said to myself, "Self, why don't you just oooh and aahhh a little on your blog." Yeah yeah I talk to myself, but at least I don't answer. Well not loud enough for anyone to hear me anyway <wink> Man oh man I need to get out more...
Tahoe is a cute cardigan, but the best thing about it is the yarn! It's knit with Debbie Bliss Cathay, a cotton, microfiber and silk blend, which has long been on the list of yarns I would love to knit with. Gooooood choice by the designer!
I love the ribbing on Ribena! What a fun and easy way to dress up a sweater. I think it would look great with long sleeves as well. We also have another great yarn choice with this sweater. I haven't knit with Tencel yet, but it has peaked my curiousity. According to Yarndex.com, "Tencel is made from wood pulp cellulose and drapes and feels like silk". Pretty cool, eh.
I love how the cable runs down the front of Torque and the collar and hem are split. The yarn is a cotton/acrylic blend which makes me wonder if Cotton Ease would be a good substitute. Let's face it when you have a stash of cotton ease like I do, you wonder that about everything.
Last but not least is Bauble. It combines my two favorite thing, knitting and beading, and it is GORGEOUS! Don't be surprised if you see one of these show up on the blog. Sure, I do have a lot of things going on, but this wouldn't take that long to knit. I think any woman in your circle of friends and family would LOVE to be gifted with one of these.
So many patterns, so few hands. I need to figure out how to knit in my sleep. That is just so much time going to waste every single night!
PS. Marco says...
Hi there! Mommy has been knitting, and I am helping as much possible. She doesn't seem to appreciate it very much, and I don't understand that at all. She told me to tell you that tan thingy is growing and she was going to take a picture,but I wanted her to take my picture. I'm way cuter than that stupid tan thingy. Don't ya think!
Meet the newest member of our family, Marco Esquandoles. While I was staying with my sister, Misti, I happened to fall in love with this little fellow. Lexie, Devin, and I named him one night (that's another fun story, ask me later), and it just stuck. He was seriously campaigning to go home with me all the way up until I walked out the door. I was already sad about leaving to begin with, and leaving him behind broke my heart even more. A few days later Rob, the most awesome husband on the planet in the universe, spent his entire day off flying to Virginia and back to pick him up for me. Yes you guys, this is one important baby or maybe I'm one important wife...ok maybe both! The flight attendants became so smitten with this kitten (I could not resist that), that they upgraded him and Rob to first class. "No kitten that cute is gonna sit in coach! You're coming up to first class!" Hmmm that's a thought. Maybe we should all fly with kittens every where we go.
It's really hard to explain or even understand how much happiness one tiny little furball can bring to your life. I have been quite down lately, and he is just the sunshine I have been looking for.
My laptop died and now Rob's is dying. I can't explain it any better than this excerpt from Wikipedia.com.
"On a number of Inspiron 5150's, a design flaw has been found due to the positioning of a tab on the C panel on the underside of the laptop. Any pressure applied to the top left hand corner of the laptop causes this tab to be pressed against the motherboard and in particular the "LVC14A" chip. This causes the solder between this chip and the motherboard to be broken. This causes sudden shut downs of the system due to any movement of the laptop and in certain cases for the laptop to not boot at all. Later models of the 5150 have been redesigned to avoid this problem. On some models it has been noted that the tab has been manually snapped off the C panel by hand during the manufacturing process."
So basically even though the cord is plugged in, it's not charging the battery. I can tell Rob's is starting to go because the screen is blinking. That's the same thing that happened to my laptop. Soooo considering that brand new pilots make peanuts, I don't see a new computer in our near future. This means that once this thing goes, I may be gone for a while.
Knitting Content YAY!
I have finished about 8 inches of Ariann. This is a fun knit! It has a pattern that is easy to memorize, but keeps you interested. I was swatching for Nantucket, and rediscovered some great yarn in my stash, Austerman Caprice (40% Superkid Mohair/ 35% Acrylic/ 15% Nylon/ 10% Wool). It didn't work for Nantucket because it's too fuzzy from the mohair content, and the pattern is lost. I decided that it would work great with a simple sweater pattern. I didn't want a raglan, so I opted for Klaralund. Although this pattern is usually knit with the self striping Noro, I think it will look beautiful with this yarn. So far I have finished the back the back knit, and I'm working on the front :) I hope to have pictures soon, but I'm busy backing up my hardrive. I hope to see you soon!
So I finished that blanket I was working on, but the only thing I have to take pictures with is my cell phone. Here are the wonderful results of this fabulous photo shoot.
Last time I posted a picture it actually showed up on my bloglines feed http://faerycrafty.blogdrive.com/atom.xml . I just want to see if this was a fluke or not so I'm posting a picture of my first Great Dane Keagen and his little sister Zoë.
