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I havn't knit a stitch. ALL WEEKEND! Awful huh? We did go see Transformers a second time (and it was still good) and the other half of that deal involved husband agreeing to go see Harry Potter a second time. So off we go, so all I have to give this sunday is photos of my cat on the new chair. I'm sure she is making an evil plot to throw up a fur ball on it.
Life is *so* hard for a cat:
We had the Element cleaned out a few weeks ago, in case we wanted to trade it in. I have wanted the new CR-V for a while now. They totaly re-designed it and I've always wanted a more "fancy" vehicle and I have to say I was sad to see my Element go, it's been a very nice car. However I was very excited when sitting in my new car! I havn't driven it yet, I was too tired on the way home form the dealership so I might not get to drive it until work monday.
So we went today with the intent to test-drive and we had our numbers in hand but would have been perfectly okay leaving without a new vehicle (easier said then done right?) and at first it seemed they didn't even have the one I wanted availible, but a person left to come back and buy it later. It was one of only 2 left that was the trim level I wanted and the other had a light brown interior which I think shows too much dirt. The navigation system ones sell out pretty fast so they had like 20 on the lot but only 2 with navigation, a black one and a blue one. This was good because I wanted a black or blue one, but I wanted a dark interior and only the blue one had that.
It has leather, I am in love! It has heated seats, a rear camera and all kinds of other neat little things I like. I'm a car girl, just like my dad. I love cars, and I really love new cars. I also love Honda's and so does my husband. So yeah wow, I can't believe we got a new car today. Even though we went to look I'm still sort of in disbalief.
Work was crazy last week and I was too tired to knit, but I plan to get in lots of knitting tommorow as I'm pretty tired now from all the goings on. I am also re-reading the Deathly Hallows book, but nice and slow this time so I am enjoying it much more.
I have a problem, and it involves Vera Bradley. I have no earthly idea why I love her bags so much. NO IDEA! I've never been a purse girl until her purses. People would always ask me all the time, don't you need your wallet? I would just pull my debit and drivers lisence out of my back jean pocket, good to go.
So then it started on our honey moon. I won like $300 at some slots and at the airport I purchased 1 vera bradley bag with a few accessories (I spent $100 total). I had always wanted to try one so I treated myself. The addiction began.I have atleast 4 of her patterns now, and in my still favoriter pattern I have 2 of the bags a big one and a little one.
What I like about them best is they are cotton, and extremly light weight. They have never hurt my shoulder. I have had neck issues for years so this was important to me. Now her patterns are loud, often too loud for my tastes but I still get them anyway, often with the matching stuff. Well 1 month ago I purchased a "baby bag" that has pink and green and blue in it and it will match a few things because of the pink so I was very happy with it, I still am. But today in the mail I got the NEW cataloge and WOW there is like 4 patterns in there I WANT! COVET!!
I once tried the brown quilted bags she has, I adore them because they are SOLID and go with more things, the quilted look is neat because I quilt and I like that and then you can mix and match her louder patterns as accessories for them. However, they are microfiber, way heavier then the cotton ones and dog hair STICKS to them like crazy, I got one once and returned it, I was pretty disapointed. It looked SO cute too, I wish she did cotton solid ones, or even offered the accessories in solids so it was more toned down.
So yeah the catalog, beutiful photos, these online ones arn't nearly as nice looking as them in the catalog. I covet Cambridge which of course has blue and green in it. Mod Floral Pink is really cute if you like pink, so now I am wishing I had kept the receipt for the pink set I got which is way more "summer". It even has bits of green and pink. ARGH!!!
I don't think the individual item photos online are very flattering, but in the photos with people in normal enviroments they are just *pretty*. I know I really shouldn't, how long do you think I can hold out??
"Spider Hog, Spider Hog, does whatever a Spider Hog does" - sung in Homer Simpson voice.
Mouse accused me of killing Elmo to make this Spider Hog, I'll never admit to it, atleast not in writting.
I'm not sure how many of you have heard of the Print Gocco but it's a really cool little silk screening kit. It uses these special sheets and bulbs to burn a design and then ink to print on paper or cloth. You can't re-use the screens which basically keeps them making money. I thought they had stopped making them and it's made in Japan. Here is a place that seems to sell some. I have the B6 which this page seems to imply was improved upon. That's pretty cool because it's one of the neatest inventions ever, and cheaper then most spinning wheels.
If you like to scrapbook, make your own cards or t-shirts I highly recommend this little system, however the B6 doesn't cover a large amount of area so you can't print huge things, well there are tricks around that like for instance print the picture on one master, and the words on another master and then just stamp the area twice. Back when I got mine the big ones (8x10) cost a lot more so I got the smaller one.
I made sure when we got our current printer that I got the particular kind that has whatever it is in the ink it uses to work with the print gocco. You can use the pen the Gocco comes with the draw stuff, you can photocopy ANYTHING or print stuff if you have the right printer (the Gocco book I purchased separately has the instructions on what kind). It's like Laser Printer vs some other kind, I can't remember. Nothing special about the ink in my printer, just the sort of printer it is.
This is a master burnt from a print.
A finished example printed from that master.
Here I mixed some red and white ink to make pink, but it came out more light red then anything.
Thats the bulbs before I set that part on top and "flashed" the screen with heat/light.
After the screen is flashed and put the ink between the two plastic layers.
Here is the finished top. That's a Wallaby, my favorite of the Macropod's.
It's actually pretty darn easy and quick to use, and not very messy if you are just careful in where you put things down. I didn't get one smudge of paint on my clothing, carpet or fingers.
After the shirts dry I believe you have to iron them to set the color with heat and then you can wash, I haven't done it in a while and I need to read the instructions again.
I wish I had gotten more shirts! I didn't get to make nearly enough considering I wasted 4 bulbs and 2 screens. I still have plenty left though. You can re-use them I believe if you do some trick with wrapping them and putting them in your freezer or something so the paint doesn't dry out but that's way to much of a mess or bother for me. More photos of the process with notes >>
Alslo if you look on flickr there are some AMAZING things people have made!
Well so last night feelng anxious and knowing I would only find out more any time I spoke to anyone, turned on the tv or used the internet and being BORED out of my mind I dragged the husbeast to Kroger at 20 till mdinight. Yes there was a line. It was interesting to get to see some of the people that live in the area. One guy had come 40 minutes from the north (like I said, not many places to buy books arond here) and he said there was a borders on the way but he knew it would be a very long line and was hoping just to pick it up and run. He was older, in fact there was kids in the line but in most cases I heard the parents say they wanted the book for themselves. I had to sit down after standing for the 20 minutes, what a wimp!
So there was 3 things I knew before reading the book that turned out true (obviously I'm not going to share them with you) and each time I came to those items I couldn't help but feel disapointed. I still enjoyed the book loads, I think it was the perfect length and I wont' say anything else about it.
So I stayed up until around 3am or so, then woke up at 10 and began reading again and finished around 5, I took a few breaks, mostly to eat and well I eat a lot now so that was several breaks!
I worked on Brett's Hedgie which will forever have a secret nick name of Harry the Hedgie, but to my nephew he will be "Spider Hog". Then I put the hedgie down and we worked on my husbands office. We have to clean-up and clean-out everything before I can get new carpet put in. So we cleaned out his closet and we used loads of plastic bins to organize his stuff and then pack his closet full. Then we put together a entertainment stand thing thats nice and wide for our big tv. Then because I was feeling geeky I went and found some special cord that glows read that I got him a while ago, and put it behind the tv stand and it looks very cool. Now I need to get him some sort of red strobe so he can "rave in the cave" while he codes in his office.
My camera doesn't do well in low light, the room isn't actually this dark. Canon's have never done well with that, which is why I loved Olympus camera's but the Canon's do so much better for knitting photos when you need close-ups of yarn.
Would you think I was a total dork if I told you I was keeping my amazon.com Deathly Hallows IN the box and not even opening it? I'm thinking it's a neat collectors item if it's never opened. Plus the box is neat.
I live in the boonies, we don't even have bookstores... and I'm wondering when I can get my copy of *the book* and I'm getting anxious, and thinking of all the people around the world who will be in bed tonight reading till 4am and it's just fun. More fun then the iPhone if you ask me!
So Mouse mentioned to me some places besides bookstores might be selling them, so I called Kroger by my house. Now remember, we have no bookstores within a 20 minute drive, and no Walmart doesn't cont because the one near my house has 2 shelves for books.
So the poor Korger lady had clearly been answering the same questions so she says "yes we will sell it after midnight, NO i don't know the price, NO i don't know how many copies we have". Wow I said, have you been getting lots of calls for it? She said, those are the ONLY calls she has had from 2pm when she started working and LOADS of people have called.
I wonder if this Kroger knows it's the closest thing to a bookstore we have in this littel town? I wonder how many copies they have. I'm not sure I can convince my husband to go all the way back to Alpharetta to Barnes N Noble tonight, and again thats the only major bookstore within like 30 miles of my house so well that's gonna be one hell of a line. So we might attempt kroger around 11:30 if I am awake enough.
Well dang! I read about it on the Atlanta Ravelry Group, I had looked at the Yarn Harlot's page a few times and I was convinced she would never come this far south. So for those of you who want to meet the Author she will be here! I heard a rumor it was through Knitch but I don't know anything else or anymore details.
I'm really want to surf the internets at some of my "usual" places I go. I can't because I've already seen one forum thread with a title that could very possibly be a Harry Potter spoiler, if what they said was true and I didn't click on it so I don't know if it was someone jerking around or truly being a spoiler.
I don't know why someone would want to do that to begin with, my husband calls them "greifers" who only get happiness off of other peoples misery. I just think it's such an odd thing to spend your time doing, going around telling people the end to a book before they can get a opportunity to read it, before it's even "out" to the public. I said to myself, why are people so mean? Well I suppose in this world we have all types of people. One friend of my husbands actually e-mailed me a photo of the last page of the book, and didn't even tell me what it was, but luckily I didn't read it because I thought I knew what it was, and this was MONDAY. Later he e-mailed me the URL of a zip file of the whole entire book, each page photograpghed. I wouldn't click the link and I don't think he really understood. First off I want the real book in my hand. I like reading from a real book, not a computer let alone crappy photos of pages. Not to mention that it is illegal anyway, but honeslty even if it wasn't illegal I wouldnt want to. It's just not the same.
So the next two nights are going to be miserable, and that's assuming the book actually arrives saturday via amazon.com, it's supposed to and it said it was getting ready to ship and it was shipping 2-day but I still don't have a tracking number so unless it ships tonight I might not get it until Monday. Worse off the stupid amazon prime requires a signature even if you don't want to sign, so if they come monday I won't be able to sign for it, or really any day next week because of work stuff. So I am wondering and hoping that it comes saturday.
So I am depressed already because I would have to completely block out all tv and all internet if I didn't want to find out for sure, but even then I could find out walking down the hall at work next monday or who knows... so I'm just depressed because I really wanted to enjoy this experience, and after reading that one title on a pregnancy forum of all places I feel like it's already practically ruined.
Sucks. Makes me not even want to knit even.
Okay I don't know why he looks like he has a "blemish" in this photo but he doesn't! Also his eyes are on SOOO crooked but if I take the photo from the right angle it doesn't look as "bad". Thats what I get for attaching eyes in in a semi-dark room, and then sewing it up before checking properly. I mean it looked fine at the time but it's not like I really looked close. I like him anyway though, but he doesn't have a name so I just call him Hedgie.
So in a fit of Hedgie Happyness I ran to the LYS on the way to my doc apointment yesterday, and I grabbed yarn to make 2 for my nephews and a pink one so this guy has a buddy. I started straight away on what I am calling me "Spiderman" Hedgie. My older nephew Brett LOVES spiderman (though he's never actually seen a movie) and he's like 3 years old, so I thought he would enjoy one in those colors.
I could have knit the whole entire hedgie today, I wound up taking the second half of the day off because I was so tired (working from home) and Mollie Maid came over for the first time (hell yes!) but I didn't want to do much of anything. So then finally this evening I got some energy and started arond 6 or 7 PM and finished the front up around 11. I didn't knit the whole time either. It's so nice knitting something a second time, it always goes faster!
That's a funny title for a post huh? Well both things are in this photo!
I stayed up until 1am for this little hedgie. I meant to go to bed by atleast midnight and I was exahsuted but when I saw how cute the hedgie came out I couldn't help but go start the washer and of course it took 3 agitation cycles. I think I felted it a bit too long because the last time really shrunk it up a bit, but the back wasn't felting so I kept putting it in. The big issue is I went to put the eyes in and um, the felt fabric is thick as a brick. I'm very nervouse to cut it and those eyes are the kind that snap on and have a very dull back. I was thinking about taking a darning needle and working a hole that way. Any other ideas?
So if you look in this photos there are two other interesting things besides the adorable hedgie. First there is a cat, Tala of course. She loves to sit in the bathtub and lick the water out, even if I don't see any water in the bathtub. So she enjoyed watching me, and sometimes she hides in there and then jumps out so Toby will chase her.
Second you will notice the white bar. There is a bar there and a bar by the toilet in our house. The first owner was an eldery women who lived alone and I can only imagine she had these installed to help her get up. Thankfully I have never needed the one by the toilet and if we ever finish painting the bathroom I will remove it. The bathtub one always annoyed me, I mean it's ugly and who needs that? Well let me tell you I have used that bar every day for the last 3 months! When we went to a hotel last month i had a hell of a time getting up out of the bathtub and I often will wind up straining a muscle or twisting something if I don't have a bar.
I never knew that bar would come in handy so much! I heart my granny bar and I heart my hedigie! Now I want to go out ASAP and get yarn to make my two newphews one each, and then I want a pink one to be friends with this one! I'm so glad I actually finished it (even if it's currently stuffed with toilet paper and has no eyes, hah). Oh and can you tell in the photo it has sparkles? It's SOO sparkly in person!!!
if you are into Amigurumi I found some great patterns over at Roxycraft Amigurumi, I want the "Emotional Animals" set. She also wrote this cute rabbit crochet pattern from Lion Brand, along with this very cute rory the reindeer. How about a little Johnny Depp Amigurumi?? Etsy is FULL of really cute patterns.
I think those little Amigurumi are terribly cute and stylish. You can get really creative with them because they are made from such simple shapes and it's all about what you add to them. I'm starting with the octopode and some patterns so I can "learn" to crochet and if I finish this little octo it will be my first FINISHED crochet object hah.
She still needs a few legs (5 to be exact) and I hate my join, I saw in some other photos of the same pattern others had the same problem. How do I make a invisible seam with crochet? I used the slip stitch method, they have you knit the bottom seperate so you can stuff it and put the eyes in and attach the legs... but the seam annoys me, but I'm going to finish it anyway. I don't know if it's the wool ease or just my stitches as I did go down several hook sizes as instructed, but it stretched out awful once I stuffed it and you are supposed to stuff it firm. Maybe the red heart will be better, it seems pretty popular with these little toys probably because of how stiff it is.
I have wound up oddly happy with my hedgehog now that I am working on him again, believe it or not this photo is only after the first set off short rows, I have 2 more sets to go before I will be done with the back. I just love the colors and the sparkly yarn. Any tips for how to get all the hair to come out of one side or do people just normally pull at it a bit and not care if it all comes through?
Casey over at Ravelry.com spoke in the forums about Asio.net which is a SOLAR POWERED web host, omg!! So if your in the market for web hosting (and the word is they have $10 monthly plans) and you are "green" then you may want to try them out. What a cool idea!
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All I really want to do latley is buy stuff, which is a *really* bad thing to have an urge to do! I have told myself I wouldn't buy anymore knitting yarn, but I suppose crochet yarn doesn't count right?? (right?!!)
So I ran by Joann's and stocked up on supplies to crochet toys! Eyeballs, felt, noses and decorative thread. I'm nearly done with the top of the head of the octopode now, it looks like a bowl. So far so good!
Also on another note today I fit inside my Honda Element not only a large chair, an ottoman but also a freakin mattress (smaller mattress). I am astounded we could fit that much in the car! We ran out to get husbeasts car serviced, then went to lowes (I am reminded why I don't like those stores) to look at carpet, then to a car wash place to get the car cleaned out and detailed and then to pick up the furniture. It's still in the car, I think I should take a photo because it's freakin amazing that much stuff fit inside of it.
Well I sucked it up and got the paws completed and didn't care how bad they looked, and I picked up the 77 stitches all around and even though i got one or two holes (because I would have liked to have picked up more then it said!) I didn't rip. "It's going to be felted" was the mantra I used to keep myself going. I'll just fil it in later if I have to with scraps or something and sew it up a bit if need be.
I am using Fizz, along with some sort of sparly Crystal Palace yarn and then the Cascade 220, so 3 strands held together. It's going to be one hairy hedgy! Tonight I get to do the short row shaping along the back so hopefully I will be done with it soon. I've been having a hard time motivating myself to do anything at all. I REALLY want to learn to crochet better and I did try some but I hated my stitches. I want to make one of these. How freakin cute is that? Crochet toys are adorable. Happy Hooker also has a cute crochet animal that I also wouldn't mind making. I looked at my nearbye yarn stores for a crochet class, and none of them have any! I just like the motivation it gives me. I know I could teach myself but a class is a big motivator.
I went to see the movie last night, no spoilers here from me but you will get my general impressions. I read some reviews about it and here are a few general things they mentioned;
1) Not enough screen time for the adult actors
I have to disagree here, there was lots of screen time for the adults, and after all they arn't the leads so obviously they don't get the most screen time. I was very happy with the balance
2) Luna is fantastic
Lunda was an example of good casting, she certainly didn't blow me away but I enjoyed all her scenes! She was good but not all like they seemed to talk about in the articles.
3) Least favorite book of the series
I never had heard that before these articles I read, I don't know which book is my favorite but movie was it would have to be POA which was simply brilliant so I also like the book of course. I like them all. I think probably the first book because it was too short, and plus the kids are much younger then and a bit harder for me to relate too.
4) "luke-warm" reviews
After seeing Spider Man 3, which lacked a plot, and Pirates 3 which had an even WORSE plot I think HP was the best movie I have seen all summer. It was wonderful. I don't know what people want out of these movies. It's SO HARD to make a good sequal let alone a good 5th movie. I can personally say I don't think ANY of the potter films has been a failure. Yes I liked some more then others but they have all been good. I can watch them all again and again.
My over-all review
This movie seemed to have less "action" in the first half, but ya know what, I liked it! It was so nice to have a movie focus on charachter development and story vs just a bunch of stuff getting blown up like those other two movies I mentioned. It was wonderful, and like any "classic" you will be able to watch it 20 years from now and still enjoy it. I still like POA better, but I loved this movie and it was eveything I would want it to be. I didn't want it to ruin the story, I didn't want it to be a bomb. I just wanted it to be a GOOD movie, and it was.
I cried after one of the last scenes, it was done so well. I couldn't help it but my eyes welled up! I wish there was more to that one last scene but well that's what our imaginations are for and if a movie leaves you wanting more but not feeling dis-satisfied I would call that a success.
I wish I could see it a second time, but I was pretty uncomfortable in the seat (it was a nice seat even!) so I doubt that will happen, I so can't wait for the book now. it got me all ramped up, however I don't think I can take it if they kill off Harry, Hermoine or Ron.
Just in case you have been living under a rock, Harry Potter is in theaters TONIGHT! You can catch midnight shows at most theaters. I'm too tired for a midnight show but we will try to make a 10pm tommorow night. We have a wonderful theater north of our house, it's pretty new and only takes cash, but it never has lines and has fantastic seating. To be honest I wish it was coming out in the fall, the movie is so much more appropriate for that time of year but this one seemed to take longer then the others so I guess they didn't want to put it off any longer. I'm very excited, I've had the book on pre-order for months now and I think they ship out around the 17th, and Atlanta has a Amazon warehouse so maybe I will get lucky and get it a day earlie (a girl can dream!).
Goodluck getting tickets!
If you are in the groccery store and see "Jane" magazine (Kirstin Dunst on the cover) then open it up and find the 1 page article about this knitwear designer. It's not worth buying the whole magazine, and it's short enough that you can read it in line at checkout.
I didn't feel like working on the other sleeve last night so I worked on that cool ribbon-yarn-yoked-cardi I picked up in San Fran. I finished the first chart of fair-isle andIi think i might skip the other part because well, purling fair-isle is really NOT fun and I don't know how to knit backwards. Anyone else ever knit a pattern that required fair-isle knit on the purl side? I suppose it wasn't enough to justify steeking. I'll know to make sure I don't buy a pattern in the future that requires that unless I'm sure I don't mind.
Well this morning Jen IM'd me and let me know some of the knitting gang was heading to Knitch in Atlanta. I haven't had piano because I was sick and then this week and next my teacher is on vacation so yesterday I never left the house. It sounded like a good idea. There was a few plus's to this endeavor. First would be getting my Straucht Carder to Jen as she wanted to buy it and I wanted to sell it. I love having it, I hated seeing it go but I knew I would never use it. Anything that goes into our garage pretty much rots and is forgotten about and that was where it was headed with me having to give up my craft room. So off it went to Jen.
Jen also had knit me a freakin beutiful shawl in sea silk. It happened late one night when I sent a link to Jen and she and Melissa and La went all freak shit and wanted to knit it BAD. I said well knit me one while your at it! Sure she said, if you buy us both the yarn. Um okay sure. What?? She didn't expect me to take her up on the offer, but then I didn't expect her to either. She got some purple Seasilk out of the deal, but I think in the end I got the better end of things. I mean how freakin beutiful is it? She did such a good job, she's an amazing knitter. I love how it feels on my skin. I have wanted something from seasilk for a while now and I have always wanted a lace shawl but I know better then to try to knit one. Between the dogs and my husband lace and me, we just don't work.
So i went to knit and got to see everyone and wish Claudia a happy birthday, and she helped me scope out the pattern for knitty's Trellis which I believe will be my next knit. I stashed up for it too! After Knitch I went to IHOP with my husband and the shawl went with me. Oh and at Knitch Melissa brought some of her handspun, I should have taken a photo, it was so beutiful. I have the most talanted knitting buddies! They are just some bad ass knitters/spinners!
Here is the husbeast surfing on his cell phone, which I am pretty sure he is already over his 1mb limit already this month, so excuse me while I go give him a good pinch.
I read on Ravelry that they have had something near like 15,000 people sign up to use the site. 15,000??? OMG I had no idea that many knitters where online let alone even aware of something like Ravelry which is pretty much new and only known about through word of mouth. I remember durring the knitting Olympics there was like 4,000 sign-ups and I was all impressed that many knitters online read blogs and participated, but 15.000?? That's INSANE people!! INSANE!! We are compeltly takng over the internet! I always said buying yarn was like buying shoes and purses, and I guess a lot of people have the same habbit. For those of you waiting on your invites that have signed up, just be patient! You will get your turn and honestly the longer you wait the better it will be because the whole entire site is based on users uploading content, I like to wait a week or so and then I login again and look up the same patterns as before only to see more FO's and progress pics.
I could have knit a lot more this week and today, but I've been mostly grumpy for no good reason. I feel bored, but don't want to actually do anything, but finally I convinced myself to knit something and I finished the 1 sleeve on the Tulip Cardi. It's something, better then nothing!
We put togetherthe dresser a few nights ago, and I picked up this cute hamper on Thursday.
Well I got to the i-cord part of the cardi and really hated it, hated how it was knit and attached. So I opted to pick up stitches the whole way around and create a nice little seed stitch band. I like how it knit up acually, I only wish I had planned ahead because I had to do a little clean up at the bottom because the bottom wasn't cast off yet. Kinda messy but I only started around 7pm and finished the whole band, cast off, sewed in all the color changes that had the yarn hanging out and then started a sleeve.
So my Tulip sweater will look a little different from the rest, but that's perfectly okay with me. I think I even like it better. I've never liked i-cord, knitting it or how it looks. I like braids, braids are always pretty for ties etc.
We spent the day putting together more furniture and not much else. The day went by far faster then I would have liked but hey only two more days until the weekend! We stood outside once it got dark and could hear fireworks in all directions. We don't live very far from a lake so we could see some of the big ones going off above it. Next 4th of July I'm going to have a BEER! So it was a very non-eventful holiday for us, and we enjoyed staying in away from the crazy drunk drivers and loads of police officers. The last speeding ticket I got was on the 4th of July actually, I was on my way home from a agility dog show at the park of all things. It's nearly midnight now, off to bed!
Well I would have cast off the bottom of the baby cardigan by now but I was far too fucused on getting that furniture.
The cardi is so much more tiny in person then in those photos I have seen of it. My gauge is spot on (checked and double checked) so it should be the right size. I'm knitting the seed stitch bottom band now and I'll work on it before bed tonight.
Loads of people have gone off on vacation because of the mid-week holiday so the parking lot at work was more then half empty. It's a nice break from the chaos of the last month so after work I actually had enough enegery to drag the husband to Target. I simply couldn't wait a whole week! I am seriously picky about deocrations and furniture, so when I do find something I like I want to make sure I get everything.
My disapointment so far is that the dresser comes with 2 sets of nobs, glass (as seen in these photos) and some neat little antiqued pewter ones. I prefer the pewter. Well, the little desk did NOT come with the optional pewter nobs. WTF!?
Also I got a cute blue/green (with some pink.. meh) quilt and sheet set for a future twin bed we plan to get. On top was a cute little basket my friend Brooke got me as a gift, turns out it's from the same collection and matches perfectly.
The price wasn't too awful (yay target!) and we also got the husbeast a big huge tv-table thingy that he can put all his game consoles in and the huge TV on, now he has to clean HIS office so we can move the big TV into there.
Well i wake up at 7:30am no matter how tired I am, and I basically try to be as silent as I can be because the husbeast likes to sleep in until atleast 11am (2pm if he had his way) so I tip toe around the house trying to keep the dogs from barking, I get on the internets, I knit etc.
So once he did wake up and after he got in some game play he cleaned up the kitchen/bedroom and I worked on the ex-craft room. Massive progress was made today and luckily it was over cast so the house wasn't too hot. My cold is finally getting better, not 100% but I would say atleast 60/70% better! By next weekend I'll be right as rain.
All this stuff belongs in the room but until we get furniture there is no place to put it all. I realized with how complelty computer driven my husband and I are, it might be a good idea if we had something we could put in this new room that would allow us to have our computers near by. This will probably remain the cleanest room in the house (we will put up a baby gate and the dogs won't be allowed in all the time) and so it just makes sence and I found something really cute that would match and serve the purpose. Next week I'll drag the other half out to target to get it.
All that remains of yarn in the room is my cute little yarn-cubby and my favorite chair which will eventually make there way into the bedroom once we make room. Now I'm going to go take a nap and knit! Loads of progress on the tulip sweater but I'll save photos for later :)