gloves

Fetching

Sorry for the lack of scrapbooking/cardmaking posts lately. Just haven't been able to get to my supplies...missing it :(

But I am having so much fun challenging myself with knitting. Knitting things I thought were out of my league! Sunday I started a pair of fingerless gloves (in the picture above). The pattern is more challenging than what I've done before. Knitting in the round on double-pointed needles is new for me. And I'm newer to cabling. But these are working up pretty easily and quickly! I'm so proud! And I'm enjoying having something positive to focus on at the end of the day. A way to distract from the chaos around me.

Here's what they should look like when they are completed:



Can't wait!

monday gratitude

Some things I'm grateful for on this monday...

• good coffee made by my co-worker
• starting a fun, challenging knitting project last night. Knitting in the round on double-pointed needles, cables AND a bunch of other new steps.
• M&M's
• being prepared
• easy commute to Boston this afternoon
• some good already-made casserole to have for dinner when I get home late
• our problems with the apt decreasing
• cell phones
• computer printers
• my class tonight
• knitting circle/class at the yarn store on sundays
• spring being around the corner
• my warm coat
• notes from my far-off cousins researching family geneaology
• hugs from Cary
• my plants at home
• the dishwasher

I'm feeling grateful and a little tired this Monday. Off to finsh preparing for the class I teach tonight!

Happy Monday!

So. Today is off to a good start. I played around with my {broken} camera today. It seems that the USB connection on the camera is bent. So if I hold the cord just so when I go to upload into my computer it works! YIPPEE! So for now...I can FINALLY upload and share some pictures until I can afford a new camera.

I thought about sharing the photos of the bad stuff we've been dealing with here in our apartment. But NO. I'm not wasting my time our yours with that crap! So here are some of the GOOD things I've been up to...

My Bainbridge Scarf I finished! It is so cute and warm...

The Learn to Cable Scarf I've been working on in a yummy soft, bright red yarn...


And the simple, ribbed scarf I started...

And here is the front and back of my ATC for Emily Falconbridge's 52Q. This is for Week #3. I will share the rest of the week's cards when I get them out of my car and photograph them!

Thanks for looking! I hope the rest of the day continues this positive for me!

Happy Saturday!

friday

Some pieces of good news today...

1. Re: the apartment and it's issue...the leasing office informed us they will be reimbursing us for the $400 we spent prepping for the treatments. They also gave us a generous gift certificate to a local restaurant yesterday for our troubles. That is definately changing my feelings about thier

2. I finished my Bainbridge Scarf last night and am wearing it today! Yeah! Oh how I wish my camera was working so you could see it. I'm hoping to take a pict of it with my Dad's camera this weekend. It is so cute!

3. I wont 2 ski lift tickets to a Mt. in NH through my work! Cary has never skiied and is a little worried about the cost of staying up there for a night but he is almost to the point of agreeing to do it! Yeah! I love skiing and we could SO use a night away from here.

4. My student's are doing presentations today...which means I don't have to lecture! So I get to "sit back and watch" today! Oh how the tables are turned ;)

5. Today is friday...that is a very good thing.

Happy Friday!

update

So I'm in the midst of doing laundry and running the dishwasher. I feel like chores never end. I haven't even really sat down since I got home from work today...rush home, cook dinner, go to the gym, start laundry, load dishwasher, organize some things since the exterminator came today. I can't wait to just sit on the couch, watch TV and knit.

Things are still ongoing here. I don't know when it will end. Last night I had a meltdown...had dinner with a friend and felt better. Today I'm refocused but frustrated with some issues.

Anyhow...who wants to hear all this junk? I don't want to even keep thinking about it all.

I have been diligently working on my knitting and gotten hooked up with ravelry.com. A very fun website. Similar to what two peas is for scrapbooking. I have about a 1/2 inch and the ties to finish on a Bainbridge Scarf...a very fun and easy pattern. I bought the yarn to make a second one. I also finished all of Emily Falconbridge's 52 Q except the newest one. This weekend I might try and borrow my sister's camera and take some pictures of these projects. I hate having picture-less posts :(

Well....one more load of laundry and then I'm sitting on my %** on the couch until I fall asleep!

Goodnight!

thinking optimistically spring

1. focus on the earliest signs of spring, 2. Signs of Spring, 3. Signs of Spring!, 4. 春の予感／sign of spring, 5. Dainty Tea Cups, 6. Tulips in Vase, 7. Hello Batman, Robin Calling!, 8. Clover, 9. Easter Cupcakes

The sun coming in the window is making me think Spring today.

I had a wonderful day yesterday. Tried to leave the "junk" behind me and just enjoy the day. Today I'm feeling more cautiously optimistic. I think the extermination issue might be greatly improved. I hesitate to say it's "behind me" though. It is a little difficult to determine when it is definately gone. The exterminator comes for a follow up treatment this wednesday. We still have all our stuff bagged....

Therefore...I still haven't done any scrapping or cardmaking. Boo!

I have been knitting though! A lot. It's easy to just pull out the one project and work. Easier than digging through bags of scrapbook stuff that is hard to find. I can't wait to have it all settled into my desk again.

Today or tomorrow I might go to Best Buy and check out the camera I'm eyeing. I am hesitating to buy it yet. It's a lot of money. Plus I want to try my old camera with my sister's USB cord and see if that is the issue. But....I really love the new camera I'm eyeing....

Well...off to do a little knitting. Will spend some time with Cary before he goes off to work. Then I'm visiting my parent's, getting a few things at the grocery store and going to a knitting group at my LYS for a bit.

Happy Sunday!

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Wish my camera was working so I could share pictures of the pretty flowers Cary gave me...pink roses and lilies. And right now he's cooking me blueberry pancakes and bacon. And I hear he's cooking me scallops and green beans for dinner. Mmm... How did I get so lucky?