Get ready for the photos!!

Ok..first things first. I have to rave about a certain website and their WONDERFUL products! I ordered some Wood Beams from Aubrey at Goodies Unlimited for my spinning wheel. I spent Saturday evening putting it on my wheel. Look how pretty she looks now.

(You can scroll down a bit and find the photo of my wheel before I put the Wood Beams on.) This stuff is amazing. Totally non-toxic too. I also got some E-Balm and a bar of soap and I’m really enjoying those too. If you haven’t ever tried any of this, you really need to. Like Martha would say “It’s a Good Thing.” (I hope I don’t get sued for that!!)

Next up: Fiona is on the mend and doing really well after her surgery. Here’s a couple of new photos of her for your viewing pleasure.

Everyone say “awwwwww” now. Yes, she’s a whopping 5 lbs now.

This weekend (well yesterday since it rained all day Saturday) we built a sandbox for The Liam. We used landscape timbers and the box is 8′ x 8′ and four timbers deep. The boys enjoyed helping their Paw-Paw build the box.

“If I had a hammer………”

Finally some knitting content!!

Sock Bug Lacy Scallops Socks, some Opal yarn that I don’t know the color name. Anyone have any ideas??

Last but certainly not least, I went in to the LYS today to get some size 1 dpns (can we never have enough size 1 dpns??) and they were having their Bi-Annual sale and everything in the store was 20% off. So..I splurged just a bit.

Size 1 dpns and Size 0 dpns and some Wildfoote sock yarn (Brilliant Bouquet). I also got some point protectors but they didn’t seem to make the photo shoot.

Happy Knitting everyone!!

I have participated in MyPoints for a while now and have redeemed my points several times. One time I got a $25 Barnes and Noble gift card and used it for A Gathering of Lace and one time I donated points to the red cross for the tsunami victims. When I reached the points level again this time I ordered another $25 B&N gift card. It came last week and I placed my order. Guess what came today??

Yay!! I ordered both these books and it only cost me $14. I promptly opened up Knitting Vintage Socks and what did I spy??

Oh! These are SO getting made. I ran my happy little butt all over google to find the best deal on the Louet Gems Merino Pearl that is called for and found it at Wendy’s (spaazilicious) store. I now have a cone of the Gems Pearl on the way to my house and even got to speak to the lovely Wendy herself.

Oh…shawl update

I’m on row 10 of the Diamond Madeira section.

Coming along swimmingly.

I have signed up for the Knitting Olympics. Am I a glutton or what?

I think I’m going to make Glorious Gloves. This will be a challenge for me more on the time front than the challenge of the project, but they are fairly challenging also.

ps. I’m posting from history class.

I have actually been knitting. I took a couple of shots of the shawl I’m working on. It’s kind of hard to see the pattern, but here goes anyway.

This is the Shetland Tea Shawl from A Gathering of Lace

With flash

Without flash and the laptop as backlighting.

I’m using some green yarn from handpaintedyarns. I’m using my size three rosewood (omgwonderfulomg) circs.

Poor little Princess Fiona. She had a freak thing happen to her today. I took her to the vet to get her nails trimmed. (they are so small I’m scared to do them) We have no idea what happened, but she had a rectal prolapse. She had surgery this afternoon and has to spend the night at the vet. Please send her healing vibes and your thoughts so that she gets better quickly and that she doesn’t have this happen again.

I miss my baby.

I got a laptop today. We ordered it last week and it was delivered today. Also they came out and hooked up wireless internet too. I’m sitting on my sofa and posting to my blog. How cool is that?

School starts on Thursday (well it starts tomorrow, but I have only Tues/Thurs classes) and I have an 8 am class this semester. *ugh*

I got the laptop for school because I type neater and faster than I write and I’m hoping to take notes with it. I just have to figure out if I can take notes with it in my math class. (It’s a math methods class in the education curriculum).

I have been knitting a bit also as well as spinning on mylovely new baby. I’m working on the test knit sweater, a Shetland Tea Shawl, and Lacy Scallops socks. I dropped a stitch in the socks though and have to rip back a few rows to pick it back up, or use a crochet hook and pull it back up that way. *ugh*

I wish I could be more witty like some other bloggers, but I really have no brain cells for wit at the moment.

Happy Knitting everyone!