duchessofgravity

whew. it was a great trip. i loved seeing everyone, and relaxing and all. but sometimes it is nice to be home and sleeping in your own bed. i have oodles of stuff to show off. finished stuff. shopping stuff. packages received in the mail stuff. early christmas stuff. but unfortunately, that is all gonna have to wait. this house is a disaster and someone has to fix it! oh right, that would be me. sigh.

I hope you all are enjoying your time with your families. don't eat too much and enjoy the opportunity to relax :)

sorry to post twice in one day, but i'm crazy excited cause i get to go home to colorado for 2 whole weeks for turkey! yippee. i'll be arriving this friday night and heading back tuesday after turkey weekend so give a holler (i still have the same colorado cell #) if you're in town and have some knitting time available. i hope to catch up with the boulder stitch n bitchers . and i'm hanging out with cathi and the kids for sure :) but i'd love to see everyone else too. so drop me a line and we'll try to get together ok? when i return i hope to have oodles of finished projects to share with dee and the girls here. all the projects i'm packing may not even fit in my backpack. ack!

so i was waiting to post about my outgoing and incoming hogwarts sock swap (year 2 swap) until after my pal received her socks. and then i was waiting on my package. and then i got busy with work and sleep and stuff. and then i got sick. so here it is. rather tardy. but here nonetheless :) my pal and i had a rather rough road with this round of socks. here emmeline (stacey) is the saga of your socks so i wanted to knit for you the eames pattern that my friend kate designed. and i soon found out that i am not cut out for mosaic knitting. sigh. the stitches were all wonky. the sock was completely inelastic. it looked generally like poo. i'm sure it's not the pattern. it has got to be me! so i sent you my copy of the pattern a new printout that is so a less mangled copy than my working copy in hopes that you will have better luck than i :) and the sole was soooo friggin cute oh well. frog time next i decided that maybe i could replicate my color-work feat of year ...

finally the windows are open and the fans are on and there is not a ton of humidity. its actually bearable. now is summer were like this!!! and if you walk into your local starbucks it looks like christmas. thats right folks i helped out with the dark set for holiday roll out tonight and i've never opened so many cardboard boxes in my entire life. holy cow. the worst of it. out landlord won't provide recycling friendly containers on the property. so it all went into the dumpster!!! sigh. but there are so many cute things it's enough to make you crazy. fortunately i don't think i want any of the mugs this year. which is good. we loaded up on clearance halloween and the cupboards are jammed ;) and i know i've been lax, but i promise i have wonderful things to show you. both things sent and received. for the hogwarts swap. but my camera is on the fritz again. i'm gonna get new batteries tomorrow and see if it works. otherwise i'll be smugglin...

So i was at target the other day to pick up something normal. like a prescription or milk or something and i somehow found myself in the socks. i know crazy huh? and they had these fabulous coordinating knee socks. and i said to myself "you know those would make some pretty darn cool creatures" so i brought 'em home and i looked at my stupid sock creatures book. and i promptly chickened out and headed for the sock drawer for practices socks :) i picked out a pattern. decided he had to have wings. and started chopping. i also decided that he needed a contrasting mouth so i found those instructions too. and while i watched the rockies lose 4 straight games in a row. my creature was born...do yo uthink he soaked up any of that bad luck?