Girlfriend day!

I had a fun day yesterday in lovely Shipshewana, Indiana with some of my best friends. If that place isn't the crafty capital of the world I don't know where is.

I ended up with a few tomato plants and some pretties for myself and my youngest daughter.

We also had some wonderful hot pretzels from the world famous Jo Jo's restauraunt (I don't know if they are world famous, but they are famous with us) but I forgot to get a picture of them.

I did however (or one of us did- Deena?) get a stranger to snap a picture of us under the mixed nuts sign...aren't we witty?

Guilt is a Beautiful Thing

I am a very bad blogger. If it takes guilt to inspire me to post then so be it. All around me are wonderful bloggers just blogging away and here I am saying a whole bunch of nothing. I am doing stuff though! To prove it I will show you a couple of pictures.

We take trips to Africa...

Where we feed giraffes

and back home in Michigan my garden is growing, but unfortunately, so are the weeds.I have great hope to weed in the near future...I will keep you updated.

Crafting ADD

Here is another sign of my inability to finish anything. I now have 4 projects on needles, but maybe I will finish one soon. (wishful thinking) This is my progress on an Anthropologie-inspired capelet that I found here http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=62184.0 All I have to do is add the ribbing on the bottom and around the arms. It is my first attempt at something with sleeves and so far so good. I am not very happy with the ribbing around the neck, but that might have something to do with my discovery in the last two rows that I have been knitting with different sized needles. How in the world can a person knit for that long with one 10.5 and one 11 needle? Well, it can obviously be done and here is the result!

Time Flies...

I can't believe it has been so long since my last post, but I haven't been sitting around doing nothing...really! I have been putting some time into the ponchette I started and I am happy with the way it is looking, but I am starting to have serious doubts about the size. I keep measuring the gauge and it seems to be right on, but that might mean I need a gauge tutorial. Could it possibly grow as much as it needs to with blocking?

Oh well, if it comes out too small, that is what 7 year old daughters are for. She is actually hoping it will be too small for me so she can have it. I am going to just keep on keeping on and it will eventually work for one of us!

Not my craft...

I just have to put up a picture of some birdhouses my 15 year old daughter made recently. They are made from gourds I grew last summer, so I will claim a little bit of the creativity, but the rest is all her. I think she did a great job!

Here it is!

I promised you porn and here it is:

I have the yarn for three projects and see the sharp shiny things in the back? My beautiful new Options needles! So far, I LOVE them! They are slippery and I am not finding them too sharp at all even though I am a tip pusher.

I am not getting too much knitting done right now though because of peer pressure on WOW interfering with some of my free time. I think I need a few waiting rooms to give me a boost!

And what about this Second Life thing? How can I fit that in?? I just can't have another hobby! Or can I?

By Popular Demand...

I am often asked how many workout videos I own, so I decided to get them out and find out. This pile represents 59 tapes/dvd's and 67 workouts (because many of the dvd's have more than one workout on them). I have a tendency to loan them out and forget who has them, so I am actually missing quite a few. I can think of 8 right off the top of my head that seem to be gone, so if you have one of them please let me know so I can account for it. Inquiring minds want to know.

Before you ask why I would need that many workouts, consider how boring it would be to do the same tape day after day. Yes, that is why I have so many, for variety, not because I'm addicted to them. (I guess if you are going to be addicted to something, I can think of worse things)