Rose Knitted Glasses

Phew! What a busy week. Work is crazy and I haven't had a moment to breathe. But it hasn't been all stress. I have gotten in some QT with my camera phone. (So I apologize ahead of time for the quality of some of these pics). Visit to the Motherland Well...At least my motherland. DH and I took his aunt and uncle to visit my family. We visited old Montreal, got to go to the Jazz Fest (if you haven't been, you should!) and were fed to within an inch of our lives. Good times, good times. I love the drive to Montreal. If you've driven up you know what I mean when I say corn...corn...corn...UNUSUALLY LARGE COKE DUDE! corn...corn...corn...STRIP CLUB! Interesting. GO RED SOX! First DH and I went here on Monday and watched the Red Sox win. Unfortunately, it's been their only win so far this week. We didn't actually sit in these particular seats, that picture I took on a tour of Fenway that I was lucky enough to take recently. I believe the seat in the pic is one of the ...

Hope everyone's week is going well. I'm still working on Mom's FPS. There's been frogging. Let's not get into it. I wanted say thanks for all of the lovely comments about about the Flying Geese Blanket and of course about Otis. I'm sure I'll be boring you with more pics of our little red head in the future. I also wanted to share a pic of my most recent Etsy binges. (Sigh) . I know, I know. But it's good stuff! Look for yourself. ROVING!!! Oh. I just love the coloways here. The top braid of roving is from The Fiber Denn and the colorway is "Harvest", I believe. The fiber is Wensleydale. The bottom two are from Yummy Yarns . "Electric Lady" is the purple colorway, a merino/silk blend while the second is called "Gummy Worms" and is BFL. Yummy, indeed. I wanted to mention what a wonderful experience I've had with these two VERY talented vendors. The shipping was super fast which this particular fiber addict...I mean enthu...

Now how firmly I am affixed onto said face has yet to be determined. Sincere apologies all around for the lack of posts. Life has been nuts for me as it is for most people so I won’t even bore you with excuses that will only sound hollow to everyone else who works hard and has unexpected circumstances popping out. Suffice it to say crazy work hours, wacky personal stuff, yadda, yadda, yadda. Ok. That being said, I have missed this little community. I’ve missed blogging and reading blogs and my spinning and knitting groups. I hope to get back to a little bit of normal (well, my normal) soon. In the meantime, however...OH the things I have to share with you. And ACTUAL FO . Flying Geese (bloody) Blanket I fell in love with this pattern from the moment I saw it. I mean, it’s a great book , right? I took a break from working on my mom’s FPS to “whip this up”. Man this always happens to me. And I suppose that until I learn to have reasonable deadlines, I’ll still be considered a newbie. I w...

I thought I’d actually pop in for a change. Just kidding. Just thought I’d show you that I actually have been up to some stuff. I don’t have pics of the on going FSP saga yet but I do have (drumroll). A finished Jaywalker!!! I have not started on the second sock yet but this one is done. What is the sock laying on you ask? Well that would be some airy soft Polwarth rolegs washed and carded by yours truly. My first batch. I love this stuff! I picked it up at the CT Sheep and Wool eons ago. I was finally able to pick myself up some handy-dandy Howard hand cards from this place . A great store with a wonderful location AND they sell spinning fiber as well as yarn. Yarnia indeed. Yes, I did buy some other stuff here and yes, I will be posting about that soon…Well…relatively soon? Ahem…Onward and upward. I started making bobbles again and this was my first pair in some time. I needed something simple to go with a new outfit I bought. Not Van Cleef and Arpels by ANY far stretch of the ima...

I figured I'd actually publish this post from October (don't ask me how I missed that) and let you know what I've been up to since I really haven't been able to post. Apple Picking. I did go apple picking with my WONDERFUL Friend T. Who, incidently brought me these beauties as she knew I needed cheering up. Anyhew, apple picking…No no no…You don’t understand. APPLE PICKING!!! Oh it was SO much fun. We went here and I think we walked away with 5 bags between T, DH and myself. Another reason T is a friendship goddess? She suggested we treat ourselves to a luxury weekend. We started with a spa. We went here and took a full day package. Heaven! Heated stone massage, manis, pedis. The works. Then we had dinner at XO . PHENOMENAL food. We concluded with Sunday Brunch at the Cheesecake factory. Oh ya. A completely overindulgent weekend but a wonderful time all around. As a matter of fact I DO Say It’s My Birthday I had a birthday in September. And the best hubby in the worl...

You can say it. I know it. Haven’t blogged in ages. I am sorry. So much going on but I will try to be better. I know what you’re saying. And NOW you expect me to sit through another of your diatribes? Bear with me. There’s a little bit of good stuff here. My New Loves I'll be adding a bunch of new blogs to my side bar and I recommend them all but I wanted to mention a few in particular. My Fashionable life : I’ve been reading this for some time and “Amelia Raitte” (love the play on words...well...one word, really) would’ve been added to my blog ages ago if I were a diligent blogger…a hem . She’s not only incredibly talented with a set of needles (must buy patterns… must by patterns …) but she weaves you in with her writing. She shares quite a bit of her self and…well... In short, I like her. Brooklyn Tweed : Ever visit a blog a million times but every time you go to it you say “Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about this one!” I keep asking myself why I kept forgetting about this INCREDIBLY...