Bleh

Its going to be one of those weeks I can already tell. First off my comp keyboard is acting wonky - if you see missing letters in words - this time I promise it's not me misspelling words. My keyboard is randomly not typing letters. Either that or I am not pushing hard enough on them. But seeing as how it had been working up until this past weekend I'm going with it's wonky not me. :D

I have another Colorimetry done and I frogged the first one........ I made one for my oldest daughter to match her scarf that I finished a while back. She even picked out the button for it herself.



Isn't he button pretty? Now ot sew that sucker on and it's done. Done I tell you! Ok so I was feeling a little weird at that moment. ;)

Just cuz........

Amy *made* me do it. Muwahahaha! ;)

Flickr Meme



1. Jennifer, 2. Blue moon, 3. The Waverly Restaurant, 4. Pick me, pick me, pick me...., 5. James Marsters Closing Up Sunday Night, 6. Kahlua + Vodka + Milk, 7. Portofino thru my lens, 8. Chocolate Cake Frosting I, 9. school starts Tuesday, 10. kids at play, 11. llibreria - bookstore - Amsterdam, 12. Angel Puppet Relaxing

The rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

1. What is your first name? Jennifer
2. What is your favorite food? Blue Moon Ice Cream
3. What high school did you go to? Waverly
4. What is your favorite color? Yellow
5. Who is your celebrity crush? James Marters
6. Favorite drink? Black Russian
7. Dream vacation? Italy
8. Favorite dessert? Death by Chocolate
9. What you want to be when you grow up? Teacher
10. What do you love most in life? Kids
11. One Word to describe you. Books
12. Your flickr name. angelus5

Dangit!

Quick blog before I have to dash out of the house feeling like crap for church. I broke my glasses yesterday. I'm so mad. Stinkin' earpiece broke right in two and they are only about 2 months old now. Got them at the end of April so not even 2 months yet. But now I have to go in and see if they can be fixed. Luckily my script is so small that I have some drugstore readers that I bought ages ago and are my current script for glasses. How'd that work out you ask. Now here is the tricky part - I can see far away just fine so that makes me far sighted right? I can never remember. Well my script is for reading, crafting, sitting at the computer, etc. anything up close. The previous one was .75 - You can't but that in the store. So I bought a 1.00 to have something on hand when I forgot my glasses at home. This was back in 2005 when I was working an hour away from home. And guess what since I had gotten the other glasses (.75 script) in the many times I went back over the years my eyes never changed. So I hadn't been to the doc for my eyes in the past 3 years or so. But I was using the old script until it started giving m headaches. Then I started using the readers and no headaches. So I went to the eye doc and sure enough it had gone up to 1.00 and I got new glasses. And those are the ones I break - the almost $100 pair not the $24.99 pair that is 3 years old. Ugh I give up. Gotta run. Later Jland.

Stitch markers up close

These are the ones I made for myself. I realized they weren't easily seen in the pics taken of calorimetry. So here are some better ones. And a random Happy Bunny Sticker from my keyboard. :)

It's Done!!!!!!!

I finished calorimetry last night and took pics this morning. Now to just figure out which button to use. Help me decide please.....I like all three of them with it! >.<




The other problem with it is that it turned out kinda big. However I'm not frogging it again so I can live with it not being exactly like the directions said it would be. If I do it again I think I will try different yarn and see how it works that way. I was thinking of making these for the girls with the leftover yarn from their scarves. We'll see if that happens.




A Closer look at the colors an how the two skeins went well together. yup I needed two skeins of Noro to make this - well almost 2 - about 1.5 maybe 1.75 to be exact.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Frogging Calorimetry again! Somehow I lost 8 stitches. I don't know how but I did. But I asked someone on Ravelry how they has cast on using Noro and they did long tail method. Which is totally making sense now. Fricking stinking thing! I'll get it right one of these days!!!!

QOW # 2

Question of the week is: As a kid, what did you look forward to most about summer vacation/break/holiday?

Summer vacation for me was being packed up with the grandparents for a week (at least) to their cabin in the UP. For those non-Michigan folk that's the Upper Peninsula. To their cabin in Lake Linden on Rice Lake. Pure heaven to be up there and right on the lake. We'd head into town to the Houghton County Historical Museum there or to the old Mine. Or head to Calumet/Copper Harbor/Laurium area and hit the museum's there. Yeah I know doesn't sound like much fun for most kids. But my great-grandma was from the area so it was a way for me to learn a little about her and how she was raised. Or just hang out in or out of the cabin. Fishing, swimming, playing cards or board games, rowing the boat on the lake, or heading to Lake Superior to brave the cold water there. It was either just me and my younger brother with the grandparents. But sometimes my youngest aunt would come and she would help out when our cousins came up too (other aunt's kids). I remember one time riding a bike with my aunt Kristi (youngest aunt) down the dirt road and a fawn started to chase us. It thought because I had a white shirt on I was mom. It scared the crap out of me.....well I mean I was only 6 or 7 I really didn't know any better at the time. But of course it is all written down in the cabin journals. That is my favorite thing to do now when I get the chance to head up there - read the journals. But since it is a 13, now 14 hour drive from where we live now and with gas prices being they way they are who knows when that will happen again. The girls enjoyed their week up there about 3 years ago and I loved being able to take them there. Now it's not just the one cabin that we have but my Uncle Steve has the lot next door and on the other side of him is my Aunt Pam's cabin. More room and more fun to be almost all of us up there at once. I miss it. :)

There is a little peninsula under the red dot marking Lake Linden - shown closer in the next pic.


The green arrow is pointing to Rice Lake.


This is an aerial view of lake Linden (city) and Torch Lake.



On the knitting front - I frogged Calorimetry and restarted it last night. Am about a quarter of the way done now and hope - with no distractions - to finish it tomorrow sometime.

Pictures

Well I started Calorimetry and after a few fits and starts of froging had it almost half way done. Then realized I'd messed up and couldn't figure out where to tink back to. So it had been frogged once again. But here are some picsa of Becca's scarf and what calorimetry looked like prior to frogging. As well as my handmade stitch markers on calorimetry. Enjoy!




Thought I might post how I made this scarf here in case any one likes the way it looks.
Name: Becca's Scarf
Needle: US 6
Yarn: Red Heart Ltd. Baby Sport Pompadour 6 oz.; 90% Acrylic, 10% Olefin; Sport weight 3 ply
Color: 1952 Rock-A-Bye

1. Cast on 30 stitches.

2. Knit 12 rows in garter stitch.

3. Next row knit 4, purl 22, knit 4.
4. Knit next row.
Repeat steps 3 & 4 for 38 more rows.

5. Knit 5 rows in garter. This will alternate which side the stockinette shows on. if you want them all on the same side knit only 4 rows.

6.Repeat 3 & 4 for 40 rows. Then step 5 for 5 (or 4) rows.

7. Repeat step 6 until desired length. When done with last stockinetter panel finish scarf by knitting 12 rows in garter. Bind off scarf. Weave in ends and block to get scarf to lie flat adn stop curling.

I just have to say.......

Becca's scarf is DONE!!!! well except the weaving in the end and blocking it...... But I am now done knitting it and can move onto another project. I didn't have enough time to really start something today but we are traveling again tomorrow so I'll have at least 2 hours to try and figure out which one to do next. Will try to post pictures tomorrow night after we get back of the finished project. Night Jland!

Computer.....

As I type now my computer is being fixed on the other side of my living room and I am on hubby's spare at my desk. YAY!!!! Hopefully no more LAG for everything. In a little while here I have to head out to get some groceries, come back to grab the middle monkey, take her to her Girl Scout end of year party, then get some more groceries/come home to pack for travel, then get her at 3:45 EST/EDT (still can't remember which we are in!) to then head to Laingsburg for the anniversary party and eventually drive back home tonight. This is when having some of those knit-lites needles would come in handy. Because the last time I tried to knit in the car at night I ended up having to frog about 6 rows after I realized I'd screwed it up.

So my KIP for WWKIP day will be knitting in the car and possibly at the anniversary party later tonight. I plan to finish Becca's scarf on the way up **crosses fingers** and then get started on either Calorimetry or my scarf to go with it in the Noro I bought. Both use US 8 needles so I can only do one at a time as I only have one pair at the moment. But I've discovered that when I have more than on WIP I don't work on them. I have to concentrate on one thing at a time if I want to finish it. Trust me there are a ton of projects I'd love to get started working on but then it will be like some of my cross stitch that is laying around......still there and not done yet. hehe And we can't have that - it's just not right! ;)

Hopefully hubby can get my comp fixed before we have to leave otherwise I continue to steal his until tomorrow. Muwahahaha! But we are heading up to Lansing for a last minute invite to dinner for Father's day bu his parents. They are bribing us with ribs.....mmmmmmmm. Evil that means I can't knit afterward unless I really clean well. Dilemma! But now I need to make some more stitch markers so that I have some of my own for Calorimetry because it requires 2 to make it. Have a great weekend Jland!