What wasn't there something else here......

I removed the post from yesterday if you read it then you know the one I am talking about. I thought about it and decided that even though I needed to rant that much it wasn't something that I should have posted to everyone and their brother. :) Needless to say if you didn't read it - I had a SUPER bad day on Friday. Main highlight was that I have somehow forgotten the pin number for my debit card. Which has set off this huge cleaning spree because I know it is here somewhere... But where exactly in the many piles of my stuff is the question. SO not much in the way of knitting done in the past two days. But progress on cleaning which is a big plus for me.

Off to watch Amazing Grace and on of the Love's Enduring movies before they are due back tomorrow.

QOW review

Ok so Amy said 'Ha!' in response to my answer....my friends know me well. To further clarify - I never said there would be just one container, just that that was what I was thinking would fit into one. I have three under the bed containers that I can clear out stuff from and but more yarny goodness into them. My DH never looks under the bed so he'll never know how much I truely have unless he looks at purchases to projects ratio. Plus Amy is a bad influence - there is a dollar bin at Michael's that I never knew about......this gives me a reason to enter the store now. Ours is in the rundown store building and I don't really like going in there much but they did have a better stamp selection than Joann's the one time I was in there. Hmmmmm..........

Well let's finish the music portion too while I am at it. Not that I am much more awake than I was last night/this morning when I typed it up. Let's see the best way to do this would be soundtracks I think vs. trying to name people/bands. Grease, Footloose, Cocktail, Caddy Shack....notice they are all from the 80's? Yeah me too. Umm well my parents listened to pretty much everything so I grew up that way and do now too. Oldies - Chantilly Lace is one of my all time faves; Pop - Madonna, New Kids on the Block; Country - Garth brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Roseanne Cash, Johnny Cash; and many more that I can't seem to think about right now. I remember buying the cassette tapes at the gas stations for the trips we'd take and listening to them over and over again. Like Crusin' Classics brought to you by Shell gas station -"Listen to the music" Doobie Brothers, "It's so easy" Linda Ronstadt, "Ventura Highway" America, "Could it be I'm falling in love" The Spinners, "Can't fight this feeling" REO Speedwagon, "The heat is on" Glenn Fry, "Wake me up before you go-go" Wham!, "Kiss is on my list" Hall & Oats, "September" Earth, Wind & Fire, & "Footloose" Kenny Loggins. Oh oh Wang Chung! Love that song. Ok thats all for now. Back when I am more awake :)

Music

Well it's one of those nights again where I am having trouble sleeping. Ugh I'm tired and know it but just can't sleep yet. So I decided to rearrange my playlist.com music and post it at the bottom of my blog. Hopefully it works. *crosses fingers* These are some of my favorite songs/artists. With a few missing because hey I can't remember to put everyone on there. :) Some of the artists are international and their music is not available locally - Poets of the Fall and Hanna Pakarinen are Finnish if I remember right. POTF can be ordered through Amazon, but i haven't gotten around to it yet. And Hanna is available through her website - which is in Finnish. Go figure. lol

Some of my faves that I forgot are Neil Diamond, um man my mind just blanked.....doh! Well I'm sure once I wake up tomorrow I will post more on this topic.....errrr make that later today!

QOW # 3

Question of the week is: What would you consider the perfect amount of stash?

For me it is what I can safely fit in my house without being yelled at by DH for having more crap in the house. LOL If you know me you know this is true - I am a pack rat. I have things from elementary school still - from when I went. My excuse is that I plan to scrapbook them someday. But that is another space taker here.....all my scrapbooking supplies. I think the last time I really did anything with my stuff was to make a gift for my one of the kids teachers about 2 years ago.

So I guess that means if I rid myself of the extras that are not used anymore....... >.>
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I'd have more room for my stash! I think we just motivated me to clean house! LOL

Seriously, the perfect amount would be having enough for your current projects, what you need for at least 3 more and then some odds and ends thrown in. Place all that in clear containers to see what you have and you are set. And in all seriousness I think I am cleaning house of old stuff. it needs to go and I don't/can't/won't use it.

Knit Night

Last night I joined the Southeastern Michigan knitting group at the Caribou Coffee in Plymouth. It was a blast. I've never met any of these ladies before but that didn't stop me from heading out and joining them. And I was a good girl and only had water despite SERIOUSLY wanting to buy some coffee to drink. But I didn't need to be up late. It's a great group made up of all different level of knitters and spinners. One lady, Dianne, is a spinner. She'd just completed this BEAUTIFUL shawl/coat. I'm nt exactly sure what to call it. It was a shawl but had arm holes and a little hood. She handspun all the yarn used and the pattern on the back is sooooooooooooooo beautiful! It was castle scene. She found an amazing clasp on eBay that is either pewter or silver, again not sure. But it matched it so well. I am almost done with calorimetry again. I can spell that now but when someone asks me what it is I slaughter saying it. LOL The ladies had never seen the pattern before so I passed it arund and they think it is quite neat. One of the other ladies had finished her own shawl in pink and said now she needed to make a headband to go with it. :) So towards the end we got to talking about spinning. I was on ravelry the other day and came across the group that I joined to destash your yarn. I happened upon some Spunky Eclectic roving for sale. 2 batches of 4 oz. roving in different colors. Very pretty and I bought them! So now I am looking at drop spindles. Which is where last night comes in - Dianne and Sandy were giving me advice on what kind of spindle I should get as a beginner.

It boiled down to I would need to get one that weighs around 1.5 oz. as a beginner. Dianne then was telling me many great places that sell ones that she would trust. Like if (and I'm hoping we will because I am realyl starting to get into this whole thing!) I go to the Wool & Fiber Festival in August and of the vendors there would be good to buy a spindle from &/or wool and roving. There was also the Cyber Fiber Mall - found here http://www.blogger.com/www.cyberfibermall.com/ . That she would trust any of these vendors for spindles. She said not Ashford -they tend to be too heavy. Dianne recommended a few other stores/websites: The Fold, Spinning Loft, & Gemini Fibres. Sandy said she bought her spindles from here - http://www.woollydesigns.com/spindles/producti.htm . I looked at them and they are beautiful and well priced but she is not accepting orders until August. :( I really liked the Stars one but it was a heavier weight than I need as beginner. Oh and top whorl is better for beginners than bottom whorl.

I found many sites on Etsy.com that carry beautiful and simple handmade spindles. The one I am considering right now is Maine Woods Fiber Company ( http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=50026 ). Mainly because I can buy a bag with 4 1/2 oz. of roving in 3 different colors and 1 plain for practicing. Each color is a seperate batch of roving. Plus you get a spindle and instructions in the drawstring bag all for $23.95 USD. So now I am just debating on getting the Maine Maple Wood Drop Spindle Spinning Kit Biloxi Blues Available in Either Top Whorl or adding it to my wishlist. Dilemma! >.<

Well breakfast time for me and then cleaning because the weight loss challenge will be here later this afternoon. I need to wake up more.....where's my coffee! I ended up not sleeping well last night despite not having any coffee I was up until 1:30 am. ugh!

Oh yeah......

I forgot - all three girls are now knitting! *Does a happy dance*!!!! Taught the middle monkey yesterday and she got the hang of it - sorta. Had some problems with putting the needle into the yarn and then it made a mess to continue. The oldest learned a few weeks ago. But the challenge was the youngest. The left handed one, the only left handed person in the family. Who of course after telling me yesterday morning that she wanted to learn to knit then said but I want to use my right hand. Um well problem is when I tired to teach her continental this morning she automatically used her left hand! So we learned the right way and she is now plugging along. Oh and I noticed that when I watch the screen when I type I don't miss the letters. ;)

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. :)