Friday, December 17, 2010

The Holiday's are fast approaching

Christmas always seemed to come late for me because of college.  I wouldn't let myself enjoy the holiday season until I was home with family.  While I was home for Thanksgiving we decorated my Parents tree and felt the need to start my own.  So several weeks later our patio is decorated for Christmas.  A few decorations are filling our one bedroom apt.  but for now it will do.  :)  

Proof that Christmas is coming even faster . . . it's snowing in New Mexico, finally.  Apparently this is a late storm but a welcomed one for the natives.  It has been snowing all morning.  The roads, I'm told in ABQ aren't too bad.  Outside of ABQ might be another story but we don't have any where to be.  

On the knitting front I have been a very busy girl.  I was trying to think of something that I could give to some new New Mexico friends and came up with this:


I found the pattern on ravelry and became inspired.  The leaf is knit in the round so that you have the pattern on both sides.  Great idea right?  Well then this came from that idea:


I'm pretty sure Shannah will like these.  :)  But that was all that I have made.  I have had a lot of scrap debbie bliss yarn lying around.  I still have more so we shall see what comes of those.  Then I have been working on my very first pair of . . .


Gloves!!! The first one came out pretty easy, however . . . . the second one because it is a different hand is being knit backwards.  Which if you can imagine screws up my head with the pattern.  GRRRR So this one has been a little harder to do.  If you can't tell from the picture I went button crazy at hobby lobby.  :)  But before this I did start something else:


This is a sock that I hinted at in previous post.  Spring pools.  I used some autumn colored yarn that I fell in love with when I bought it and found it quite hard to pick out a good pattern to use it on.  This sock is toe up and my first try at that.  I think this sock is the best fitting sock I have ever made.  So at some point I will do the other one and be done.  I think . . . .

Well I guess I must get going.  Christmas cards to send out, presents to wrap and or buy.  Lots of things to do.  But from our house to yours a happy holidays.


Yea I stole the Penguin idea from Shannah.  :)





Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Electric Blankets

who ever invented these things were like the smartest people in the entire world.  I have been an avid fan since the fall of 2004.  It kept me warm in my overly cold dorm room.  It has continued to help keep me warm and saving energy at the same time.  At this time, Whitacre and I are enjoying the warmth.  This blanket makes it hard to get up and do important things before 10am.  It keeps me warm all day long in the cold New Mexico winter.  Makes it hard to do much of anything really.  It really only adds to the laziness.  But in any case thanks you.

Now time to get up and do the dishes.

Nah I'll wait it's too warm . . . .  

Monday, December 6, 2010

What a busy, thankful, jolly season!

What a crazy busy time of year!  Traveling, eating, shopping, thinking (Presents, cards, etc.)  What to do what to do. . .

Well to start off Thanksgiving was a wonderful day.  When I was growing up we would travel to my Grandmother's house in Little Rock.  Going to the house where my mother grew up.  Reliving the great depression through my grandmother's and house (If you have never been inside a house of someone who lived through that, you have missed out.)  But since the early 2000's she passed on and our thanksgiving tradition was in limbo.  Some days we spent at our house, just our family.  Other times we spent with the Jacobs family either in Corsicana or in Mesquite.  But this year I got to spend my Thanksgiving with my parents and my in-laws.  It was a wonderful new tradition to start.  I absolutely love spending time with family and can't wait for these new things to become traditions.

Now on to traveling.  Texas is a large state.  I am beginning to think a little too long.  Traveling home takes way too long, way too long.  This time around we took a different route which didn't take as long but was still long!   However,  the weather in New Mexico decided to show off that it can get quite cold here.  Oh and it snowed, didn't stick but made the trip a little interesting.  I am starting to worry about our Christmas travel but we will cross that road when we need to (hoping that it is not icy).

I am excited about this season and I hope that I will be able to decorate soon, put presents under the tree and fully enjoy what this season is all about!

Knitting wise, my ADD knitting syndrome has kicked in.  I did make one of these.  I LOVE them.  I have never made a sock that fit so well and it's my first toe up.  I think I may never make a top down sock again.  I have also been working on some presents for some new friends but darn you ADD.  I also made an infinity scarf from some left over thick and quick yarn.  It is quite warm and made of my favorite colors.  Hopefully more knitting will come and maybe I will find a pattern that will keep me entertained but until then other projects will keep me entertained.

Well so long for now, I feel a few more smaller post on the way and possibly some pics.  Long posts are hard to put together, however I tend to go long periods of times in between posts so . . . . here's to hoping!