Taged by Judy

Judy tagged me for this meme. So here are the answers to 38 things about me that you may or may not want to know.

1. Name one person who made you laugh last night? Sparkles, my niece's cat.

2. What were you doing at 0800? Sleeping, I'm sick

3. What were you doing 30 minutes ago? Sleeping. See above.

4. What happened to you in 2006? Not much, I lead a pretty boring life.

5. What was the last thing you said out loud? Crock, see number 2.

6. How many beverages did you have today? lots of water and lemon-ginger tea.

7. What color is your hairbrush? Blue.

8. What was the last thing you paid for? Lunch Thursday at work.

9. Where were you last night? In bed, see number 2.

10. What color is your front door? White.

11. Where do you keep your change? In a glow in the dark tin, its for OFFF!!!!

12. What’s the weather like today? Rainy.

13. What’s the best ice-cream flavor? Butter Brickle. Unfortunately no longer available. Cherry Garcia runs a distant second.

14. What excites you? Knitting! Spending time with friends

15. Do you want to cut your hair? No. But it could stand a little trim.

16. Are you over the age of 25? Just don't ask how long ago 25 was!

17. Do you talk a lot? not really.

18. Do you watch the O.C.? Nope.

19. Do you know anyone named Steven? No

20. Do you make up your own words? some times.

21. Are you a jealous person? Not really.

22. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘A’. Autumn

23. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘K’. Karen. Yup I've got a friend with the same name as me.

24. Who’s the first person on your received call list? BF Teresa

25. What does the last text message you received say?I don't get text.

26. Do you chew on your straw? No.

27. Do you have curly hair? Yes. I can't do a thing with it and it can't do a thing with me, so were even!

28. Where’s the next place you’re going to? Back to bed!

29. Who’s the rudest person in your life? Ex-BIL

30. What was the last thing you ate? Not much, see number2.

31. Will you get married in the future? We'll see. No one in the picture right now.

32. What’s the best movie you’ve seen in the past 2 weeks? Haven't watched any.

33. Is there anyone you like right now? Not romantic wise.

34. When was the last time you did the dishes? Yesterday.

35. Are you currently depressed? No.

36. Did you cry today? No.

37. Why did you answer and post this? Because Judy tagged me and I'm sick, belch.

38. Tag 5 people who would do this survey. Too tired to tag anyone
, see number2

Found this morning!

Found you!

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Thursday I think.

Other than it's a huge time suck, any advice for a for a Ravelry newbee?

Too Much Fun

I'll admit it I had way too much fun taking pictures of my moebuis scarf, but not as much fun as knitting it! It was a very simple knit, cast on 140 stitches and knit the first row.


Though it did take me four tries to get that first row right!


I think the next one won't be as much trouble to get
the first row done. Yes I'm already planing the next one.


Teddy was kind enough to model my scarf for me as no one else was home.He wasn't to keen on me taking it off, but once I explained that KM at work wanted to give it to her elderly mother, he gladly gave it up. Although I did have to promise to knit him one!


I took it to work to day and everyone I showed it thought it was just the cat's meow, in fact I have orders for four more of them! One person even identified it as a moebius, my jaw must have hit the floor. I was so surprised that I forgot to ask where he learned about them.

OFFF Goodies

Now for the goodies that I picked up on Sunday. the first place I stopped at was Butternut Woolens where I found this very pretty wool that will make a lovely felted moebius basket. Shelly is in Gaston and I live in Laurelwood, now how handy is that? This is the only yarn that has a project lined up, the rest will just have to tell me what they want to be.


The next stop was Krugers Farm booth for a basket to carry all the yarn that would follow me home. There was on that was just the right size. I plan to make a liner or two for it so that it can be used for a knitting basket. Thank You Bobbie, for the silk fabric.



Then it was off the booth I'd been waiting to get back to sence last year. Interlacements! I just love the way they use color. Two skeins of Toasty Toes jumped into my basket. One in a red, purple, pink and orange-red colorway. Why is it that those colors just do not like to be photographed?




The other was a fantastic blue colorway.







I know that I can get their yarn online, but it is just so much nicer if you can hold the yarn before buying.

At the Wolf Creek Wools I found two skeins of 60% merino/40% bamboo called Great Wall in a colorway of pinks, blues with a bit of purple. The gauge is 5-6 st-in on size 3-4 needle some of the smallest yarn I have. I'm thinking a light weight scarf in maybe a chevron pattern, could change my mind though.




Then off to the Blue Moon booth! I found yarn there and lots of people. I though they only had sock yarn but noooooo, they have a worsted weight now called Twisted! I got the backstabber colorway.





I didn't have much in my pocket by the so I wandered around until I ended up at the Fogwash (sorry no link here, they do not have a web site) soap booth. With just enough to get a bar of the cinnamon soap to go with the carnation that I picked up on Saturday.

I came home with 50 cents in my pocket, not bad, I didn't go over my budget for OFFF. The tin for next year already has $2.55 in it.

OFFF

OFFF Was so much more fun for me this year. Last year I went all by myself, this year there were lots of friends to visit with. I arrived at about 8:30 on Saturday only to find Bobbie and Toolman already there. The first thing that popped out of Bobbie mouth was "Where have you been, we've been here since 8" Good grief here I though I was way early and that I would be the first one there, what was I thinking!

Well of course Bobbie and I started chatting away, it didn't take Toolman long to make his escape after that. It didn't take long for others from PDX Knit Bloggers to show up.

Here you see Barbara and Duffy with their drop spindles. Oh, by the way Barbara says that resistance is futile I will spin. Well not just yet, I will hold out for a good while longer. I must say that there was a lot of fiber that I wish that would have been yarn. (sigh)




Larissa was working on a small sweater I didn't catch who it is for. I tried to start a new moebius scarf but people would say something like lace weight black cashmere and I wold lose count of my stitches, not to mention all the yarn fumes I finally just gave up there where just way too many distractions.



This is an enterlac bag that Barbara was working on. Looks like something that I would like to try some day.



This little girl was just the cutest, working on that brite pink fiber.



I didn't get any pictures in the barn all that hay and straw did a number on my allergy's. I left around 4:30 dog tired but looking forward to coming back on Sunday to do my shopping.

I'll post all my goodies tomorrow, right now I need to get my laundry out of the wash and in to the dryer and put myself to bed, I've got to go to work early again I'll be so glad to get the end of quarter over with!

Moo Cards

Now I know that I should post more often, I had to look up my password. ;P

I had training this week at work that pretty much took all my energy. Thank goodness thats over with . The good news is that all four of us that were in the class passed with flying colors. That's one more good thing I can add to my self evaluation that I have to write for my review. WOO HOO!!!!!


Did you see that count down, only nine more days, Oh Boy! I'm so looking forward to OF&FF. My pay check has a small amount of over time that can be spent guilt free along with the contents of the change jar. I won't say how much, but I will say this much, I'll need a couple of extra bags to haul home the loot. I remember what happened last year. my backpack got mighty heavy and not everything fit.

My Moo Cards and case came Monday. They are just the coolest little critters!
Take a look.











The best part of these cards is that you can use your own pic's.












I'm already thinking about witch pictures I want to use on the next batch of cards.

Oh man I just took a look at the clock, it's after nine thirty and I still need to make my bed so I can go to bed!

It's Done

The baby blanket is done! WOOO HOOO

Now I'm sure you all have had this happen to you. You are working along on you project and are in the home stretch . You look over beside you at the ball of yarn and think to yourself, Hmmm am I going to have enough yarn to finish? You work a while longer and look over again. I don't think there is enough, runs trough you poor little brain. Work some more and are almost afraid to look. You take a quick peak, ah shoot I'll have to pick up a ball of yarn tomorrow to finish and I really want to finish this tonight. Get a bunch more stitches done look over and think, well maybe I have enough. Keep going just a little farther, look very cautiously out of the corner of your eye, do a double take.There's enough!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!

This is how much I had left.
V. is going to love this blanket.

She and her family went to the state fair this last weekend and saw some baby blankets for sale. Her husband wanted to buy one, V said "No, someone is making one for us." She is just so excited about it. Makes a person feel so good!

Art in the Pearl

I went to the Art In The Pearl this afternoon, so many picture were taken that I had to make a slide show.

What a day, my feet are so tired and so are my hands. My feet because of all the walking and my hands because of this.
It's a shower gift that needs to get done this week. I'll be able to finish it tomorrow after work. Ill take better pictures then.

The best part of today was coming home and turn on my computer to find an e-mail from Norma I won the Four Play yarn from Brooks Farm, that was in the Red Scarf Fund prize pool. Now that's some yummy yarn! I'm still bouncing around the house

Funnies

Would anyone like to be a judge for this?

Bad Bad Blogger With a Head Cold

Yes Bobbie I'm a bad blogger, so give me fifty lashes with a wet noodle!

I've been very busy, first off I spent a week in Alabama, during some of the hottest weather in their history. 102 with a heat index that made it feel like 112!


My employers sent me to do some ECO rework that needed to be done, it was cheaper to send people down there than send all the boards back to us. The people I meet were just the nicest and most polite to work with.

Here's three of them Deborah, Trever, and Phyllis.


Deborah, Trever, and Phyllis. Diane picked me up at the hotel every morning took me to work, made sure I got lunch and dinner on the way back to the hotel, my stay there would not have been as enjoyable had she not been there to take care of me. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of her.

Then once I got home I came down with a head cold, talk about putting a damper on my energy. I'm almost over it, but you know how a summer cold can drag on and on and on!


But I did not let that yucky old cold get in the way of me going to see Cat Bordhi. I saw these.
This one is my favorite one

And just look at all those so cute little socks


And took these home with me! Let me tell you, it is not a very bright idea to start reading one of Cat's books in bed, You could be up very very late with ideas running, 100 or so miles per hour or so, through your brain. I found this out the hard way. I think I must knit a moebius now, in fact I've already ordered the circular needles I need.











On Tuesday , Wednesday and today I helped my Mother with this! Yummy Yummy!



The husking is not to awfully bad, as long as I don't see any ear wigs! Those little , some of them are not really that little, bugs really make my skin crawl !!!!! Then cook up the ears of corn and give them two ice water baths so that they are cool enough to hold on to while we cut the corn off the cobs.












Is this a stack of corny goodness or What?


















Corn all ready to go into freezer bags! It is so nice in the dead of winter to pull a bag of this from the freezer. It reminds us of summer.

I thought it was high time for some knitting pictures. I started learning to knit about a month ago, this is my progress so far. Bobbie is quite pleased with how I'm doing so far. As you can see its not very pretty,yet.



If you take a close look at the beginning you will see twisted stitches, mind you I wasn't doing that on intentionally. Not to mention accidentally knitting both the back and front of the stitches what a mess. Don't ask me how I did that!


Now it's the top part that I'm really happy
about, it looks like some real knitting. Yipeeeeee!
My tension is still all over the place, that will just take some practice.









I all so have a short row scarf going on one of my looms. I need to get this one done because there is another project lined up for the loom.

Stash

My custom dyed Scouts Swag came today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The pictures just do not do this amazing yarn justice.
Now, what shall I make with this? Oh the possibilities!

New Toy!

This afternoon I made a trip to Lowe's to get the parts for my light tent, and with a little help form my Dad, it's together.

A few pieces of PVC pipe along with some fittings, glue, lights, an old piece of white sheet and some poster board. See, now I have a tool that will come in very handy, but really, it feels more like a new toy!



One of my orchid babies is in bloom so it made a very good test subject. First with the white background.
























Now with the black background.

Photo's

Bobbie Says that I have"mad camera skillz", I don't know about that but I do try. Today I'll post some of my favorites
that I've take over the last couple of years. This one was taken at the Chinese Garden.






This next one is of a clematis that didn't turn as well as I would have liked, so I played around
with it in photoshop and came up wit this. Way cool if you ask me.
















This is one of the stone stairways at the Japanese Garden.
My camera has a black and white setting that is a lot of fun to play around with.