Thursday, December 25, 2014

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone.

It is currently 8:45 am and I have been knitting since 3:30 am. I have just finished the socks below for Grandpa, which is the final Christmas gift that I had to create:


These beauties are my standard toe up sock pattern in Patons Kroy Sock in the Eclipse Stripes colourway,

Grandpa is diabetic and has circulation problems, so he has sworn off all other socks except the ones his granddaughter (me) knits for him.

With this done, I have started looking towards next year and my plans for crafting and blogging.

I will be doing a Christmas gift round up sometime this weekend. I also have a few new challenge ideas for myself, and a few weekly or biweekly posts that I will be looking at putting up.

These will all be discussed anon as I have to get the hubby up so we can head to Christmas with Grandpa.

Look forward to a bunch of new posts and some series of pretties!

Thursday, September 4, 2014

So... about that blogging thing.

Hello internet!

It's amazing what can happen in a year (well... technically nine months).

Apparently one of those things is not writing in my blog. Hey, I never said I was good at this thing.

So here's a photo dump of the last number of months, with a bit of explanation included.

We had a very lovely, appetizer filled Christmas and New Years with friends.


We got just a bit of snow in January.


February was so cold that Peari decided being on TOP of the heater was the best place to be.


My friend Alex came out from BC, and we geeked out together as we always do.


 I started making dice bags for my local hobby store. They're not a million dollar maker, but the guys like them.


 I went to a 90's themed birthday party where I was the only person who had actually been a TEEN in the 90s.



My Craft room is getting an upgrade. Since these pictures were taken all my fabric stuff has been put away. The yarn still needs to be taken care of, but all in due time. The bedroom set is my corner side find (I love freebies!!) The armoire is holding all my fabric and the dresser is where my sewing patterns are kept.


Alex came out again in May and we went to Anime North as a couple of cats. (I'm the one on the right).


I started working on the wig for my next costume, but it got put on hold for other projects.

In April we had a bit of a car accident, nothing too serious, but our backs were out so we couldn't deal with the yard. Some of these weeds were higher than my shoulder and required a hack saw to cut down. Thankfully I had the help of my friend to get it all done. 

For our next convention, the husband grew out his beard for a costume that he decided to be without any coercion from me. It was quite nice having Wolverine about the house for a month, especially when he tried to pretend he was grumpy. 


 And now we're up to present. Alex, Cindy, and me as Flotsam, Ursula, and Jetsam. This was the main project that I paused my wig for and we had a blast.

I'm currently working on a knit blanket for a coworker of mine who just had pretty heavy back surgery, and I will show pictures once I remember to take them before it gets dark.

So that's 9 months in review, and with luck, I'll be able to keep on top of things a bit better for the rest of the year.


Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Back from Oblivion

Wow, ok, so yeah, I'm a horrible blogger... I kind of let this really slide and such, but I'm going to try to keep better track of the stuff I'm working on.

For starters, I need to go back and see what finished items I've posted on here, and then update that.

Then I need to take stock of my Wall of Shame and continue with it (it got a little side tracked for Christmas knitting).

And then I need to show you my pretty new book I got for Christmas, and the challenge I would like to do in the next couple of years.

With it being the first day of 2014, there is so much potential. I'm not going to say I'm going to be a constant blogger... every time I've tried I've failed. But I will attempt to write here more often. At least when I've finished something or done something cool.

Onward to the future!