No, I didn’t disappear. I just finally have some free time, and a post actually related to crafting. This is my first FO in a long time, I’ve had a bad case of startitis for a few months, and thanks to this gem of a purse I seem to be on the road to recovery.
Pattern: Windmill Bag
Needles: US 7
Yarn: Lily Sugar n Cream
1 ball each, Guacamole, Terra Firma,
Sonoma Print, and Country Sage
Some things have been happening, and I’ve been neglecting the blog. I’ve also been neglecting Ravelry and other various internetty things. Of course, we’re super busy at work and all last week I never got home until about 9pm. And all I wanted to do was eat and go bed.
Nothing much happening on the knitting front, I’ve been working on washcloth gifts for various family members and some people at work. Its all I have the brain for right now.
On the reading front, my husband bought me a delightful book called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. You know you have a good relationship when your husband sees that in the bookstore and simply has to buy it for you. Its absolutely hilarious. I have read Pride and Prejudice and didn’t really like it, very sappy and femaley, and even the men were far too ladylike. But if you throw zombies in there its awesome. The five sisters have been trained by their father and various martial artists in the “killing arts”. And they are able to behead the “unmentionables” with much finesse. Mr. Darcy falls in love with Elizabeth because of her great skill at cutting a swath through thirty zombies armed with nothing but a dagger. The great debate among the sisters is whether or not to carry muskets, they make fighting zombies easier yet are so unladylike. I love this book, much better than the work it is based on. I’m also re-reading Dracula, just because I love it.
On the marriage front, we celebrated our fourth anniversary on April 23rd. We went to PF Changs for dinner and it was super yummy. Then we went to Best Buy and I bought Ricky Gervais’ HBO special. OMG SO funny! After that we did what married folks would normally do, and it was super fun.
Here lately we’ve been in homeowner mode. We’re trying to kind of update things a little. Nothing major, just a good spring clean, moving furniture around and some inexpensive things. We’ve decided to get rid of our big heavy coffee table. We bought it at Goodwill when we moved into the house, it was $20 and in four years its just gotten cumbersome. Its a good solid table, heavy oak or something similar. And it has beveled glass corners. Its a pain in the ass to clean, you can’t use anything wet to clean the wood and then you have to take the glass out to clean it. Plus, its rather large. An IKEA just opened up not too long ago here so we went there today to get some ideas. We bought one endtable today, and next week we’re going back for the other one and the coffee table we decided on. This weekend we moved the living room around and cleaned up half the kitchen. I say half the kitchen because I did all the dishes and cleaned the stove, microwave and counters. The other half is still a pigstye, but our garbage can is full and it doesn’t get picked up till Weds. Next weekend we’re going to tackle the bedroom. We’re getting rid of the massive entertainment center and the ugly ass video cabinet, which will give us lots more room in there. I also bought a new Bed In A Bag today to kind of help freshen things up.
I’m still fiddling around with themes, haven’t found one I totally liked yet, but theres like, 700, so a good one is bound to turn up.
Thought seriously the past few weeks about selling some of my handmade items online. Scrapped the idea due to NC’s totally unreasonable small business laws.
Started a doily tonight. Deep purple color in diamond pattern. Its “Starlight” from the Treasured Doilies book from Leisure Arts. Forgot that I kick ass at doilies, what an ego boost.
