A Day in the Life of.....

On the Survey Wagon

Lifted from knitagator:

1. What time did you get up this morning?  5:49 a.m..
2. How do you like your steak?  Medium-rare 
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?   "The DaVinci Code"
4. What is your favorite TV show?  "CSI"
5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?  Some where it is warm but not hot, cool but not cold.
6. What did you have for breakfast?  Choc Chip muffin
7. What is your favorite cuisine? Chinese
8. What foods do you dislike?  Don't like super hot (spicy) food
9. Favorite Place to Eat?  I don't have one favorite!
10. Favorite dressing?  Thousand Island
11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?  Hyndi Santa Fe
12. What are your favorite clothes?  Jeans,  and tees
13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?  Ireland, Most of the US
14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?  Depends on the day 
15. Where would you want to retire?  retire? what is that.
16. Favorite time of day?  whenever I am not at work
17. Where were you born?  Chelsea, Massachusetts
18. What is your favorite sport to watch?  football
19. Bird watcher?  yes
20. Are you a morning person or a night person?  middle of the day 
21. Do you have any pets?  yup - 4 cats
22. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share?  I am getting a bunny
23. What is your favorite childhood memory?  Going out to lunch for my birthdays with my Grandmother
24. Always wear your seat belt?  Yes, always now!
25. Been in a car accident?  Yes, two times.  Both times I was hit by another car. 
26. Any pet peeves?  People who sing in the cube at work
    Favorite pizza toppings?  mushroom
27. Favorite Flower?  Lilies of the valley, violets 
28. Favorite ice cream?  Mocha chip 
29. Favorite fast food restaurant? Dunkin Donuts
30. How many times did you fail your driver’s test?  Once. 
31. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?  what credit card?  None here
32. Do anything spontaneous lately?  Decided to get a bunny 
33. Broccoli?  Yes!
    What was your favorite vacation? Florida.
34. Last person you went out to dinner with?  Mary.
35. What are you listening to right now?  Machines, people typing, talking, coughing.
36. What is your favorite color?  purple. 
37. How many tattoos do you have?  one.
38. Coffee Drinker?  Yes, cream 2 sugars, hot or cold.

Lace Swap

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There was a great swap on Ravelry – a lace swap – I talked Julie into joining with me and off we went. I had a great upstream swap partner by the name of Coloradoknitter who has her own yarn store (CHECK IT OUT!!!). I received some very, very loverly things. Some yummy chocolate chip cookies, a wonderful bees wax candle, mmmm good dark chocolate with raspberries, and yarn, wonderful, wonderful yarn. Some silk and merino, some cashmere (yup that is right folks - CASHMERE) some superwash sock yarn, hand cream and other goodies. I was truly spoiled. It was simply loverly. It arrived right on time, when I needed some fibery goodness to cheer me up. Here it is for you to feast upon. Happy drooling.

Fiber Sale

Cyndi at the Yarn and Fiber company is running a month long sale to celebrate October and the Salem Witch Trials.  As many people know the Salem Witch trials took place in 1692 here in Salem Mass.  Around this time of the year lots of people flock to this area to see the place where they hanged the "witches".  Cyndi is telling the story in daily snippets and also putting different yarns on sale every day at 12:00 noon (although maybe it should have been 12 midnight, the witching hour).  Check it out and you might even see a blurb about yours truly and my ancestor Susannah Martin.   

Manchester Knit and Crochet Show

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Last Sat. Mary, Cheryl, David and my mother all met up at the Knit and Crochet show. There was some lovely yarn, nice vendors, cool friends, like Julie, Christine, Crystal and Colin and some FLEECE! Mary had her fleece detector on and found me some lovely merino and silk and some kid mohair. We also found a lovely silk cap for my HHHH pal. I am hopeful that they will like it. It is beautiful colors. The skein here is Lorna's Laces, shepard socks that I am going to use to make a baby hat and some booties for one of the women at work. Here are the other goodies that we walked away with. Oh ya, and my lovely wife took a picture of me crocheting on a blanket for a bear that one of the guilds had at their stand. We also ran into Manise, Kathy and Cheryl. There was a ravelry meet up right in front of my favorite LYS, The Yarn and Fiber Company. It was lots of fun, and I am glad we went.

 

Check out this contest and...

 new on line yarn store.  She has some fab prizes available.  Contest is open until July 31.  Here is her blog.  Good luck and may the best person win (that would be me).  Have a great day!

Blog Game

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Found this over at Jeune's blog.  Thought it looked like fun so here goes.

Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name

1. Debbi
2. Clams
3. Somerville
4. Purple
5. Angelina Jolie
6. Vodka and Cranberry
7. Australia
8. Baked Alaska
9. Lawyer
10. My kids
11. Motherly
12. Aditlo

You should try it.  It is pretty interesting.

Christmas Tradition/Contest

I feel like having a contest.  Read on to find out what it entails.  On Saturday Mary and Cheryl put up the Christmas tree while I was at work.  It is a fake one (with 4 cats it is safer) that already has lights on it.  Sunday night we were all home so we had the kids decorate it.   Now Cheryl has Christmas ornaments, I have ornaments and even Mary has at least one ornament so the kids had quite a few to choose from.  One of our family’s traditions is that we hang a Santa bell on the tree every year and this year was no exception.  Every year a different child/adult has the responsibility to put the bell on.  It is a small metal bell that has been around since my mom was little.   Supposedly when Santa arrives, he rings the bell.  Many a child has claimed to have heard it while they were sleeping, myself included.  When I grew up and moved out of my grandmother’s house, we had a small bell that we put on our Christmas tree and when my kids were born, I continued the tradition as did my sister.  Now that we all live together, we use the original bell.  Do you have a tradition/ritual that was started when you were little or when your parents were little that you have continued?  Leave me a comment telling me a little bit about it, or post it on your blog and let me know and I will put everyone’s name into a hat and you will get a little goodie bag with some hand dyed yarn and other knitting type items. Contest ends December 21^st at midnight. 

SP 11 Revealed

Last week I received my final SP11 gift. OMG I can not believe what wonderful things were inside this box. First there was a great little package of lace weight yarn in Grape and a pattern to go with it.

Then there was a sweet short sleeved sweater pattern for me to try once again to knit a sweater. Some lovely tea and the ABSOLUTELY BESTEST gift of all,€“ not one but two pieces of black amethyst glass, a small vase and a beautiful bowl.

My SP was Lori Bell of http://littlebeadedacorn.typepad.com fame. THANK YOU SO MUCH LORI. These items are so appreciated. She did a fab job as a secret pal. I never expected the glass, never in a million years.

Mandy Candy Bag - Not Just For Candy Anymore

My sister saw this pattern posted on NHknittingMama web site and decided to give it a go.  (She is running a contest, check it out) Since Cheryl doesn't like dpns and we didn't have a long enough/big enough magic loop, she did it on straights.  (check out hers) I like the way it looked so much that I decided to try it myself.  Very easy pattern to follow and very easy to adapt.  I added the funky yarn on the top that I received from a swap-bot pal from France (thanks) and changed the bottom around a little so that it sat more flat.  Here I decided to dress up my wine bottle with it.  Enjoy.