pure awesomeness

  Yay for new books! My awesome Mom got me this super awesome book while she was in Cali.

yes, Charles Dickens. One of my very favorite authors ever. Gotta love him :)

So thick! and shiny!

There are five of his novels. Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, and Oliver Twist. I've already read David Copperfield, and who hasn't read A Christmas Carol? So what shall I read next?

Yup, Tale of Two Cities. while I knit. win.

So now that I've bored everyone with my over excitement of this awesome book, I'm going to talk about knitting! yay!!! *ignores the groans and clicking of the exit button from my readers*

knitting is awesome. So is the fact that the camera is back and I can now take endless pictures of my knitting.

Broke off the sleeves on my Goodale today and I'm now working on the body! yayay!

And a random picture of the pattern... because I thought it came out cool looking. And now I'll be done...

Orchestra Concert

To anyone who would be interested and can make it, I have another orchestra coming up this weekend!
Saturday January 29th at 7:30 pm
Bailey Auditorium, Manchester High School
Tickets: $18. $15 for Seniors and students, under 18 is free.

We'll be playing some Haydn, Schumann, and Prokofiev. Hope you can make it!

Creepster the Elf

   We have this uberly creep elf on our shelf, which we call Creepster. But lately he has been even more creepy than normal. He even managed to sneak into my purse and catch a ride over to a friends house and creep on *them*. Thankfully we found him, and he's now safely in our house. But as creepy as ever ;) Anyway, over Christmas break I wrote a poem about him, with the help of some of my sibs and I told Micah Hayashida that I'd put it up. So here it is. And... umm... I'm not poet. At all... so I'm not putting this up because it's a masterpiece, just because it's the truth ;)

Creepster the elf

He sits up on a shelf.

He watches all day long

as the people come along

Looking left and right

Day and night

He's a sneaky little guy

And is just here to spy

His cheeks are all red

And he looks well fed

He has a sly little smirk

But he's really quite a jerk

He knows all you doings

even when you're peeing or pooing

He's not a sleeper

so I say watch out for this creeper!

Creeeeeppyyyy

The broke, but happy, knitter

   Happy holiday's and all that. Late, I know. But we were pretty busy around here with 11 people in the house, parties, yarn shopping, playing Mario Kart and all the other fun things you do during the holidays. I did have a really awesome break though, and I'm very sad it's over. But life is life, and it must go on.
Anyway, the point of this post is to put up pictures of yarn. So if you're not a knitter, you'll prolly find this really boring. (I hope all the link work by the way...tell me if they don't.)  As I mentioned above, we went yarn shopping. Angel, Mom and I, that is. It was a lot of fun, but as the the title of this post implies, I'm a little broke now. :-/ But that's ok, because I have an awesome job :-)

   This yarn was actually a Christmas gift, so I don't feel to bad about having it ;-) I'm going to be making the shawl with it. (The color is a little off, it's more pinkish then that.)

This yarn I actually got right after Thanksgiving. It was an awesome Black Friday deal :-)  I'll be making "The bubble top" as Grace likes to call it, with it. I'm excited!

This is another Black Friday deal and I am *in love* with this color! it's so pretty! I'll be making the Talamh sweater with it.

So my favorite color is orange, but yet I have never knitted an orange anything. So while we were shopping I was debating what color to do one of the patterns I had. And Angel, the brilliant person that she is, was like "why don't you do it orange?" And so I got orange, and I'm looking forward to making (and wearing!) it. =) 

Ok, the awesome blue yarn on the left I got for a cowl, only to find out when I get home that the cowl needs 2 skeins. So now it's just sitting in my stash waiting for some other use. But it's an uber pretty color that I love. The one on the right is for this shrug.  I actually don't like it that much, but Angel convinced me that it would be fun to make it together... so we'll see how it goes.
And last but not least...

This will be for this adorable little shrug that I'm in love with! I'm so excited to make this!
And that is it I believe. So far I have started nothing because I already have two projects going, and I need to finish at least one of them. Plus most of the yarn is still in need of winding.

On one last note, look what I made the other day! =)

They were delish!