Raisinpie

a. I wish I could have stayed home today.
b. brrrr it’s cold today and oddly enough tomorrow is going to be 30 above Celsius
c. My tea tastes good today, mmmmmm (Celestial - Bengal Spice)
d. Sometimes I think we have children because they are a good source of humour…
e. so so many things to do before the snow flies…sigh

It’s July 1st! 2009 is just flying by I can hardly believe how fast time is going. It was May not too long ago. A lot has happened since I last posted a blog. I will be attending the Sock Summit in Portland Oregon this year and I am totally looking forward to the trip. It is a present to myself for my 40th birthday. Yeah Yeah I’m 40, it’s all good though I am accepting each stage of my life with open arms besides who wants to be a foolish 20 year old for ever??  LOL

On the knitting front I have made a few scarves, a tudora, a neck warmer (my own pattern - I will post on raverly when I have a moment) and I am still working on socks for my sister. I have laminate flooring installed onto my livingroom floor and am slowly redecorating the rest of my home.

Have a Happy Canada Day everyone enjoy the fireworks and the weather!

Not much happening hear in the prairies. Today is a day dedicated to errands. Currently I am washing dishes with long computer breaks.

This is a picture of the poinsetta I have in my office at work. I saved this poinsetta from the garbage (2007 Christmas) originally it bloomed red but right now it’s blooming pink. Please don’t ask me how I got it to bloom in March/April but I did. I have been gifted with a green thumb…thank you Grandma and Great Grandpa Upton. The gardener lives on….

I am still knitting the branching out lace scarf and will start another Tudora for my good friend G. who is heading to the UK next month. I chose a beautiful purple acrylic (as she is allergic to wool) I am also going to make myself one in bright red! Mine is a wool blend from Lion’s Wool.

I am also eagerly awaiting the Sock Summit in Portland Oregon this summer. I am sending myself on this trip as a present to myself for turning ….. older.  I am really looking forward to visiting a new city and exploring. But first I must get my passport in order.

Have a wonderful Saturday afternoon.

Work has been a bit busy of late. There was the annual conference in Calgary and now there is conference wrap up. The week after the conference I was in a bellydance performance http://www.isisdance.com/Upcoming.htm so it’s been one thing right after the other lately for me. I’m exhausted. Last weekend was the long weekend for my office so I am took advantage and visited my parents and my Grandma. This weekend is back to house cleaning, renovating duties again. If possible I would like to have all the inside stuff done once ’summer’ rolls around so I may spend time out of doors in my garden.

It’s March 8th 2009 at 10:19 am and this is the view outside my front door

and the view outside my backdoor

as you can see Alberta is still in the grips of winter. We have actually had 2 snow storms in the last week with tempatures dropping to -27 with the wind chill. I am not sure what that translates into for my American readers needless to say it’s darn chilly. I am ready for spring to arrive…

Emily Carr quote:

“Why call this manuscript Hundreds and Thousands? Because it is made up of scraps of nothing which, put together, made the trimming and furnished the sweetness for what might otherwise have been a drab life sucked away without crunch. Hundreds and Thousands are minute candies made in England–round sweetnesses, all colours and so small that separately they are not worth eating. But to eat them as we ate them in childhood was a different matter. Father would take the big fat bottle off his sample shelf in his office and say, ‘Hold out your hands.’ Father tipped and poured, and down bobbed our three hands and out came our three tongues and licked in the Hundreds and Thousands, and lapped them up, lovely and sweet and crunchy.” Emily Carr http://bcheritage.ca/emilycarrhomework/writing/writmain.htm

My favorite candy is Licorice Allsorts.

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone.

Unfortuantely I am unable to upload any photos??? I’m not enjoying this blog server so many hoops to jump and then I can only have 1 or 2 photos….sigh.

Once upon a time there was a little girl named, Ilona. Ilona was a shy little girl who felt more at home, well at home. Her piles of books kept her company and her yarn and fleece kept her warm at night. It’s true this is a love story between Ilona and her knitting needles.

One day Ilona was walking by her local yarn shop and noticed there was a sign in the window, ‘Moving 30 to 80% off everything’. This filled Ilona with a joy that was not common for her. Opening the door to the shop she laid her eyes upon patterns and kits, wool and silk blends but it was the grey alpaca that caught Ilona’s eye. Not unlike a really good looking man. Zing! Ilona purchased 26 balls of the grey alpaca for $3 a ball. Satisfaction.

Another week passed and Ilona kept thinking about the moving sale and wondered if there were some other treats to be discovered. Ilona could not leave any more yarn in the shop all by it’s self? The shock and the horror. But once again she purchased 7 more balls of the grey alpaca. With a little hip hop to her step Ilona counted her very many balls of grey alpaca (33 in total) and sighed, ‘There really is such a thing as true love and I found it!’.

The End

Updates of the grey alpaca yarn will follow…will more suspicously appear or will a garment develop? Who knows?

I’m a bit behind in my blogging.

a. I had a really good Christmas at my parents. Sadly we only had one Monopoly tournament and one scrabble game but it was very nice to get out of the big city.
b. New Year’s Eve was good and not so good. I got to have Greek for supper, which was really good. But on the way downtown for the festivities I got really bad motion sickness.
c. I got to spend a few day kid free which is like a holiday.
d. I had a wee little dog for a very short while, but she didn’t mix well with my two girls (Bella and Sookie), so sadly she is gone.
e. Work is horrendously busy yet I still found time to paint my livingroom.
f. I’ve done little to none knitting or spinning but it is beckoning me to come and play.
g. I’ve been trying to muddle through Sense & Sensibility for my Jane Austen bookclub *sigh
h. I bought far too much over the Holiday Season the purse strings are breaking.
i. I got to visit my grandmother, which was really nice. I heart my grandmother she’s cool.
j. I was rear ended and now have whiplash.
k. I got my hair cut…..short. Well for me it’s short

I heart Photoshop. I hope you all don’t mind that I photoshopped out the zit just below my lip. I wish I could do that in real life. A zit eraser would be a good idea.

Here is a photo of the Dr. Suess socks I made for my nephew Mckenzie.

They are really green and blue and purple. Originally I was knitting them for my son who is now 10 and has outgrown them. Thankfully I have a wonderful little nephew named Mckenzie who can benefit from his Auntie Lona.