Wordless Wednesday

Knit in Good Health. . .and cuddle a kitty today!

Love is in the air. . .

"L" is for the way you Look at me. . .

. . .sometimes it's for the way she looks at him.

"O" is for the only One I see. . .

. . .even when you take me to the vet.

"V" is Very, Very ex-tra-ordinary. . .

. . .I'd call a reversible cabled scarf extraordinary, wouldn't you?

"E" is Even more than anything that I adore!

JAZZ HANDS!

Well, maybe that's not exactly what the songwriter had in mind. . .

. . .says the cat, with a disinterested, sideways glance.

But I love knitting. . .

. . .and pattern writing. . .

. . .and I love blogging. So, I guess it is what it is. . .right, Snake and Dollface?

. . .and I love these kids!

Happy Valentine's Day (a little early)

from Pretty, Sweetie, Snake and Dollface!

Go hug your Valentine, and Knit in Good Health!

Super Sunday!

I know, I know. . .Sunday was a few days ago. But when the blogger blogs on Saturday and Wednesday, well, it's like Sunday was just yesterday for me! And last Sunday was certainly SUPER! There were super snacks. . .

. . .Super Socks (finished during the game! Yay!!!). . .

. . .Super Sisters, sitting beside one another. . .

. . .and Super Friends, you know, the kind that you wish could be your actual sisters sometimes. . .

. . .and Super Fruity beverages that were Super Tasty!. . .

. . .and Super Solutions to rescue the fruit from the bottom of the glass!

Knitting needles to the rescue!!!

Oh!, and there was knitting!, and there was football and funny commercials! It was a Super Sunday for me, even though my squares did not win in the pool (my first football pool!). . .still had fun! I hope your Sunday, and Monday and Tuesday, were SUPER, too!

Knit in Good Health!

PS - Thanks for all the "congrats" on my last post! I didn't really mean to brag, but I was pretty thrilled to get some new wardrobe pieces!

Saturday Shopping

Overheard in the fitting room next to mine:
Very young person: "I like that top, Mommy!"
Mommy: "This is my top..."
Very young person: "But it's green and pretty!"
Mommy: "Thank you."

And then, on a return trip to the same fitting room,
same young mommy next door:
Very young person: "Mommy, I I love you this. . .I love you like the OCEAN!!!"
Mommy: "I love you, too!"
Very young person: "Can we go to the toys now?"


I think this little girl may be in training for sales. Still, eavesdropping on this pair brought a smile to my face, and I hope that Mommy knows what a lucky mommy she really is. If she was ever looking for career advice, I would suggest that she record the audio from today's fitting room experience, load it onto a keychain player, marketing it as "Mom's Favorite Shopping Buddy!" I mean, when I am in the fitting room, I often battle against my inner self. While my outer self is trying to convince my hips and thighs that the smaller jeans do fit, my inner self is laughing wildly, offering bon-bons and throwing the "W" sizes in my direction...

Luckily, my baby girl (now 20) still likes to shop with me, and so does Sweetie, and they make me smile as much as that sweet 3-year-old did. Today, I was shopping for a pair of gray pants to wear to church tomorrow...the choir is singing (I made it!), and they are wearing gray or black pants with solid colored tops. Lately, I have been working on the Eating Better and the Losing Weight, and it is working. It is very slow, but it is happening. This is good. However, all of my gray and black pants are now too big, so I needed a new pair, and we all needed a few other things. Sweetie and Dollface encouraged me to try on many things, and we walked out of that store with quite a haul!
Bonus! Many of those "for me" items are in a smaller size than I bought the last time I shopped at this store. . .the pants are "technically" the same size, but I was able to drop the W.

Now that I have shopped, I have some hemming to do, for I am a short shopper, and then there is the knitting. . .look left to see how far I have come on the scarf for Dollface! I think I will be finishing it tonight, in front of the tube. . .yay!

Once the scarf is done, I can start her flap mittens to go with, then I can knit the gray flap mittens I want to make for me, then I can work on the new pattern I am writing up, then I can start a new pair of socks and perhaps a wedding shawl, and then I have yarn for another baby sweater. . .

So much knitting and so little time! I can't believe I took time out to go shopping. . .but it was worth it. I think the only place that pants are ever optional is in the bathroom, so new pants are a no-brainer on my get-healthier trek into 2011.

And, I got to drop a W. Wahoooo!

Thanks for stopping by, and Knit in Good Health!

Snow and Ice, Ice and Snow. . .and knitting!

So, I have mentioned that I occasionally live in a snowglobe. That's ok, because my sweetie handles all of the snow shoveling. . .he says that I do it wrong, and perhaps I do. . .we have different methods, to say the least.
I am very thankful that Sweetie shovels snow for me, but on days like today, it doesn't always help. There's just not much you can do with a layer of ice, topped by tiny ice pellets that are not quite snow, but not rain or sleet either. . .they just sit there, looking like they might provide some traction, but I know better!

I wore my Yak Trax in to the office today. They slip onto my shoes, and some of my co-workers joke that they are little snow tires for my feet. . .chains for my shoes, if you will. I don't mind them poking fun, though, because I did not slip or falter at all while walking into the office. And when I looked back, I saw that the ice was so thick that I did not even leave tracks behind me!

That tells me how thick and hard the ice was under my feet, because I am a grown adult, and I usually leave distinct tracks in snow and ice! And, now that I am here, it is STILL coming down, the ice and snow, snow and ice!

All of this ice and snow makes me glad that I broke out the Tinkertoys while Sweetie was shoveling on Saturday.

No, I did not build a ferris wheel or a cool car. . .knitters make Tinkertoy Swifts with these fun toys! (I have not included a tutorial here, because that link takes you to see how it's done!) Here is my swift:

And you are correct in assuming that this is a photo of the swift loaded with yarn. . .alpaca yarn from my friend Charm over at That'll Do Farm! There is a bonus to making a swift with toys. . .Tinkertoys come with Nostepinnes right in the can!

See that? A notch at one end to secure your tail while you wind that center-pull ball. . .pretty sweet! And here is the final product of my labor: a ball of yarn to work some fingerless gloves with when I get home to settle in for the evening! Yummy, Yarny goodness, for sure!

I need to start a new project, because I have finally finished the Ski-Trip Socks. . .

. . .and the Starry, Starry Socks!!!

Of course, I am still working on the scarf and mitts (Scarf of Green Cables) for Dollface (formerly College Girl, what do you think of the new blog-name? Thank you, queenoftorts!). I am more than half-finished with the scarf, and I look forward to the mitts, but for now, I am just feeling more charmed by the black yarn. . .it is what it is!

If you live in the lands of Ice and Snow, today or ever, I hope that you will be safe when you go out, and curl up with yarn when you are home. Thanks for stopping by, and Knit in Good Health!

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