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Whew! Busy weekend!

Wow was this weekend a fun one! We decided that Saturday would be a good day for Universal Studios Hollywood. Since we live in Santa Barbara it’s not too long of a drive & Tyler has been BEGGING to go since he discovered that it existed. So for the pleasure of our 3 delightful monsters we went. I have to say that it was 8 hours of one big advertisement. The Studio Tours ride, where you see Jaws & go through an earthquake, actually held us captive, unmoving on the tram, for about 8 minutes in the middle of the ride and showed us trailers to upcoming movies! Helllloooo!!! Not okay! I believe that is called ENTRAPMENT! <sigh> I hate to admit it but it was a lot of fun with the kids.

Yesterday was a nice relaxing day, made a trip to my LYS and found to my delight that they had so much new stock I couldn’t decided & left empty handed. But I did go back with Sadie in the afternoon & spent a good amount of money. Man were there some fun linen & silk yarns! I will have to dig through my patterns & find a fun summer top so I have an excuse to buy more yarn! I will post pics of my spoils. Sadie wants to learn to knit, she already knows how to single crochet, so she picked out some fun yarn~Lion brand Landscapes. Cute! She is only 6 and doesn’t have a lot of patience so teaching her will be a long process. But she has been asking for months so I must let her do it! Certainly can’t hurt her!

SO all in all fun weekend but NO knitting at all! That makes me sad   Today is my day of knitting redemption! I am going to clean quickly this morning so that I have all day with my precious needles. Can’t wait any longer! L8r Sk8r!

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I love the mail lady!

Oh how do I show the mail lady how much I love her deliveries? I ~run~ out to meet her! Today was a good mail day! I received my order from Serendipity in South America, the Ebay store. Great, gorgeous yarn for a great price!

I started my jacket last night out of the la luna pattern book & frogged it this morning. Just not the colorway I liked. So that yarn will go to another use.

Why is it that I find myself online talking, IMing & emailing more about yarn & knitting than actually knitting? I may unplug for a couple of days for some deep knitting therapy! I am also kinda tired of using huge needles for the chunky look. I may just have to resort to a tank or something that uses 5 or 6’s soon. It’s not like I don’t have enough yarn to choose from for a good project

Off to start something new!Yee~haw!

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Froggin…froggin away….

Got all these projects finished…feeling so good…now I am depressed. I frogged Marilyn’s antique shawl because she fell in love with a poncho I was wearing. Project change #3 for her. Who knew it could be so difficult to knit for one person. I haven’t had that trouble before. Oh well. Then last night while watching the Kings game~awesome awesome game~ I knit 14 rows of the colinette la luna hooded coat & frogged it this morning. I don’t like how the moss stitch comes out with the #17 needles. So I will start over with #15’s but I may not do the jacket. I have some more coming in a chocolate brown color that I really want to do the jacket with. So now the decision of what to make…fun but frustrating…I had my hopes all up for that jacket but it’s not perfect so I must start over  

Such is the life of a knitter!

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Way too much yarn & not enough yarn!

My latest acquisition in yarn is a bunch of fun odds & ends for hats & socks for my nieces (all 5, all A’s; Amber, Amanda, Allie, Annika & Autum) for Christmas. Love the discount yarn sale at www.smileysyarns.com. Makes me happy!!

I also am addicted to the Chenille Yarn shop on Ebay. She has the greatest cones of yarn for those big projects.

I feel like I could buy & buy & buy yarn! But alas I am running out of room and George tells me that I better start knittin’ some good s**t out of what I have! I suppose I can always sell some of the older yarn to make room for the new stuff….hm… Now that is a good idea! Dur…like noone has ever thought of that before!

Enough computer…more knitting!