New DeStash Site....

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I was sad to hear the old site was closing down. Thanks so much to the old list Mom's for running a GREAT site for all of us addicts! That was one of my most favorite places to visit each day.

I was extremely happy to hear that there will be a :) YEAH!!!! In fact, there may be more than one, but this is the one that I have found thus far! And I just LOVE the button they've made for it too!!

You can find the new site by clicking here and here is the button!

And the Daytime Emmy goes to.......

TWO, count them, TWO of my favorites!!!!!

The Young and the Restless

AND

Ellen

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!

Hallmark Singing Card = Six Flags Dancer?

I know it's been forever since I've updated, but I have no knitting news :( I am still trying to heal this shoulder. Sadly, it's looking like I may have to have surgery to do that -- but I am still hoping!

ANYWAY -- has anyone seen the new Hallmark commercial for the singing cards? Does anyone but ME think he's the same person that played that old man that did that awesome dance in the Six Flags commercials a couple of years ago? My brother thinks I've gone completely off the deep end....perhaps he's right?

I have gotten myself a few larger crochet hooks and I am going to try my hand at a crochet project this weekend. If you are in need of a GORGEOUS project, please check out the Yarn Over Lounge, not only is the owner a very talented designer -- she's one of the nicest people I've had the chance to meet since I started this fiber addiction. (Hi Lee!!) Hopefully, I still remember crochet well enough to follow the pattern and it's easier on my shoulder -- I would love to have some fibery goodness in my life again ;)

Yup -- that sure did suck!

But I am home now, THANK GOODNESS!

Those of you that I owe things to, I will be contacting you tomorrow, when I am (hopefully) bit less stressed/tried and I can handle the ummm 2603 emails I have gotten ::YIKES!:: since I've been gone -- of course some of them are Spam, but a good portion of them are actually GOOD! Can you imagine? OY! No wonder I feel like I do nothing but read/sort email sometimes :) Didn't get home until late and wasn't even sure I was going to get here even TODAY or not, it wasn't looking good for a while there, until the water works started and they decided to spring me tonight and not make me wait 'till morning. Bastards. That's a whole 'nuther story that I don't even want to get in to though TYVM!

I have MISSED you all!!! Sorry to have kept those of you waiting for things waiting so long, but it could not be helped :( I will jump on things tomorrow and thank you for being so patient ;)

Love and hugs all around!!!

New (for me) Music!

Laura Jansen, you can visit her myspace site here but unfortunately the song that I fell in love with isn't currently on that site. :( This song is entitled "Perfect".

I am not sure what happened to the song from the site that I had linked above that had an audio clip, but if I ever find it again I will link it.


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WHAT!? I've been TAGGED!?

Each person tagged gives 7 random facts about themselves. Those tagged need to write in their blogs the 7 facts, as well as the rules of the game. You need to tag 7 others and list their names on your blog. You have to leave those you plan on tagging a note in their comments so they know that they have been tagged and to read your blog. I’ve been tagged by: Yarn Snob aka my buddy from across the pond :)

1- I normally hate these types of things and usually won't participate in them for love nor money. (You're lucky I love you like my cashmere, E!! (besides, since I have not been posting anything of interest lately, I feel I owe you since I have not been emailing either -- sorry sweetie!!) BUT, I am finding this quite fun :) That should tell you how bored I am ::gg::

2- My favorite thing to knit is socks, and I always have at least three pair on the needles!

3- My favorite yarn is OPAL -- BUT, that is just for patterns. I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it if they offered us more of a choice when it came to fibers. (hear that Tutto?? Like anyone from Germany would ever read MY blog -- but you never know, I've had celebs here before, so you never know!!)

4- I hate liars. There is almost nothing worse you can do to me than lie to me. I would rather hear the truth about anything from the person's mouth -- then have to hear "through the grapevine" or have them slip at a later date (which seems always happens with the people in my life anyway). It is especially annoying when the lie is about something so stupidly insignificant that telling the truth would make no difference to me anyway.

5- I, like a few others I have read about, LOVE ice cream! But, it has to be plain -- with no "hard bits" in it. I don't like anything mucking up the texture of the ice cream I am eating.

6- I am no longer able to eat my other favorite food. Reeses' Peanut Butter Cups since being diagnosed with diabetes 2 years ago.

7- I am an animal lover and would have a whole house full of them if the hubster would allow it. As it is, we have three parrots and a dog.

8- Since everyone I know well enough to send this to has already been tagged, I can't pass this along for fear of others coming after me and trying to jab me in the eyes with their knitting needles....sorry! :)

Eye Candy Tuesday

Yes, I know I am either late or early for the typical Eye Candy Friday -- but since when have I ever been typical?

Here is a shot of one of the apple trees in the back yard....the blossoms are completely gone already -- glad I snapped this while they lasted!

Long time, no post....

Since I am still not knitting, I have not had much to write lately. I have been surfing a bit, and I did make the egg above this evening @ dumpr though! What a kewl site that is -- check it out! That is a photo of some yarn that is currently about to be thrown in the garbage because it's so freeking tangled I don't know what else to do with it! It's GORGEOUS and soft and squishy and I am sick about it, but I may give it another go or two before I just toss the whole lot of it in the trash, it's making me more crazy than I already am! I hope it doesn't come to that though -- it will make a kick arse pair of socks if I can get it skeined!

I will hopefully get out of this funk soon (the arm IS feeling a little better and I am really itching to get back to knitting -- but now I'm scared since I think it was like caused by knitting to begin with, and that is going to just kill me if I have to stop forever)......we'll see. Maybe a change in position once I work up the nerve to "do it" again will help?

Only time will tell I suppose?

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Tragedy in NYC

I am normally not one to watch the news -- I cannot handle it. But today I didn't get to the remote in time and I caught the first story they had on the 11 o'clock news on ABC.

It was about this poor woman that tragically ran over her infant son after he slipped out of her arms this afternoon while she was trying to get the vehicle in park.

What makes this story all the more sad and heartbreaking is that the woman's husband (and the father of the baby) was killed in Iraq in February in a vehicle too.

Can everyone that reads this please take a moment to think about this poor woman today and if you're the type to pray -- please add her to your prayers. I don't know how much it will help, but it certainly won't hurt!

The tears are streaming down my face as I type this entry -- I can't even imagine what she is going through...

Good Yarn Karma!

Psssst....Have you heard about this site GOOD YARN KARMA?

What is it, you ask? Well, I will tell you :) It's a BRILLIANT idea for getting a good home for your unloved yarns, thats what it is...But not only yarn. They will take books, magazines, needles, stitch markers, I think pretty much whatever!

If you have anything that you would like to give away or even trade, why not check them out! I know I will be posting some things once I get to cleaning some of the yarn room up. Or should I say IF...that is probably more like it at this point, if I am speaking realistically.

No news on the knitting front. I spent all my time today doing a few swatches and vacuuming (that was a HUGE mistake...that H U R T like a!) I should have left that for the DH to do this weekend, but I just couldn't stand it another minute.

Now, I am even in more pain than I have been for the past month or so. I give up. We're losing our insurance very soon and I have this. Hrumph! It's times like this when I sure wish we'd win the lottery! I know money doesn't buy happiness -- but I don't need it to! I WOULD be happy if I didn't have to worry about paying for medication and doctor bills (and the mortgage, and heat and food and electricity, and, and, and....)

I have been trying really hard to stay positive, but it's sure not easy.

Does anyone know of an Customer Service job available for online support? If you do, please email me knittingaddict @ yahoo.com and I will be forever in your debt.

Ok, time to try to do a bit of work on the shawl before trying to get a bit a sleep. Night all!

Good Knitting Mojo Needed -- PLEASE!!

Ok, I am going completely CRAZY with this no knitting crap -- and I have decided that I HAVE to get back in to it like NOW before the men in the white coats come and lock me up. Seriously! It is THAT bad....

But, instead of working on socks, I thought that perhaps it would be better if I worked with larger needles for a bit and cast on for a lovely lace shawl because I am so jealous of all the lovely shawls that my friend The Yarn Snob has been turning out on a freekin' daily basis (ok, so it's not every day, just seems like it from this side of the pond :gg: sorry, E!!). Have a peek and be prepared to drool, she's truly amazing!!

Only problem is, I can't read charts to save my life. BUT, I found a beautiful shawl that includes written directions as well as a chart (the designer, I ♥ HER to teensy pieces!!!!) has a FANTASTIC tutorial on her site for those of us that cannot read charts that has ME, yes folks, ME...the person that has always believed she would never, ever be able to knit from a chart in this lifetime that she may just be able to do it! Can you believe that one -- she is THAT good!

The Shawl is called the Forest Canopy Shawl. I am using the yarn recommended in the pattern, Mountain Colors Weavers Quarters -- and I ordered the color that this the original was done in (Sierra) BUT, what I got is U G L Y with a capital U so it's a good thing I got another color too!

I got the Meadow colorway also and it's gorgeous -- it at least looks like it's supposed to ( I don't know what's up with the Sierra I got, but it doesn't look like it should! (Please see below for sample) so I am all set! I just hope it doesn't make the pain worse, or that I don't do more damage to my shoulder/arm by doing this.



I figure using the larger needles will be a change and I will use circs so there won't be any pressure on the wrists or arms at all...I just have got to do something before I go completely out of what is left of my mind. I have been so depressed all I have been doing is sleeping -- and this is my favorite time of year -- so it's very out of character for me to be doing this now...I have got to snap out of it!

So, if any of you have any extra mojo hanging around, I would be most happy to accept it and put it to great use on my first lace project!!

I am as excited as I was when I first decided that I was going to learn to knit and started my first sock!! (yes, socks were my first real project! Thanks to Silver and her wonderful tutorial, I had no idea socks weren't something that new knitters were supposed to be able to do!! You should have seen the tongues wag around here when I showed my Mom's friends what my first FO was! They didn't believe I did it. Some of them have been knitting for 50 or 60 years and they still have not done socks, and here I am knitting for about a month and have socks done already, thanks to Silver! She is AWESOME too!

Anyone that wants to learn to knit socks that needs help, I cannot recommend that site enough. It is written for someone that has never knit before, so it's quite detailed and may be repetitive for someone that has been knitting for a while -- but it's so easy to follow you'll be addicted knitting socks in no time!

This makes things all better :)

This is the photo of the day from The Daily Puppy -- something I found while surfing this evening. Now tell me, how can you have a bad day when looking at THAT face??

This is a site that I am sure I will be visiting often, for sure!!