Auntie + Niece Day

Brunch, a very long nature walk, and Up (which was so amazing, I want to see it again). Life is good.

Oh my Bloggity...

I've neglected you so much! So sorries. I have come and made you pretty, plus I've added my books. Isn't that nice of me?

Well let's see. I've put aside all my craftyness. Once I got my job I stopped doing all that, which sucks because I promised my friend a scarf for her birthday... which was in January. Eeerm....yeah. I did warn her that it might be awhile, lol. Although reading how much I was enjoying all my hooking, I think it's started up the bug again, so we shall see.

Let's see ... I have a cold. I was cold/flu free all winter, so of course now that spring might just be peeking around the corner I'd get sickly. Yuck. It's not horrible, but I did feel like my head was balloon all day and my nose won't stop running, yet it's stuffy. That's always lovely.

In other news... my birthday was the 2nd and I worked all day but had dinner w/ my family after which was nice and mellow ... hello Big Ben Brownie from Elephant & Castle, I love thee! <3 --- Then last Sat I got my fam and friends together at Joe's Bar for some Too White Crew (90's tribute band, oh yes) ... it was SO MUCH fun. I danced a ton, and loved having my favorite people around me. Yays for love. Tomorrow I'm having a Flo night, and although you may not know what that is yet, I can tell you it's a GREAT time w/ some strong drinks. Can't wait! Cold or not, I am there!

Quickie ...rrrawr

Things are def looking up for me right now. I got a PT job, so I'm going back to the semi-corporate world, haha. Interviewed Mon, got it that evening, started training today. I have a good feeling about this place, so far so good. Best of all, I can't wait to get back on my feet financially! Whew, it has def been rough. More on that later, I need to get to bed it's almost midnight and I have to be up at 615iiiiish :D

Also I'm suuuuuper excited about my new purchase.... TADAH!


I've never had rain boots before, and I've been wanting to get some for a long while now ... saw these babies yesterday for 19.99, tonight they were 14.70, I took it as a sign ;) --- My only wish is that they were eco-friendly, but alas ... well I also wish they fit like a glove, bought a size larger just in case.

Okay I'm off to dreamland, and finally waking up w/ the rest of the world *sigh* ... no, no it's good... except for the subzero weather we're going to get. BRRR.

The troubles...

I mentioned how I haven't been working, because of my sprain wrist... well that also means I haven't really been using my car as much. Needless to say in the winter time if you don't turn on your car often, the battery dies. It already happened once before when I was leaving for my girl's night.... the temps that week were well below zero. These last weeks though haven't been so bad, but yet again I forgot to turn on my car every other day or so. The problem this time was that when I tried to give it a jump w/ mama's car, nothing happened. So how is it that when the brudder come to jump it, it starts within 5mins?! Oh trust me I'm VERY grateful that it's isn't more serious, because money is super tight, but how in the world do I jump a car wrong?! That's just annoying. I'm in denial anyway, I just think mama's car is weak, and that's why it didn't work. Haha. :P

Sat night, I went over to my friend's for dinner, wine, and movie night. We saw 'Sweet November' LOL ... yes, I wanted a better look at my shawl, but she and her friend hadn't seen it so I wasn't purely selfish about suggesting she rent that one! :P Anyway, we had a great dinner, I even stayed to watch Wanted again (under the covers for the rat scene of course *shivers*). Sunday I discovered that I'm compltely out of practice with the drinking because I only had 3 glasses of wine, and woke up w/ a terrible headache. Wine headaches, ugh ... they're the worst! It probably didn't help that I stayed up until 5a talking to my friend, listening to music, and knitting. Still, all of Sun I was crabby. I almost forgot that I had a post-holiday party to go to, then I remembered I didn't have a working car, greeeeat. Sadly, as much as I miss my 'Tsubos', I just really didn't want to go. :(

Awful of me I know, but it was the perfect excuse, and instead I had dinner w/ the mama, brudder, and niece ... then the brudder disregarded my crabbiness and offered to jump my car even though I was being a bitch about it. *le sigh* I guess I will always want to get the "boys' job" done myself, to prove that I can, and then get pissy when I don't get it right. So childish of me, I know, but I'm pretty sure subconsciously I'm still looking to get big brother's approval somehow.... which is dumb because I already know he's proud of me. The mind is strange that way though.

Shawl, oh shawl...

Damn! I forgot to update my bloggy when I finished my lovely rasta/beret hat! (Thanks to the lovely Teresa yet again) Okay well it's amazing and I love it, and I can't believe I actually crocheted it myself. Go me!!



I've pretty much worn it everyday since I made it, lol. It's awesome when I don't wanna do anything to my hair, which is pretty much everyday, lol ... I'm so low maintanace, my hair stylists friends get annoyed w/ me. They give me this great looking cut, and the next day I come in and my hair is up, but come on I can't work w/ my hair down. I'd be sweating on my clients, and that is gross.

Anywhooo .... my new WIP (work in progress) is the shawl that started it all, which I mentioned in a previous entry, lol. I have undone my work SO many times I've already lost count. The one I had pretty much done halfway and stopped I had to undo (probably not the right crochet terminology, but whatevs I'm new at this) because both mama and I could not figure out where to go from there. I rummaged through tons of patterns online looking for the one. There was only one person that had the pattern for a similar shawl from 'Sweet Novemer' but I just wasn't sure it was loose enough for me. Finally I settled on a lover's knot shawl, which was great, looked pretty until I realized it wasn't going to be a triangle. O.o *le sigh* So new mission, found a triangle lover's knot shawl, yay ... somehow figured out the pattern (did I mention I'm not great at reading patterns? haha) and started my shawl. Probably two days into it I realize that it's going to be WAY too long. The point of the triangle is not past my butt, and the shoulders isn't long enough. Greeeeat. I worked on it too long to undo it though, I just don't have the heart, lol. So I put it aside and grab different yarn and start working on the Sweet February shawl I had found before ... it's cute, but not really want I pictured in my head for this one. I will probably make that one later though, as well as the rectangle loverl's knot one. More searching through patterns..... I finally think that maybe I just need to figure out how to knit one. The knitted shawls look more like what I wanted, so now I just need to learn how to read the pattern. So I find THIS one, which is just what I wanted. The pattern look simpled enough, I just have no idea what k2tog means, but YouTube.com to the rescue!

I've been working on it since Sat night, I'm at 62 stitches (should be 146 total) now, and it looks awesome. I'm not really sure if it really will turn out, but it's looking good so far, so maybe this is the winner after all. I can't wait! I've waited way too long for my shawl. We will see. I'm really excited that I figured out a knitted pattern too, I mean it's super simple, but still. :)

I have a hooking problem...

Haha, I'm such a happy little hooker now, I love it.


Here are my projects...






Mama's shell scarf
Uh-oh forgot to get a picture of it, will edit later ..

Shhh... I'm counting!

So my new project is a beret for me. While taking on crocheting (and some knitting) this month, I have yet to have anything done for myself. The 'Sweet November' shawl (I've been obsessed w/ having the same type of shawl/scarf Charlize Theron wears in it since I saw the movie) that started my whole crocheting adventure was put on hold the next day that I started it because of the different projects for Christmas presents those took priority. It's now time for moi. Anyway I was looking through knitting patterns, even though I can't really read them yet, and found an awesome beret, but I can't figure out knitting patterns so I went on a search for a crocheted beret. Low and behold my favorite video tutorial lady had one! Yay. I couldn't have done any of my projects without her videos. Props to Teresa! Oh and there is a lot of counting involved in this beret pattern, and I'm always losing my spot, but I'm so proud because I got this one down, I don't think I've skipped on stitch, yay me! Can't wait to finish it... I might almost be done actually.

Oh funny thing, my mom taught herself how to knit, and while trying to figure out how to read a knitting pattern I found out that her knitting technique is SO much easier than everyone elses, lol. I didn't realize we knit differently, and while I tried the "right" way it just didn't work for me. So proud of mama for that. I told her about it today and she couldn't figure out why people would knit that way. Haha. -- Maybe I'll make a video of her style at some point.

Let's see what else is going on ... oh yes, my brother's beanie is still too small, I'm going to attempt to make him another at some point. Hopefully before winter is over, haha. I saw a great pattern of a multi-toned one, so maybe I can figure it out. Oh and the brudder cracked me up when he was watching me crochet at his house and said softly, "I need a hobby." LOL, I love how fascinated he is by it... I bet I can get him to start crocheting too. I think that would be too much fun, lol. He would never tell anyone if he did though of course. Men.