Happy New Year!

plus 4 days...

Since moving to my mom's house, I've been finding it a little difficult to keep up with the blogging. We purchased a new Sony TV and it turned out that there was a outlet in the back for our computer, so instead of using our regular 15" monitor, we've been using a 42" monitor. So, it's been tough to actually sit down and use the computer...

I hope everyone has had a good New Years. We spent New Years Eve at a fancy seafood buffet dinner and ate ourselves stupid. Not a good idea, but it sounded good at the time. No one was dancing after dinner, I tell you what. Well, at least the food was good.

I've noticed that alot of other bloggers have listed new years resolutions and what they want to achieve in the coming year. In all honesty, I'm not really one to make new year resolutions. But a couple of things for sure I would really like to do is have more FOs to show, post a little more here (if not more, have more interesting things to post about) and after months of hiatus, get the shop up and running again. I've looked into a few things that I am interested in making that I may beable to keep up while having my full time office job.

And speaking of making stuff, this has got me bitten with the sewing bug again:

I ordered these from Craft Connection I could never find fabric like this here, so I decided to order it online. They are soooo great!!! I can't wait to sew with them. I'm not exactly sure what I want to make, but for now, I'm just happy staring at them lovingly. Unfortunately, all my sewing stuff is packed away and I'll just have to wait until we get settled at the new house before I can start with the sewing again.....

Oh, I almost forgot! I recieved the Japanese knitting books that I had won on eBay from pinku around Christmas time. The patterns are great! I hope to post pictures of some sort of finished product soon.

I think that is it for now. I'm still working on that baby sweater, but (un)lucky for me, it's summer time in Australia, so new baby won't be wearing any wool sweater made by Aunty Elaina any time soon...

Merry Christmas

New Obsession

This is the time of year for cookie baking, turkey eating and under the mistletoe kissing. Where there will definitely be some turkey eating on my to do list this year (no cookies, since I no longer have my own kitchen), also on my list is playing with this:

Sing to your hearts content. This little beauty contains such songs as Time after Time, Take on Me and of course the favorite Brick House.

I've been playing thing pretty much non stop the last few days that we had it. Sure, I should be doing some Christmas shopping, finishing that sock that's been WIP for months and months, or the Sweater for little baby that was born on Dec. 14 (Happy Birthday Little Baby!). Nah. I want to sing Blondie's "Call Me" and Whitney Houston's "Greatest Love of All" and the Odds' "What I like about you"....I want to sing it all.

So if I'm too busy eating turkey and singing Karaoke Revolution to be posting in the near future, please excuse me and have a great holiday!!

No Place Like Home

We are all moved out! (mostly)

The weekend was spent moving all of our stuff from our 'old' house to my mom's house. Our 'new' house is not ready yet (only at foundation stage) so, the next 2 months will be spent living in my mom's basement.

I can't believe how much stuff we accumulated while living at the 'old' house for only a year and a half. We had started moving stuff weeks ago, and it seems that it just never ends. All the large furniture was moved on Friday (with u-haul rental truck). Saturday was more moving stuff and cleaning the house. Sunday was more of the same.

Now that it is Monday, I am soooo beat. There is still a few things at the 'old' house and there is a decent size delivery we gots to make for second hand donations and the food bank. This moving stuff will wind down soon (we loose possession of the house on Wednesday) and hopefully, I will be more rested in time for the long holiday weekend....

Who Lives in a Pineapple...

...Under the sea? This guy:

I made this cake by special request of my brother for his gf's birthday. My reward was being able to keep the pan. Spongebob has pink tie and socks because after 2 hours of icing the cake, I was tired and didn't want to do it anymore...

In other news, I still haven't been able to photograph my shrug and the baby sweater I'm working on, but will soon!

Also, Kat from Pinku recently put some Japanese crafting books up from her collection up on eBay. I won 3 of them! I am excited to recieve them. Definitely will post some pictures when they get here all the way from Japan!

The Weather Outside is Frightful...

So close to a brown Chistmas! It's been snowing non stop for the past few days. This morning I woke up to a blanket of snow and had to shovel off a weekend's worth of snow off my car. People are still arriving to work because the traffic out there is CRAZY!

Anyways, I figured I'd post a little one, since I have a few minutes, and I haven't posted in a while. I hope to have pictures up soon.

I finally finished the shrug! So exciting. I think that is the biggest project I have every actually finished. It ended up a little on the big side, so I think if I ever make it again, smaller needles and shorter sleeves.

I've also started a second project. There's a baby due on Christmas, so I thought I would try my hand at a baby sweater. I didnt' want to do anything too complicated and I had some KnitPicks Color Your Own sock yarn I had already colored in a self-striping fashion of a Sweet Tart colorway. I'm not really a sock knitter (yet?) so I decided to use this yarn for Last-Minute Stripes Pullover. I've finished the front and a sleeve, and I'm excited to do the remainder 2 pieces. I'll have to block them (my first attempt) and run them through the water forsure, because while I was knitting, the color was coming off onto my hands...so we'll have to see!

Will post pictures soon!

6 Episodes of Desparate Housewives Season 1 on DVD brings...

...only 3 inches of turtleneck to an almost 2 month old turtleneck shrug.

Man, I am SUCH a slow knitter. It's not like I stopped knitting because I was so captivated, I was knitting for at least 85% of the time. My goodness. There goes my chances of winning fastest knitter in the world.

I'll have pictures when I finish the shrug. At the rate I am going, I'll be lucky if I'm done by Christmas...