Mini Mom

Ever go get your haircut and tell your stylist to do whatever she thinks would be most attractive and then you come out looking just like your mother????
Dave says it's okay as long as I don't look like HIS mother, ha ha!!

That being said, it wouldn't be so bad if I grew up to be my Mom. Check out some of her knitting. she got ahold of the Patons Street 'something' book and knit the hoodie for herself and the Must-Have Cardie for The Oldest Sister Who Gets Everything ;)

Photos are courtesy of afore-mentioned Lucky Sister - they are photos of the view from The Beach House, here-after called Please-Let-Me-Call-It-My-Summer-House!

Adopted!

After all the worrying and my panic that I was going to have to turn Moses, the little kitten found outside our wool shop, into the Humane Society just to keep him out of the freezing temps (don't laugh! It really does get cold her sometimes) Judie agreed to adopt him today!

Just keeping my fingers crossed that everything goes well at the vet's office tomorrow and he tests negative for all the icky stuff. Judie has a friendly full grown cat at home named Monty, so we have to get Moses all cleaned up before he meets his new fambly!

I'm so excited that this affectionate little guy is going to have four walls, a roof and wrapping paper to rip to shreds on Christmas Day :)

New Paint

David and Pat re-painted the living room this week and I got a photo of the progress. I said 'warm colors' thinking that he would be watering down the paint anyways, so there was no way it would come out dark.........

Catching Up

There's a lot going on these days. But I've just got a couple of quick updates and pictures.

The kittens are doing well. I got a picture from Pollyanna's new dad and she's getting along well with her new Yorkie friend, Mushu. And, she's now called Fiona.

White Sox and Snickerdoodle (sometimes called Mittens) are growing in leaps and bounds and already have appointments to be "fixed" before Thanksgiving.

Here are two long-lost summer pictures. One from an impromptu Stitch-n-Pitch at a Daytona Cubs game with Susan and Sandy.

and one I like to call : Sandy Stitches

I started and finished my first project from Fitted Knits last week: the u-neck Back to School vest.

Oh yeah, and I knit and published my Margarita socks. With beads at the top for a 'salted rim' LOL!!

Brush with Harlotism

It finally happened. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee came to Florida! Thanks to Knitwitz in Jacksonville for organizing her visit and hosting a great night out.

Susan came up from Orlando and we drove together, stopping in St. Augustine first to initiate a yarn crawl. Alas, the Knitting Boutique was closed for vacation (talk about yer bad timing!) and we were forced to comfort ourselves with my first visit to Hobby Lobby. For a large chain, they had a really great selection. I was surprised to see the copycat sock yarn jacquards priced at $12 for a pair - for that much, I'll save more pennies and support my LYS.

So...onto the Ramada Conference Center we went and found a room filled with nearly 100 knitters all sitting patiently (as there was still another 90 minutes until Stephanie was speaking), knitting, chatting, comparing yarns, patterns, techniques, longest-commute and everyone wore a knitted item. One girl even had her jeans rolled up above her knees so we didn't miss a single row of her cool, funky socks.

I cast-on my Margarita Sock's mate and made it past the heel by the end of the evening. The sock was excited to see Stephanie, but um, Stephanie had like actual things to do and blesh her! she said a kind word to nearly everyone who had a book signed.

After the signing, we noshed at Steak n Shake and met a couple more knitters - this time from Hollywood (that's a 5-hour drive!) and then cruised on over to check out the yarn shop that started it all. Knitwitz was open until midnight and they were super sweet as Susan and I oohed and aahed over yarns we've never seen before. They didn't even rush us out - which was pretty darn cool since we were the last to leave.

I found my first Malabrigo

and discovered Oldfield Creek sock yarn - cool colors!!

It was a great night all-round and I'm so glad Susan was game to make the drive. We had a very memorable time and met some great knitters!