San Diego Winnings

This weekend Boyfriend and I headed down to San Diego. We visited Shamu at Sea World, enjoyed the weather at Balboa park, had drinks at Pacific Beach, ate dinner in the Gaslamp District, and stuck our feet in the ocean at Coronado Island. One highlight however is summed up in this picture:



***a giant Elmo won at a carnival game at Sea World.***

Ohhhhh boy. What are we to do with this???

The Interwebs Enchanted Evening Prom

Thanks, Natalie, for hosting Prom! Check Natalie's blog to find more attendees.


(waiting for my date to arrive - late like always! Check out my sweet ride in the background! We did not take that beauty to Prom)


(A stop at Lutz Park on the Fox River, Appleton, Wisconsin)

My senior prom wasn’t that long ago, but it was still fun digging up the pictures. I got my dress at the end of the summer beforehand for a great deal, so I was extremely prepared! My mom called it the Sleeping Beauty dress, because it reminded her of when all the fairies try to dress Princess Aurora and use their wands to change her dress color, and when they all collide the dress becomes splashes of all three. It was definitely a princess dress!


(princesses like to mini-golf too)

Our Prom was supposed to be in May, but there was a mistake in the scheduling with the hall it was at, so we ended up having to bump our prom to mid-April. In Wisconsin, this is risky, because mid-April most likely means still cold, and still snow on the ground. Luckily for us that year we got lucky, and it warmed up and melted the snow away just in time. It was really windy (hairspray please!) and we didn’t quite get pretty May flowers as a pretty backdrop, but at least we weren’t freezing our buns off.



My birthday is March 13th, so a nice day to be asked to an April prom. Boyfriend (yep, Boyfriend was around then too!) is always good at thinking these sorts of things out, and making them special. Sometime after lunch I had to stop by my locker in between classes. One of Boyfriend’s friends a few lockers down was giving me a goofy grin and was very interested in me opening my locker, which tipped me off right away. When I opened up my locker, there were tons of curly pink streamers filling it up and bouncing out at me. Set carefully inside was a bouquet of pretty birthday flowers. Set in the bouquet was a little pink flower made of tissue paper with a note directing me to pull out the green paper center. The note said “will you go to Prom with me?” Although it has since faded, I still have that flower tucked away somewhere.


(Gretchen, me, and Allie having fun at the prom)

Our Prom was held at the Paper Valley Hotel in downtown Appleton. The infamous (in Northeastern Wisconsin) cover band Vic Ferrari provided the music. We started in the late afternoon with pictures at a park on the Fox River, followed by a game of miniature golf, and then it was off to dinner. We danced the night away, and after the prom was all over, a group of us headed out to High Cliff State Park and camped out. Overall a very fun prom!



I had a lot of fun with this post. Now that my scanner works, I'll have to dig up some more fun!

On the Real Deal

This looks much better on a little poodle!


My Great Aunt Zora sent me pics in the mail today of what the sweater I knit looks like on her dog, Tosh. Without seeing the dog beforehand, it still ended up a perfect fit!


I love all the poses she sent..."On this edition of America's Next Top Poodle..."


He's very stylin'. :)

For Mom

Happy Mother's Day, Mom!

More Red?!

Ok, I should probably stop knitting with this yarn for awhile. I made yet another project out of the Rowan Calmer that was from a frogged sweater. There just seems to be a never-ending amount of it! I still have way over a full skein, but I think I'll take a break from it for awhile.

Here's the latest...


A slightly slouchy hat for the summer...I think the red will give a nice pop to any outfit!

Denial

I know some knitters have issues with double pointed needles, but usually, I’m not one of them. Occasionally, I’ll have an ugly gap where you can tell the round was being joined, but it’s never that bad. I have been working on the Whisper Cardigan this week with the Malabrigo lace, which starts at the sleeve, and can be done on a 12” circular or double points. I didn’t have the circulars, so I chose to start with the double points. I’ve been knitting casually on this all week, and have noticed some loosey goosey stitches, and then some really tight stitches where I’ve tried to make up for the loosey goosey-ness. Since it’s never been that bad/noticeable in the past, I just kept on going. I finished the first sleeve and held it out to look at the full picture.


(I'm a little embarassed to show this)

Not good. Really, I knew this all along, but was just in denial and only wanted to move forward rather than go back. I’m not much of a perfectionist, and usually have mistakes in my knitting, but this is really bad. Looks like I’ll be ripping out and getting myself some size 7, 12” circulars….

Hooked

Watch out world, I’ve been hit by the crochet bug. Something never really *hooked* me in before; it never really made a lot of sense. This week, I was a little discouraged with a knitting project (I’ll show you soon), and so I decided I’d finally sit down with my Happy Hooker book and just relearn the basics. I cruised through the basics, and on Tuesday through my never ending on call shift, I grabbed some cotton yarn, and worked on a little basket I had recently queued on Ravelry. I improvised some flowers, and viola! This is what happens when you have to listen in on a call from 9pm – 6am:

I think it turned out cute. It’s a little floppy, but I think starching it should do the trick. Last night I worked on this little number:

Cute and so easy, although I still managed to have an extra petal. Must be the lack of sleep.

Anywoo, I think I’ve got this crochet thing licked. At least the basics!