FOUND: Motivation to Knit

My Motivation? (look down :P)

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sackboy


Thank you, Alan Dart for helping me make my fiance's dreams come true! He's been wanting me to make him a Sackboy for awhile now but I couldn't find a pattern I liked or of one I was capable of replicating. All that's changed now somewhat. I was hoping I could find a pattern with sackboy's mouth open but this is good enough for now. More than good enough actually he's going to love it! This will be part of my Boobie's Valentine's Day present.

So from now to until V-Day I'll have alot of work ahead of me. For starter's knowing how to knit would be a great help. At the moment, I can only do a long-tail cast-on, knit a few rows and that's about it. There's a lot that I don't know and need to learn (i.e. increasing, decreasing, purl stitch, stockinette stitch, etc..). Argh. In addition to all the learning, I can only work on it away from home. My Booberz is so nosy and always curious about what I'm working on. Hopefully I'll get majority of it done while I'm away at my yarn group meetups. And perhaps someone will help me figure out the little things on the pattern that aren't quite clear. Sounds like a plan, eh?

Happy New Year!!!

I just wanted to take some time to wish everyone a Happy New Year! Hope you all have a blessed and prosperous year. I will try to achieve the same. While I'm here I guess I could somewhat go over what exactly it is I'm going to be blogging about.

In an attempt to make me life seem somewhat eventful, I've picked up a few new hobbies. Every Thursday, I head to some thrift store in the area to look for abandoned treasures so I'll be sharing my finds with you all. Every other Tuesday or so I head to library to pick out a few books and dvds. My new reading goal is to read books that have been banned or challenged by the American Library Association (ALA). Currently I'm reading Candide by Voltaire (the vulgarity appeals to me). Saturdays are reserved for yarn, yard sales, and sleep.

The rest of my posts will revolve around wedding planning for myself and possibly my dear friend Quita, whatever craft catastrophe I've made, and other things I feel like sharing :)~

So this is all for now. I'll be back Tuesday to write about my adventures at the library and it will probably include another post about my case of crafting fever. Byez!

Bah Humbug?

I hate the holidays. Every other Christmas I've experienced has always had some tragedy, death or illness. I believe that I spend more time drinking in the month of December than I do throughout the entire year. This year I was pretty convinced it would suck as well. Early on I stocked up on enough alcohol to last me well into January to prepare myself for whatever crap would be thrown my way.

For the past week my boyfriend has been reassuring me that I will truly have a Merry Christmas and that I shouldn't be so sad. I really didnt pay him that much attention because sometimes he's a little too optimistic in my opinion. He also tells me he has this great present for me and that this will be my best Christmas ever. Again I just let what he's telling me go in one ear and out the other.

Around 11:40pm December 24th, I begged and begged to see this wonderful gift that would be the gift of all gifts. After listening to beg all day, he finally caves in. He blindfolds me. I hear a little bit of shuffling going on. After about 5 mins, I was told to take off the blindfold and guess what was sitting in front of me??!?!! A ring box! He points to the TV and it says, Will you marry me? My mind was racing and after about 10 mintues of shouting and jumping up and down I said, YES!!!

It is going to be a Merry Christmas after all :)

Didn't think I would

But I finally decided to make a blog!!! I think the reason I held out this long was because I felt like I missed out on the blog bandwagon. There are also several other reasons why I really feel like I should have but none of that really matters now because I chose not to listen to my "better judgment". Soooo here I am. Just Joy......