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knitizen and my personal journal have now merged. ...

knitizen and my personal journal have now merged.
Please continue to come visit me at strangelittlemama!!!

Don't be alarmed, there will be as much knitting content as ever!

Everyone is talking about it. Did James Frey lie...

Everyone is talking about it. Did James Frey lie in his "memoir" A Million Little Pieces, and if so, is it within his creative license? Will it ruin his career or give it non-needed boost? Do the embellishments he's admitted to in anyway make the book less valid or important?

I love what Ariel Gore has to say.
Talk amongst yourselves.

I guess I unwittingly took part in International P...

I guess I unwittingly took part in International Pajama Day yesterday. Check out Celia's blog. She is new to me, and I like her style.
Sadly, I got very little knitting done, since I still felt miserable all day. Around 6 PM, poor Silas submitted to the tummy plague, too. So, 3 out of 4 of us were lying around feeling miserable while the four-year-old ran around with her usual vigor. Rockin' good times.

I happen to know I have a package awaiting me at ye olde apartment office (two months to house completion--I can make it...) and I'm hoping it's something gorgeous from misshawklet so I will soon shower and do my best to hobble over that way. I'm still sore and have no appetite at all. This sucks!
While I'm out on my big outing, I will try to take a picture of my car magnet so I can make Ms Scout happy. She needs to take a picture of her sweet boy wearing his Boogie time, to make ME happy. If that's confusing to you, you need a quickie background-- Scout & I are best grrlfriends, our boys are best kid-friends (and were born 5 hours apart!) and I knit Boogie time for both boys because they always have to have the same stuff AND I knew that they would rock the first grade wearing something so stylie and cool!
Oh! And my sister sent me a picture of her wearing Wavy. Doesn't she look cute?

sicksicksick

I have the worst stomach flu I have ever had. Both my kids had a one-puke kind of thing over the last week, but I got it times 100. Feel free to feel sorry for me.

I had to exit Silas' birthday dinner last night, but T took some pictures. Here is my sweet 7 year-old with his Boogietime-- he was just as psyched about it as I hoped he would be!

swag, baby

I have to confess, I love the $1 section at Target. It's always changing & you can score some great stuff. Right now, it's all about organizing for the new year, so they have all this stuff called "Wash Day". I bought a belt hanger, two lint rollers and a sweater shaver, for a buck apiece! Also, a little earring tree, but really, the sweater shaver for a buck! Who can pass that up??

Also today, I finally gave Scout her Hanukkah present!

The photo really doesn't do the colors justice, though. It's a free kpixie pattern, using Southwest Trading Company's Karaoke. Isn't it beautiful yarn? It was dreamy to work with, too!

Also, while Vivienne was doing gymnastics today, I finished the first Boogie time, for Silas' birthday.

I think he is going to be sooo psyched!
I'm also going to copy Scout and half the other knitbloggers in the universe & make a cabled bag!

Happy 2006!!

I wish you all a gorgeous, sunny, love-filled, fun & frolicky new year!! I hope you knit only perfection, find gorgeous yarn at estate sales and that multitudes of perfect-for-you free patterns are published everywhere you turn!

2006 to-knit list

2006 Must-Knit List
so far...

-Jaywalker
(yarn is here & wound, waiting for another project to be off the needles.)
-Two Boogie times
-Frida, as wrap.
-Glampyre's City Shawl

Huh! That's all I have definitely planned. I would like to knit a few pairs of socks. I definitely want to knit a sweater for myself that I will actually wear, perhaps Tubey. I think I'll join Rowan Intl, too, since I always love the pattern books. So, perhaps some inspiration there.