Birthday Gift

When I thought about a birthday gift for JC, I had to spin her some yarn - she's a terrific knitter who just won't spin (can't say I blame her, it takes time away from knitting... but then again, it is SOOO much fun!)... so, I made her a skein of Lisa Souza's (www.lisaknit.com) Spring Green BFL - it was fun to spin and then to make a matching card (and for some reason it just doesn't want to go in the right direction!)...

















I also made a few other cards... these were fun!
Cards removed... for the time being... can't say why!

Show us your wallpaper...

I popped over to CarolKnits http://caroleknits.knitblog.com/ and she and Kat http://kmkat.typepad.com/kmkat_and_her_kneedles/ asked us to "Show us your wallpaper" - here's mine at work (this was from the bus on the way to the Dingle Penninsula - time to get back to work!):

Busy Thursday at Home

Ah, I love having to take a day off to have work done on the house and be forced to stay here all day. Unfortunately, the work (having Verizon FIOS installed for cable & internet) wasn't completed. Something about putting the cart before the horse - you can't quite finish the job if the line isn't run to your house. Oh well, sometime between 8-5 this Saturday our DSL will turn into Broadband and our cable will go down about $30/month. This is some of the stuff they did:




















So, here is some of the stuff I did today:

I had joined a Circle Journal last year and the have piled up a bit in my room... this is the first one - theme was Vegetables/Healthy Eating from a woman in Nebraska.

Next, one that I was really looking forward to - the theme is Shoreline. What I really liked about it was that I ran down to the end of our street and took pictures - which I never do! Here is my "Thursday Afternoon Sky" pictures - they were taken at the same time from the same spot on the beach - opposite ends. The first one has the Boston Skyline (we're only about 15 miles up the coast) and the other is Swampscott.

Looks like I can't put up those pages. Oh well. I did other stuff today too - I started spinning this cool fiber from http://www.sojournersheep.com/ that I had picked up back in October.

I'll have more to show later - lots of things on the needles... socks, socks, more socks, a cool handspun scarf (from the yarn in my last post - can't wait until it's done!), and my first attempt at lace... but for now, I'll leave you with this fun birthday card I made for a knitting co-worker the other day... and if I could get this uploaded... oh well. I'll save it for later too!

Am I still here?

Hmm... it has been a while, not that I haven't been busy, Christmas and New Years have come and gone, and lots of knitting, spinning and stamping were done.

Here's the latest thing that I have spun - can't wait to start knitting it up... from the www.yarnwench.com (her stuff is just too addictive, I have 2 more of her fibers to spin...) - this one is called Glad Tidings 2 - before:
















And after:




Not sure what I want to do with it yet, suggestions will be taken!











More to come later, must resize lots of pics, must make a list of UFOs... must do a lot of things...