Time to Get Healthy

Went to the dentist today and found out my blood pressure's pretty high. I was relaxed too, and I never get nervous at the dentist since I've never had a cavity but I do have a history of high blood pressure when I'm not very healthy. I thought I was doing better, most of my baby fat is gone (ok, so the kid is five years old now and it should be completely gone). My BMI is excellent and my job makes me walk a lot so that is some form of exercise. But I do always look kinda sickly and I never have much energy. I quit smoking six years ago and don't drink, I almost never eat fast food, maybe twice a month etc but I know I'm nowhere near as healthy as I could be. My skin tells me...I have pretty heavy duty acne and I'm almost thirty AND I use Proactiv once a day.
Signed up for FitDay.com today and started a free journal. I'll be able to track everything, food, nutrition, activity and I can set goals. I'm interested to see how I'll look and feel in a few months...

Glove Day

I'll put some of the gloves I've been making up here to. I'm thinking I should dive into something with more heft, I feel accomplished because projects are getting done but I guess I'm ready for the next step in my little 12 step program to FO knitting success.

This was my first fingerless. I'm still tweaking the pattern and this has definately become the "medium to large" hand size. Me....tiny hands

These were next in line. I recently went through my stash and pulled out any yarn that I don't really want in my stash and I'm trying to use it up this season. These were next in the evolution of my glove making....they do actually fit me and my mom keeps trying to steal them.

These are a bit punky funky. I had originally had oompa loompa arms in mind (the burton ones) but wanted to make sure I'd finish the project so small ones first.

Wow, what a year

I cannot believe I haven't posted in over a year. Insane. I shall slowly bring everything around to the blog. I've continued to be addicted to Ravelry. I've knit a lot of hats and gloves lately and am beginning to supplement my poor college student's income on Etsy with the handknit such and some jewelry. Here's some hats for your viewing pleasure...

Koolaid hat, otherwise known as Nautilus by Marnie MacLean

I had as much fun dyeing the wool as I did knitting the darn thing

Say hello to my favorite knit so far from 2008, my lilac hat or in other words the Zig Zag beanie from IK Fall 2008

And this guy is my own little bulky striped pattern that matches some fingerless gloves I came up with ... I used Lamb's Pride Bulky... yum yum yummy

And last but not least Scarfette... I know she's not a hat but she's so cute! Much thanks to my sis for modeling all these for me too. It's so hard to take pictures of yourself.

Scarfette is from a ball of Reynold's Rapture that's been in my stash almost since I started knitting. Now all I need is a great shawl pin

Officially Addicted

So addicted to Ravelry it's not funny...
Stayed up til two just seeing what size needles I have.
It'll take so long to put my yarn stash up. I have quite the mish mash stash.
Love how it's putting wip's into perspective though. Maybe I'll actually knit today, after tons of studying and finally taking the big Anatomy test. stress stress stress.

On a good note my radishes are happy and waking up....



And say hello to my strawberries!!!!!


I love Florida

Brainwash Bag

Brainwash Bag Text
Brainwash Bag Chart

Dune Obsession

The Mandarin Blouse keeps staring at me saying, "dude, I'm blocked. Just finish me already."The Pea Pod Sweater, which just coos and cries, is seamed (for the most part) and waiting for me to find cute little buttons. The Tyrolean socks I started last week are just past the heel. I've been knitting the foot during snatches of time stolen throughout the day, mostly when sitting in the shuttle for work (we park 2 miles away and are then shuttled to work) or while waiting for the shuttle to pick me up. But since I'm at the chart now and prefer mindless patterns for work-related knitting, I'm at a standstill.Sure I have an hour or so at night after my son's in bed that I could be working on the socks or finishing up those in the finishing basket or beginning the Tangled Yoke for which I've received the yarn (sooo pretty). But no. Having Dune on TV last week caused me to unpack books until I found my copy. And so (for the fourth read of this great book in my lifetime) I am obsessed with reading this in my wee free time. Come on, it's a classic!

Unofficial FO warning

Tomorrow there shall be a finishin' festival. Mandarin Blouse is blocking and Pea Pod is waiting in the wings for his turn in the water. Not to mention I babysat my nephew today so we did a little photoshoot to show off Trellis.
Since Pea Pod is off the needles I jumped ahead of the queue and started a sock in some stash Lorna's Laces. Baltic sea, so scrumptiously autumnesque. Doing the Tyrolean stocking from the most recent IK. I like knitting toe up though so I crunched more numbers than knit stitches. But preparation is the key to success, no? (Even with preparation I knit the toe 3 times. Finally found the combo of cast on and pretty increases that make my perfectionist side beam with pride)