Craftyminx

Christmas Rundown

Sorry this is sooo late. I suck this week. I've had a lot of friends in town so I have been playing with them like mad. I also bought a new toy and have been preoccupied. Guitar Hero? Yes, Please!

Presents I made...

John got a lot of knitted goodness this year. I made him a Pirate hat and two Scholar Collars out of the leftover yarn. I love these and plan to make a whole lot more.

I just finished the inga hat, and my mom claimed it while I was knitting it on Christmas. So yeah she gets this too. But don't worry, I'm making me one too. I bought yarn for two of them :).

I made another friend the bainbridge scarf, but she hasn't received it yet so I can't say her name :) I'm definitely going to be making more of these.

I made Bri the foliage hat.

I made the Koolhaas for Lindsey. Yes I do have a thing for brooklyntweed patterns. I swear it's his photography. If he knit something incredibly ugly I would still want to knit it because he would photograph it beautifully.

Mom got the big present this year; the hemlock ring blanket. I'm still sad that I made this out of a wool/acrylic yarn. I've learned my lesson.

I made Levi the Child's rainbow scarf (I'm still working on a hat to match it)

April got the multi-directional scarf. oops forgot to put it in the mosaic.

Awesome presents I received this year...

Mom made me a quilt! It is soo awesome and she even sewed in some mom love and some OU love. Yeah she pretty much rocks!

She also got me hello kitty stuff :)

John is THE best gift giver ever. He knows me so well. He got me a lot of amazing gifts but the pin up book is my favorite. Oh yeah!!! I can tell there will be some awesome embroidery patterns coming from this one. He even gave me hello kitty stuff this year. Woot!

Levi got me the amazing picture frame that I had been coveting from Blue 7.

And Lindsey rocked my face off with the Librarian Tattoos (also from Blue 7). Yeah she knows what will make me smile. The skull with the overdue stamp cracks me up!

My cousin Nathan made us these peg boards with our last name Initial on them. Mine is already doing a great job holding aprons :)

Ok that's the rundown. Now lets see if I can manage to get my list of knitting wishes for the new year ready in time to actually post it on the new year. If I don't, everyone have a safe and happy New Year's Eve! Ring it in with style and plenty of champagne.

Labels: christmas, knitting

Happy Christmas!

I hope everyone is having a fantastic Christmas!!! I had a great weekend with my parents on their farm. They are building a new house and they had it finished enough for all of the family to eat there on Sunday. I'll post pics soon. It is going to be a pretty awesome house. I also have pictures of the amazing quilt my mom made me (something she's promised me for years) and a run down of all the things I knit for presents this year. Now I'm going to go play with my boys who are coming over. Have a good rest of the day!

Labels: christmas

Foliage

foliage
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Finished! yay I like it. It's too big for me but it should work out for it's recipient.

I saw Juno tonight. I love it and it made me cry... but lately that hasn't been hard to do. I'm having emotional times ;) It wins best soundtrack award from me.

Sweeney Todd

Oh yeah it rocked my face off!!! With only one tiny disappointment from this musical fan, it was an amazing adaptation go see it on Friday if you can.

Labels: movies, musicals

Greetings!

It has been one crazy week. After getting my power back, I had to finish two papers and take a final. Now I am officially finished with my first semester of grad school! Then I started knitting up a storm. I made two scholar collars for gypsy out of the leftover yarn from his pirate hat (I only have a picture of one at the moment).

I started a foliage hat today.

This is quickly becoming a new favorite of mine. I finished and blocked my hemlock ring blanket.

I now have all of my Christmas knitting done!!! How exciting is that??? Now I can start that enormous list of stuff I've been saving up to knit myself. :) I'll be putting that list up around new year's.

I have received a few gifts from gypsy. We are exchanging in cycles this year. I got the Shiny Toy Guns CD, an ornament display holder thingy to use as a necklace rack, and the best gift of all... The DVD of the Sarah Silverman Program :) it makes me happy.

Man oh man, have I been baking. I made gingerbread snowflakes for my co-workers and sugar cookies for the work Christmas party tomorrow.

I also made broccoli cheese casserole for the party as well. I would get hurt if I didn't make that.

Labels: cookies, knitting, life

ice of death?

Maybe... 20 have died because of this stupid storm and a whole lot of the state is without electricity. I am very thankful to have mine back today. Now I can get back to my paper and studying for finals in the warmth of my own home. I am very glad I had a friend to lend me the use of her home last night. It was sooo cold in my apartment when I got up yesterday there was no way I could stand it. I'm too cold natured to be able to live in a 50 degree apartment. The thing that I find most depressing about all of this is the state of all the trees. It is really depressing driving anywhere there are limbs and split trees everywhere!

This one is far more interesting if you view the big picture.
Seriously the ice is sooo thick it was about 3/4th of an inch thick on my car yesterday and I had to take a hammer to it to break it up so I could get it off.

More limbs have fallen since I took these pictures. I should take more from around my work those trees are all over the roads.

Labels: life

update

My electricity stayed off after midnight last night. I took a hammer to the ice on my car today and drove to my friend's house. She still has power, thankfully. So yeah, I officially hate the ice, it's left my house a freezing palace of death and it's keeping my best friend from being able to drive home. boo ice!

Labels: life

Damn... The oven is electric!

Well the ice blanket of death has attacked Oklahoma. My electricity keeps coming and going. It probably won't last long enough for me to finish this post. The most sucky thing is that I have two papers due tomorrow, which are really hard to write when the computer keeps dying in between charges. It's also not fun doing anything by candlelight no matter what the purists say.

I also put a cake in the oven right before it all started. Which means yeah, that isn't going to turn out very well. Oh its flickering again better go.

Labels: life

Christmastime is here...

Craftyminx's TOP 5 Christmas songs with commentary by me. :)

5. Jingle Bells by Barbara Streisand
it just makes me smile

4.Run Rudolph Run by Hanson
This is my favorite Christmas album but I do love this song the best :)

3. Carol of the Bells
this year I'm partial to JT Murrell's version its instrumental with lots of electric and acoustic guitar and drums. Really good. Trans-Siberian Orchestra's is the stand by favorite though.

2. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings by Barenaked Ladies with Sarah McLachlan
Yeah I just love this song and love to sing to it in the car. No other reason really.

1. Little Drummer Boy
the only acceptable versions of this song are Whiteheart and Audio Adrenaline... period. I find every other version extremely offensive and they will bring me to tears. I'm not sure why, but I hate the song otherwise.

and since I love Christmas albums as well here are my favorites this year they are always looping on my ipod...

Reliant K: Let it Snow Baby... Let it Reindeer

Sufjan Stevens: Songs for Christmas

Hanson: Snowed in (it's not Christmas until I listen to this cd)

Happy Christmas Vol. 2 (In my opinion the only good volume of this set)

Barenaked Ladies: Barenaked for the Holidays

JT Murrell: Restoration "A Collection of Christmas Songs" (I'm biased with this one but it really is good)

Labels: christmas, music

Just a quick post to catch up...

I wore the red dress last weekend. It was well received by all. And I was quite happy that I actually have cleavage now, it's been a work in progress for a long time ;).

I finally put buttons on my EZ baby sweater. It turned out sooo cute and the mommy to be loved it yay! It didn't photo very well, I'll have to have her bring it back to work so I can get another pic.

I designed the booties myself. I have been so busy with school that I didn't think I'd have time to make some saartjes bootees, so I crocheted these up. I'll post a pattern when I figure out how to write out the left bootie strap (I ended up winging that) but I have the diagram written out for it so it shouldn't take long.

I've been working on the Child's rainbow scarf from Last Minute Knitted Gifts with the "Get off your ass' colorway that I dyed last month and some knitpicks asparagus (?) swish dk. I tried like 6 different scarf patterns (all looking like cat yack in this yarn) and decided I needed to throw in a different color. I am really liking how it looks. The picture is kind of muted. oh well. The sun doesn't come out here. :)

I'm getting close to finishing the koolhaas. I really like this pattern, but I'm not super fond of the 2 stitch cable it annoys me. At least I am able to get in a rhythm.

I made cookies!!!

I made a crap load of gingerbread cookies with royal icing tonight for my crochet/knitting group tomorrow. They are soo tasty and pretty. I'm still on the lookout for big snowflake cutters. I found some at Michaels and I didn't buy them because they were in a big set but I think I'm going to go back tomorrow and pick them up. I still have sugar cookies to make for work.

Ok well that gets me caught up on the crafty front. In other news I have 2 papers to write this weekend, a final on Wednesday to study for, about 6 loads of laundry to do, and a bff who I hope will be on his way home soon! I will have FO's by the next time I'm able to post, I'm sure.

Labels: baby stuff, cookies, crochet, knitting