Hmm… I was supposed to post a few things this week and of course, plans of mice and men! Ha! Apparently computer viruses are contagious amongst other computer types. For some reason we have 4 computers. 3 laptops and a desk top, to be exact. 1 laptop hasn’t worked in a few years and the other 3 all got sick with a terrible virus in this last week. Thankfully we have some computer geniuses in the family and they’ve all fully recovered, including the laptop which was raised from the dead. This also coincided with a freak snow ‘storm’ (4 inches) that had all of Portland at a complete stop. Which I would have enjoyed, but my Dear husband and eldest son were driving home and got stuck in the stand still traffic for 8 hours. … and Seth’s phone died. Sigh. I ate a dozen cookies, a bowl of truffle oil popcorn and all of my fingernails that evening. He came home with this though, so my anxiety was quickly replaced with love
Le Creuset. I want to replace my entire kitchen with this brand. I can’t believe I could be so obsessed with cookware… and yarn.. take a look at my stash.
It’s growing restless and I’m afraid it may go rogue…. Those bags are also full of yarn. I could probably clothe our entire household in knit goods from underwear to coats and still have yarn left over. I love it.
Look at these lovelies… cashmere and alpaca. Oh to find a project worthy of their lovliness!
So that’s been my week.
Hmmm… what else, what else…
I finally knit a hat that fits my hubster! As I posted last week, I have made 2 other unsuccessful attempts and was afraid this would be yet another. Thank Jebus for blocking. And he likes it! And OTHER people like it! I love it when that happens. I don’t have a great picture yet of his hat, but here’s one as well as one of the failed attempts, which is now my viking hat or the Garmisch on Ravelry. The pattern I settled on for the 3rd and final hat is the Knotty but Nice. Love it. I also gave the Koolhaas a couple tries. It’s a neat pattern, but it takes… FOREVER.
This picture is not me trying to my artsy fartsy, it’s my lack of photography skills. Rather my camera’s lack of photography skills….
Sadly, this is the best picture I could get with the details of the cabling
The Viking hat. It must be worn with braids and a snarl. Can you believe this picture was taken from the same camera!? I can only take pictures in natural light, the flash is wretched.
I’m knitting myself some Veylas (you must be a member of Ravelry to open the link) right now, they’re so wonderfully dainty… which isn’t quite my style, but I think I can pull it off. I usually wear bulky mittens and thick coats and bit clunky cowboy boots, and I cant WAIT to fit back into my carhartts…. but I am a petite girl, so dainty things would most likely suit me well and then I wouldn’t always look like a burly mountain woman.
Aren’t they so pretty? The one currently being knit is full of mistakes, as I often get interrupted and then lose my place, but I like to refer to this as my creative signature. These are just the cuffs that wrap around the wrist, and then the glove is knit onto them.
Oh January….The beginning of this year has me looking forward to what the next 365 days will bring. I have no doubt it will be challenging, perhaps the most challenging year Seth and I have faced. He still has a year and a half of school. He’s studying Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in Renewable Energies, I’m so proud of my geek 
So this year promises to be a bit taxing on all of us. However, I sense change on the horizon. Good things. I hope that in the next year we find our selves closer to a more simple and abundant lifestyle. It takes one day at a time. One moment at a time. It means thinking more things through and working hard, but I wouldn’t have it any other way, and someday we may find ourselves here…..
