A Notion to Knit

New Year's Eve

Happy New Year to everyone! We're out of this year and into another one, a promising year.

As far as the internet-y stuff, I completed the ABC-along 2008 though not so successfully. I was completely unable to think of anything for X or Z. Maybe next year?

Enjoy this day!

Antique store find.

Very cool.

"...and you know what they say about those knitters..."

"They spin quite a yarn." -Kitty Foreman, "That 70's Show"

That is absolutely one of my favorite lines from that show! Plus Kitty is so cute.

Minding my P's and Q's.

As in taking care of ABC-along business.

P is for Photography.

I love taking photographs. And enjoy looking back at them. Over the past year especially I have learned much more about the manual settings on my Sony and come up with better photos for it. Now, I'm on a new adventure with my new camera!

Quan Yin. She watches over us and keeps us safe.

a favorite

Random Friday

1. I'm very, very sleepy.

2. I made some awesome deviled eggs this morning. Yum. They were meant for Christmas but didn't get doen until today. Still, very good and I may even make some for New Year's Eve.

3. We found some cute things at the thrift store, which was having a 50% off sale.

4. I'm making some progress on space for photos.

5. I took part in a Ravelry exchange and have some great things to show later.

6. I'm very sleepy.

I must have mentioned this to a few people.

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, or Thursday, as the case may be. We had a relaxed day together. Nice. I had planned on showing some actual knitting but after opening a Christmas gift from my Mom I knew I had to share.

Last night, or really after midnight, R and I opened each other's gifts and my Mom's gift to both of us. Later, I'm going to share a few of the gifts from R because they are so cute. But, as I opened gifts, this was one of the gifts from R ..

Yay! I wanted this page a day calendar by the Yarn Harlot and may have mentioned it every time we were at Borders over the last few months. So, later this morning when I opened my gift .. I was waiting for hubby to get his gift from my Mom before opening mine and by the way, he got a certificate for moo cards, yay! Back to unwrapping this gift from my mom ..

Yep, I got two Yarn Harlot calendars! I wanted one so bad I almost bought one for myself before today. So, I will be exchanging the one that R got me for something else. Something close to this has only happened one other time. One year my Mom and I got each other something that we had both bought for ourselves already. I got her a vegetarian cookbook and she'd just bought it for herself and same for me with the first Stitch N' Bitch book. Funny, how that works out sometimes.

On a really, really nice note of the Christmas spirit a stranger helped us yesterday when we were stuck in ice. I parked in a bad spot downtown and didn't realize it was so bad until I was already in the space. It was icy and when I tried to back out the tires just spun and spun. A really nice man walking by stopped to help by pushing my car and eventually all of the rocking got me out of the spot. I have little experience driving or parking in this kind of weather and all of it exists from North Texas where it's plains. Of course, that's drastically different from Western Oregon where it's rare for even parking spaces (unless it's a parking lot maybe) to be completely flat.

Christmas snacking from my Mom and step-dad.

Later, I'll have to share a photo of the fig sauce that came with this. It is *so* good!

A last Merry Christmas as the day comes to an end.

Christmas Eve

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas Eve. Good things to show tomorrow.

One more Christmas gift done. None of them will be there since I haven't had many chances to leave my home but I did start knitting them again. This last gift was knit with Paton's SWS. And I am amazed at how good that yarn feels! I hope that it holds up well. I would like to make something else, like a hat, using it later.

So this is it for now. If you celebrate, Happy Christmas Eve tomorrow! I lovelovelove this time of year!

Happy Things

1. Lovely Etsy goods. Beautiful watercolor cards and pretty jewelry. I was also going to link two other favorites but they seem to be on a break.

2. These look really yummy.

3. Lovely snow pictures taken by my man this morning.

All happy things!