Presents from Lovely Sue

Lovely Lovely Sue sended me pressies!!

Headscarfs made by her own fair hand! sold on ebay (see previous postie for link). they are spifferooooo
Buttons!! I love buttons, more on that later...

Yarn Pron Friday-The Motherload

OOOK well i have bought a lot of yarn this week...
IndividuallyKnit Picks Panache in Dusk (40% baby alpaca, 20% silk, 20% cashmere, 20% extrafine merino, 100% snorgable). Destined to be a vesty thingHipknits Silk aran purchased from the lovely Sue, who is destashing on ebay but i got a sneak preview! Destined to be a cardi i think.Knit picks Andean Silk in leaf, again high snorgle factor. Destined to be backyards leaves scarf
Knit Picks Pallette. Destined to be a preemptive Shetland Shawl.
Squishy Luxury Alpaca Peru, from my SP rather yummy!Luxury Nazca again from my SP, destined to be snorgled (again with the baby alpaca)

Purple Sock yarn sent by Sue, destined to go to damama for socksMore Patons Washed haze aran in dark denim to finish the sweater of doom

Knit Picks Cotlin in Dessert and Morroco, destined to become a sweater and a DNA vesty thing, tho i donno which will be which yet...Cotton, cheap goodness from Lidl!, will be come perhaps a sweater of some sort

Rowan Linen Print in blush, destiny unknown.Not strictly yarn but well, crotcher hooks and blocking pins!

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I GOT A PACKAGE FROM MY SP!!! ALL THE WAY FROM CANADIA!!!! I AM VERY EXCITED!!!!

look:

Family Guy DVD, i freakin' love family guy!
2 lovelry alpacay balls of yarn (better pics the morra)
kittie and doggie postits and a kacha kacha

i am so excited by this thing, I;ve wanted one for ages yay!

The Great Vegetable Experiment 07, Day 7

Progress!!Potatoes chittedBrocolli growing!
Peas growing
Tomatoes growing!

Next steps, plant matoes in grow bags and plant the potatoes etc, once i get my alloted space in the garden

hey look a bandwagon... and I'm on it!!!

Jared Leto?? a little random mayhaps

Soundtrack to your Life

So i stole this from someone on Bebo, i think its genius! I didnt cheat, and some of it would be quite good mthinks. I therefore challenge y'all to do it too!!
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IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here's how it works:

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...

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Opening Credits:
Montegues and Capulets- Prokieov

Waking Up:
Junkie's Running Dry- Operation Ivy

First Day At School:
Suggragette City- David Bowie

Falling In Love:
Bohemian Rhapsody

Fight Song:
Last of the Secret Agents- Nancy Sinatra

Breaking Up:
Laid so low (tears fall down ) - Tears for Fears

Prom:
Shattered- The Rolling Stones

Life:
Under the Influence- Eminem

Mental Breakdown:
The End of The Line - The Offspring

Driving:
97- The Alkaline Trio

Flashback:
The Meaning of Life- The Offspring

Getting back together:
Same Size Feet- Stereophonics

Losing your virginity:
Taking over me - Evanescence

Wedding:
Walking In My Shoes- Depeche Mode

Birth of Child:
You got me Runnin' Def Leppard

Final Battle:
Proffesionals Theme Tune

Death Scene:
I'll Be OK- McFly

End Credits:
Ballroom Blitz - The Sweet

The Great Vegetable Experiment 07, Day 1

Or possibly day 2 as the stuff was bought yesterday? we will go wil day 1.

Anyway, seeing as i will be home over the summer and as such have a garden i have decided to try and grow some veggies. The first stage planting!
Peas, Basil, Lemon Basil, Broccolli and Carrots
Tomatoes, big and wee.

Still to be planted, when the weather is better:
Potatoes, Onions and Garlic.

Updates as time progresses....

the moon and the pea

once upon time there was light in my life now theres only love in the dark nothing i can do total eclipse of the....moon?

ahem, yes lunar eclipse some attempt at pictures

Second a FO. preesie for a collegue of my dad's as yet unborn child of gender unknown

close up of lacy bitPattern is the Pea Pod Set from IK, Yarn wendy Bambino

WIP WIP wooray

So you may have noticed the large amount of things that are in progress from my wee bars over there... i think i have knitting ADD that and too many birthdays in too short a time so i will have a bit of an expose on the WIPS.

First off the group shot, bit alarming when you see em all like this
Individuallly in order of starting them:

The sweater of doom aka Danny's Sweater for his birthday 8th or April still a front and a sleeve to go is it gonna happen?Its getting there slowly...
Next Dream swatch scarf, has been put on the back burner a bit as its for me thus no rush what so everBamboo is pretty

I think the next in line would be the pirate bag, aka double knitting of doom its going slowly and also been put of in favour of more urgent mattersOne side is red and one side is black see... Also notice little goober holding the end of the circ together thats my yarn guide best £1.30 (plus postage) i ever spent makes things so much easier!

Next Shawl of eternal and everlasting doom. can you tell i am not loving this, its getting better now but at first it seemed to be getting nowhere oh and did i mention its all garter stitch all 160 rows of it.But well its for my friends birthday so i will perserver hopefully i can get it finished and posted by the 16th of March...

These next 2 are for the sake of completeness tho i dunno if they really count

Poly bag knitting started at the museum for demo purposes it
will ultimately be a bag if i ever get round to doing anything more with it

This is a test swatch for something i am kinda trying to design its more to see if all these ideas i have in my head are physically translatable to knitting
Yup 3 colour work and cables, am i mad? prolly...

Lastly the most recent start and that which is likely to be needed the quickest! Its the beginnings of the Pea Pod set (from IK knits, will link pattern when its done) and is for one of my dads coworkers who's wife is due to sprong next week thus i need to be getting a wriggle on!
Its coming on quite quick and look:Lace!! albeit kinda bumpy unblocked stuff but still lace!!!

So yes WIPs ago go...

Shopping!!

I've been doing me some shopping... Yesterday on the way home mother and i went to costco, i got this top:

We will be ignoring the double chin action in these pics ok! Dont i look all 60s! We also got this, which meant i spend a portion of yesterday lying in the back of my mums car in costco carpark to see if it would fit (it did eventually with much angling and swearing)
Twas a little dark out side.
Today we went up the street i got a hairband (as seen above and below). Then we went to New Lanark, mainly for yarn (coming up) but there was a sale in the Woolen Mill place, mother said it would be crap i said a sale is a sale, she got 2 jumpers (gonna be crap eh?) and i got this:

Feel like i should be going to play golf, but i like it! I also raided their cheap jewellry section again:

Pearl necklace thing, just like the queen, pretty earrings and a bracelet and to go with the necklace

Scary close up of my ear! Then the main purpose of the trip aran yarn for experimental purposes

twas a bit soggy out so had to leave it in its wee pokes, was also gettn dark but you get the idea!
Lastly the results of shopping i did thru the week, i bought a plain yellow tshirt cos it was cheap and then put my own design on it whadda ya think:

If you cant see it says all the cool kids knit, which is true!

My daddy was in Paris a coupla weeks ago and brought me this back:

A Scarf with a fluffy hood! am i not glam and Parisienne?

Think thats me, lotsa piccys!

A week in minutes!

Oki so yes again its been a while but well a lots been going on.
I fixed my puta woo yay, i got mosta my stuff back bigger woo yay! It wasnt cheap but well hey ho!
Then the majority of my Wednesday was taken up by essay writing (yes Valentines day, but well its pointless and no boy!)
Thursday is pub quiz day, we won the first round and got this:
We shall call him Bob and he will be our mascot! Because of this Friday evening i did this:NTP=National Tea Party our team name! Spiffy!
Saturday parental units came we went to art gallery again, not a lot else went on tht i can remember.
Sunday I KIPed for 7 hours! The Eduinburgh Stitch n Bitch group City Knitty that i go to got invited to do a sorta demo at the National Museum, knitting with unusual materials so we went along armed with poly bags and wire and chatted to people and what not, twas rather fun
here is Liz and Hugh knitting away!
Monday i had pancakes, Tuesday i went to the theatre
Today i went to the cinema then shopping (via the art gallery for the 3rd time) I got these:For a fiver!!!
funky no?
now i must knit the evil things