OK, so I suck.

Hey there.

Yeah, a little something was missing this weekend....namely the pics I promised. I'm a sorry individual, but I have an excuse (however flimsy it may be) alas, my poor camera is dead! crapped out, kaput. It seems that the ole Kodak has finally ended its run. Research is ongoing on what shiny little point and shoot will replace it, but till the new one is dropped down the chimney by ye old camera stork (or UPS once the bad boy is finally ordered) then I promise not to tease about photos that aren't ready to post. My heartfelt apologies!

Anyway, on to better and brighter things. Once my Fire Island was all set, soaked and dried, I realized in all of my newbieness, I was unaware that there is a right and a wrong way to wind yarn onto a niddy noddy...( I bet you can see where this is going....) and I sure as heck did it the wrong way. And let me tell ya, once you learn the hard way you will never make that mistake again! I spent most of Friday night on the living room floor cursing and untangling roughly 400 yards of freshly washed and dried yarn that had turned itself into the biggest mess of gobbledygook that I have witnessed in quite some time.

I managed to get it untangled and re skeined, and now it is sitting patiently while I decide what it wants to be when it grows up. I also managed to keep my temper in check and kept most of the cursing at a mild to moderate level, helpful because I a new neighbor just moved in that night and I didn't want to scare her out of the building just yet. (she might be a knitter!)


Boy genius and I took our planned Saturday morning trek to IKEA, and we were handsomely rewarded. I managed to find a cute little unfinished pine stool that is just the right height for sitting at my wheel to spin, but can also double as a nifty little end table when my can isn't parked on it.

We also got the wall mounted drop leaf table for the kitchen so Boygenius can set up his art supplies without being attacked by a flying, vengeful furgenius who is starved for attention and will not take no for an answer.

We also dined on the finest in swedish meatballs and mashed potatoes at their cafe ( I also highly recommend the chocolate overload cake...but who needs a recommmendation to eat chocolate cake? It's all pretty good if you ask me.)

We bought a yard of nifty printed fabric to stretch on canvas stretcher bars to hang as art on our living room wall. It looks awesome!

I still have yet to find the ultimate in yarn and fiber storage though, so the quest continues....

Sunday we spent quality time over at the genius-in-laws house, and I got to talk knitting shop with my MIL between swimming and rounds tasty margaritas. Good times. Monday was the day o apartment artwork hanging and organization. All in all a fabulous weekend.

Now I'm back to the grind and eyeballing some fine looking fiber from Crown Mountain Farms to replace the space in the stash that the Fire Island once occupied... always good policy to keep an extra bit of pretty fluff ready for action!

Here's hoping for a good and fluff-filled week for everyone!

Pie, Ikea, and Labor Day excitement.

IT'S FRIDAY!!!!!

TGIF for real. Its the beginning of the semester at the school where I work, and folks are crazy!!! The wackness was coming out of the woodwork, and I was seriously thinking that it was time to just lay me head down on my desk and cry.

I did what all people should do in such a situation...I took off at lunch and went and bought myself a giant honking slice of strawberry pie! I took it and ate in the sunshine of the parking lot, away from my little desk in the basement an d the ringing phone and non-stop emails.

Its true. Pie does have magical properties. If you don't believe me, go getcha a slice and see if I'm foolin'.

(does anyone really need an excuse to go have some pie? If you do, I just gave you one...Go get some pie. I'll be here when you get back..... Isn't that much better? )


In 1 hours and 46 minutes or so, the long weekend will officially commence. I can't wait! Boygenius and I are going to work on finishing up the very last of the unpacking and decorating of the apartment-yup, its only taken us about a month, but for a while there we thought we might be relocating yet again, so it didn't make too much sense to unpack to repack. Now that we are settled in for sure, with no chance of relo, its time to get down to business!

This might have to mean a Saturday trip to IKEA. (mmmm...IKEA!).

That boygenius of mine lurves some IKEA, and he's all about getting us organized and beautified. This is a very good thing-I'm a lucky girl. I'm hoping to find something nifty to contain all of the woolly, fluffy overflow that surrounds the area when I have been spinning, and to keep it pretty and out of the way. He is hoping to find a drop leaf table that we can put in the kitchen for use as a drawing table and kitchen prep station. I'm looking forward to the hour and a half's worth of car knittin' that's bound to happen each way.

Whatever the outcome, I'll just be happy to blow this Popsicle stand for a while and tread on some new ground for a minute.

In stash addition news, I got 8oz of the prettiest oatmeal colored BFL from Tracy at Copperpot Woolies on Etsy. Its absolutely divine. I can't wait to dive on into it. I'm thinking about doing a barber pole spin of it with some natural BFL that I bought from her a while back. It could make for a lovely shawl.

I've also been spinning the Fire Island merino that I bought from her this week, and I'm loving the way its spinning. I'm going to go with a three ply, and its my first merino, and first color spinning so I'm really interested to see what it will look like when its all and skeined up. I'm hoping to get the camera up and working after we get back from IKEA tomorrow so I can show you what it looks like-Talking about spinning is good, but it isn't nearly as cool without pictures of the F.O!

While you are waiting why don't you have a slice of pie?