...put that thing back where it came from or so help me (so help me!)

This is just a little post, I saw this on another blog (and I apologize, I was hitting the random button on one of those blog rings and I can't for the life of me remember what the blog was--sorry!) ETA it was Addicted to Knitting go there, guess!! I have always loved cartoons, ever since the days when you could only see them on Saturday. Even before I had a daughter, I had an (almost) complete collection of Disney's animated movies on VHS. And boy was I surprised when DVDs started to make their appearance especially since I had purchased each one of those for 15$ to 20$ a piece. I totally felt the pain of Kay's character in, "Men in Black" when he commented that he would have to buy the White album again having shown Jay the item that would soon replace CDs. I was a bit heartbroken that my perfect VHS tapes would be replace by the DVDs--whatever those were. *sigh* I hate to wonder what's next, really, having said, "what could be better than (blank) one too many times (vinyl, 8-tracks, tapes, Beta -yeah, guess what that was!-and VHS).
These lines are all cartoon movies except for the last one, that's an oldie but a goodie so guess away and good luck!

1. "Greater Good?! I am your WIFE I am the greatest gooood you are ever gonna get!"

2. "Oh...look honey...Von Dutch..."

3. "Ohhh, that Abominable Snowplow is quite the comedic thespian!"

4. "Hey boss! 'Big-Butts'!"

5. "Hey Sykes, don't sweat it, a lot of white fish can't do it."

Bonus: "Lady, I JUST got my coffee the right color."

Hee hee, now I'm off to find some more :)

Bored, bored, bored...then, not so much!!

I have a couple of things going on...

That's a baby blanket for my new nephew. It's Fiesta Boomerang in Quince from The Loopy Ewe and the pattern is Crest o' the Wave from Wendy Knits. It's fabulous but it's taking me a long time to make because I'm kinda mad at it. I had wanted to make it out of a different yarn, and had even knit several inches, but I couldn't get more of the yarn I wanted and so I had to rip it back and pick new yarn so it's kind of an also-ran thing...no reflection on my nephew, though!!


I'm also working on these toe-socks out of left over sock yarn...


It's Black Purl from Lorna's Laces (purchased at The Loopy Ewe) and I just make the toe of a sock and stop and put some ribbing in when it covers the ball of my foot (I wear them with my mules during the summer-keeps my feet from being so sweaty-eeew I know sorry). Excellent use for left over sock yarn, btw.


Lastly I have some fabulous news (and I checked Tina said it was OK)


I bet y'all will never guess what it is :)... it's my homework


I am going to Sock Camp!!!!Yes, people there is a summer camp (it's actually in the spring) for folks who knit socks and yes, I paid for the privilege to go there :) Part of the fun that is sock camp is that it's held in a beautiful hotel, in picturesque surroundings and there are lots and lots of yarn shop denizens. It's like being a geek in high school and suddenly finding the secret door that takes you to "your people" where instantly you're transformed from geek to Greek. Another part of this fun is the homework that you get...yeah, I know, who's happy about homework? Well, me-when it's fun! I have to take those scraps and make a toilet paper cover, so (of course) immediately I went to work and ...I...CAN'T...WAIT!!!

That other thing...

OK, so, one of the things that I love about yarn-y festivals is the wide variety of wonderful and fun stuff that's available, showing me all the things that I didn't even know I wanted. One of those booths was practically made for me. It had these kits filled with lots of multicolored, little balls of shiny, sparkly yarns that came in a cute-y little bag and a beyouuuuuuutiful pin. Unfortunately, I couldn't bring myself to pay the price of entry, I even petted every dam kit trying to convince myself that I reeeeeeaaaaallly could. The solution to my dilemma came from my mom, normally a total enabler. She came at me with a flier for a local yarn shop and I decided that I would soothe my savaged inner yarnie by buying.....uh.....more yarn! The deal was that I would spend half as much as the kit. That way, I would get to pick my own yarn AND still get multiple-little-sparkly-shinies, even if I didn't get a cute-y little bag or a pin. So, this is what I came away with...

So I wound it and stowed it in my handy yarn management system...

and started to knit...first it looked like this...

but it wasn't enough yardage to make what I had in mind so I added more holes in hopes of getting a bigger piece of fabric...

but it still wasn't enough, so eventually it became this...

Now, the last thing I wanted to show you...and then I'll leave this Madrona thing alone...

I saw those clogs on a lady in the lobby of the hotel but by the time I got to the booth that was selling them, they only had size 10...but Knitters Dream has them and they aren't too expensive!!!!