Radio Darkness

Captain's Log, 6-27-2007:

As we approach the slingshot around the moon in approach to the asteroid, we will experience radio darkness, we will not have contact with either ship.

Yep, tomorrow is D-day here, we're movin' the furniture out of this apt. and moving into his mom's until the 3rd of July (we'll move into our Columbus, Ga. apt that day). We may or may not have internet for a week or two.

I may be able to get back online in the am, but consider this my last transmission.

Signing off.

Finally, Some KNITTING

So I have been telling ya'll I've been knitting, but finally proof! I give you my June socks for SAM3 knit with Lorna's Laces Shep. Sock in mountain creek (a birthday gift from a friend). I did my usual toe up with magic cast on, magic loop, two socks at a time. These don't fit so well, but it could be my feet are funky in the summer. I know my hands swell in the heat, my feet may have the same reaction. I hope they fit during the winter weeks.


I sorta used this pattern, but I didn't like the diamonds after the first one I knit. And I was all nutty about the ktb marching up the front and I think it kinda looks like a skinny snake now, starting with the diamond head at the toe and going up to the cuff.


I don't like them soo much, but I hated knitting them. I love this yarn, but it's dark. Don't even think of k2tog or p2tog with this stuff, that willow green will make your eyes bleed trying to see in all but the brightest lights. I just worked with this yarn too long.

Remember that I started with the Pomatomus socks and couldn't turn the heel in this yarn, I'm just not that bright. Not right this second anyway, but I have evidence that I got that far before I ripppped right on out. This pic is terrible, the sun wasn't being nice, neither was the sock yarn/pattern/brain.


See, I can knit the stupid pattern, but I can't do the heel flap or pick up the gusset. I want these to be turned toe up by someone smarter than I am, I think Domesticat may have, but I'm not sure if that's Pom. or monkeys. Either way, I want to knit them. Yeah, it's Pomatomus.

In other news, the marathon of baby hat knits ended and I have 8 finished. I sent them out last weekish?? and I hope Sheri gets them before she goes on vacation. Here they are in all their glory, I did do individuals with Julian, but I'm too tired and covered in newsprint from packing for out move to Columbus that I just don't have it in me to edit and load those bad boys. Maybe for a future post.


Off to pack more boxes and perhaps fall asleep on a pile of newspapers.

Scattergories

The game is SCATTERGORIES, and it’s harder than it looks!

Here are the rules:

Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They MUST be real places, names, things…NOTHING made up! If you can’t think of anything, skip it. Try to use different answers if the person before you had the same 1st initial. You CAN’T use your name for the boy/girl name question. Have fun!

Your Name: Lacey
1. Famous Singer/Band: Leadbelly

2. 4 letter word: Limp

3. Street: Learning Ave. (NO Joke, schools are located there in Sumter Co. I think)

4. Color: Lemon Yellow

5. Gifts/Presents: Lame, Late, Last Minute Oh, not describe them, types of: Leisure Suit, legos, linkin logs, Littlest Pet Shop


6. Vehicle: Lamborghini

7. Things in a Souvenir Shop: Lanyards

8. Boy Name: Lewis

9. Girl Name: Laura Lee

10. Movie Title: Lion King

11. Drink: Liquid Heroin (Ingredients: 1 part Goldschlägar, 1 part Jägermeister,
1 part Bicardi 151) [Holy Crap! You could light your breath on fire after this one!]

12. Occupation: Line Worker, Locomotive Engineer, Line Dancer, Longshoreman, Lord of the Dance

13. Celebrity: Lindsay Lohan

14. Magazine: Life

15. U.S. City: Ludowici, GA

16. Pro Sports Teams: Lakers

18. Reason for Being Late for Work: Lost your keys

19. Something You Throw Away: limp lettuce

20. Things You Shout: LOSER!

21. Cartoon Character: Leanardo (Ninja Turtles, TURTLE POWER!)

Crap

I was working on this long big post, and even got it posted. But the pics were too big and everythign got all wonky and then it died. So I give you this small pic of Passion (now sold) wound into a center pull ball. I think it is very sexy. :D Maybe this will give you lurkers an urge to buy from The Fuzzy Peach. The others should wind up just a sexily (not really a word, but go with me).



*Blogger hates me and my photos. They keep blowing up when I blog them. GRrrr. This photo is only like 300 pix at it's largest. Rawr*

Fuzzy Update

It's live, and it could be coming to a browser near you (assuming you follow this link)

that's right as advertised on Beneath the Fiber Moon by none other than lovely Jessica (episode 27) .

It's been a few weeks now since the Fuzzy Peach hit the street and we've moved some yarn. However, we, the faithful owners, are relocating to a bigger city (eek!) and we need to get this stuff out of our hands and into yours. (read: I don't want to move this yarn :P) So I'm posting the little mini guy below to show you folks out there in blogland what we have left to get your paws on.

Etsy Buy Handmade thefuzzypeach

For our customers to see our next update tenatively scheduled for August, we need to sell these skeins so that we can buy more yarn with the profits, duh. For our next endeavor we'll be using a new base yarn that will be more substantial and hold up to Soviet missle attacks and nuclear holocaust (it has nylon). Since that's a bit nicer and more hardy, we have to shell out more for the stuff. Also, when we get this sold, we may be bringing you some cool promotions in the next update. Perhaps some discounts, perhaps some freebies. Freebies are goooood. :D

And to soothe your soul about the purchase, just think, I'm going to be a teacher (high school) so every dollar you spend here supports education! I realize that it probably isn't in your community, but still, it supports education (rationalize). And for the handfull that may be holding out for that "going out of business" fire sale, not gonna happen because I'll knit it up myself! :P

Remember if you love us, blog us!

Newsy News

So I have had some wondermus news for a while, but never had the time to post here, not really.

I have a job for next year, I'll be teaching in Talbot County at the high school. :D And, we have a two bedroom apt. on hold for us to move in on July 5th. And, today the boy got a call from Aflac to do a preemployment screening thing. You know, pee in a cup, do computer tests, see if he's nutzo. So the world is looking up for now. :D I'm very happy and things are just coming together. We're buying furniture like mad trying to fill the new apt. (the living room alone is almost the same size of the entire apt we live in now: just about 1 ft. shorter and 5 ft. skinner). We bought a king sized bed today and it has one seXy headboard. It's like from the 60's or 70's, it reminds me of the kind of bed my Granny and Papa had, except a little tackier. hehe

And so I am packing, not knitting. I knit 8 baby hats for the Loopy Ewe's Q2 challenge and sent them off this am. I also finished my moutain creek socks. I hated knitting them. I think I worked with that yarn for too long, trying too many different patterns. Finally, I found one that was ok but by the end of the thing it looked nothing like the pattern, I just used a few of the pattern elements and repeated them a bunch of times. I am also working on a next pair of socks, this in On Linie (??) in a very springy color. They are pretty, but due to short time and poor lighting, I cut the yarn in the wrong spot so they are two totally different socks. Ah, well. Can't have exact twins each time. I was going to frog and try to start over with the same repeat, but I'm not so sure I'll have enough yarn, it said it was 100g which is usually enough, but I dunno. Don't always trust what I read on ballbands that are printed in different languages. :P

Other than that, things are just about packing, cleaning, painting, sanding, panicing about getting out of here the 30th and not being able to move in there until the 5th of July. We have to move to his mom's for a week. :/ I'd rather just move once and be done with this mess.

Example Sock

Mrs. B suggested that I knit up a sock to show how looovely my colors are, and I was waay ahead of her. I turned these babies out last week (ignore the one with the ugly color changes at the top, I ran out of my yarn and had to sub this really multi-color, tried to cut the ugly out, but I got tired) and they are so just the thing for my bear, Julian. He rocks these socks folks!
Work it! :P

And here is a zoom version. I cut most of the ugly out of this picture so you can't see the orange, brown, and purple that I bound off with! :D Like I said, I got very tired, these are some small socks. I had only a 9g skein (like my heel or toe skeins) and managed to get one full baby sock and one baby sock up to the end of the heel. I had to pick up the new yarn after I had all my heel stitches done. I would assume that a tiny skein would work a full set of grown up toes or heels.

And I have to tell you, even though I have a stake in these yarns, I loved working with it. It was soft and sqoooshy. And it knit up into a nice fabric on size 1s (US) and I had a ball making such tiny little socks.

As you can see, the colors just blend and flow together in such a beautiful way. :D I think that this would be the way that Passion and Shades of Kermit would knit up, esp. Shades of Kermit because the colors are all in the same family. Passion is going to have some red punches in the darker background. It's the one I most want to keep for myself and knit into some cool socks. :D

Sick

Yep, that's me. Coughy, sneezy, about an inch from death. Or at least that's how I've been feeling since Monday. Lower than a worm's belly. I'm thinking it has something to do with being in my mom's house all last weekend (she smokes!) and then seeing her friend who was also sick. I think I got her mega virus thing. I wish I could give mine away now. If you want a nasty little cold bug, got one, cheap!

In other news, The Fuzzy Peach opened on Friday, selling three skeins in less than 10 hours. I thought it was a great sign of quick sells to come. No such luck. Rawr. I really would like this stuff to sell, I need the cash flow, plus...the longer it sits in my house, the more it's likely not to ever leave. The stash has been eyeing it greedily and I'm not sure how much longer I can keep it from consuming all 7 skeins that are left.


And you wanna know what's better than silk yarn on a 75% sale? Cream cheese stuffed croissants. MMMMM. The Atlanta Bread company (and I'm sure Panera and the likes) sell them, and I've only had one recently. I loved it to death and wanted more (the closest one is like an hour and a half away) so I decided to make my own.

What you need:
Croissants in a can (a la the dough boy)
1 bar of cream cheese softened (Philly baby!)
1/2 cup sugar (pure bliss)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2-3 tabs melted (liquid) butter (I just eyeball this stuff folks!)
Basting Brush thingy
Flour
Rolling Pin
Flat surface to roll on
Pan
Oven

To Make:
Preheat the oven like the package says.
Blend softened cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla in small bowl.
Take your croissants and separate them out, I roll mine flatter and wider than they come. Fill the center and a little down the legs of the croissant with the cream cheese yumminess. Roll that puppy up and place it on the pan. (You may want to PAM the pan first) I try cutting little slits in the top to give the filling a place to go, but it's easier said than done most times. When you have them all filled and rolled up, brush them with the melted butter. Then bake according to the little can.

YOU MUST WAIT TO EAT THESE. Cream cheese that's been in a 375 degree oven for 11 minutes is hotter than all fourty hell, ask me how I know. :D

My boyfriend says they'd be good with some cinnamon and sugar sprinkled on the top before the butter goes on, but I can't ever remember it!

I suggested the little bit down the legs of the croissant because if you don't you get these puffy little croissant pieces with no cream cheese, now who wants to eat that? :P Also, note...I have NO idea how to roll these suckers up to make them look right, I just wrap the dough around the blob in the middle and hope for the best!

Good luck and Enjoy!

Don't forget to shop THE FUZZY PEACH! You knowww you NEED more sock yarn...muuhahahahaha. :P

Green Knickers

I wound up here through a number of different blogs, beginning with Soule Mama ->No Impact Man ->The Compact ->Comment on a post. Anyway, this site sells nice panties. Nice in that they don't kill the environment, hurt their laborers, rip off the producers, you know, nice.

And while I'm all for this, these panties are a bit strange. :D Click the link and see what I mean. http://www.greenknickers.org/Knickers/OtherKnickers.html
The first row, Sensual Nature, is interesting. The one that changes to cover the Earth in water is the one that kills me. I'm all for this place and environmentalists and communes and save a tree, but I don't know that I'd wear panties that said Global Warming across the sides. Maybe I'm just strange. But they are cute panties and they are funny (Eat organic on panties sends a very naughty message!).

Anyway, random rant/comment on random item. :D Enjoy your week.

And don't forget about my Etsy store. Only three skeins sold so far, so your favorite may still be avaliable. :D

The Fuzzy Peach is Live

We're up and running! I began posting at 12am and have finished, so they are ready for your purchase. Everything is up. I know it's like waiting for Christmas morning, so sneak out of bed early and peek. Dig in and enjoy.

Tease Me

I managed to get everything photographed and ready early, so you get two days to drool instead of just one! I love these yarns so much, it's really hard to let go.
All our initial offerings (below) are fingering weight sock yarns. The goal length for the skeins was 440yds, your mileage may vary as this was done by humans on a niddy noddy.

This is the softcore set, you'll have to wait for the full frontals when the store opens on Friday. :D

On to the yarn p0rn.

Sea and Sky

I wound this one into a tiny skein, trying to break up the colors and give you an idea of how it might look knit up. As I used a wooden cutting board, this was quickly abandoned as a BAD idea. :P The yarn is perfectly fine, just a little smaller in skein than the others.

Sunburst - SOLD

This yarn comes with a mini-skein of bright pink. Use it for toes or heels. This is a free gift to you, using up my leftovers after the big skeins were wound up.

Shades of Kermit

One of my personal faves, I want this one to pet and look at all day. This is a bit brighter, more vivid in person. The sun was not my friend today.

Sea Monkey - SOLD

Bright blue with a splash of brown. I've seen these colors combined all over the Internet, and decided to capture it here, in this sock yarn.

Passion - SOLD

This is a unique yarn that has deep, rich colors. From bright red to a purpled black, this one captures all those "loving feelings."

Sea Turtle - SOLD

"Aye, sea turtles." 'Nuf said.

Orangello

This one is named for a guy who went to my high school. His brother was Lemonjello (okay, so this maaay be an urban legend, who knows?). This one also comes with the free heel or toe accent color.

1969 - SOLD

Think, or remember, tie-dye T-shirts. Comes with a free mini heel/toe skein. Groovy, baby.

Lisa Frank

This skein is difficult to photograph well. It reminded me of those stickers I was obsessed with when I was twelve. I LOVED this woman's stickers, and these colors play heavily in those creations. I probably put the CEO's kids through school, off of my allowance. :)

Berry Sophisticated

For those of us with exceptional taste and high style. :D This skein is my favorite of the lot. This skein has extra yardage (113 g), human error to your favor!


Remember to stop by the shop on Friday to buy your favorite skeins! Also, get your two free stitch markers with each skein of yarn, this is exclusive to the shop opening. Thanks for looking, tell your friends, blog us, podcast us, sky write us, graffiti us, advertise us, and most importantly, BUY: you know everyone NEEDS more sock yarn.

And, Sock Yarn DOESN'T count as stash!

Announcement

You can now (by now I mean on Friday) find hand-painted sock yarn dyed in the Deep South by yours truly. I've been working up to this since Feb, and have just now put all my ducks in a row.

Well, they've been in the water awhile, but they've been helter skelter for a few weeks. I've got a few mini-skeins to twist up (beef up the original skeins), and then Friday, all hades will break loose when I let the shop go live. :D

Follow the link to see the empty store. For a preview of yarns, check out this blog on Thursday.

Exclusive to the first shop update, get two free stitch markers to match or coordinate with your yarn! First come, first served! I've been saving up these hand-made stitch markers for months for this very occasion. :D

Wish me Luck!

Tag, I'm it

LaurieC tagged me on her blog so here goes. . .

Here's how it goes. . .each person tagged gives 7 random facts about themselves as well as the rules of the game. You need to tag 7 others & list their names on your blog. You have to leave those you tag a note in their comments letting them know they have been tagged & to read your blog. So here it goes!

I'm only gonna tag two, the Knitorious Mrs. B and TeAntae. Those are the only two bloggers I know well enough to pass this blight on to. :P

1. I don't like onions, tomatoes, olives, and many other things that are fresh and good for you. I've only recently gotten to where I can stand squash, if cooked on way with some Zuchinni (sp?). This has always been a rough row to hoe 'cause I live in the South, and there's nothing a real Southerner loves more than a good pan of squash and onions, tomatoes and okra, and many other things that have that mess in them. My Aunt Jean makes a killer pea salad or something, it has onions, tomatoes, and all manner of other crunchy stuff that makes my tounge run and hide!

2. I don't like my hands to be dirty. I wash them in the dishwater over and over again while I cook or bake. If I get egg on me, into the water. Anything sticky, I'm going to wash then too.

3. I can hear all sorts of sounds others block out or can't hear. My boyfriend says I can hear things before they start, like things that I know get on my nerves. I hate small, repetitive, or "just within hearing range" sounds. I also hate the train whistle that the train yard behind our house uses. It's not one of those full blast horns. It's a halfassed thing that kinda whooshes. Since it's different from what you expect, it wakes me up.

4. I have moved probably 20 times in my lifetime, often back and forth from the same two cities. I went to 2 elem. schools, 2 middle schools, but only one high school.

5. I always mispronounce paradigm. I almost always say para-di-gum. Not even gonna play like I know why I do that.

6. I cannot stand to eat on real plates, you know...anything other than paper. The sound that a knife or fork makes when it screeches across the plate makes my brain squiggle and my teeth ache. It's the sound I cannot stand the most. It's totally my nails on a chalkboard. Although that sound freaks me out too.

7. I don't like to write in pencil. I've been taking notes in pen since high school. I almost always had to borrow a pencil for Biology, Chem, or math classes. I just don't like them. And if I do write with a pencil, I want the point sharp enough to etch glass. And I prefer mechanical pencils because I break the points on the real ones because I write so hard.

So those are seven random facts about me. If you would like to do this on your blog, feel free. I'm not one to tag others because I don't want you to feel like you have to do something. :D

Happy Mother's Day to all the mommies out there, esp. mine. She reads this blog sometimes. Love you Mama, thanks for all you do! :D See you next Friday when you sign your life away to that man you say you love. :P

Crock o' crap

Wow. I have hated those rubber clog things that have been sewn to the bottoms of people since they first came out. I find them ugly and cannot imagine wearing them myself. And now, I have extra reason to stay the hell away from them. I know I'm not a kid and I don't have kids, but I wouldn't support a company that hasn't looked into the root cause of this problem. Visit this blog and see the pictures of the damage done while kids were wearing these shoes.
http://crocsaccidents.blogspot.com/

Keep your kids and their toes out of crocs and away from escalators. EEP!

The Fuzzy Peach

I spent last Saturday dyeing sock yarn. :D I'm going to open an Etsy store, The Fuzzy Peach, and begin peddling my wares. I love almost every colorway so much that I'm loathe to give them up for sale! They are almost dry now and need to be reskeined before I can photograph them and put them up in the shop. A preview of the color names (no pictures as of yet) 1969, sea monkey, berry sophisticated, Lisa Frank, sea turtle, sunburst, and there are a few more that I can't remember off of the top of my head.

The boy and I hope that they sell well, we plan to offer free shipping and be up within a week or so. If these sale well, I'll buy more blank yarn and get the dye pots back out.

Stay tuned for the shop openning and for your chance to purchase some of our fine, Southern yarnage. :P

*is muy excited!*

ETA: The shop will be The Fuzzy Peach. Lost my mind there. 'doh!

Avoiding Knitting

This is going to be a big ole' post about NOT knitting. I've not done anything exciting as of late, so this is not going to be about any FOs, etc. Like I'm a knitting blogger! Pashaw!

I've been meaning to post this stuff, since Easter and my birthday, but yeah. teh Lazy.

So here are the birthday cupcakes I made fo' mysef. They are just plain yellow (dyed a pinky purple on the inside, yay Wilton's!) with caramel icing. They were yummy but didn't last long. That kinda sucked. :(

And here's what the boy got me this year. I still have to go and get the ring sized though. I keep forgetting. He's a sneak, he bought it while we were at my mom's for Easter, right under my nose! We split up in the mall and he managed to get it, hide it in the car, and keep it hidden until my birthday! What a sneaker!

And I got me some yarn for my birthday.
That's lorna's laces on the left, Mountain creek, currently being knit up into Pomatomus socks. Then yarn pirate in Paris (destash blog) and Rosie (the loopy ewe). I love me some YP now. :D I can't wait to knit them up. I also got some FrancisPatrickSales sock yarn from Ebay in Mountain Bluebells *no pics* and some Sweet Georgia in Slayer. :D Those were all over the last month, not all just for my birthday. :D

And the Easter egg pic! I had a madd photo shoot with our eggs, but decided since it was almost a month ago, I'd just post my fave.

And on the way to Valdosta to see my mom for Easter, we found out what John Arbuckle (Garfield's owner) does for a living, his real job. He sells furniture! :P


As you can see, I'm avoiding discussing what's on my needles. I'm not too happy with anything (shawl) and my socks are still tiny (nothin' to show). I have an FO, but it's dark and I've got no pics to show there either. :D

Partial Sight

I love this guy's photoblog. He has the funniest captions. I found him through Claudia's blog one day, and have loved the pictures ever since.

Enjoy Gowarth.

http://partialsight.com/index.php?showimage=161&category=

Clutter

Wow. I live with tons o' crap in my house. My mom has tons o' stuff too. It's genetic. Dave can't throw anything away, so I clean out stuff when he's not home. But my GOD man, we are NOWHERE near as bad as these guys were.

Check this link.
http://unclutterer.com/archives/2007/04/the_collyer_brothers_a_study_i.php#more

Read that story and then think about the crap you keep just cause.

Oh, and the 100 oranges to bring back eyesight, what a loon! :P

Oogie Weather etc.

We're under yet another tornado warning dobob. I'm very tired of bad weather, we need rain. Not wind, just rain. Mmmmkaythanks.

In other news, I've begun the Cookie A. socks, Pomotamus socks, two at a time, magic loop, cuff down. And I am lovin' it. bahh dah dap dah dahh I'm lovin' it

And I'm still slowly working on that horrid shawl. It's beautiful, just boring. Knit all until you YO at the end and beginning of every other row.

Snooze. Wake me when it's time to bind off.

I think I've found that socks make me happy and make my needles happy too. They just have a way of knitting up like whoa fast. I think it's like speed for knitters. Socks = love. I was trying to be all into this shawl thing and knit it up before I started any socks, I was not doing well mentally. The brain health wasn't much above avacado. I realized that I was not in love with the shawl when we drove for 45 mins to the next habitable town over (it has a mall and a Hobby Lobby) and only in the last 15 mins of the ride did I bother to pull out my knitting. The rest of that time I was just sitting there, watching the burnt up pines flick by. Not really doing anything but sitting there.

I know, what's up with that? I never just sit still anymore, I'm always knitting or futzing with something. Not this time, just sat there talking to Dave about how dumb the person who has burned the pines off was a fool. And about how he scared the pure hell out of me while driving. I hate letting him drive my car, but if I don't let him drive, I can't knit. You see the problem there. :P

Whoa!

Check out the photo in the link. It is a real photo of a hillside in California. Can you imagine walking into that much beauty? I bet it would feel like walking into a Monet painting. :D Spread the joy with this one guys.