New Shawlette

The Dragon's Rest shawlette is finished!  Here it is blocking on a sheet of cardboard.

Mr. Bubu

One year and two days ago, we brought Mr. Bubu home with us. He has been fun, mischevious, affectionate and stuck to us like glue. Bebe has her paws full.

Quiet time

It's been almost 18 months since my last entry.  I've been trying to reclaim the 'quiet' life.  Since my contract with the photo agency ended earlier this year, I've been concentrating on getting back to normal life.  While covering movie premieres and celebrities events for the past five years will forever be a highlight in my life, the reality check when it came hasn't been easy. It was a crazy, awesome ride and I met tons of cool people, a few not-so-cool people, a few celebrities who were very very kind to me and a few who were not, but now is the time to get back to my regularly scheduled programming.

I've been knitting a lot; I've churned out some beautiful socks lately.  I've made a few infinity scarves and cowls, become a regular at a LYS, and become a bit more picky about my yarn.  Sorry, Joann and Michael's, but life is too short to use crappy yarn.  I've found a local dyer who dyes beautiful yarns in stunning colors.  (www.forbiddenwoolery.com)  I'm very excited that she's back from her maternity leave and back to dyeing again.  Can't wait to see what she has next month in Torrance!

I haven't been a very good blogger lately.

Hello and sorry to have been ignoring my blog for so long.  I've never been a particularly avid writer, but today warrants a special message.  Johnny Depp.

He was awesomely handsome as always.  *Gush*

"John Carter"

Last night, I had the opportunity to attend an early presentation of "John Carter" courtesy of The Los Angeles Times Hero Complex and Disney Studios. It was AWESOME! 

I really enjoyed the story, the casting was perfect and the cinematography is excellent. I feel it is one of the best movies I have seen in a very long time. It had just the right balance of drama, action, comedy and romance.  I am certain I will go see it again when it is released in the theatres and I would like to recommend my readers go watch it.

BRIGHT yarn

At 50 grams and 210 meters, there isn't enough to make a pair of socks for myself.  So, this begs the question: shall I make a beanie, or shall I make fingerless mitts?

Valentine's Day beanie

Today is Valentine's Day so I finished my Big Button Hat designed by Amy Duvendack (Bad Amy Knits). It's really getting too warm to wear beanies and scarves in SoCal, except at night.

New beanie

This was made with Lion Brand "Amazing" yarn and a pattern from Ravelry.com. I'm considering making very short fingerless mitts with the left over yarn.

Lazy rainy Saturday

Here's the plan:

Snoozy warm furry kitties
Movies on Demand
Velveteen Snuggie
Large deep dish pizza delivery piping hot to my front door
Yarn, yarn, yarn, yarn

Stay home, warm and cuddle with my Bebe.

Mitt #1 almost finished

I just need to bind off and start mitt #2.

Soup, it's what's for dinner

Cold weather makes me hungry for warm hearty comfort food.  So I made hodge podge soup tonight.
Ingredients
Beef kielbasa
White onion
White beans
White mushrooms
Carrots
Parsnips
Potatoes
Kale
Vegetable boullion
Yummy!

Fingerless mitts

The humble beginnings of a pair of fingerless mitts.
Yarn: Patons Classic Wool Merino
Color: Sage
Needle size :  8 DPN and 7 DPN
Pattern: Mmmalabrigo glovies by LifeInCleveland.blogspot.com

I want to feel like this...

Completely relaxed, totally secure and snoring like a dump truck.

Wool-Ease yarn #235 Rustic

So, before she passed away, my Grandmother sent back to me some yarn I had bought for her a decade ago. I thought it would look better once I knit it up.....

Clearly that was wishful thinking.

Now I have three skeins of this stuff and I can't figure out what to do with it. It may need to go the way of the LYS charity bin...

Cat in sink

Pretty self explanitory post today.

My knitty life

I'd originally conceived this blog to write about my photography.... But frankly my knitting is more interesting than photos of celebs at premieres, charity galas, fan conventions, etc.

I knit. A lot. Prolific amounts. Not that many items are actually finished. For every project I finish, there are at least 7-8 that are started then either frogged or hibernating. Lots of frogging, lots of hibernating, mounds and mountains of yarn litter my home. More on that later.

My cat, on the other hand, reaps the benefits of the ever growing stash; she can sometimes be seen kneading and purring on a half frogged baktus, or hibernating scarf.