I spent the weekend in my hometown of Quincy with my girlfriends last weekend and had so much fun. I was feeling so great I went and bought a hair magazine and hit a salon.
Before:
After:
I like it, what do you gals think? I’m thinking it needs some red tips here and there…
So April 1st is quickly approaching. Despite the FYS2006 founder being MIA (hopefully doing well!) the Knitty Heads are still planning to flash their stash this year. (forum thread)
On top of that KniTV is calling for a flash of WIPs and Needles as well!
KniTV provided these buttons for participants
(save to your own place, plz)
And I made this for the Flash Your Stash 2007:
I hope you’ll all be flashing!! Leave a comment if you do and I’ll come check you out! (You’re probably on my blog lines but do it anyway!)
Let’s make an event of it! Ladies! Start your cameras!!
(Footnote: BIG thanks to my fairy needlemother at Crystal Palace, I know have a full set of size 3 DPN’s again!!!)
Wow…I never win anything! Mini pulled the prizes from her Chemo Cap drive for Boston Children’s and I had no idea. I’m behind on my blog reading, so I was totally surprised!
I won a Spunky Eclectic Fuzzy Mitten kit, it’s BEAUTIFUL! I will add a picture later so you can see the beautiful colors. I love knitting for charity, it’s reward enough, but some beautiful yarn doesn’t hurt!!
Yay!
I’m dieting again…please kill me, I’m starving. Does anyone else eat fruit and get hungrier for it? I LOVE fruit, but I swear it makes me even hungrier than I was in the first place. Ugh.
So I should have posted these a week ago but I’ve been buried in homework. My professors are all sweet and assigned tests for the day after spring break so I have to spend my whole break reading and studying. Assholes. Anyway…
Pattern: Fetching from Knitty
Yarn: Country DK wool/acrylic blend
I took these one our ONLY “snow day”. As much as I’d like summer to be here tomorrow, I was glad we had a few inches and took the family out sledding. The sky was so cool looking, and our first trip to the park around the corner was pretty cool! Here are some photos:
I eventually had to zip the dog into my coat because he’s a wussy and was cold.
I started Branching Out in the pretty KP yarn…It’ll probably take me a year to finish it because I only do a repeat or two at a time, but it’ll be nice when it’s done.
And speaking of Knit Picks! I got my order in last week. I was so excited, I think I touched every skein for an hour.
I also started the Cabled Hooded Scarf I had printed out a million years ago, it’s going to be sweet. I have the stuff for my Sizzle top, too. So much to knit!
I went by my cousins and gave Adrianna her Baby Kimono, I forgot my camera, though! She’s a beautiful baby, one of those super perfect baby model type babies. I’ll try and get a picture of her in it sometime.
I have recent new TV addictions. Deadwood, especially! That show is fucking outstanding! I have had season 1 on my laptop forever and never watched it, and the other night I stayed in and watched it for about 6 straight hours. Whole season in one sitting! I’m in love. I’ve got season 2 downloading now and it’s taking forever.
I’m also really getting into The Black Donnelly’s, maybe it’s the Irish in me but I’m loving that show, too.
I’ve also seen Pan’s Labyrinth since my last post, and I demand you all go see it immediately. So good.
Secret Pal 10 has kicked off! I gotta go shop around for my partner! 
I’ll leave you with…well…this:
Found this through Dr. Girlfriend Knits:
In the list of books below, bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won’t touch with a ten-foot pole, put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones you’ve never heard of.
1. +The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. +Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. +To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery)
9. *Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. *A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. +Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. *A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. *Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. +The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. +The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. +The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. +Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. +1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. *The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. *The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. *I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. *The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. *The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. +The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. *The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible (what Catholic school forced me to read, anyway)
46. *Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. *She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. *The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. *Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. +Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. *The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. +The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. +The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. +Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. *Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. *One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. *The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. *Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. *Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. *The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. *The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. *Not Wanted On the Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. *Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. *Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen) -READING THIS NOW-
86. *Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) Thought it was boring…go ahead and boo me.
88. *The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. *Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. *Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. *In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. +The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S. E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98.* A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. *The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)