16 posts tagged “happiness”
So, Thursday was Scott's grandma's birthday. We're throwing her a huge shindig tonight, and I thought that I'd show off to you all what I made for her:
Today is the greatest day of my life thus far.
My life shifted last night in a way that I needed so desperately to happen. Everything seems brighter today, and I'm sure that I'm going to make it. I cannot explain the way that everything has changed, but I just can't budge this "every little thing is gonna be alright" notion screaming out from inside me.
So... Not only was today my last day of work for the week, but I got free yarn! Yep. I won a door prize from the grand opening at Thi's store! I'm pretty darn excited about it.
Oh my. Today was the happiest yarn day ever. I have no words, only pictures:
Love. I want to live there. :)
Oh snap (or should I say button?) - the body of the sweater is done!!! It's a bit off because of my super-bust, but I like it and am quite happy. It looks like it will button more to the size where my bust is the biggest and then come back a bit after, but I'm okay with that. I may knit in a little extra to compensate, but I feel pretty happy either way. I think that I should have cast it off a little looser, but I wanted it to look clean and OCD. :)
So, with all that said, take a look:
Here is is on my couch - it looks so tiny!!
Here I am stretching it over to show where it will button...
I think this is my favorite picture of it so far - I think that it will be quite flattering when the buttons are in and the sleeves are done. :)
I think when this is done I will make another, but with contrasting raglan sleeves and adjust better for the bust on the other side.
But regardless - TA DA!
Soo... Here's the progress on the buttony sweater that Miss Spindelicious have been knitting along to.
So... Hopefully I'll have this done by the weekend. Maybe not.
I need to add some more stitches in on the left side to account for my super boobs, but other than that, it's perfect! :)
I got my cd from Scott's recording session at Sun Studios yesterday. I can't help but to post it somewhere.
He wrote this song for me and presented it to me as a gift on our 8 month-a-versary. I had to fight off tears the whole time. No one in the world makes me happier.
I have another song too, but I am not going to upload it just yet, and maybe I'll never upload it. It's mine, and that's all I need.
Our two year anniversary is September 19th. I'm so excited. I'm just so happy that I've found someone that I can share everything with. Even if everything went away, and he was all I had left, my life would still be complete.
This will be mostly pictures because I don't feel like writing. I'm too lazy.
And so...
My awesome cupcake booth that my dad helped me make!
Looking at the resort from HWY 31 in Bay Harbor, Michigan. It rained and was humid the first day we were there, but after that it was the most beautiful place I had ever seen.
Michigan kicked ass. This is the beautiful view from out hotel room. I sat there for a few hours a day and just knitted and took it all in. It was a cool 85 degrees all week (not like the 102 degrees it was in STL today). There was a breeze, and it was just like being on the ocean.
The beach and pseudo-ocean.
The bride and groom! Steve (Scott's brother) was happier than ever. It was so great. Nothing could have been more beautiful.
The most adorable flower girl ever, Hallie, clearly bored to tears while waiting for pictures to be taken. :) She played croquet and her brothers played with the "life size chess set" behind her.
My Scott & I at the reception. It was unreal. Have I said yet how amazing it was there? :)
Another amazing sunset.
And on the way back to the airport, we stopped at the World's Largest Cherry Pie for a photo op! (Side note: Traverse City produces and distributes 75% of the world's cherries and every last one of them are amazing.)
Here we are posing "full of cherry pie" - yummy...
...and, that's all. I have nothing more. I just want to go back to Michigan.
So today was extremely productive. Well, sort-of.
I woke up (not by choice) at 8:25 am and couldn't go back to sleep. I kept dreaming that Scott was home and that I was kissing him at the airport. Nothing more. Just him being here and me being able to kiss him again. ...just a few more days...
So, I did some design-y stuff and then went to my parents' house and sanded a dresser/chest thing that I'm bringing to my apartment and made some strong attempts to paint it, but went through 2 cans of spray paint and ran out. Didn't expect to need that much...
So, then I went and got a hair cut and looked at some yarn but was really dissapointed when I finally gound my yarn to find that it didn't have the feel I was hoping for. Life goes on, I guess.
Then I went and had late lunch with my parents and painted a little more on the dresser. 3 cans down. That's all I could take. It's as painted as it's ever going to get.
After that, I went to my sister's house and we made cupcakes! And that is why I'm writing. Because I took beautiful pictures of them on my beautiful cupcake booth that my dad and I made. And so, here are the pictures:
Here's my favorite one alone, the "pink fortune fondant" cake.
A juicy shot of my three favorites. You can see the bench fabric and then my 1950s teal walls. :)
And then, all three again. I drool just looking. :)
Other than that, Scott is in the US!!! EEP! We talked on the phone today - TWICE! So I got about an hour and a half of his voice today. Oh my. Tuesday is sooooo close I can hardly take it.
I have tomorrow and Monday filled, so work on Tuesday had better be damn busy to make it go by fast.
YAY!
