7 posts tagged “lys”
Yay for yarn stores with basically zero accessible hours opening on a Saturday!!!! I got yarn!!!! Lookie:
Hello from 2008!
So.
Portland was awesome as always today. Went to the Saturday Market, Wordstock (book fair), and yet another yarn store. It was quite awesome. Also got about 10 inches of the front left of the CPH done. And so, here are some pictures:
Cutest couple in the world? Hell yes.
Scott reading in the Target Book Chair.
And finally, here's the awesome Wordstock display:
Okay, so we have successfully wandered Portland, OR today. We went to the library, had lunch at "Rice Junkie" (love) and made our way to several (5) yarn stores. Who's the happiest ever? Me.
And so, here are the pictures I've taken so far....
This is our home for the weekend, it's Scott's friend's house. The street has several that are all the same (as you can see) and we're in the tan one that's closest. It's freakin amazing. Inside and out. Some serious Frank Lloyd Wright shit. I want to take it with me back home, but something about weight restrictions on airplanes and making his friends homeless...
We went into this awesome art supply store, and they sold those scented markers as one by itself. So, like total nerds, we got high. :)
I got some sweet shoes at the Puma store, and an awesome unicorn bag and some happy critter duct tape as well. I also found my chunky baby alpaca yarn in brown to finish Kyla's hat and scarf, so that was a total win.
I took a lot more pictures, but the internet here is being so strange and slow, that it'll take all day and I'll miss dinner with Kacey.
Look for more tomorrow!!!!
Woah. THis city kicks ass. It's cold, but that's okay.
I'm also pretty tired since I didn't really get more than 4 hours of sleep last night... So, here's the brief on so-far today:
Got to the airport today only to find that I didn't actually have a ticket. Nice. (Long story short: Scott booked himself twice.) So, charged my $800 ticket and got on with the day. I'll take care of that later.
Boarded the plane and everything went well. Finished the back of the CPH and have the ribbing done for the front left (or is it right? Whichever the pattern has you do first...). So, that's a win. I'm now on my 5th ball of yarn. Over 25% done! EEP!
THen, when we got to Portland, came to the house we're staying at, which is AWESOME and changed. Then, off to see the city. Had lunch at Blue Moon (bad service, terrible french fries, decent burger) with one of Scott's friends. Then had a delicious mint hot chocolate at a cafe. Wandered the streets, looked in a few of the little shops, and then we got on the wrong bus by accident, but, it put me right on the stoop of Knit/Purl (one of the 300 yarn stores here) when we realized it! So, it was meant to be. Okay store, not a lot of anything worth knitting with, now that I'm a yarn snob. Lots of mohair. Great staff though. So, then we wen to Powell's books and I fell in love with the ENTIRE ISLE of yarn/knitting books. So, spent about an hour there. Then, we came back by the bus. This was my first bus experience, just today. People are strange. Not that I didn't know that already, but I just thought I'd point it out.
Now, we're back at the house and I can't decide to knit or to nap. It's 5:00 in Portland, and I've been up since 12:30am Portland time. Aaack.
Pictures tomorrow!!!!
So, it's finally Friday night. Holy geez. Could this have taken any longer to get here?
