15 posts tagged “lys”
It was FREEZING today. We headed to Darling Harbor. I took some pictures, but they're really not very interesting. So, I'll skip them. There would have been a few awesome ones, but damn untrained children ruined them. I tried to get good ones of me in my central park hoodie, but it didn't work out.
After the harbor, we went to Cupcakes On Pitt, which Empress was correct about - totally overrated and completely not worth visiting. The Cupcake Bakery was MUCH better. We also went to a local yarn store that sucked. Bit of a bummer. To make it up, we went through Lincraft and I got more awesome buttons. And we went to one of the opal shops and I bought myself a sweet opal pendant to remember the trip by.
Now, onto the bridge: Holy koala poo, it was quite the thing. And by 'thing' I mean terrifying. Because I'm terrified of steps. Even steps that aren't a 40 story free-fall above water. But, we did it. My only angst on the the whole thing was that I couldn't take my own camera up. Because those shots would have made the entire journey here worth it. But, since I couldn't (and no one else could either), here are the two shots we paid to get:
I was having a bad bang day today, which is a bummer, but it's OK. I think I hid the terror on my face pretty well too. :D
Tomorrow is our last day in Sydney, well, actually it's a half day. We fly back to Brisbane in the afternoon and then spend one night there and head back to the states Monday morning. I've had such an awesome time here, it'll be great memories forever.
Maybe when I get back the few issues in my life will be worked out as well. Now, if I could just get this scarf to knit itself...
Show us a picture from your favorite vacation.
Every time Scott & I go to Memphis, we have a great time. This was our first trip there. It involved seeing the places Elvis had been (this picture is me, standing on the first outdoor stage Elvis ever played on), talking with a heap of friendly people, listening to awesome music, and of course, sno cones and yarn stores. Nothing makes a better vacation than that. :)
'Black Friday' for me is never like black friday for anyone else. I usually sleep in... Then eat and laze about the house.
This year Tammy & I went to the Rock N Roll Craft Show. It was their 'opening' day this year, and for the first time ever, they were charging entry fees of $10 Friday, and $2 Saturday & Sunday. The catch was that if you were of the 1st 50 people, you got a goody bag. This, of course, prompted us to get there and wait, just in case others were goody bag oriented too. So. We get there. And we wait. And wait. And decide to call Heather and tell her to come to the party. So she gets there, and it's like 10 til. And still there is no one waiting like us. I'm thinking, "That's really strange... This was huge last year." So then the door opens, and yeah - we're at the wrong venue. They changed it this year. Woo. So, we rush to the real RRCS to find that the goody bags are for the 1st 50 *shoppers* - so we walk around, and shop. As with every craft show ever, some things are better than others. I ended up getting 2 little magnet sets and a fused glass cupcake pin. We go to check out, and get out bags. Then funnel cake. Then it's a rush to the car to see if it's awesome. The polite answer? "Not at all awesome." In real life, I have many terrible things to say about the RRCS this year. The crafts for sale were okay, only a few really neat vendors. The 'extras' that have made the RRCS so awesome in many years past were not there. There used to be huge give aways and free stacks of magazines at the entrances and craft demonstrations. I thought maybe that's what the goody bags were this year. Nope. They were just fliers and ads. Not even discount flyers. Just crappy flyers for things that no one cares about anyway. And they charged to get in. Which was barely worth even $2 in my opinion.
Anyway. After that we went to Kirkwood Knittery to make our gift registries and then to Dewey's Pizza for a late lunch. It was a good day for pizza and chatting.
After we all returned to our cars, I came home and got a few things done, then went to the store which was shockingly barren. I guess Turkey Day really wiped it out. There really wasn't anything other than water and milk that I needed anyways, so maybe it was good that the store was picked over. :)
Scott got back around 6ish and we talked about some things then watched the Office (season 3, disk 4) before heading out to a bar in the county to see some of his high school classmates, since this weekend is their 10 year reunion. The bar was smokey and I got hit on several times by the same very, very drunk person, but all in all it was neat to chat with a few of the people I'd talked to briefly before.
Tomorrow is turkey day - pt 2. I'm way too excited.
And because of that, I will now just post a crapload of pictures. Before you zone out too much, DON'T FORGET TO VOTE TOMORROW, DAMN IT!
And now, enjoy the slide show:
DAY ONE:
DAY TWO:
DAY THREE:
(Please note I took images of stationary store displays to appease Cat so she'd rethink my serial killer stance, as she was wearing a really nice shirt yesterday while I was spying on her.)
And now, for the treasures that I brought back:
...and the progress on my Pinwheel blanket...
Today has been a day of more explorations. A few more yarn shops and more seeing the city. Scott took me across the river in Vancouver, WA to visit the ladies at Stitch Craft - a great little store on their Main Street that carries yarn and fabric, where the staff was super nice and the store was chocolate scented. :) We also visited Twisted, but I wasn't nearly as impressed with the staff. Really pretty store displays though.
Tonight is the wedding, and if it's half as fun as the rehearsal dinner, it'll be kick ass.
Tomorrow, we'll head back to STL. Bummer.
So many things to tell! And the day isn't even over yet!
Woke up today to a really pretty rainy morning. I like the rain here, it's really light, like a constant mist that covers everything. Had breakfast at a Starbucks, which is on every corner here. After that, we went to a neat thrift store that was bright pink outside. It smelled really terrible inside, as most thrift stores do. Then, as we were waiting to go to one of my top priority stores, we went to the Yarn Garden, which was my favorite store last year. This year, it was clear my tastes had changed. The store is huge, there's tons to see, but none of it was anything I found to be great. Just, ya know, yarn.
After that, we went to Yarnia, which I had heard about last night from one of the Abundant Yarn employees. This store was AWESOME. Their concept is so novel and outside the box, it's the world's only DIY yarn store. You go in, and there are cones everywhere of all different fibers (acrylic, wool, nylon, bamboo, cotton, glitter, and more!), all very thinly spun. You choose as many as you'd like, and give them to the owner. She then cuts off a bit of all three held together to tell you how much your yarn will be based on weight, as well as how many yards that will be. From there, she takes it over to a machine that looks like a mechanical spinning wheel kind of thing. threads each strand through it all and attaches them evenly to the cone. From there, she turns the machine on, and it spins the yarn up onto the cone. When the desired weight/yardage is achieved, the machine stops and TA-DA! you have just created your own yarn. Mine is 3 ply bamboo. I took pictures of the store and the process, and when I get home to my camera cord, I'll post them. But seriously, it was so damn awesome. Even Scott wanted to make yarn. Also, they are going to spin up my colorway again and sell it 'premade' because it was so pretty!!!!
Then, we went to KnitKnot, which we also went to last year, but I didn't remember that. Their store is really small, and had nothing noteworthy. Lots of expensive novelty stuff.
Then, we went to Dublin Bay Knitting, which had a great selection and super friendly employees as well. They had really cheap roving as well ($17 a pound!!!), but it was all solid colors, so instead I splurged for some cute stitch markers and one of those awesome yarn cutting pendants, which I now need a chain for. One of the girls there also introduced Scott to a neat video game, so he was really happy there.
Next, it was off to Rice Junkie to get some delicious lunch and then to Powells for extensive book shopping. I got some cute gifty stuff that I couldn't live with out, as well as a tee and two neat re-useable bags. Oh! And a book about cupcakes. Excellent.
This leads me to now, where I suffer from book neck and over excitement. I may have also tried really hard to get Scott to say he would want to move here today, because I so would in a heartbeat, but he's holding strong to the 'it's really far from everywhere travel-wise for work' stance. Which, he is very right about. :(
Tonight, we will go to the rehearsal dinner, which should be fun.
More yarning updates tomorrow!! Happy Halloween!
WOOO! I am finally here.
Got to the STL airport at 5:30 am. Breezed through security and waited for the plane. Took off on schedule and got to Chicago early. Only to be delayed 1.5 hours. Awesome! Then I (finally) got on the plane, only to realize that the last, oh, 2 inches of the blanket had been knitted wrong. So, I ripped it all out, picked my stitches back up, then slept through most of what was left of the flight. Landed to find Scott waiting at my gate, yay! Got my luggage, and his... Well, his airline lost his. Yeah.
Got the rental car. Got to the super awesome hotel. Visited with Kacey and baby Brady (so cute!) at Powell's Books. Then, went yarning. I went to two stores: Knit/Purl and Abundant Yarns. Knit/Purl is a little store down town with expensive yarn and reserved staff. I went there last year too, and would not have gone back this year had they not popped up as one of the stores that carried spinning supplies on KnitMap. I got some really great silky merino roving (8 oz) by Chameleon Colorworks. Had I not been on vacation, I'd have said it was too much, but whatever, this is time to splurge as I know I can't get it in STL. Abundant Yarns, however, was AWESOME. I navigated my way out there all by myself to find a HUGE store with an awesome selection of roving and a crapload of really, really beautiful yarn. They spin and hand dye a lot of their own yarn to sell, as well as selling yarn and hand dyed roving from many crafter is PDX. In addition, the staff was SUPER friendly and helpful. And I was invited to join in on the conversations of the knitters there for knit night as well as a few other shoppers. ALSO! They have a pet angora bunny!!!! I was so super impressed and wanted to hug everyone there, especially the bunny. I got 2 things of 4 oz roving at a super awesome price, made by Abstract Fiber, as well as an awesome skien of Araucania Aysen which is made of Merino/Alpaca/Silk (70/20/10) and is like heaven and marshmallows and wonderousness all into one. I only got one, but it's 191 yards, so I'll make a really great scarf to match my awesome coat.
Then I picked Scott up from dinner with his guy friends and we ate at a really yummy dessert place. Papa Haydens I think. It was too rich to finish, so you know that's huge coming from me. :)
More yarning tomorrow!!!
Today, Heather came over from the IL side and we went to the Missouri Botanical Gardens, which I live just 2 blocks from. We looked at the Niki exhibit and took pictures, chatted about all kinds of things, and sweated a little more than we both had hoped. We got some great pictures though, take a look:
After that, we went and had a late lunch at Pi Pizza and then took a visit to Knitty Couture in the loop. I love that store so much. It's pretty dangerous. I keep trying to tell myself I don't need anymore yarn, but I did actually need to get the yarn for Paisley's dino sweater. Poor Eileen was trying to help me match colors and they didn't have the right blue to go with my green and yellow, and she was trying to suggest new ones, and it ended in her giving up after realizing that I was clearly crazy because I was knitting a dinosaur sweater for my dog and the color suggestions she was making weren't realistic enough. I'm glad she could laugh at my logic and not be offended, haha. Finally, we chose a more 1950s version of dinosaur colors. Here's a picture of Paisley poising with what will (hopefully) soon become her sweater:
The colors go nicely with her skin and coat, don't they? I try to stay away from reds and pinks because she's so pink herself. Like a baby mouse. :)
I also, while watching "30 Days of Night" with Scott, decided I need to be a zombie for Halloween (FYI - I wrote 'Christmas' there first and backspaced). I am going to try and find the black contacts. But, have you even noticed that Zombies never wear glasses? That's crazy. So, I'll be the first one I guess. :) I also got 2 more repeats of the back of Tammy's CPH done, and started the decreases! I'm pumped about that. It's so close to being done...
So, that was my very exciting day. Tomorrow's blog will be a really late one, we're going to the Death Cab For Cutie show at the Fox Theater!!! EEP!
Yay for yarn stores with basically zero accessible hours opening on a Saturday!!!! I got yarn!!!! Lookie:
Hello from 2008!
Today has been a great way to start the new year. Got my list of 101 goals in hand, and I've already accomplished two! Hopefully by tomorrow I'll have a 3rd one down.
January will be action packed for me. I'm pumped. I have a new client I'll be working with starting next week. (Yay!) I'm going to knit in Mississippi with two friends at their LYS for "wine and tiara" night on January 10th, then I get to go to Kansas City on the 18th for one of Scott's speeches. Then, just a little over a week later, I'll get to celebrate my super awesome 22nd birthday (January 30th)! So, already the month is off to a great start and lost of plans that don't include going to school or hating my life. Kick ass.
I also will be busy embarking on my 1st ever attempt at Blog365. Yep, that's right. I'll be blogging here every. single. day. For the entire year. It might not always be long, or interesting, or in word-format, but you can look forward to reading and seeing my thoughts daily. Aren't you all very excited? Haha. It's okay. Contain your excitement.
So, because I have a lot of things left to do tonight, I'm off for now. But, I leave you with a photo of love. Love in a sack. :D
