As a lot of people who know me know, my parents and I started a tradition when I was about 13 years old where we open a small present a few days before Christmas. Over the years it has evolved into a week long celebration that we have dubbed "Hispanicah." Why? Well, because we're hispanic and we thought it was fitting. It starts the week before Christmas eve and for those 7 days we each take turns giving small gifts and having snacks and spending time together.
I love it. Yesterday we spent the last day of Hispanicah celebrating Christmas with my aunts, uncle, cousins and two grandmas. We had a turkey dinner and it was amazing. Not only that, my uncle and aunt made the most amazing posole I've ever had. I mean... it was soooo effing amazing that I was stuffed to the point of being sick and still opted to eat another bowl because it was so effing yummy.
I had such a great time yesterday. I loved spending it with my family. It was just awesome. I got some great gifts and had a great time.
Not only do I have my little family's wonderful tradition of Hispanicah, I now have the amazing tradition of Festivus that my wonderful friend, @atknitsend introduced me to. It's a holiday for the creative. I got my present from her today and it was partially open when the mailman delivered it to my door, so I figured, what the hey... and opened it to make sure everything was okay :) and I received the most amazing socks and yarn and shawlette! I'm in love with everything!!! I'm wearing the socks as we speak... I'm so happy. My heart is super smiling now.
I love my family. I love my friends. I love my fur babies. I love my honey bunny boo. I'm one lucky and blessed girl.
P.S.
If everyone could please keep my mom's dog Mayhem in your thoughts and prayers and send positive vibes our way, it would be greatly appreciated. Please don't ask questions at this time, I don't want to talk about it, I just want to know that we have people thinking about and praying for this amazingly loving great dane/puppy/giant lap dog.
Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts
Monday, December 24, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Waiting for my new circular needles!
I haven't really written much lately. The reason for that is because I've been obsessed with trying to re-learn how to knit again. You see, I missed knitting and after not doing it for so long, my brain was like, uh what?
It really wasn't like hopping back on a bicycle (although I'm sure my brain would be like, uh what? on that aspect too). I'm so used to crocheting that I had to get used to the mechanics of knitting again. Not only that, I was trying something completely different on knitting than what I had before when I knit, circular needles. I'd never tried them before. See, I'm a SUPER basic knitter. Not even knit 1 purl 1. More like knit knit knit... I never really got past the simple learning aspect. I'm like not even in knitting 101, more like knitting for dumbasses. So over the last few days I've been slowly working with the cheapass circular needles I bought off ebay for like $2 (you SERIOUSLY get what you pay for) and I made a couple of beanie-ish things. The first thing I did was really loose and my dog, Jasper saw it and just wanted it, so I gave it to him (he loves yarn toys) so after he and I had a game of tug o war with it, it's not really anything more than a headband like thing now (he ripped the top with his teefs). HOWEVER, the second thing I made was pretty cute. I made it with my friend in mind who is currently with child. So since she's having a fall babeh, I thought about a pumpkin! and created this:
It really wasn't like hopping back on a bicycle (although I'm sure my brain would be like, uh what? on that aspect too). I'm so used to crocheting that I had to get used to the mechanics of knitting again. Not only that, I was trying something completely different on knitting than what I had before when I knit, circular needles. I'd never tried them before. See, I'm a SUPER basic knitter. Not even knit 1 purl 1. More like knit knit knit... I never really got past the simple learning aspect. I'm like not even in knitting 101, more like knitting for dumbasses. So over the last few days I've been slowly working with the cheapass circular needles I bought off ebay for like $2 (you SERIOUSLY get what you pay for) and I made a couple of beanie-ish things. The first thing I did was really loose and my dog, Jasper saw it and just wanted it, so I gave it to him (he loves yarn toys) so after he and I had a game of tug o war with it, it's not really anything more than a headband like thing now (he ripped the top with his teefs). HOWEVER, the second thing I made was pretty cute. I made it with my friend in mind who is currently with child. So since she's having a fall babeh, I thought about a pumpkin! and created this:
Since I created that, I thought, hmmmm I wonder if I could do my boobies like this too? So I made a boobie, but that's when my cheapie circular needles started going icky on me AFTER ONLY THREE projects. :( Well, I asked my beloved what he thought about me ordering a nice set of circular needles from KnitPicks (interchangeable try me set!) and he thought it was a good idea, so I used some of the lasts of our reserved birthday money and ordered em.
So my boobie beanie was CLOSE to what I'd want my boobies to look like, I'm almost there. I did it in weird colors so I wouldn't waste my good boob yarn and you guessed it, Jasper saw the boobie and wanted that too... This one, he wouldn't play tug o' war with. Weird dog.
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