The Hula

So this week has been about packing and getting ready for the change I am about to experience. Letting go of a lot of things that have become home to me the last few years and moving on... I am moving next weekend into a new house with a roommate. Leaving behind the house that I still own half of and two cute kitties that I love very much.. At least this weekend I will get to be alone with my thoughts while I pack many of them away. I keep telling myself you will get through this.
Today a co-worker gave me a card that was super sweet but brought out a lot of emotion in me..It said

Imagine yourself doing what you love and loving what you do
Being happy from the inside out
Experiencing your dreams wide awake
Being creative, being unique, being you
changing things to the way you know they can be-
(Inside of Card)
Living the life you always imagined
wishing you good things today and always
She wrote: Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Make it happen...

I am completely touched...

So many things have happened over the past year and I feel like I am just starting to find my path.

Stash n Bags

With all of this moving stuff on my mind, it makes me think about my knitting stash and the different bags that I have. I might have to have a stash sale.. I have a few extra skeins of yarn, haha..a few... and some extra knitting bags. I guess I will have to get my stuff together and post some pictures, prices, etc. I have a new namaste bag from the cali collection, a lexie barnes flo & some other stuff.

I have lots of yarn too...lots...OHY!!!

Hawaii

So with all of the changes in my life, I keep pondering the idea of moving to Hawaii... My dad is already there, as soon as my parents house sells in Cali my mom will be there. There is awesome diving, who needs a pool when you have the ocean??

Meeting, anyone???

So I am trying to get together a Camarillo knitting group and am hoping that some people will want to get together. I tried posting on the yahoo knitting group and got a few replies, but nobody replied to my email about meeting this week. So if there are any Camarillo knitters/crocheters out there, wanna meet one a week, couple times a month?? I thought it might be fun to have a group of crafty women as friends!!

I was thinking about the Peets coffee on Arneill in the Vons shopping center, unless anyone else has any other ideas?? I have only lived here for a year so I am sure that there is some cool place that I don't know about yet? I like Palermo coffee downtown, but there isn't a lot of room to sit there, but they do have delicious coffee!!!

Tubular Cast on...

So since most days I end up freezing my hands off at the office I have decided that I want to attempt the infamous Eunny Jang endpaper mitts. I first tried the tubular cast on Eunny recommended and I succeeded after a few tries, however when I pull the end of the cast on edge it contracts or gets bigger (sort of like a draw string bag??) so of course I thought that I must have done it wrong. Onto the knitters book of finishing techniques book..let me tell ya this method is much harder, well ok not necessarily harder but defiantely more time consuming!! After doing this cast on I reaized that its supposed to do the draw string thingy and that you can put elastic in it if you wanted to. BUT...what if I don't want to, how is the italian tubular supposed to stay put? Are you supposed to anchor it, what?? HELP!!!
Then I realized..hey I don't know how you are supposed to work two colors, what hands are supposed to hold what? I have devised a method but have NO idea if its right or not? I can knit both continental style and (English)? so I put the dominate color in my right hand and the "colorwork" color in my left hand. Hmm....

Yard Sales are hard work!!!

So I spent the weekend at my parents, helping them get ready for their big move across the pacific to Hawaii. Lucky!! They have said that I could move with them and hey I am starting to seriously think about it. I probably would have to get rid of a lot of my stuff, but then again, who cares.... I would be in Hawaii..with my family, figuring out a way to make ends meet and swim in the ocean every day!!

And then..

And then nothing...Well not nothing, something..I guess..
Have you ever been in a state of limbo, where you don't know if you should go left or right and your sort of stuck in the middle. Thats me, right now, stuck in the middle. Oh well day by day...

As far as my knitting goes, I have been pouring over Ravelry, love it!! I have four skeins of Debbie Bliss Alpaca Silk and I couldn't decide what to do with it. I thought a slouchy hat might be good, but I wonder if the slouchy hats are still in style?? I didn't really want to do a garment or a scarf with it because it looked like it might get the fuzzy pilling, ewww...and I didn't want that. It is so soft though that I though it must be a scarf or a hat..I thought about handwarmers, but I don't think that it has the elasticity that handwarmers should have... so I started the slouch hat from Wendy at knitandtonic.typepad.com ..she is so fricken funny...and I need some funny these days...

I need to get started on my slippers from cocoknits too, I love those things, now I just hope that I can get them to turn out like the picture.