Oh, why do I think of the kid's camp song when I write that phrase? Gross!
Sliding into home without pants full of foam, that's me. Yes, for those of you that are fascinated, yes I did bake that cake and it is a good thing that I did because The Husband would have been very very disappointed and not have believed my rants ever again. Yup, he read the blog yesterday and came in the door saying, "Oh, you DID bake"! Too funny. I did it ALL, baby, did it all.
My grumpy mailman rang the doorbell yesterday and then had to have rocketed back to his truck with the package that he was trying to deliver. He KNOWS that I am home and does not give me time to corral the Herd. Guh, I had to walk out to HIM...big dummy. The walk was worth it because I got a big box of wonderful from my friend and glass diva Sheila Ernst. Inside were lots of cool things tucked into a box filled with shredded paper and interspersed with Almond Roca. Howey cwap...it's Halloween from Sheila. Alright, do you want to see? I know that you do.
Yup, I am hooked UP. It seems that we need to carry each other's work to shows the next two weekends and besides upping my stash of buttons, I am bringing the Shawl (or hair) Sticks to Santa Monica. They are gorgeous. Here is the fancy end.
My pal Kerry asked me what else I accomplished yesterday while I was trying very hard to avoid sitting and knitting. I sat and finsihed the sleeve number three. Well, sat, meaning that I jumped up and checked email and answered the phone and checked the cake and picked up after the dogs and then started something else as SOON as I bound off those last stitches. Choirs of angels sang and I felt 10 pounds lighter (one can only fantasize) all at the same time. I roared through that new thing last night, needing not one whit of my brain other than automatic pilot...delightful.
Gail has been lurking around and finally threw herself on the Wesleydale and so there is that much less to take to LA...now what should I spin???
Oh yeah and tomorrow is the party for the grandfetus and his "host" and her consort. It should be a grand time...one of those new Couple's showers...you know, for people who say WE got pregnant...yeah, well if WE are pregnant, you carry it for awhile, buster. So, we are taking our cool stuff and will go be the oldsters who say, ooh and ahhh and when do I get to see the baby! :o) He is due in the middle of December and The Narrow One is getting really pointy in the front. She promises that I will freak out when I see her...it has been a couple of weeks of growth and yes, I probably WILL freak out. We get to freak out the great grandmas with surprise visits tomorrow so a grand time will be had by all. the end.
What's that thing by sleeve three?
Posted by: kim | October 28, 2005 at 11:03 AM
A true wish book of beauty you have presented here! Have fun tomorrow and pack your camera!!!
Posted by: Nancy J | October 28, 2005 at 11:05 AM
Have fun! And tell that grandbaby that Dec 13th is my birthday, might want to aim for that one (but heck, I missed my own mother's by coming a week early.) Amaryllises are the birth month flower, at least in our family.
Posted by: AlisonH | October 28, 2005 at 11:21 AM
Ohhhh - baby showers are so much fun! Stay away from the guess the baby food game though :-) Sheila's hair sticks I mean shawl pins are soooo yummy! You should have seen me petting Sam's hair the other night. It was embarassing. Lovely stuff! Hey - next time you send me a package, do you have some business cards you can toss in there? I could have sold the Jospehs Coat off my wheel at the spin in!
Posted by: Jen | October 28, 2005 at 11:49 AM
Kim, that thing by sleeve three is the back of a new cuddler sweater. I have used this really burly but soft heavy boucle and kid mohair. Zoom...good for me, since this sleeve and its friends took for freaking EVER. Guh. I have to have SOMETHING for the booth, for crying out loud.
Posted by: Lisa S | October 28, 2005 at 11:50 AM
I second Jen's wish for Business cards with my roving - Bose does it, you should too!
Hair sticks - let me know what you have left when you get home ;)
Posted by: Angela | October 28, 2005 at 12:00 PM
Lemon cake sounds really good right now. I have a million things I should be doing, maybe I should make a lemon cake, too.
Posted by: Kerry | October 28, 2005 at 02:48 PM
How you can knit something that complicated on autopilot is beyond me. I look at that and my mind goes numb - totally numb. And then I move on into awe and from there into veneration. I bow before you oh Autopilotus Magnificus.
I knit a sweater once while I was living in Italy - but I still don't know the difference between knit and pearl. Knit is what I think I was doing - pearl is one of those little oyster irritator things you rub against your teeth to see if it's real, right? Anyway, I knit the sleeves and body as one piece. Well, kinda. I knit the front, body & sleeves all one piece and then I knit the back, body & sleeves all one piece exactly like the front. And then I sewed them together. OK, so it was kind of weird but I wore it anyway. And then I lost it. It was all one color and all one stitch. Kind of had to be all one stitch because I don't know how to pearl.
I'll stick to crocheting.
:-)
Posted by: Tom | October 29, 2005 at 12:26 AM
By the way, you should see what I'm doing with your El Dorado. Alternating the gold with the South Pacific and separating them with your black baby alpaca. Pretty darn beautiful. That gold is off the charts - has the look of an old gold chalice worked up. Very Rennaiscancy, maybe even Baroqish. Molto molto bello.
Posted by: Tom | October 29, 2005 at 12:31 AM
Oh I hope you have some serious fun tomorrow!
Posted by: elizabeth | October 29, 2005 at 05:04 AM
Hope you had a good time. I was putting my hands over my eyes about those hairsticks but I don't think I will be able to resist any longer. Hey, christmas is coming, right??
Posted by: CarolineF | October 31, 2005 at 06:00 AM