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Just so you can see here is the blanket I made for my grandfather using my grandmother's granny squares: 

Thank you so much! I appreciate it :-)

Christmas is over, kind of...

Ok, so my mass of Christmas knitting didn't get done. But with it still being January if I finish the rest of my scarves by this Christmas it should be ok, right??? LOL

I got sick of knitting scarves so I've temporarily moved on. Right now I'm working on this blanket, it's going to be really cool if it comes out like I planned it. But there's no pattern, I'm going simply on my mind's eye so it will have to be seen. I'm making it in the round and adding cables. It looks like it is going to work. And it's for the Vanna White knitting contest, so hopefully I can finish it before the 1st of February.

Plus I started a baby blanket for my cousin who just found out she was pregnant. It's a really cute blanket. It's the Devil Baby Blanket from Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair. I just happened to have a pound of red yarn laying around, then I saw that pattern and wanted to make it, then my cousin said she was pregnant, so it just kind of worked out!

In other news I had a job interview on Friday! It was with an insurance company in Troy. I didn't get a great feeling from the interview but I didn't get a bad feeling either. I'm not planning on getting it, but if I do that would be nice.

Ok, here are the pictures of two of the scarves that I did get done:

Misty Garden from Scarf Style


Ruffles from Scarf Style
I also finished all of the stuffed animals that I made. But I took the pictures on my sister's camera and she hasn't e-mailed them to me yet. So as soon as she does I'll get those up here also.

Other than knitting and that job interview not a whole lot going on. I've been overly-addicted to facebook and goodreads lately. I've also been going nuts on paperbackswap.com

I'm trying to hit 100 books this year. So far I've finished one. But I'm in the middle of two right now. Then I'm taking a world literature class in my next block so I'm sure I'll get a lot of reading done in those nine weeks.

Some of my knitting

Ok here are some of the pictures that I have right now. After looking at some of them I think I need to leave the photography to Wylie.... I'm not any good at it.The blanket for my Grandpa. My Grandmother crocheted all of the granny squares before she passed, I'm just connecting them toghter.
This is my Lady Elanor. I LOVE this, I wear it as a scarf all of the time!!!
This scarf I made for my sister, but after I decided to make her something from my Grandma's yarn I think I'm going to keep it. It's made out of fun fur and TLC Macaroon.
The scarf pictured here I wouldn't recommend to any knitter... LOL It wasn't that bad it just took forever. It's knit using Red Heart Super Saver Yarn on size 7 needles, and it was 114 stitches across........
Plus Computer Guy wanted it to be really long and wide so that made it even more of a task. It took me over a year because I would start working on it and get frustrated and set it aside for a few weeks (or months). But I'm glad I finished it, I think it looks really good.

Procrastinating.....

Ok, I should be doing homework right now, but I can't keep my mind focused.

I've been doing a lot of reading lately, LOTS of reading. In the last month I've finished:
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Way I am by Eminem
Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
Goodbye Picasso by David Douglas Duncan

They were all fairly decent books, you can read my reviews here: Goodreads

That doesn't count the knitting books that I've also been able to get my hands on.

I've also been going crazy on PaperbackSwap.com I've requested like 4 books over the weekend. Hopefully I'll get them this week. Oh BTW if you want to join PaperbackSwap.com please list me as your referral my screen name is: JennMarie68

I think that site is great. I've got a huge list of books that I want, and it seems to keep growing. So far I don't have a lot listed. I did just find out where my Friends of the Library book sale is so the next sale date (in January) I should have some more things to post. After I read them of course.

I've been doing a lot of Christmas Knitting also. I just finished a doily for my cousin, but I forgot to take a picture before I wrapped it.... I got all the pieces of my stuffed animals done now I just need to get the fiber fill and put them together. Then I'm getting closer to being done with Grandpa's lap blanket. I also started working on the scarfs for the women in my family. Hopefully they won't take too long and I'll be able to get the hats for the men done before Christmas... (There's only 11 days, but I'll stay hopeful!!!)

I got a Christmas present from my mom last week. I finally got a set of Knit Picks interchangeable needles. So far I LOVE them. Other than my size 11 needle had something in it, that prevented it from being put on the cables, I've had no problems. And they sent me out a replacement so I should be getting it soon. I really don't need the 11's right now so I don't see that it will cause a problem. I also got a chart keeper, which is already come in very handy. I think I'm going to use that more than I thought I would. I need to get some stronger magnets though, if I jostle the holder too much the magnets move. But I think a trip to the dollar store will fix that.

I made a scarf for my sister and then realized that I was going to make her a scarf with my Grandma's yarn so I think I'm going to keep it. It turned out a lot nicer than I thought it would. I just used some fun fur and some TLC Macaroon (that I've had forever, it was part of my first ever yarn splurge).

I'm going to try and take pictures tonight of some of the recent stuff that I've finished. So there may be a second post tonight... But I guess I have to get back to doing my homework

Ok, It's Me!

Well, it's late like it normally is when I get a harebrained idea (like starting my own blog). But alas, here I am, I took all the time to set this up so I'll do something with it (At least for tonight).

First a little about me. I'm into everything don't believe me?

Hobbies:
1) Knitting
2) Video Games (Especially the Sims and Spore)
3) Reading
4) Cooking (On Occasion)
5) Watching Movies (I'm addicted to Netflix)
6) Trying to sell PartyLite
7) Sitting around doing nothing
8) Listening to Music

****See, I warned you it's a lot.****

So when I'm not trying to figure out what I want to waste time doing I'm sitting at home with my boyfriend (we'll call him Computer Man) and our beautiful dogs Flo (Short for Flower, like the skunk on Bambi) and Ray-Ray (short for Raven). I'll post pictures someday. Or I'm doing homework. I am currently going to University of Phoenix online for an Associates in Business. When I finish with that in September '09 I'm going to go into a Bachelors of Retail Management. At least that's the goal right now. And someday I'd like to own my own business. We'll just have to see.

Now given my vast set of interests what on earth am I going to blog about? Will anyone even read it?

1) I'm going to blog about whatever is on my mind. See above list and add all sorts of randomness, cause I'm like that.
2) Probably no one but my mom, but I'm ok with that :-) I love my mommy.

So now that my brain is loosing focus, and the myriad of brilliant things that I wanted to say just aren't as brilliant when I type them out I'm going to leave this one for now. Tomorrow maybe I'll post lots of pics. I like pictures.

So to anyone reading this, that isn't my mother, Hello, glad you're here. To my mother, I love you :-)