The Time Has Come

For me to read the whole Twilight series again. I keep thinking about it. And I feel like I deserve to drive around pretending to be white hot (or cold in this case) vampire again. The other day I looked in my closet and realized that, "Hey, all my clothes are ones that Alice Cullen might wear if I paired them together right!" (The majority of my closet is greys, blues, and whites. Alice, you want to raid my closet and you know it!) After I looked in my closet, I looked at my skin and realized that despite the summer (lack of) sun I am still beautifully pale. (Recently I decided that 3rd degree sun burn every year is something that I don't look forward too. Hello SPF 30!) If only my hair was short and brown. (Not really, I'm starting to like it long)

Speaking of books, I've been reading quite a lot lately. I usually read a lot but schedules and craft projects have not allowed very much time for reading. ALTHOUGH!! I just discovered my dilema of never being able to read while I'm knitting. Suprisingly, the gift was from my husband and I'm pretty sure that he didn't know that his gift was allowing me to do many many things at once. What is this phenomenom? It's a Barnes and Noble NOOK!! A little portable electronic reader and it's wonderful!

Anyways, here's a list of the last few books I've read and how I would rate them.

My first is:

The Eye of the World. A fantasy book by Robert Jordan. My husband recommended it to me and at first it was slow going but at about Chapter 4 or 5 it gets really interesting. Action packed, slight romance, great read, and about 700 pages of thick, the first book of a series of 12. I find myself wanting the second book.

Young Rand is just a shepherd from a small village. Until visitors come to his village turning Rand, and his closest friend's lives upside-down.
Rand, his friends, and the mysterious Aie Sadai and her Warder then start off on an adventure that will change them all.

Five stars!

My next is:

"And Then There Were None." I love me a good Agatha Christie mystery. Miss Marple, Hercule Poroit, I've read them. This was one that my brother's girlfriend recommended to me and I have to say, it's the most chilling one that I've read from her. Like most of her books it's a quick read. But you kind of want it to be because you want to know what happens next...FAST!

A group of people get myseriously invited to the same place, an island owned by no one knows! The mystery thickens when hearing a recording of someone exposing their hidden secrets and one of the guests drops dead.

OoooooO!! Scary but not enough to give me nightmares or have me paranoid. My kind of mystery.

Last but not least:

"Have a Little Faith," by Mitch Albom. This is my book club book and it was a goody.

A true story about the author two influental men in his life who taught him about God, faith, happiness, contentment, and peace in your life. These two men are his old jewish rabbi and the African American christian pastor who came from a life of violence and drugs.

It's a very quick read that gets you thinking. It leaves you with a happy feeling but then again a, "Man, I need to look at the world differently." Or at least that's how I thought about it. It's such a good book.
I would let you borrow it but it's on my nook. :) I read this book while knitting some throw pillow covers. Which I haven't finished and my husband took my camera so there are no pictures of them.... yet.

Peace out!

All Things Handmade

I know it's been forever. Please don't hate me.

This spring/summer has been incredibly busy. Work, projects, our yearly move, and much much more.
Alex and I moved again into a much better, nicer, cleaner, WARMER AND LEAK FREE HOUSE!! Did I also mention that there are no more wood chips? And that I spent a month picking wood chips out of everything AFTER we moved? Yep, things are finally coming together.
Alex and I had our 2 year anniversary and I just recently had my 21st birthday. Now all I have to look forward to is being old enough to rent a car and retirement.

Anways, I have a few projects up my sleeve. One of them being a vintage inspire, fashion show/auction of all things hand made. I'm putting it together for my work and it's going to be wonderful.

And that's all I have to write about for now.

January Shmanuary.

This winter has been hard on both myself and my husband. Hard for me because I live in a house that has leaks, pipes freezing, drafts, broken washing machines, and lacks the ability to remain warmer than 40 degrees. I am serious. When it got into the negative temperatures (as it always does in the winter) the bathtub would have a lob of ice frozen to the drain where the spout was dripping. I should have taken a picture so you would believe me. And hard for my husband because he had to fix it all. Every night he would have AT LEAST one thing to fix. And that is NOT an exaggeration.

And because it is cold, it is also hard for me to craft and to cook. Because the heater broke in my kitchen so every time I was in there I had to have the oven on and door open so that I could have something to warm my hands up on.

But, it has been warming up so my crafting bug has returned. But I do have a couple of pictures that I documented one extremely trying night when I decided to bake and drink the cold away with nasty organic sugar cookies (but an excellent cookie cutter) and the most tasty homemade hot cocoa.

Enjoy:

(My little Organic Cookie Forrest)

(Why I'm the greatest wife that ever lived.)

And now that it's warmer outside, it's warm enough in my house to lay stuff on the floor... or to even sit still for a large amount of time. So I decided last night to teach myself how to applique. It turned out quite well. It's not quite finished, as you will see by the picture... but I think I might turn it into a throw pillow or something. I made the pattern and everything by myself. Just some scraps from my collection of fabrics:

Sorry that I don't have some super awesome picture of it. Maybe I'll post a better one later. This little dresdin plate (so I found out later that's what it was... I didn't know, I just made it up. Honest!) still needs to be sewn on to it's background and I don't even know if I want it to stay on there. I'll have to think about it. I might just do something white. I don't know though, I kind of like all those colors together.
I seem to have this fascination with throw pillows because I also have anothher pillow in the works. I think they're the ones that I might use to build my etsy because I don't know anyone who would like them in their house. Not because they're ugly... just because they are so... unique?

Anyways... I'll update later.

Peace Out!

New Moon, I Just Can't

As seen by the title, I had to pull myself out of the vampire world yesterday. Day offs are not good for me when I've seen anything Twilighty. So yesterday I pretty much forced myself to go grocery shopping and then burry myself in the home design channel and my crafts. I knit the sleeve of my husbands christmas present while he was taking a nap, and then when he woke up I made us stockings. And! I have pictures!

And so this is the sweater I'm making for Alex for Christmas. You can't really see the picture of the guy but it's called the "1950's Cardigan."

And now for the stockings. Isn't he cute! I crocheted a chain for the letters and then hot glued them on. Hot glue is my personal duct tape. And despite how the foot looks on the right stocking, they both have pointed toes and that cute little foot shape.
Yesterday was a frigid -20 F. or so outside so it was the perfect day to just sit inside and get some stuff done. I worked on a necklace too but I'm not satisfied with it so I didn't take a picture. I'm having a hard time getting chains to hang right. When I went grocery shopping I also stopped in a craft store and got myself the beginnings of a christmas wreath.
Christmas is around the corner, folks! I'm so excited about it that I clean forgot about Thanksgiving!

Why of Course I Saw New Moon!

One of my friends had the nerve to ask me if I had seen "New Moon,"  YET.  Ha.  The nerve.   Of course I had.  I waited in line for an hour and a half just so I can see it.   She obviously does not know me well.  

*sigh*  I guess I should forgive her for ignorance. 

Christmas Time!

Also, incase you didn't notice, I decorated my blog in a candy cane color scheme. Your Welcome.

There Will be Casualties. Just Saying.

I am so ready for the weekend it's ridiculous. Not just the 2 days off that I get, but also having the time to sleep in AND clean my house. I have made a rule for myself that unless it gets terribly awful and I can't find any clean clothes, I can set aside Saturday to wash all of my dishes, scrub my bathroom, and try to make my floors wood-chip free. Why wood chips, you might ask? Well my friends, there are only 2 downsides to having a wood stove. One is that you always have a possibility of burning yourself horribly, (or at least I do... I'm not good around fires.) and the other one is that you get wood chips all over your clothes, floor, furniture, everything. The shirt I put on this morning had random wood bits sprinkled all over it. And considering the fact that it was hanging up in my closet I have absolutely no idea how that happened. There are wood chips in my bed which I loathe to no end. I will not be surprised the day that I take a bite of my food and find a wood chip in the lasagna. The wood that gets tracked all over my house, has weaved it's way into all of my socks, and makes my wonderful suede couch a danger to sit on is my extreme arch enemy. And Saturday is my day to conquer it... at least until my husband (who has no problem with wood chips) decides it's time put more wood in the fire and brings in a couple more logs which he dumps on the CARPET and then without brushing off his clothes RECLINES ON MY SUEDE COUCH. Gosh how we love each other. (We really most certainly do. For reals, I promise.) So his actions have made the conclusion that the wood chip invasion in our house is all his fault. And my dyson's fault for not sucking up all of the piles of wood around the fireplace with out getting clogged.
To be perfectly fair to my husband who has now taken his verbal lashing for being the vessel which brings the wood chip immegrants to my country, I will also say that I bother him when he's relaxing in front of the tv after a long day of work, try to talk to him and impute my two cents into the conversation that he's having with someone (oh this is embarressing) over the phone (but I promise I don't pick up the other line, I just say it out loud while he's trying to wave me away) , And I also randomly volcano emotions on him when he least expects it. I call it 'a suprise attack of suppressed emotions.' It's never pretty and there are many casualties.
Anyways, that's probably all I had to blog about. It wasn't very much. I was just bored at work.
Peace out, yo!