Doodlebird

This is a fact!

I AM the worst blogger ever! I set this thing up so i could keep in touch with everyone and now I am just freaking horrable at updating it... so I wrote in big letters on my dry erase board! UPDATE BLOG TODAY! hopefull with that cute reminder i will be able to keep up better tabs on what is going on.... so...

on the knitting front

* the armwarmmers have been frogged!(again) i keep messing up the cable.

** I started the greek pullover from interweave knits fall 2005.. (wanna have a good chunk done before i come home)

*** I am drooling over the small laptop bag from that same issue (book excerpt at the back, i may go get yarn for it tommorrow)

**** ryan's manchester united/HP scarf is on hold for the time being.

***** The new harry potter scarf I am working on is being a pain in my butt... (go figure I hate these things) (want to get this done before the movie... bites fingers nails)

****** I also want to make that cute jacket from vogue knitting this season..

******* I sent my information in to be a knitser on knitty gritty Cross your fingers...

******** I learned how to crochet and am making UBER cute hat... that i will show off when i get home....

On the school front, School is hell I want it to die, and maybe kill myself while i am at it. I finely got to start wet printing so at least i am a bit more content with my time spent in said darkroom....

On the Home front, i finely found two good yarn stores, one has a bunch of lamb pride the other has a bunch of cascade... so wool does exist out here in CA... WOOT also one store has EVERY COLOR OF Cotton Chenile and that other really nice cotton...... and the weather is starting to become BEAUTIFUL, it's like 75-80 during the day and about 55 at night....

also I like this boy, don't know if he likes me... I kind of think he does, we sit on his couch on his patio and look at stars and talk and i rest my head on his shoulder.. le sigh.... oh well...

got a hair cut....

I know i keep saying this but... will post pictures soon!!! since my mom just sent me my camera cord for the DOCK!!! So that means I can start taking picures again!!!! and download the ones i have now!

Later gaters much love from california

Kristen

Knitting and the like

SO I am working on the amazing armwarmers... the cable on them has stumped me a bit that is what I get for doing them on the Santa Barabara Airbus!!! LOL so I need to find a knitting group out here in CA. I also need to teach my friends to knit. MY friend jesse...(a boy mind you) may be comming out from LV to hang out this weekend and knit!!! so that is rocking and rolling. I am also addticed to ROME on HBO you should watch it if you can! so anyway pictures soon I swear!

cleaning the apartment!

Kristen

finely feels like home

Everything feels like home here now, I am settling down into my apartment, I have some kick ass friends, and a boy that I am starting to crush on (i mean I am sitting here knitting a Manchester United colored scarf for him) anyway, that is what is going on... hopefully i will have some time this week to take some pictures scan them and get them up here for the 6 projects i am still working on.

I am working on

a lopi lace scarf
these armwarmers for me
I have 3 flower face cloths left!
Ryan's manchester united scarf
and I need to sew together my bag from S&B nation but i lost that book so I am kind of hosed... oh well mom is looking for it in indiana..

Love you all

Kristen

Long time comming

So, I am getting the pieces of my life out here in chicago together. I am ready for my move I am ready for the change I am just ready. I can't wait to be thrown in to a situation where I am out side of what i am used to and can create better work because of it. In the knitting world I finshed a cape and i have started working on two bikini! woot a tankini and a regular bikini! I also have yarn to make a beautiful wrap, it's gonna be pretty! woot I am just busy packing unpacking and getting ready I miss p a lot, I haven't really had a lot of chances to talk to him, (he's super busy boy and I have been kind of busy too) and that makes it so much harder. :( oh well he'll be here in a few days and I'll get to talk to him! woot

K

old fashioned romance and uber dorkyness

So, I am a bit perplexed as to why when I tell people about my boyfriend p they give me this were look, Granted p and I have a very strange relationship, considering I live in Chicago/indiana and he lives in California. I know it's not a Normal romance. So here is a question, is better to find someone you or sorta compatable with who lives near you or find your lobster and have them live far away from you??? I don't know both would be hard, but i will take p and my compatablity anyday.... anyway that is my little rant

SO just so you know i am an UBER DORK, i am watching the clone wars Cartoon DVD was playing WoW, and now i am knitting while watching this.... god it's good to know that some boys find dorky girls like me hott...

On the knitting front the cardigan is all most done and I am so ready for that to be done, I missed my kelly girls meeting tonight :( I will be there next week mos def!!! and I am working on converting this pattern to knitting from crochet... yeah that right. anyway more when I get more done... off to write a paper on David Lachpelle (sp) anyway night night

K

All is right with the world

Well after a Dramatic thursday, I went home to indiana for a relaxing weekend.... I am now in chicago because I had a meeting with CS (chicago Social) I am gonna to a shoot for them in a week or so, that is UBER exciting.... anyway all is right here in the world because as I am typing this laying next to me in bed is my sweet and wonderful boyfriend back 2 days early from tour,He's been so zonked all day, he was up for 22 hrs so he gets to sleep and let me take care of him as much as I want cause he a tired little baby! I did a Bunch on my honeymoon sweater and the cardigan befell the dreaded frog. I ended up frogging both fronts oh well it will be ok I still have a few weeks like 4 to finish it! (eek I need to) and I bought yarn to make a knitted bikini. Cause after all I will be A california girl soon. well I am gonna go get a snack and then come back to the cuddle fest of the century... lala

k

Cleaning,TV and the Kelly girls!

SOOOOOO today has been let's get the life a bit more in order day. I am not quite done but I took a nice break during the past few hrs to go knit with the kelly girls... BTW the cafe that they knit at has the BEST MOCHA EVER. So good I may make a trip up there some sleepy saturday mornings just for the coffee and come back home... anyway... I have a bunch of pictures ready for matting and framing and hanging in my room. I have to hang my magnet board (that is shaped like an appletini with an apple magnet and a cherry magnet... it was 4 dollars at target a few weeks a go couldn't say no to that! I am also going to work on my idea journal (making the journal ie cutting the bindings and such, I am also working on a Top Secret Book project for the big P..... anyway, the kelly girls were a blast to hang out with and there is a girl who uses the word poo as much as P does!!!!HAHAH anyway I got a few more rows of my honeymoon cami done, if i keep up with it (ie work on it tommorrow and all weekend) I could have it done in a few days! woot!!!! OH YEAH I learn how to crochet from this really cool girl tonight she was AMAZING at it and all it took was a visual thing and I get it now so look out coasters her I come!!!! YEAH so anyway I watched the ring for the first time today and I DON"T GET THE HYPE... it wasn't scary... oh well pictures to come soon I PROMISE!!!

later gaters
K

White days like this all never miss.

The lonely bug has bitten me. I went to the movies ALONE last night, and I am sitting here knitting ALONE (i could go to S&B chicago but i didn't like it the last time but tommorrow I am going to kelly girls!!! woot) But I miss having knitting friends around. I think it is a sandwich night I don't feel like cooking dinner. I should go look in the fridge I just spent like 50 bucks on grocery, (yes jen I went to whole foods and yes donnie darko was there) I am just a bit grumpy, I want to get pictures of all my kntting pieces and I want to finish my balernina wrap to night I started in the summer last year and it's still not done it's not hard but I can't get motivated! I got this little box kit called "cozy crochet kit" and I think I got the single crochet down and that is cool. but I can't get the double crochet down :( but as soon as I figure that out I will be making these cool coasters! ooh yeah crochet coaster rock! I also went to paper source and got stuff to make some books that will be a blast too! woot! Ok well I am gonna go get some nap time in and then I'll be bouncing of the walls with creativity!

Laters
K

So busy

So i have been super de duper busy this past week, I had an 8 print critque on the start of my project on couples, I got some really good ideas from my teacher and I am really excited to shoot some more couples this week and next, I am also spending a good amount of my day in the darkroom on monday printing for pleasure and for my 6 best print midterm. I have to buy 2 differerent portfolo holders for my 8x10 and 11x14 work... The big P has been rocking North Carolina most of this weekend I was suppost to go down and meet him but I was suppost to have another treatment on friday that I chose not to have at the last minute, but that ok cause thursday afternoon I woke up to SCREAMING pain in my mouth.... and a killer headache from sinus infection that was comming on so I came home friday morning and have been sitting around and sleeping watching tv and just chilling anyway here is a list of projects on the needles it is HUGE and I have so many in the works that I must finish a few before I continue with any more so here is the list

S&B cardigan
Hot Lava Cardigan (out of the super yummy yarn i won from erin)
The honeymoon cami
Kotyo sweater from knitty
Knitting the Dormlife rockstars

I want to start as these get finished
a lampshade from knitty gritty
some flip flops (out of sleek yarn and beaded like on knitty gritty)
My tankini that will be striped and dotted!! woot woot
the pillows from S&B two

over and out kids

K