Purling Sprite

Welcome home Matthew!!!

Extra, Extra!!! Baby News--Go visit Tracey and meet her new baby. He is darling!!! Both baby and Mommy are doing ok!! I love babies, I want one!!!!

Welcome Home Baby Matthew!!

Congratulations!!!

Belated Blogiversary!

It appears that I missed my own Blogiversary. Too many things happening this month that I can hardly keep my thoughts straight. Well, happy blogiversary to me, happy blogiversary to me! hahahah. Thanks for hanging around with this crazed loom knitter for the past year. It has been fun, and it has been real.  And dare I say it--it has been REAL FUN!! ;).

I finally found the camera--actually, hubby found it. He forgot he put it in the car's glove compartment. I don't know what he was thinking by putting it there--we never, ever look in there!! I was ready to take out the Visa and get me a new one--terrible that he found it before I smoked the card!

In the move, I lost my slippers, I think I accidentally threw them in one of the bags that went in the garbage, so yarn and needles came out of their forced vacation. I am making a pair of Fiber Trends Clogs. The yarn is all odds and ends I had in the stash. I have used the child size pattern for a pair for B last year and I remember having a bit of trouble remembering the row I was on, well, nothing has changed. I still can't keep my eyes focused on the pattern--last year was my listening to Eragon on tape, this time was a little one clammoring at the top of her little lungs that she was the baby and she wanted milk! It was really cute and I was enjoying it, until I realized that I had knitted the same row 3 times!!! Let me tell you something--frogging rows that have all those M1, SSK, and K2Tog, and W&T are no fun, no fun at all!

Well, I am off to bed, here are the promised pictures of the boring craft room...and Mim, look at what I got to amuse myself :)...Bunny Suicides! They are just awesome! I have a sick sense of humor, lol. I also couldn't resist getting Furry Logic on Parenthood a good laugh....oh dear!

My Music, My World

This is my music world just for Lolly! I was inspired after seing Kim's! I am not a person who remembers the names of singers, so my list is pretty limited. I tend to listen a lot to the radio and lately to a lot of the Nick Jr. theme songs...hahahah. Let's see, do you know the name of the show where following words come from: "we are not too big, and we are not too tough, but when we work together we've got the right stuff....."

Create your own Music List @ HotFreeLayouts!

Woosh--I am moved in!!

• 5 Rolls of Viva Towels
• 1 Mr. Clean Bottle
• 1 Lysol Disinfectant Bottle
• 1 Windex Bottle
• 6 Mr. Clean Eraser pads
• About 50 boxes of stuff (some worth keeping, some have me wondering!)
• 2 weeks worth of energy spent in 3 days!

Results: Priceless=One humongous move from one little apartment to our new place.

Hoooray!!! It only took us about 3 days of moving stuff from one place to the other. Lots of cleaning was involved--my poor knees are feeling it from the kneeling down to scrub floors.

Well, I was going to share some pictures of the craft room, but--Bad news: It appears that the camera is nowhere to be found, hubby packed it, apparently in the same bag as the camcorder--the bag has the camcorder and the PDA, but no camera...hmmmm.  I spent the last hour looking through boxes and I cannot find it. Pictures of the craft room will come as soon as I find the elusive camera. Just picture a bright blue room for the moment.

Have you read the latest on knitting needles: Knit Lite--The new needles have glowing L.E.D. at the tips to make it possible to knit in the dark--think movie theater. They will be debuting down the knitting isles next month...price: about $20. Looks pretty fancy--I wonder what the other movie-goers would say about the flashing little tips....hmmm

Penmanship Meme

I saw it over at Mim's, who saw it over here and over here, and I couldn't resist. Write a pangram, then your first name, and take a picture :), put the picture on your bloggy. Now, I have seen it in a few blogs--my question is--is there someone going to come and analyze me through my writing. It is sloppy, I blame it on the computers. I was so eager to master the typing that I forgot how to write.

As far as pens go, well, all my nice pens are stocked away in a box. I like to write with liquidy sharp point pens, in purple if possible. If you were to find a notebook from back when I was in school, you will find purple and blue ink, with the date and title with some sparkly underlines. Til this day, one of my favorite places to go shopping is Staples, even if I have to drag the Y-chromosome subjects in my family through the ordeal. I never leave the place without either a)pens b)pencils c)post-its even if I have a million of them at home I must have them, must!!

Back to the MEME, c'mon go ahead let us see your writing :).

You see that burgundy something in the corner--it is my only knitting that is not packed. It is a little something special that I am working for someone whom I am not allowed to tell.

The moving date has arrived!!! We will be heading to unload our  furniture today. My house is a disaster area, it seems that a bomb went off--well, let me show you our sleeping quarters for the past two days--we have arrived to two conclusions. 1. The Floor is Hard!!!

2. Kids will do almost anything to sleep between the two of us/or on top of us making No. 1 even more agonizing

And 3, I know, I didn't put a 3, but it should be there--community sleeping quarters are terrible!!

Amidst Brown Boxes

Please don't come visit me right now, unless you want to be surrounded by boring brown color everywhere. Our move is 2 days away and half of our stuff is in boxes.

Even my knitting books are in there--from 10 boxes of books, 4 of them contain my knitting books....somebody is obsessed :).

Since Friday, Knitting and loom knitting has been rare in this side of the world. From all my stuff, I only have 1 knitting loom out and a few skeins of yarn--with my trusty Vogue Knitting Book, just in case an idea just happens to come to my mind.

Hubby and BIL will be here in less than one hour to put our couches and beds in the trailer...we are going to have a camp out inside our apartment for a couple of days, lol. My BIL is the only help hubby has right now and he is leaving to NY for an interview tomorrow, so everything heavy needs to be taken care of today. The joys of moving....gosh! I collect so much junk, I never thought I was a pack rat, until I started opening drawers. Get this, I found a grocery bag full of B's baby socks!! A bag full of my little odds and ends of skeins--now, what am I going to do with that? At least the socks can be taken to the goodwill store, but the little itty bits of yarn---a pack rat I am!

So much to do, so little time--well, at least I can count with my Landlady waking me up promptly by 5:30am so I can finish my packing and in case I miss her treadmill and Oprah at that time, I can count with her daughter's piano practicing at 8am....LOL...Heck!! We are so ready to move!!!

Marshmellows and my love

Even the most expensive chocolate in the world cannot take the place of my yummies--chocolate covered marshmellows!! I absolutely *love* chocolate covered marshmellows. My hubby doesn't enjoy going shopping by himself, yet, he wondered into the local Walmart to get me not one, but five yummy chocolate marshmellows! I bet he had to fight a couple of ladies looking for last minute Easter candy, heheheh.

Check the card---this is just soooooo us, cheeky humour :), lol. I just love him!! He really knows how to make me just laugh with all my heart and soul!

Huggs to all of you!!! And a huge thank you for all the wonderful wishes...I'll strive for #3 for the rest of our lives, lol.

Happy Anniversary!

It's our day! It's our day! Today, 5 years ago, I volunteered (heheheh) to share my life with a wonderful, funny, loving, thoughtful man. 5 years ago, I decided to share my life with someone who truly completes me and complements my silly personality....and who doesn't my mind yarn hobbies ;).

Our journey is barely beginning and through its paths, it has taken us to some beautiful places, others have been a bit rocky but it has made our bond stronger.

Since the moment we met in the Jamaica Train station in Jamaica, NY, we knew we had a good connection. We felt like old friends reunited once again.

No, we didn't know that we were meant to be together then (although, Sam claims that he knew the moment he saw me that I was going to be his wife, me I had more wordly plans, lol). We started a good friendship, talking about our future career plans, which coincidentally put us in the same university, Utah State, him as a freshman and me a senior...eek! Once at school, we spent quite a bit of time together--I won't tell how much time just in case anyone in the family is reading--I don't want to get him in trouble for the very, very early hours he used to leave my dorm, hahahah. Then, on Christmas, after I came back from visiting my mom in NY, we were just laughing and having fun and he blurted out "would you marry me?". I was speechless, but quickly recovered and said "are you sure, you've got to be kidding right? I mean this is like forever". With a glint in those pretty blue eyes, he seriously said "aye, I am sure". No, it wasn't any fancy way of asking, but it will forever stay in my mind. Til this day, if you ask him, he will tell you that he didn't have any plans of asking, that the Lord put the words in his mouth, and of course, once he said them, he couldn't take them back, hahahah. I love him! Not one day goes by that he doesn't tell me "I love you" or "you are so beautiful". To him, it may seem that I don't notice these little things, but I do and I cherish them, just like I cherish my good morning and goodbye kiss every morning (eventhough, I am dead to the world in morpheus land).

Our life has been good, I can honestly say that the worse day that we have had together was our first day married*. Every day from then on has gotten better and better. 

I am looking forward to a life with you my darlin' and to many more twirlin' around life's dance floor.  Happy Anniversary to us....malhakita!

  Note: Sorry for the pictures--we didn't  have access to a dig camera back then and hubby had to scan these for me for the bloggy--isn't he just the bestest :). I hope you enjoyed them.

*We both consider the first day of our marriage the worst as we had to survive the entire wedding reception and saying hello and thank you to people who we both didn't know. I had my Mom and little brother visit for the weekend for the wedding, as well as some close friends from NY. After the reception was over, we didn't go on a honeymoon as most couples do. We had school on Monday so we had to stick around. But school wasn't the worst part, the worst part was that eventhough we got to our apartment around midnight, we only had a few hours of sleep, around 4am we had to get out and drive down to SLC to take my Mom and my friends back to the airport...eeek! We were tired, we were exhausted and starving. It was Sunday, and our house was void of food, so we ended up going to my sweet MIL for lunch--of course, all of Sam's brothers were asking what in heck we were doing there. When we told them we were hungy and we didn't have any food, they all just started laughing, lol.

Our wedding day was something else for sure....the night before, I only had about 2 hours of sleep. Sam and I were down in SLC for 2 entire days trying to gather everyone from the airport that were coming to the wedding. Everyone was supposed to arrive the same day within the same hour, but you know planes, we ended up down in SLC for 2 days--2 days that I didn't count on. It was hilarious running around SLC with Sam, my Mom, my little brother, and one of friends in tow all around trying to find a decent manicurist for the frantic bride. At one point, I lost it at the airport, I just couldn't handle it anymore and I just let out probably the worst stream of bad words that my husband has ever heard a woman mutter (heck, I am a New Yorker, I can say tons) along with tears of course. Then when we finally came home around 3am, I got to my dorm to find a note about the flowers for my bouquet being in the front office. I just wanted to cry. I went to the front office, but of course it was closed. Then, I accepted defeat and went to my dorm room, sure that I didn't have any flowers for my bouquet. But, as I opened the door, my roommate Ayako, rushed to me and led me to the bathroom where all my flowers were soaking in the tub. We both stayed up til 6 am putting together my bouquet. I finally fell asleep to be woken up by Ayako again at 8 to help me get ready.....I was tired. If Sam hadn't been holding me so tight by the hand at the temple, I probably would have fallen asleep or just laid down on the floor at the feet of all the guests and snored the morning away. I was so tired and nervous that I even put the ring on the wrong finger! It is a joke between us now--I wanted to keep him single by putting it on the wrong finger ;). My Mom still has my bouquet and although she has moved 2 times since we got married, she has taken them with her. It was worth staying up late ;).

Poll for name the knitting loom!

Thank you for all the wonderful entries...I am amazed at your creativity and well, overwhelmed at the great response!

We took the names in a first come, first serve basis, for example, if the name FlyALoom was suggested first on April 9th by X person then again on April 12 by Y person, the entry goes to Person X as they were the first one to suggest it.

The winner will take the items pictured. A nice carry on bag for your new knitting loom, the knitting loom, and some yarn goodies!

It was a difficult task choosing only 10 for you to vote on. The choices for the poll are as follows.

• Kneat-O-Knitter by Eileen
• Wonderloom by Becky H.
• Glide-A-Peg by Marisol J.
• Junior AJAL by Laura
• DIAL (Do-it-All-Loom) by Debee
• SlideALoom by Azia
• 22 Scadoo by Michelle S.
• LuvALoom by Betsy
• Gotta Have It Loom by Deb B.
• Totally Tubular by Tina E.

Poll will end at midnight April 13th. If there is a tie-Sam and I will choose the winning name and the 2 participants will receive a knitting loom--but only the one we choose will receive the bag and the goodies. Does that sound fair?

*****EDIT*****

We have a winner!! Becky H wins the treasure. The name for which this knitting loom shall be known throughout the land is......drummm roollllll: WonderLoom.

I think it is an appropriate name, I mean, I call little N Wondergirl, and B Wonderboy, maybe it was meant to be :).

The knitting loom has a name!!! WonderLoom :).

Thank you all for participating and for making it so much fun. For an entire day there I came and clicked on the results just to see how everything was going.

The poll results ended as follows:

• Wonderloom with 99 votes
• DIAL Loom with 66 votes
• Junior AJAL with 65
• Slide A Loom with 56
• Glide A Peg with 39
• 22 Scadoo with 31
• Totally Tubular with 14
• Kneat-O-Knitter with 12
• Gotta Have It with 7
• LuvALoom with 5

Total votes 394!!!

A new cast on for round knitting looms

I had a lightbulb moment on Saturday, I have been working on some provisional cast-ons on needles, and the light bulb went on. I could try doing that on a knitting loom and if it worked, it would provide  the perfect first row that has the crochet chain edge that will match the bind off row.

So off to work I went and guess what...yep, it worked!! Since it doesn't have a name and well, it came from a provisional cast on, (although, I can't call it provisional as in the knitting looms, it will become part of the knitted item), I shall call it the P-Cast-on. P actually serves two purposes, one for the Provisonal and the other for my last name ;)...ok, it is more for the Provisional Cast-on from where it originated.

It is very similar to the way the Cable Cast-on is worked, except on this cast-on method, you have only one strand on the outside of the knitting loom. So it is ready to begin your wrapping process.

In the round, it leaves a flexible edging (with wool yarn)--thus making it possible to use it for the cast on of a hat.

**Edit** Thank you for testing it out for me and for your comments ;).