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Sunday, August 09, 2009
I joined a quilting bee!
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Friday, March 27, 2009
My baby turned 9!
Boy that makes me feel old...
I made her this twin doll by Jean Greenhowe (ravelry link) in honor of the occasion. I thought the doll looked a little creepy but she likes it so I guess that's all that matters :) I used a bunch of yarn from my stash, mainly wool ease and a size 6 needle. I also knit this mostly in the round instead of flat.
I also received my first installment in from Grafton Fibers Colorways club. It's gorgeous! I'm thinking I'll spin it 3-ply and use it along with the future club offerings to knit myself a lizard ridge blanket. I signed up for the double does so I'm getting 8 oz. of each color.
TTFN!
I made her this twin doll by Jean Greenhowe (ravelry link) in honor of the occasion. I thought the doll looked a little creepy but she likes it so I guess that's all that matters :) I used a bunch of yarn from my stash, mainly wool ease and a size 6 needle. I also knit this mostly in the round instead of flat.
I also received my first installment in from Grafton Fibers Colorways club. It's gorgeous! I'm thinking I'll spin it 3-ply and use it along with the future club offerings to knit myself a lizard ridge blanket. I signed up for the double does so I'm getting 8 oz. of each color.
TTFN!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
I joined a quilt-along!
quilt along, originally uploaded by superstahr01.
Let's see if this will help me actually finish a quilt, LOL! You can join me at Oh, Fransson's blog.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Yes we did!
Cross posted here
Hi all,
This will be the first post with actual pictures (picture heavy, so if your connection is slow you might want to view this one at work *smile*) taken with the digital camera. All the pictures up til now have been from my cell phone. We have taken about a million pics so far and I won't be putting them all here, but if you'd like to each every single pic we took (except for the one's with me in them cuz I like like a weigh about a million pounds and I will not be sharing that shame with the internets *smile* you can see them all here.
So we left the hotel yesterday morning around 3:30am. It takes about an hour or so to drive from where we are into Fairfax where we can catch the metro into DC. As I mentioned before the metro stations were insane! There were seriously about a million people. Since we got on at the start of the line we were able to get seats which was really good because we were on the train for almost 2 hours, a trip that took us 25 mins today.
Once we got into DC we were met with even bigger crowds of people are eager to get to the Inauguration. There were police there but we really did not see that many. It was actually really chaotic. No one really knew what was going on or where we were supposed to be. There were "official" volunteers all around with red beanies on who were supposed to help but none of them really knew anything. We had tickets for the silver area, you can see the map here, and we had been told that it could take up to 3 hours to make it through security to get into our area so we were trying to get to the line as fast as possible. We saw about a million other people around us with silver tickets all looking for the same line.
When we finally find the line it is about a mile long, probably more. NO JOKE! We walked for blocks trying to find the end and never actually did. At this point we decide we will just go to the mall because we were also told that they would stop letting people in through security at 11:00am and since it was already 10am by this point there was no way we were going to get to the front of that line in time.
So we start walking and just about every entrance to the mall is closed. Volunteers are directing everyone to the only open gate which is at 14th street. Mind you we started at 3rd street. We make it to 12th street with 5 gazlion others when we hit a dead end. all the people just stop. There is no way forward. OK we decide, we were here, it was fun, we'll just go back to the hotel and watch it from there. On our way back we stop to ask a volunteer if it's worth trying to get in the silver line (she doesn't know) or if they are really going to stop letting people in at 11:00 (she doesn't know) or if it really takes 3 hours to get through the line (you guessed it, she doesn't know!). Thankfully, there was another volunteer across the street screaming that the security gate was wide open, no line. Everyone is waiting in a line that feeds right back into itself and no one is actually at the security gate. Go this way and get right in. Awesome!
We head over and are barely searched, get right in and start looking for a spot to watch the jumbotron. The ceremony itself was great. We saw it differently than what was broadcast on television and everyone was in really high spirits. We boo'd Bush and sang goodbye. We cheered for Gore and wondered why Oprah didn't bring Steadman (found out later that she did). We bonded with the crowd, yelled at people who were putting their kids on their shoulders and in our way and just had a great time in general. It was all about brotherly love. There was so much potential for riots, etc. but everyone was really on their best behavior.
Once the Inauguration was over we tried to make our way back to the train station to go back to the hotel but unfortunately everyone else had the same idea. They were telling people that you should go to the Inauguration or the parade but not both. So at the end we all headed towards the station and got caught in yet another human traffic jam. You could not get into any of the stations. We walked about 5 miles (again I'm not exaggerating here) trying to find a station that was open. When that didn't work we decided to go into one of the museums to wait it out and get warm. It was really, really cold! Again, we were not the only one's to have this idea.
The museums got so crowded that they eventually stopped letting people in. Lines for food and restrooms were out of control. We hid upstairs in the Wright Brothers exhibit for about an hour hoping that once the parade started we would be able to get to and into a station. When we thought the coast was clear we headed out and again were turned away from just about every station we tried. By now my feet are hurting and Kristy and I are snapping at each other. It's about 3pm and we haven't eaten and we really thought we would be back at the hotel by this point. Everyone else was in the same situation. People were even walking across the freeway trying to get to the next closest station or just to get out of the area. We decided to go into another museum and wait some more. This time we were able to buy some really expensive food, boy was it good!
The people along the wall in the picture above were in line for McDonalds which is so far away you can't even see it in this shot.
At 5pm we decide to leave the museum and head to the station so we don't get caught in the crowd of people who will be turned out when they close at 5:30. This time we make it out. On our way to the station we see the aftermath of having 2 million people in one small area. There was trash EVERYWHERE! Piles and piles of the stuff. We saw many lost gloves and scarves. About a million old hand warmers and trampled newspaper. I feel for whoever had to clean that up. It's way worse than how Pasadena looks after the Rose Parade.
Once we got back to the room we pretty much crashed. We had only slept about 5 hours in two days at this point and part of that sleep was on the plane (which doesn't really count, LOL).
It was a great experience, even with the crowds and the walking and the cold and I'm very glad and feel very lucky to have been here. I would do it all again in a heartbeat, both of us would. We spent today being regular tourist and I took a million more pictures with my Japanese tourist camera (as Kristy calls it) but I won't add any of those today as I think I have crashed enough of your computers with the pictures in this post already. I hope you all enjoyed following along, I'll be posting some of our tourist pictures in a separate post tomorrow or Friday.
Love you all and thanks to everyone who helped make it possible for me to come by giving some cash or playing babysitter. I truly appreciate it.
YES WE DID!
Hi all,
This will be the first post with actual pictures (picture heavy, so if your connection is slow you might want to view this one at work *smile*) taken with the digital camera. All the pictures up til now have been from my cell phone. We have taken about a million pics so far and I won't be putting them all here, but if you'd like to each every single pic we took (except for the one's with me in them cuz I like like a weigh about a million pounds and I will not be sharing that shame with the internets *smile* you can see them all here.
So we left the hotel yesterday morning around 3:30am. It takes about an hour or so to drive from where we are into Fairfax where we can catch the metro into DC. As I mentioned before the metro stations were insane! There were seriously about a million people. Since we got on at the start of the line we were able to get seats which was really good because we were on the train for almost 2 hours, a trip that took us 25 mins today.
Once we got into DC we were met with even bigger crowds of people are eager to get to the Inauguration. There were police there but we really did not see that many. It was actually really chaotic. No one really knew what was going on or where we were supposed to be. There were "official" volunteers all around with red beanies on who were supposed to help but none of them really knew anything. We had tickets for the silver area, you can see the map here, and we had been told that it could take up to 3 hours to make it through security to get into our area so we were trying to get to the line as fast as possible. We saw about a million other people around us with silver tickets all looking for the same line.
When we finally find the line it is about a mile long, probably more. NO JOKE! We walked for blocks trying to find the end and never actually did. At this point we decide we will just go to the mall because we were also told that they would stop letting people in through security at 11:00am and since it was already 10am by this point there was no way we were going to get to the front of that line in time.
So we start walking and just about every entrance to the mall is closed. Volunteers are directing everyone to the only open gate which is at 14th street. Mind you we started at 3rd street. We make it to 12th street with 5 gazlion others when we hit a dead end. all the people just stop. There is no way forward. OK we decide, we were here, it was fun, we'll just go back to the hotel and watch it from there. On our way back we stop to ask a volunteer if it's worth trying to get in the silver line (she doesn't know) or if they are really going to stop letting people in at 11:00 (she doesn't know) or if it really takes 3 hours to get through the line (you guessed it, she doesn't know!). Thankfully, there was another volunteer across the street screaming that the security gate was wide open, no line. Everyone is waiting in a line that feeds right back into itself and no one is actually at the security gate. Go this way and get right in. Awesome!
We head over and are barely searched, get right in and start looking for a spot to watch the jumbotron. The ceremony itself was great. We saw it differently than what was broadcast on television and everyone was in really high spirits. We boo'd Bush and sang goodbye. We cheered for Gore and wondered why Oprah didn't bring Steadman (found out later that she did). We bonded with the crowd, yelled at people who were putting their kids on their shoulders and in our way and just had a great time in general. It was all about brotherly love. There was so much potential for riots, etc. but everyone was really on their best behavior.
Once the Inauguration was over we tried to make our way back to the train station to go back to the hotel but unfortunately everyone else had the same idea. They were telling people that you should go to the Inauguration or the parade but not both. So at the end we all headed towards the station and got caught in yet another human traffic jam. You could not get into any of the stations. We walked about 5 miles (again I'm not exaggerating here) trying to find a station that was open. When that didn't work we decided to go into one of the museums to wait it out and get warm. It was really, really cold! Again, we were not the only one's to have this idea.
The museums got so crowded that they eventually stopped letting people in. Lines for food and restrooms were out of control. We hid upstairs in the Wright Brothers exhibit for about an hour hoping that once the parade started we would be able to get to and into a station. When we thought the coast was clear we headed out and again were turned away from just about every station we tried. By now my feet are hurting and Kristy and I are snapping at each other. It's about 3pm and we haven't eaten and we really thought we would be back at the hotel by this point. Everyone else was in the same situation. People were even walking across the freeway trying to get to the next closest station or just to get out of the area. We decided to go into another museum and wait some more. This time we were able to buy some really expensive food, boy was it good!
The people along the wall in the picture above were in line for McDonalds which is so far away you can't even see it in this shot.
At 5pm we decide to leave the museum and head to the station so we don't get caught in the crowd of people who will be turned out when they close at 5:30. This time we make it out. On our way to the station we see the aftermath of having 2 million people in one small area. There was trash EVERYWHERE! Piles and piles of the stuff. We saw many lost gloves and scarves. About a million old hand warmers and trampled newspaper. I feel for whoever had to clean that up. It's way worse than how Pasadena looks after the Rose Parade.
Once we got back to the room we pretty much crashed. We had only slept about 5 hours in two days at this point and part of that sleep was on the plane (which doesn't really count, LOL).
It was a great experience, even with the crowds and the walking and the cold and I'm very glad and feel very lucky to have been here. I would do it all again in a heartbeat, both of us would. We spent today being regular tourist and I took a million more pictures with my Japanese tourist camera (as Kristy calls it) but I won't add any of those today as I think I have crashed enough of your computers with the pictures in this post already. I hope you all enjoyed following along, I'll be posting some of our tourist pictures in a separate post tomorrow or Friday.
Love you all and thanks to everyone who helped make it possible for me to come by giving some cash or playing babysitter. I truly appreciate it.
YES WE DID!
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Inauguration trip
My travel partner has started a blog where we can share our trip along the way with friends and family. If you'd like to "travel" with us, you can follow along at sandksdcadventure.blogspot.com.
I'm going to try some live blogging now that I know how to send posts from my phone and we will be updating the page each night with pictures and recaps of our travels.
Hope you can join us! :)
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