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I have been so slack in my posting… But oh well. I have been up to a lot of things. Tomorrow happens to be my 20th birthday, too. Fun times!
For one of my art classes I have to do a series of twelve drawings on a single theme. Guess what I chose. Yup, knitting. Here is the first drawing. It is simple but a good starting point. The next drawing will have some mixed media elements (a.k.a. yarn).
…but I found a sweet picture of us with Ryan’s family. I believe it was taken on Christmas Eve.
from top left: Ryan, me, Andy (Ryan’s brother), Tiago (almost-brother from Brazil), Mary Ann, and Joe. There were no pictures taken at my parents’ house because things are usually too crazy around there to get pictures. I love my family!
“Beauty is twice beauty
and what is good is doubly good
when it is a matter of two socks
made of wool in winter.”
excerpted from Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to My Socks“
(Here in it’s original Spanish, which is much more beautiful.)
I didn’t realize how long it has been since my last post. Sorry, the holidays seriously wore me out. (Not bad stuff, just really tiring good stuff!)
Excellent news: I finally finished my Summer Daze socks! These are my first fingering-weight socks as well as my first toe-up socks. I must say, the knitting was a bit tedious because I wasn’t sure if they were going to be worth all the trouble. I know, I know handmade socks are the best and so on… I’ve never actually worn a pair until I finished these! Anyway, I really like the way these turned out. I tend to wear a lot of earth tones, but for some reason I LOVE crazy colors for my socks. Behold the last FO of 2007!
Oh yeah, happy new year! I’m firmly against new year’s resolutions as I seem to break pretty much immediately. I did, however, join the YMCA a week or two ago and I’m going to try going three times a week henceforth. It’s funny how I decided that at this particular time of year because I swear it had nothing to do with new year’s anything.
One last thing, I just discovered this band: The Lascivious Biddies. They are very different and interesting; check ‘em out.
