WOOHOOO!!

Brian Got A Job!!!

Yep thats right, WOOOHOOO!! *said as I jump for Joy!*

The move is coming along we have finished the drywall on the second floor of my mom’s house and have started moving some stuff down there including my main stash other than the 2pr of socks I’m working on.

I would like to say Thank You to everybody who has ordered from Ray at Knitivity Yarns to help him recover from Hurricane Ike. If you have been keeping up with his blog you know he is able to get back online at the Library and that his brother Scott is taking care of printing off and sending the orders we are all sending him. Hopefully he will be able to start processing them soon and will be officially back in business.

The Knit-n-Stitch is also being moved (since its online that part will be easy) and I am in the process of getting a new e-mail, phone and snail mail contact info processed. We may or maynot have to go to temop contact info depending on how fast we can get our permanent stuff taken care of. However the plan is to keep it open unless there are problems then we will close temporarily and will post it here as well as on the home page to let everybody know. The redesign is coming along and as soon as we can get everything set back up it will be implemented 🙂

I’d also like to thank everybody for the well wishes and good luck vibes sent our way while Brian was Job Hunting!! You guys are great! Sorry I havent posted more in recent weeks but moving has that effect and as soon as we get all that taken care of I promise to blog more frequently and have more knitting, kitties and flower pics 🙂

See ya all in the next day or so!

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No Pics but I do have an Update

Ive gotten past the heel turn on both pair of socks for Sockdown Sep 08 Challenges and am seriously comptemplating casting on the Mystery SSock as well. Only problem there…I’m out of orange yarn and my favorite dyer is temporarily closed due to Hurricane Ike 😦

Ike like everybody knows hit the east coast of TX this past weekend and tore up Galveston and most of Houston as well as numerous other towns and communities. We are all praying they are getting the relief they need from the State and Feds and that everybody finds their house intact, yes, but mostly just plain repairable and that they dont have to stay relocated for to long. Speaking of Houston, Ray from Knitivity is fine and back home!!! However like most everybody else he has no electricity and is hurting for business. Hopefully he is able to get to a working comp soon because I am sure he is gonna find several orders for not only yarn but also donations for his charity hats. I plan to order some yarn from him here pretty soon as a gift and also I want to get his “Suprise Me” sock yarn as soon as he is able to dye again. Please help him out, Knitivity was born from the wreckacge of Hurricane Katrine…PLEASE  dont let his dream die because of Hurricane Ike.

Housing update: My dad and Brian got the doors up in my mom’s house and my mom and I got the 2nd floor mostly cleaned and ready to be finished!!! We will be doing the drywall in the main room this week and hopefully starting to paint this weekend. TS Ike however may put the painting on hold as my folks have a couple of trees down from him coming through one of which is perilously close to their house, thankfully it fell the otherway! So my dad and Brian may be cutting it out this weekend.

Thats all for now I’ll try to get some pics in the next couple of days of the sock progress and some of the house progress (if I remember to of the house,,,OOPS)

Hope everybody is fine and not many of you have to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.

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Busy Busy This week

We have been busy working at my mom’s house this weeke getting stuff done so that Brian and I can move down there hopefully by the end of the month. I havent gotten any pics and have made very little knitting progress ofther than the heel is done on my Monkey sock and the first 10m rows on the back of the Cardi. Spring Forward is ready for me to start the heel flap so will prob do that today while waiting on my MIL to get home from the store then we will head out again today.

We have managed to lean out the shop and have gotten the stuff from the main upstairs room moved into there and the guys have just got the doors and sills replaced in the mudroom. After they finish that we need to figure out where to put the foundry stuff so we can move my moms comp  and craft stuff down to the new comp/craft area.

Thats all I have, and all that has been goin on so far this week.

See ya Soon 🙂

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Interview Away My dearie!!

BRIAN GOT AN INTERVIEW!!!

YAHHHOOOO!!!! Is interviewing this am at 11 for a mail room position at JB Hunt in Springdale AR 🙂 Can you tell I’m very happy!!! Oh remember the when it rains post? Well we got another body yesterday at the Funeral Home so his mom is having to actually WORK part of a funeral (the hard part…not the actual funeral which will be Sat). The good thing about the mail room is it is a stepping off point within the company, most everybody works there for a yr and goes up from there! Wish Brian all sorts of luck 🙂

In Sock News…Spring Forward and Monkey are progressing quickly. SPrinforward is ready for the heel to be started and Monkey is half a repeat away. I’m gonna try to get Monkey to the gusset today and start on the Spring forward heel either tonight or tomorrow. Then will work some more on Mama’s Cardi and UA’s sweater. I havent decided who these socks will be going to or if they will go into my dresser drawer instead, am loving the colors so much that will prob be hard to give em up, HEHE!

Well Brian has returned and didnt get the job, they had already hired someone for the spot before they interviewed him, GRRRRR. The guy told him that there would be a couple more spots opening in the next couple of weeks and to keep calling. His Mom is gonna be happy that he wont be leaving after this service.

We are gonna start working on my Mom’s house Sunday and all week next week so that it will be ready for us to move down there as soon as he gets a job (prob sooner if I can talk him into it). He needs to just leave the Funeral Home and search for a job full time so that his stress level can start coming back down, everytime theres a death call his level goes right back up (mostly cuz his mom drives him nuts). I dont know if I can convince him of that need but I may be able to get some friends of ours (Bobbi and Curt…esp Curt) and the friend of his that helps him Jason tto convince him of it. Jason started working on him yetserday without my asking him.

Thats all for today…I know I promised pics Wed but I dont have them ready to go so will post them next time I post. Also…I will try to post what alls goin on at my Mom’s house this next week (maybe even with pics) in the evenings when I get home. And any orders for the Knit-n-Stitch next week will be delayed I’ll make one order to distributor and one mail run please bear wih us while we get ready to move, move, and get set back up again 🙂

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SockDown 2008-09 Has Officially Started!!

And Summer of Socks 08 has ended, bummer LOL!

Sep 1 2008 at 12:01AM was the offical kick off time for this years Sockdown challenges and looking at the Sep Sockdown thread on Ravelry ( main page you’ll have to sign in or request an invite) There were several members that waited up just long enough to catch the first Mystery sock clue and to cast on for their socks 🙂

September’s Challenges include: any Cookie A. Pattern in any color yarn (you should see the number of Monkeys being done), any sock pattern in Orange yarn (from a very light orange to terra cotta etc) and/or the Mystery Sock in Orange Yarn. Sounds easy enough….Yeah….who knew there would be so many variations of orange yarn 🙂 Debi (Fluffyknitterdeb on Ravelry) Susan (Justkeepknitting) and Baseballknitter (sorry dont remember her name) have been up to their eyeballs in orange yarn pic. You see there was a qualification on the orange yarn….the yarn has to be atleast 75% orange, LOL! Basically they want us to step outside our color comfort zone and they want anybody to be able to look at the socks produced and say “thats an orange sock”. Varigated yarns are allowed as long as they meet the 75% rule of thunb.

I have cast on for 2 of the challenges this month; Cookie A.’s Monkey (yes another pair) in CTH Sugar Maple (not 75%) and Spring Forward in Knitivity Uptowne Road (discontinued) California Spring (75% or more). I am loving both of the yarns, and am enjoying myself immensly with them. Heres some cast on pics…

 Monkey Ribbing 🙂

 And the start of Spring Forward, as you can see I got it started late last nite and ended up stopping after the curent row being worked was done after I caught myself knitting in my sleep again 🙂

Thats all for now, I’ll post pics of Mama’s Cardi and Uncle Atchie’s Sweater swatch either tomorrow or Thursday when I get them out to work on (have to take pics of them first…OOPS 🙂 Am gonna wait a day or 2 so I can catch up on my sleep (Brian having funerals to work and being gone doesnt do any good for me and sleep) and not wake myself up knitting in my sleep on one of the sweaters. 

See ya tomorrow and enjoy the SUnshine Kitty pic below:

 Isnt Charlie such a purrrty girl 🙂

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