Christ has Risen!

He has risen, indeed.

Happy Easter, everyone :-)

Yummy yummy pies and knitting

Happy belated Thanksgiving, everyone :-P Sorry I’ve been kinda away for the past couple of days, we have a lot of family here, and we’ve been hanging out a lot :-P

But I hope you guys had a *great* Thanksgiving.. and that it was just delicious as mine was :-P

I have definitely be knitting.

On my Featherweight Cardigan, by Hannah Fettig… which I started forever ago… and shoved it aside because I got bored with it, haha. Really really bored. But we tried to see the Muppet Movie on… Wednesday (which that didn’t end up working, oh well. We saw it today, and it was awwwwesome) and I wanted something to work on during the movie.

Which was rather insane of me, really. I knew if I was going to work on that, I would have to boing 1×1 ribbing. With lace weight. In the dark. For 2 inches.

yeah, sounds crazy. But I did do it…. and I got a lot done!

So much so, that I got the ribbing done, I cast the body off, and I’m more than halfway done with the first sleeve. Yep.

Haha, things get done when you have a lot of time on your hands :-P

Also, we stopped by Sam Moon’s today… and my sister and I got some epicly sweet earrings…

here are mine…

and here are Katie’s

and yeah. Feather earrings… sooooo awesomeeee!

Now I’m off to go knit some more :-P

Day 11 + 12 of 14 Days of Thankfulness – Movement and Dance

I love to dance. Actually, I don’t just love it… I adore it. I love to move. I love to be able to do graceful things with my movements…

(Credit: pinterest) (haha, this is not me. I wish it was though, hahaha :-P)

Dance is just so extremely amazing. It’s like playing music, creating some amazing painting, or even knitting. It’s this fun outlet that people can express themselves… with movement in a graceful beautiful way.

Movement is probably one of those things that we take for granted, and it’s a total shock when we aren’t able to move, or we don’t have the ability to move as much. It’s like just a natural thing. Everyone moves. Everyone breaths.

I have no idea what I’d do if I didn’t have the ability to dance… life would be terrible…

I am thankful for the ability to dance and to move.

Day 10 of 14 Days of Thankfulness – Friends, near and far…

*just realized that 14 days isn’t going to… line up exactly with Thanksgiving.* Oh well… that doesn’t really matterrrr… it’s the thought that counts, right? :-P

Warning: This post may or may not include many inside jokes. Do not feel bad if you think I’m completely insane. Or if you get lost in the weirdness. I get lost myself sometimes, hahaha :-P

Today, I’m thankful for my friends.

Which, I do realize.. being thankful for your friends it’s one of those things that everyone is thankful for. Like saying you’re thankful for your family, or food.. or whatever…

Not saying that that’s a bad thing though, it’s totally awesome (more than awesome, haha) to be thankful for those things.

But my friends? They’re just so stinking awesome. That they need their own post.

So, today is Sunday. Not only did I get to go and worship our Creator with likeminded people, I got to see my friends and fellowship with them. And I love it. I love Sundays in general, they’re just awesome.

And of course, I had a stinking blast. At least 5 jokes were created (that’s the average per week, hahaha :-P) and it was just a blast.

When we moved, I was worried about finding friends. Yep, I was sooo worried. Having never moved before, in my entire life, moving at 13 yrs old(or something around that age, haha) I was a wreck.

We visited a ton of churches, and St. David’s church stuck out.. so we started going there! And holy cow, the people there are so amazing. Words to describe them… it’s just not possible. They are the best. The girls were so accepting and welcoming. I felt right at home, and I had nothing to worry about.

Now, I feel like I’ve always been a part of that group. It’s just a perfect fit, and I love them so so much. (NEVER BE A MUSHROOM CLOUD. NEVER EVER.)

My friends back in Oklahoma. Holy cow. I hate to use the phrase “there are no words to describe them” over and over again, because it’ll start sounding like I don’t mean it. But I really do… I mean. I grew up with those people. I spent a ton of time at my friends’ houses. And moving was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done… but I feel like, that even though we moved.. my relationship with my friends back in Ponca City has only strengthened. I am and forever will be an Oklahoman at heart. Ooh yeah.

Then my online friends? they are so extremely special, in so many ways. When you hear the term “online friend”, a lot of people are like “O.O… STRANGER DANGER. People can be not who they say they are online…”… which is totally true in a lot of cases. But not so much when you meet them through like online classes and stuff.

But yeahhhh… my online friends. They are so stinking epic..it’s not even funny. They are also aquatinted with Mrs. Beasly. The violated Mrs. Beasly.
Nose hair..(Don’t ask, you don’t want to know….) that’s a thing. Also, random things such as Sprinkles, Sheep, and Frying Pans are subjects that are brought up a lot. (once again, you don’t want to know)

But yes. My friends, in those 3 groups, and outside those groups.. they’re so amazing. And I’m so blessed to have every single one of them. They make me laugh, laugh when I don’t want to, cry (but it’s a happy cry, haha), burn HT, help me with my problems, listen when I need to rant about Doctor Who or my knitting..

yeah. you should be jealous.

Haha, I’m sorry this was so long. and without pictures. But it’s a totally worthy cause, haha :-P

I’m now.. off to take FO pictures of the Acer Cardigan! Yep, I got it done last night. HOLY COW, I ADORE IT.

Day 9 of 14 Days of Thankfulness! – Bows

Today… I’m thankful for hair bows.

I got a new one today, it’s huge.

Bows are such fun things. I may have mentioned this before, but I’m beginning to really really miss my long hair. There’s not a whole lot of things that I can really do with my hair at the length it is right now… or that I can do anyways, haha.

Thanks to bows, and other fun and funky hair accessories, my hair isn’t the same every single day.

(credit: pinterest)

Bows are happy things. I don’t know why or how… but they just are :-P

Day 8 of 14 Days of Thankfulness! – Teapots

People are always thankful for tea.. and tea cups. But, I dunno.. maybe I’m just unobservant about this, but I’ve never really seen anyone gushing over teapots… have you?

(Credit: Pinterest)

They really are cool things…

They’re so cool.. there are songs written about them. *Starts humming “I’m a Little Teapot”*

And, they can do other things than just hold tea…

(Credit: Pinterest)

I mean, seriously. How brilliant is that?! When I get my own place, annnnd if I have the time, haha. I’d love to do that.

How fun would it be to go hunting around old vintage, hole-in-the-wall stores looking for little old teapots?

That’d be epic fun, in my opinion :-P

Day 7 of 14 Days of Thankfulness

(Credit: Pinterest)

Color is such a cool thing…

Life would be so boring without it, wouldn’t it?

(Credit: Pinterest)

I mean, sure… Black and white pictures can totally be awesome, I use them all the time, haha.

(Credit: Pinterest)

But if there was absolutely no color in life. That’d be sad. really really sad.

(Credit: Pinterest)

Yeah, I’m thankful for color. It’s such an amazing thing.

Adds spice to life :-P

On a Thanksgivingish note: it’s only 7 days till Thanksgiving, holy cow! Our first out-of-town family person, Jeff, arrives tomorrow at around 7ish.

*runs around cleaning/baking/knitting/and trying to get school done all at once*

Let’s hope I don’t die… haha :-P

Day 6 of 14 Days of Thankfulness

Today, I’m thankful for people on YouTube. And more specifically, I’m thankful for the amazingly talented musicians on YouTube… who do such a stinking epic job on all their songs, it’s just.. extremely epic.

For example… Sam Tsui and KurtHugoSchneider (if you click their names, you can head over to their channel and see other awwwwesome songs by them)

And… ThePianoGuys

And… Alex Goot

Good Life (silly wordpress, the video isn’t showing up.. but if you click on the link, it’ll take you to the video! Go check it out!)

And lastly, Michael Henry and Justin Robinett (definitely one of my favorites)
Tonight (once again, it’s like the link above. Click on it to go check out one of their amazingly awesome songs!)

These are just a few of my favorites, but there are sooooo many others out there!

YouTube is such a cool place where talented musicians can share their music with people all over the world… for free, haha.

Haha, this might just be my inner music-loving geek wiggling with joy and happiness, but that’s just my opinion :-P

In the knitting part of life.. I’m still working on the first sleeve of the Acer cardigan. Slow going, seeing as I’ve had a ton of school, cleaning, and cooking that had to be done the past couple of days. But I am working on it!

I’m working on a design for a Christmas present (sssssshhh, don’t tell anyone!) which I’m extremely excited about! Haha, both the design *and* the present.. I’m excited to see what the recipient will think :-P

Also… yesterday I made Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Banana bread. Holy cow. It was so amazingly awesome… it was just.. yeah.

I only had 2 little bananas that were ripe enough, so there wasn’t a whole lot of batter, but it was enough to get 3 little tea loaves. Pictures coming soon :-P

Oh, and on a completely unrelated note… I got my new Christmas dress today. And it fits perfectly. and it’s beautiful. and I adore it. *so excited to wear it* … *might just wear it to the ball*… *cause it’s that stinking awesome*…

^_^

Knitting headway ^_^

Knitting post! Woot!

So here’s the first sleeve.. which I cast on yesterday. Making pretty good headway, I think…

It being only… the 15th of November, I think I’m doing pretty good.

(this picture and the next picture were taken yesterday.. hence the different lighting, haha)

Yeah, I’m really really really happy with it.

I really want to have it done by Thanksgiving, so I can wear it on Thanksgiving… if weather permits, haha.

I’m behind on my stitch counter, as well… rats. Obviously, I have a lot to add since I last updated it, haha.

Day 5 of 14 Days of Thankfulness

Ahhh, what am I thankful for today?

It was going to come around sooner or later, haha, so here it is.

I am a die-hard Whovian. If it was possible, I would totally be the Doctor’s sidekick… especially if it was the 10th Doctor, played by David Tennant

I’m not sure why exactly I like it, haha. It could be the British humor. It could be the sci-fy/fantasy thing. It could be that it’s just an absolutely brilliant idea.

Ooooor maybe it’s all of those things, plus more, all mixed together.

It also provides really good knitting time. Each episode is around 45 minutes long, so it’s a pretty good chunk of time to get a lot of knitting done :-P

Or not, depending if you’re sitting on the edge of your seat waiting to see what happens next. That may or may not be me more than half of the time, heh heh.

Why did I start watching it? Yeah, I’m not sure about that either, haha. But I didn’t watch it because of Charlie McDonnell (aka charlieissocoollike). Annnd I didn’t start watching it because everyone else was watching it.

Yeah, I’m not sure why exactly. But I just did. And it’s SOOOO AMAZING.

If you get me started, I could probably ramble about Doctor Who for at least a week… if not longer, haha.

Who’s my favorite Doctor? David Tennant, the 10th Doctor, ALL THE WAY. Yes, the 9th, Christopher Eccelston, was awesome. And Matt Smith, the 11th, is ok.. (he’s ok. BUT HE HAS NO EYEBROWS. This really bugs me, haha)

But yeahhh.

And yes, Rose Tyler, played by Billie Piper… has to be the BEST sidekick/companion/whatever you wanna call it for the Doctor. Especially David Tennant.

It’s just.. so epic. Too epic for words. Holy cow, haha

Ok, I’ll stop ranting. I’m thankful for Doctor Who today, and that’s that, haha.

Other 14 Days of Thankfulness :-P
Samantah (on facebook)
Raidin’ Braden’s Brain
Peaceful Foundation
Knit, purl… wait, what?

If you’d like to be added (or removed, that works too!) just let me know in the comments below :-P

*knows I failed to get the knitting post up yesterday* *I fail* *I’m sorry* Today? Today. Hopefully, today.

GAHHH SO MUCH TO DO BEFORE THANKSGIVING. *panics*