Yarn & Order

Spring Cleaning De-Stash-a-rama

Okay so I'm home from work today and I'm doing a little spring cleaning.  Although I haven't updated my ravelry page in a while I have accumulated quite a stash in the past few months. So I'm looking to reduce.  Please email me if you are interested in any of the items below at kariker@gmail.com. I'll accept paypal, or cash if you're local! (and of course the price will be lower if you're local since I won't have to ship).

Mountain Colors Bearfoot.

Colorway: Bitteroot Rainbow

Fingering Weight/350 yards

Price: $20 including  US Shipping.

Artyarns Supermerino

Colorway 158

Aran weight

2 skeins 104 yds/skein

$17 including US shipping

Hill Country Yarns Sweet Feet Sock Yarn

Colorway: Cowboy

1skein 400 yards

$13 including US Shipping

Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece

Colorway: Black Forest

1 skein  215 yds

$5 including US Shipping

Brown Sheep Wildfoote Luxury Sock Yarn

Colorway: Purple Splendor

1 skein 215 yds

$6 including US Shipping

Knit Picks Panache

Colorway: Slate

68 yds per skein--2 skeins

$10 including US Shipping

Knit Picks Simple Stripes Sock Yarn

2 colorways

I have 2 skeins of the colorway on the left and 1 skein of the color on the right.

231 yds/skein

All 3 skein $9 plus US Shipping

Knit Picks Sock Garden

Colorway: Hydrangea

220 yds/skein  2 skeins

$12 including US Shipping

Lion Brand Cotton-ease

Colorway: Pistachio

207 yds/skein    4 skeins

$12 including US Shipping

Noelle Noodle's Handspun

Colorway: Old School Necktie

Bulky Weight 135 yds 1 skein

$12 including US Shipping

Plymouth Sockotta Sock Yarn

Colorway: 6669

414 yds 1 skein

$7 including US Shipping

Up Close and Personal

If you really want to get to know your yarn stash better, check this out.

Welcome to Awhile Ago

So while I may not have all that much time to post here, I have finally joined Twitter. I seem to be better at short pithy text messages than I am at actual paragraphs right now. You can find me at twitter.com/yarnandorder  If you have your own twitter, please let me know!

My Celebrity Look-alikes Part Deux

At Staci's suggestion.  At least this time I don't look like Andrew Carnegie.

My cool celebrity look-alike collage from MyHeritage.comGet one for yourself.

By Popular Harassment

It's funny but you would think that the people in your real life wouldn't give a rodent's backside whether or not you digested your everyday life online on a regular basis.  I mean they lived through it with you, do they really need the update?  But since I've been receiving some harassment from people I see all the time (and "people" I live with), I'm here trying, for once, to finish what I've started. Not that this is finished by any means. I can never bring myself to end things.

Things are just kind of blah lately, like something is missing.

Work is crazy busy and lately I've been having this sinking feeling like I should be putting more thought into things like my "career" (whatever that means). Like is this just a job that pays the bills (which is how I tend to treat it) or do I want it to be something more important? Do I have ambitions? Is this what I want to be doing for the next 35 years? the next 5 years? Do I even care?  The inevitable answer is "not really."

So what do I care about? Right now mostly just keeping my apartment from becoming a toxic waste dump, paying my bills on time and spending as much time as possible hanging out with my husband, my friends and my pets and watching the occasional X-Files DVD. Talk about a small life. I have been knitting, a lot. I just haven't been very interested in taking pictures of said knitting or even talking about it. I'm kind of over Ravelry. It's wonderful, don't get me wrong, just not into it right now. I still flip through knitting blogs on occasion but it's kind of just been a hobby lately while I'm waiting until I care about things again.

I feel like something is missing. What do other people care about? What are these busy people rushing from place to place and shutting elevators in my face caring about? The primaries? Project Runway? unusual moles? Probably their kids and their houses and their important world-impacting "careers," things of which my little life is devoid.  But I don't even care about that. Blah.

So this attitude, my friends, is why I've been pretty silent lately. Who wants to read this crap?

Resolutions for an Underachiever

Happy New Year and welcome to Seasonal Affective Disorder at its best!

So I was reading my list of resolutions from last year and I realized I was setting myself up for failure from the start. Who am I kidding, seriously? I would like to meet the person I sometimes delude myself into thinking I am. She seems pretty awesome.

I toned it down a little this year, kept it simple and made some resolutions I may actually keep:

So without further ado ...

My 2008 New Year's Resolutions:

1. Get rid of the pimple on my forehead. It has it's own orbital pull. I swear.

2. Try to wear my hair down more.  Wearing my hair in a constant pony tail is just another symptom of my laziness.

3. Be nicer to my dog. He deserves more kisses.

4. Avoid letting my gas tank go below "E." Flashing orange gas-tank dashboard light....we have met for the last time.

5. Don't leave the house with toothpaste on my shirt.

Wish me luck!

The Last Few Weeks--A Picture Essay

There are blog-worthy things going on right now, but I haven't been a very bloggy mood. So here's a photographic summary of what I've been obssessed with lately:

Working my butt off.

Beer, Trivia, Cigarettes

Finishing Objects and Cuddling

and Cupcakes.

Nuff said.

State Fair Pros and Cons

We spent the weekend at the Texas State Fair and thankfully the weather was beautiful. There were pros and cons to this event though:

Pros: 1. Corny Dogs are yummy. There's nothing like deep fried meat on a stick to make your day complete.

2. Dog Dancing and Pig Races (more about this in a later post).

3. Ferris Wheel was awesome.

4. Best petting zoo ever--I got to feed a giraffe and I was molested by a baby cow (apparently my arm tastes like a delicacy in the bovine world--made me rethink that beefy frito pie I had for dinner).

5. Josh is good at carnival games (I am now the proud owner of a large Chilly Willy doll and a stuffed Cow).

Cons: 1. Obese people on rascals (or scooters or jazzies) are dangerous. Especially when they blatantly run over your feet and look at you like it's your fault.

2. Largest pig in Texas made me rethink everything I ate ever in my life.

3.  Knitting prizes awarded to too many friends of the garter stitch fun fur scarf.

4. Riding on the Pirate Ship after gulping a large cup of lemonade may not be the best idea.

5. Fried coke isn't the gastric wonderland I had hoped it would be. In fact it's really kind of gross.

We Have a Winner!!

Using the random number generator, the random number was 12 which means that the big winner is Steph!  Email me your snail mail address Steph or I can just bring the skein with me the next time we go to the Knitting Nest.  Congratulations!

Yet Another Labor of Love

Josh doesn't request much from me when it comes to knitting, so when he does I feel like I need to respond. You may remember the Manchester City Football Club Socks I made for him last year. Well they were a big hit and for about a year now he's been asking me to make him a matching scarf. Hence, the MCFC scarf. It's really just a big tube of stockinette that will be closed at the ends with tassels. It's boring and tedious, but makes for good Trivia Night and beer drinking knitting. Why can't boys like lace?

PS--Don't forget to enter my contest!! Deadline is Sunday night!

Edited to Add: Be sure to congratulate Kaitie Tee on passing the bar exam! How awesome is that??