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Hey, gosh it feels like it’s been forever since I’ve posted something. Well, turns out, I’m moving to an actual hosting service. I wanted to have more control with the image and page. So I’ve been working on stuff that I have no idea what I’m doing. The site is somewhat driving me crazy because I’m pretty darn clueless. Anyways, I’m fixing up the site now. Come check me out whenever you have a chance: esotericknitter.com Hopefully I wont have too many kinks. 
This past week, Spring Break, I picked up some new hobbies. I’m actually a bit obsessed with them. I somehow stumbled onto lucky star origami while in search for good luck charms as a present for a coworker down on her luck. I am crazily making these cute little stars and can’t seem to stop. I’ve already ordered some special paper to make them and have been practicing with magazine pages and such. Well, this then led to my intrigue with making origami gift boxes because in my search for directions on how to make these lucky stars I stumbled onto beautiful origami gift boxes. Now I have some origami books on box making in my cart at amazon.com but hmmm I’m letting them simmer until I get my head straight and thinking. I want to be sure this is something I am willing to stick with.
My other itch of an obsession are stitch markers. I am dying to try them out. I’ve seen some really pretty one on etsy and was thinking wouldn’t it be fun to make my own. So I picked up some beads and whatnots at Hobby Lobby but held out on tools because I had a 50% coupon (MARA750, expires 3/31/07) for joanns.com and recently became a free shipping member so I ended up with a good deal on a nice tool set and free shipping, hehe, can’t beat that. Plus while I was shopping I just added some more nifty items for my future to be stitch markers. Why not, right? The package should get here sometime Friday. Can’t wait to start.
For some reason I am in such a crafty mood. I’m usually not interested in making things other than my knitting. But as I read people’s blogs and see their creations I am so inspired.
On a knitting note, I hope to finally finish my scarf I started last month for my coworker tonight. Hurray! I’m really buckling down and making myself finish all or most of my projects currently on the needles that have been specifically made for people. That way I can eventually start on socks for me again and use the nice yarns I’ve recently accumulated.
I’ll post some pics of what I’ve been up to when I get home. The lucky stars are just too cute. Now I need to find cute jars or bottles to hold them in so I can give them away to boost people’s spirits, I know they put a smile on my face when I see them.
ETA…pics…
I made the pastel box and stars are made from origami paper. The shiny stars are made from left over gift wrap paper. And the colorful stars are made from the packaging paper that came from my other origami paper set. Now that I have pics of them, they seem to be so very few in number and they took quite a bit a time to construct. Hmmm.
Finally the coworker scarf. Just so close to being done. The color isn’t how it really looks since it’s night time and I had to use the flash :(, so it’s a bit off. By the time it’s all knit up and done, it will measure just under 7 feet. Ekk, that’s long! But my friend is a a lot taller than me so its gonna work out just fine.
A few months back my coworker and I had a rough night. It seemed that just about all the patients were going crazy on us. It was just very overwhelming. The situation made me rethink the whole idea of going into health care and pursuing my masters in nursing. Anyways, I a few days back my coworker surprised me with this really nice crochet blanket. I really like the colors. She had said that she was working on a blanket for me but I thought she was kidding this whole time. Lol. silly me.
I didn’t really know how to take a nice picture of it, but I thought this one turned out okay.
And here’s a nice close up of how its actually a wavy look.
I’ve been so busy with school and work that I’ve not had much time to do any knitting or posting. 
Oh the little joys in my life. I am so tired right now, but I really want to post some tid-bits. So lets start with Saturday Sock yarn.
I was lucky enough to win some Schaefer Anne sock yarn on eBay. I think I only ended up paying $17 total with shipping already included. Not a bad deal. The colors are really pretty. I’ve never touched this stuff before but just really wanted some, like always. The eBay seller was really great. The yarn was shipped as promised, but for some reason took a week to get to me, I think that was a postal thing.
Yarn Info: 60% Superwash Merino Wool, 25% Mohair, %15 Nylon
Here’s a close up so you can see the Mohair.
It’s really fuzzy looking. I’m not use to sock yarn looking like this.
So, I really like this yarn, the look, and the color. I don’t have any plans for it as of yet. It’s gonna be living in the yarn stash for some time. I purchased the yarn from mcporter114 on eBay. The seller has pretty darn good feedback and some nice yarns.
On a happy note, I finally took some pics of my socks I knitted using my Interlacements Las Vegas Lights yarn. I don’t know if I blogged about how awesome it was to knit with this yarn. But yeah, it was amazing. So soft and just flew through my fingers. I am in love with this yarn right now. Well, seeing as how it was my first fancy yarn I worked with, I love it. I still have yet to work on my other fancy yarns so I really don’t have much to compare it with. But for now, I love it. And I want more, oh so much more. Plus, one skein/hank, was just enough for me to make a pair of footies and have quite a bit left over.
As you can see, there is a bit of fuzz going on at the bottom of the feet. These socks are really soft and I did not think much of it until it was too late. The instructions on the yarn said the yarn was machine washable so I threw them into the laundry after the first wear and they came out a bit fuzzy. So now I just hand wash them with Soak and block them with my ghetto fab wire blockers. This has helped with the fuzzing a bit and I hope the keep these babies around for some time. Oh and Interlacements are a really saturated yarn. Even after 5 or more washings I still get some color running in the water. So, I don’t know if its just me or if its a normal thing.
Oh by the way, my order from 
came in on Friday and I fondled the sweetness of Sweet Georgia all the way to work. It’s very pretty stuff, but this is just a teaser, I’ll post more about it when I get pictures of it. Off to bed…
Just a random me thought or should I say rant. Everything is just starting to suck. Work is such a bummer, I’m beginning to hate going to work. School is killing me because work is killing me. I am sooooo tired after work that all I want to do is sleep so I accomplish nothing. I want to knit but I’m too tired and when I’m not too tired I have to study. Ugh. Originally I was gonna become a cop, some sort of specialized one, kinda CSI-ish or Law and Order-ish type person, but senior year in college I decide, hmmm maybe I want to rethink it and become a nurse. I ended up graduating with a Bachelors in sociology, yeah I know, what am I gonna be a social worker? That’s what I always got from people. I was gonna use that degree to get into the police work field, anyways…fast-forward and add on a few years of pre-reqs for nursing school and here I am, in a slump working as a nurse’s aide in the hospital, procrastinating with my nursing school applications. Ugh, I just seem to have lost my drive. Maybe I just need to knit a bit, it usually calms me down and de-stresses me.
Heheh, so this is me…
You Are Olive Green |
 You are the most real of all the green shades. You’re always true to yourself.For you, authenticity and honesty are very important… both in others and yourself. You are grounded and secure. It takes a lot to shake you. People see you as dependable, probably the most dependable person they know. |
This was a real quick and fun quiz. Plus green is my fav color so of course I had to take the quiz.
