- What was the best Christmas present you got as a kid? One year I got a custom built stereo cabinet from my Dad with a stereo inside and one year I got a small TV for my room. These were both very big deals for me as at the time we only had ONE TV in the whole house. Of course we are talking 1984 and I think most people still only had the one (or two) at the time.
- What was the best Christmas present you got as an adult? Hmmm... this one is tough. I think the best thing will be the thing I bought for the whole family this year but as my kids MIGHT read this I can't say what it is. ;)
- What's your favorite Christmas carol? Well since my daughter has just learned Carol of the Bells, I like that one a lot, I also love The Chipmunk song (hee), Santa Baby....truly though I love MOST Christmas songs.
- How long can you stand to listen to Christmas music before you break? As long as its not the ONLY thing I listen to I never tire of it really. What I tire of is the &*%$# Christmas commercials.
- How many Christmas albums do you own? Not too many- maybe 5-6. I just got one of my favorites replaced by my Secret Santa. Ally McBeal - A Very Ally Christmas. Robert Downey Jr. sings a great song on there too.
- Did you ever go caroling as a kid? A few times in Junior High with Glee Club. I enjoyed it!
- Would you willingly eat fruitcake? Never had it and with all the talk - me is afraid. LOL
- Do you own any Christmas sweaters? Not anymore but I did get a cute cheap T-shirt this year.
- Do you own any Christmas jewelry? What? I used to have some cute wreath earrings and a jingle bell set but I can't find them.
- Do you wear them? If I could FIND them.
- Did your family have any weird Christmas traditions? No not really....just the running around like crazy on Christmas Day to get everywhere. Well my husband thinks that coming down the stairs together (me and brother in hand) to see our stockings was weird but growing up doing that - it doesn't seem so weird to me. It was really a photo op for Dad.
- Do you buy Christmas presents for your pets? Yes but we don't go overboard. He has a stocking and gets a bone, treats or something and then a toy under the tree.
- What's your favorite Christmas cookie? My grandmother always made cookie press cookies. Green Wreaths, Red Poinsettas and white snowflakes. My press died so I don't get any. Maybe with any luck she will have made some this year for me to partake of.
- What's your favorite Christmas candy? Peanut Butter Balls. Otherwise known as "Buckeyes" for Ohio folks. I also love a Peanut Butter Roll but most people don't know what that is.
- What's your stocking look like? Mine is store bought but looks like needlepoint of carolers caroling "old timey". I got it the year Mike and I moved in together. (yes we did live in sin for a few years. shameful I know)
- How do you feel about the "Steal from Your Neighbor" Christmas present game (the one where people pick gifts from a pile, but others get to steal it)? Love it! I got stuck with an awful right wingers book once though. Should have been no surprise since it was an Accountants Christmas party. Someone walked away with a killer cut glass vase though.
- What is the oldest ornament on your tree? I made an ornament in 1st grade Sunday School class. I always loved it. It was a small gold ball with a styrofoam cross on top held together with the official Sunday School staple: Pipe cleaner.
- Real or artificial? I LOVE the tradition of cutting our own tree. However I also like looking at a nice tree for more than 2 weeks and I hate picking up the needles. So we bought a FANCY pre-list tree 4 years ago. Best investment ever. If we ever have a bigger house and can do TWO trees I will relish going and cutting one down again.
- How do you feel about Christmas letters? Anne said: "Like to read them. Guilty of mocking them. Don't like to write them." Ditto!
- Do you have Christmas decorations or lights outside your house? What are they? We have in years past but I just wasn't up for it this year. Hopefully next year we will be moved and I think I will pay a service to do it. I like the look and hate the headache.
- How far would you drive to see Christmas lights? We usually go to Our Lady Of the Snows in Belleville. But I have heard of a few that are really nice. I might bring that idea up. Dinner then lights sounds great to me.
- Are you a fan of tasteful or tacky? Tasteful. Unless it's in someone else's neighborhood then I like the tacky and will drive through to look at it. We have a neighborhood in town and I think each house tries to outdo each other. PRETTY fun though..
- Do you have any Christmas themed collections? I have more Santas than any one person should have but I didn't buy any of them and I feel guilty not keeping them. My fave is the Polar Express one that talks.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Christmas Meme
I picked this up from Annie Knits and thought it was such a fun list I would participate!
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Sock Surgery!
So I posted in my last entry that I had a sock that needed help. I actually had two. I started my Jaywalkers FOREVER ago and lost my mind and stitched the toe in the wrong direction. *hides face*.
So I went to Knit Night last week and my good pal Cindy showed up with JUST the answer! Size 000 DPNs. Have you seen them? TEENY TINY but just perfect for some sock surgery!
Now I am just waiting for a QUIET few hours so that I don't get distracted by my lovely but noisy children.
I also was able to complete my short row scarf so that I could wear it out for Date Night! My husband kept nagging me...."how long is it going to BE?" LONG. So I can do THIS:
Ignore my "Deer in the Headlights" look. Darling Husband was having frustration with the new camera. LOL I also didn't get the ends lined up for the pic. It is SO soft as VERY warm. Now he is jealous that HIS isn't that long.
Two more knitted headbands!
One for my WW leader who is SO sweet and kind and fawned all over mine. One for a sweet Secret Santa Pal who is a big Cardinals fan. Hopefully she will like it and wear it to a spring game!
Oh and I got started on a really cute shrug pattern I found! I am knitting in Plymouth Encore double stranding it. It's heavier knitting than I have been knitting so I can't do hours and hours of it.
So I have one more headband I want to knit. In a really pretty blue colorway. That's it for "need to get done knitting". I am also going to be working on fixing my socks, starting my 2nd Jaywalker and working on my shrug.
Here is a little "non- knitting" bit. This is one of my Nativity sets.
It was my Great Grandmothers. She kept it in her Sunday School room. When I was little my Grandmother always had it out on a table and I was allowed to play with the pieces. So when I had my first child, 12 years ago, she gave it to me. Said it was meant to be in a home with children. So I have had it and always allowed them to play with them. I should have known that when I got my boy, things might change. The pieces are now a bit chipped and the poor Camel had to say Good-Bye last year when he lost 2 of his legs. But it's cherished though aged and I look forward to putting it out as much as any other decoration we have.
So I went to Knit Night last week and my good pal Cindy showed up with JUST the answer! Size 000 DPNs. Have you seen them? TEENY TINY but just perfect for some sock surgery!
Now I am just waiting for a QUIET few hours so that I don't get distracted by my lovely but noisy children.
I also was able to complete my short row scarf so that I could wear it out for Date Night! My husband kept nagging me...."how long is it going to BE?" LONG. So I can do THIS:
Ignore my "Deer in the Headlights" look. Darling Husband was having frustration with the new camera. LOL I also didn't get the ends lined up for the pic. It is SO soft as VERY warm. Now he is jealous that HIS isn't that long.
Two more knitted headbands!
One for my WW leader who is SO sweet and kind and fawned all over mine. One for a sweet Secret Santa Pal who is a big Cardinals fan. Hopefully she will like it and wear it to a spring game!
Oh and I got started on a really cute shrug pattern I found! I am knitting in Plymouth Encore double stranding it. It's heavier knitting than I have been knitting so I can't do hours and hours of it.
So I have one more headband I want to knit. In a really pretty blue colorway. That's it for "need to get done knitting". I am also going to be working on fixing my socks, starting my 2nd Jaywalker and working on my shrug.
Here is a little "non- knitting" bit. This is one of my Nativity sets.
It was my Great Grandmothers. She kept it in her Sunday School room. When I was little my Grandmother always had it out on a table and I was allowed to play with the pieces. So when I had my first child, 12 years ago, she gave it to me. Said it was meant to be in a home with children. So I have had it and always allowed them to play with them. I should have known that when I got my boy, things might change. The pieces are now a bit chipped and the poor Camel had to say Good-Bye last year when he lost 2 of his legs. But it's cherished though aged and I look forward to putting it out as much as any other decoration we have.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Oh is 2007 almost over already?♦
I haven't just NOT blogged. I have not knit for so long until my good friend Heather told me about The Unoriginal Hat from The Yarn Harlot and I thought it would be perfect for my one skein of Manos I had left over from Last Christmas Gift Knitting. 
It came out smaller than I thought (Fits DS so I am hoping it will fit my oldest daughter) so I am gifting it and a neckwarmer made with the leftover.
Then I said Hey I think I have a sock pair waiting to be finished! So I whipped that out. DH's much desired over the calf socks....In Trekking.....
Imagine my dismay when he called out the other night "Hey hon I think I have a hole in my toe! OMigosh I threw down whatever I happened to be knitting and ran over to see the toe APPEAR to be losing it's "tail". So I thought no biggie right? I will just pull it tight and re-sew it back in....um, no. Whatever I pulled started UNRAVELING it. ***GROAN*** I have sat it and will take it with me when I go to the LYS and pray someone can fix it for me.
I realized the other night that ever winter I labor away to finish my next piece only to gift it away and here I stroll into the store with my *gasp* store bought scarf. No more! I am in the works of making this lovely Shor
t Row Scarf with the two skeins of Malabrigo. The color is "Sealing Wax' and wouldn't you know it IS the same color as my homestate's flagship bourbon - Makers Mark. I am taking this with to the knit night tomorrow at the LYS - Knitorious. I can't wait to show it off.
Last but not least, when Kirkwood Knittery moved their store they had a big sale and I got to snatch an item blindly from their "grab bag". I came up with some lovely Inca Alpaca by Classic Elite. I finally got around to working that soft stuff into this awesome cabled headband.
Imagine my grin when my weight watchers leader swooned over it today! So naturally, I told her I would whip her one up for Christmas. There goes my "no gifts knitting" this year. It's small though and I can do it in an afternoon.
It came out smaller than I thought (Fits DS so I am hoping it will fit my oldest daughter) so I am gifting it and a neckwarmer made with the leftover.Then I said Hey I think I have a sock pair waiting to be finished! So I whipped that out. DH's much desired over the calf socks....In Trekking.....
Imagine my dismay when he called out the other night "Hey hon I think I have a hole in my toe! OMigosh I threw down whatever I happened to be knitting and ran over to see the toe APPEAR to be losing it's "tail". So I thought no biggie right? I will just pull it tight and re-sew it back in....um, no. Whatever I pulled started UNRAVELING it. ***GROAN*** I have sat it and will take it with me when I go to the LYS and pray someone can fix it for me.
I realized the other night that ever winter I labor away to finish my next piece only to gift it away and here I stroll into the store with my *gasp* store bought scarf. No more! I am in the works of making this lovely Shor
t Row Scarf with the two skeins of Malabrigo. The color is "Sealing Wax' and wouldn't you know it IS the same color as my homestate's flagship bourbon - Makers Mark. I am taking this with to the knit night tomorrow at the LYS - Knitorious. I can't wait to show it off.Last but not least, when Kirkwood Knittery moved their store they had a big sale and I got to snatch an item blindly from their "grab bag". I came up with some lovely Inca Alpaca by Classic Elite. I finally got around to working that soft stuff into this awesome cabled headband.
Imagine my grin when my weight watchers leader swooned over it today! So naturally, I told her I would whip her one up for Christmas. There goes my "no gifts knitting" this year. It's small though and I can do it in an afternoon.
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