My mother decided she need some of her black yarn back - but to make up for it she gave not 1, not 2, but 30, yes count them, 30 skeins of alpacka superfine yarn (5 of 6 different colors). I think I can give back 2 little balls of black yarn for that!

I started a scarf with some yarn my mother bought for me – it was Wool-ease from Pat Catain’s. I have a discount card there and she lets me get stuff when we go there, I save her a TON of money. Anyway, I really need to be working on the Christmas Stockings. I only have like 2 weeks to get that finished so I can stay on track.
Anyway, back to my scarf. It’s going to be huge. I am doing it on my ISM Bond knitting machine. I am trying some Illusion knitting with a few color blocks. When I am done with side one, I will have to knit a whole ‘nother side, but that’s okay, it’s going to be really cool and really warm!

Well, it's not going as well as I hoped - but I am getting writing done and a lot of knitting done. The ravelry site is really helping to organize and get my yarns and projects in order, so that's a help.

Ravelry is really cool. You need an invite right now to join - it's smiple, just put in your email address and wait for the invite to show up, then enjoy



Believe me it is worht the wait and you'll be suprized at all the great tips and things you will beable to find. - They even have a tool bar icon you can use to keep track of all those patterns you find on the net, and then lose the link - so you will never lose another pattern again!

My mother loves me. She gave me 4 – count them – 4 Skeins of black Alpaca Yarn – at like 8.50 per skein to make whatever I want. I am going to make myself some socks. They will be expensive socks, but they will be worth it, my feet are always cold.

I joined NaNoWriYe (National Novel Writer’s Year) You pick a huge goal of novel writing words for the year of 2008 and then you go all out to reach the goal for the whole year. I picked 400,000. I think I should up the word count since I am close to that already. Maybe something that might make me work for it 800,000. It’s a doable goal for as much as I write and it will keep me on task with my writing – and I can count Scrip Frenzy in April and NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writer’s Month) in November. So that’s like Three Birds with one stone.