5 needles and a kitten

I'm on the home stretch of finishing this nashua leaf yoke sweater for a coworker. The buttons are handmade by me out of polymer clay and I need to put a varnish on the back of them and then sew them on. I've already sewn in the loose ends on the sweater. This lovely coworker of mine just happens to be a labor nurse and didn't realize she was pregnant until she was 20 weeks (that's halfway through) pregnant because she felt something like a baby moving (this is her third baby).
I used size 7 dpns on the arms because they just seemed too skinny otherwise. They looked ill-proportioned on smaller dpns to the rest of the sweater.
The other picture is when my youngest son Nathan was attempting to knit on his cashmere (in this case Debbie Bliss rialto) wristers. Actually, just moments before I snapped this picture, his brother took a picture with even more cats on him, but for some reason cannot download those pictures to my computer.

all the rain that we didn't get over the summer

I do believe that we got all the rain last night that we didn't get over the summer. It's like when you move and leave a forwarding address. You don't get any mail and you don't get any mail and then suddenly you get more mail than your mailbox can hold.
Fortunately, it seems to have subsided for right now because I have to get out and run some errands in a bit and I really hate doing that when its raining so hard that it feels like we're having the second biblical flood.
I went to Knitch yesterday and scored some manos silk blend yarn. Its delightful. I went to get some addi turbos as well, but the size I was looking for wasn't in stock. Bummer.
I wonder if they ever need some more part time help at Knitch. It would be really cool to be around all that yarn and people who get into knitting! My youngest son said he wanted to work there as their ball winder. lol.
So, I don't have any great knitting pictures to share (even though I have 17 projects going at the same time). I did do some "spring cleaning" on my cafepress site and added a couple of things there. So, if you're really bored, check it out: www.cafepress.com/karmaandkismet

what on earth is going on?

I keep getting these spam-type comments to my blog. I suspect they may have some type of virus or something. Anybody got a clue on how to make them go away?

affirmations and the schedule

I am off to work on the dreaded schedule today. Earlier in the week I had realized that it was due pretty damn soon so I best get to working on it.
So, off I go when I would much rather be knitting, but then again, who wouldn't?
Part of my plan I was supposed to come up with on my 30 day raw food rast was to focus on an affirmation (preferably daily).
I dug my Abrahams Hicks cards out and random selected one. So, this is my affirmation for today: I will never cease being or desiring. New desires are constantly born within. Source energy will never stop answering my desires, and therefore my exapnsion is eternal. I may begin to relax in this moment if there is something that I desire that has not yet come to fruition.
I hope I didn't violate any copyright laws or anything by sharing that.

OM

Had a fun playdate with Brittany and Wayne yesterday.
I've been working on sock number 2 of my "advesary" socks last night and this morning. I figure while the energy between me and the "advesary" is non-hostile, I would attempt to make some progress on sock number 2.
I also scored some cool looking yarn by plymouth yarn yesterday called "confusion" that I'm contemplating using for a wrap sweater. I may take it along when I go to get the oil changed and tires rotated in a bit.
I've done some painting this morning. I'm working on an acrylic painting that is rather slow going and I've started on some stuff for possible bumper stickers. I'll post pictures when I've made some progress rather than try to describe the abstractness of it. The picture is of a painting I recently finished. It has a lot of texture to it and I just love my Chinese character paintings. One of the paintings I'm doing now is another Chinese character painting that I'm thinking of implementing as a t-shirt. We'll see.
So.... Namaste to everybody out there!

gita marie

They cancelled the charge nurse meeting today at work. Yipppee! I wasn't looking forward to driving an hour for an hour long meeting, just to drive back home an hour. The stay at home in my jammies day let me get a pair of pants hemmed, do some knitting, and make these cute earrings. They don't look that cute in the pictures because, as everybody knows, I can't take pictures worth snot. The little charms are Gita marie and I hung three tiny beads off the bottoms of them.
Tomorrow holds for me a meeting with my shaman (I have one week to go on this raw food fast, although I think it may end up being continued for a bit), a trip to Strings and Strands to score some berroco suede and some trendsetter checkmate (and some addi turbos and some sox sticks). Then I'm going to most likely go play with Wayne and Brittany again since I am addicted to playing with clay. Also, I didn't have a chance to enter the paws contest that somebody was holding, but thought I would post my picture of Ting Ting's crossed paws while she was snoozing.

chop, chop, chop

So, I got my hair cut today after it not being cut for about a year. 5 inches off the back. And I have bangs now. I guess its the perimenopausal woman in me in one of my drastic mood swings. I actually like it though and there's not that many times I've been able to say that about a hair cut in my life.
Aside from chopping my hair off and running other errands today, I've been hemming some pants for myself and my stepdaughter and only managed to get in a row of my parisian tote purse.
I've dug out the advesary socks and am planning on perhaps taking another wack at infusing some positive energy, at least enough to complete the second sock. I had started making them last year for my kids' stepmom but then she and I had a series of run ins and try as I might, I just couldn't find enough positive energy in me to do that second sock. So, we'll see if I can actually finish the second sock before we have another run in like our last Jerry Springer type incident on my ex's front lawn. The stepmother has been pleasant lately and I do feel that one should do all they can to be peaceful and positive towards those they have adversity with. So. Lets see what happens.