SomerKnits

A few random things from yesterday: I tried the spinach shake that Holly posted on her blog, Holly Knitlightly.  It was delicious!  You can see her post about it here.   The people I told that I was going to try this (mom & Ben) were very skeptical but it really did just taste like creamy banana.  Now I wish I had another banana so I could make another shake. Being still hungry, I made a grill cheese to go with my spinach shake.  Not just any grill cheese though, this was an odd combo of sharp cheddar, pepperjack and gouda.  Yum. Oh, and then I might have had a birthday party in the evening.  ;-) Look at this fantastic cake my hubby ordered.  :-)  It was made by Yummy Cakes and it was delicious!!  The top tier was lemon with raspberry filling and the bottom was strawberry cake with apricot filling.  (The top tier was definitely my favorite so I kept trying to divert attention away from it by offering people pieces from t...

After a long week of very boring, completely unexciting mail, I can home to some very, very awesome mail today!  I took pictures of all of it, I was so very excited.  (Still am)  Then I sat down with some dinner and went to catch up on all the blogs I read and guess what I found.   LCH had a blog post up JUST LIKE the one I was plotting in my head.  I laughed so hard!  The dogs thought I was crazy.  See, on Tuesday while I was contemplating my mail lady post, LCH wrote about the exact same thing!  And later that evening so did GreenerMe !  It's something in the blogosphere, I tell you.   Well the stuff I got in the mail was just too good, so I am still going to do my What I Got in the Mail post, despite the fact that it's already been done.  In fact, you really should go check out Kaelah's post because she mentions the little gift I just sent her.  (I'm so very flattered!) Back to my mail:  Charms from HollyRocks !!! ...

SomerKnits is going to be at Peace, Love & Crafts spring show on April 9! I knew I should have started on the spring stuff sooner!  It's going to be crazy for me, knitting like mad and dealing with the absolute busiest time of year at my office. If you are in the greater Tulsa area, drop by the show!!  Admission is free and donations benefit Animal Rescue Foundation. I will post more info as the show gets closer, I just wanted to make this exciting announcement!

Congratulations to dreamer , the winner of the plum colored bow cowl given away over on Much Love, Illy !!!  I really hope you like it! Speaking of Much Love, Illy, if you didn't go check out her blog during the giveaway, you might want to do so now.  She is celebrating her blogiversary this week, so there are a lot of fun things going on over there, including some really big giveaways .  So, completely un-related to anything else, I actually watched the second twilight movie last night.  I discussed with some friends on facebook how this either makes me really behind the times or a mega dork, depending on your point of view.  I believe all of the males decided I was a dork.   During that movie I finished a fantastic and soft hat that I can't wait to give to person who ordered it.  I also worked on another spa-style wash cloth, this time in a half linen stitch.  I love linen stitch and all the variations on it, although I do half linen the most...

Last night was a very busy evening for being such a quiet one.  My mind races all day long with all of the things I want to accomplish in the evenings.  I make lists so that I remember all the things I want to get done, but then there are never enough hours before bed.  I'm not one to sacrifice my sleep very often, so I am fairly rigid about putting everything down and hitting the sack, which in the long run is probably better for me that trying to stay up and do it all, but sometimes it gets to me that I can't get it all done. This week I am blogging over at make:Tulsa .  It's not my usual style, so I have stressed over it just a wee bit, but now that I have gotten going I think its going fairly well.  I hope to get a couple more quality posts up before my week is over.  So far I have done a list of knitting links and a post of sunny springtime inspiration . I got my latest scrunchie posted to my etsy shop last night.  I never know what to say in ...

As much fun as holidays might be, I hate days without mail. I especially dislike them if they are days I still have to work because they don't feel like holidays to me, they just feel like days without mail.  I love mail.  Seriously.  Ben doesn't seem to understand it. I think its a curiosity thing.  I have to know what came in the mail.  It's like opening a present everyday, somedays its really, really cool and other days its very eh. I used to write a lot of letters.  Seriously a lot.  I wrote 2-3 or more a day.  Every single day.  Ah, college, how I miss you.  Now I seem to have gotten away from it, which means I get way less exciting mail.  I do have one faithful friend who I have been exchanging letters with for more than 15 years!  (geez, does that make you feel old too?)  She's awesome and I always love getting her letters.  I should post a picture of the cute cupcake cards she has been sending me recent...

The other night Ben asked me how many puppy pictures do I really need.  Really?  A million!  My babies are so cute!!  They won't be around forever and I want to remember every little moment of adorable. In no particular order: Ok, so Riley wasn't thrilled to be on that motorcycle, but he wasn't up there more than a few seconds.  He has so many expressions, i just want to capture them all.  (Riley is a pug chihuahua mix, in case you were wondering)  Angry Face.  He makes angry face at any attempt to put clothing on him.  It's pretty cute but we always end up feeling sorry for him and taking it back off.  In this one he has on a halloween t-shirt.  As I was moving furniture he decided to camp out in a drawer.  I too half a dozen pictures of him doing that because it was just too cute.  Little Ripley the day we brought him home.  So many memories of that time.  He was so shy and I felt so sorry for him. (both p...

Saturday morning was a foofy coffee kind of morning.  And an I <3 Elvis kind of morning.  Elvis is kind of my saturday morning tradition.  If I don't have to go anywhere and I can relax on the couch with my morning coffee, I always reach for my I <3 Elvis mug.  It's more special than just Elvis though, it's the souvenir I bought when Ben and I took our first vacation together.  (We roadtripped and one stop was Graceland) Foofy coffee is just such a lovely start to a day.  (you should always keep a can of light whipped cream in the fridge for just such occasions.  And sprinkles.  I used course cinnamon though) Foofy coffee and browsing some blogs and looking at new patterns posted to Ravelry.  What would we do without the internet?  While I was cleaning the house later in the day I stopped a second to admire the new hair dooies I bought while out for yogurt with two really good friends.  Am I turning ?&*% soon?  Yes....

I was inspired by the fabulous Ilene of Much Love, Illy and her love for mustard colored accent pieces, so when she very patiently dealt with my first blog advertising endeavor, I decided to send her a little something.  I had some designs floating around in my head, but this one spoke to me as really being her style, so the Illy Cowl was born.  (picture stolen from Ilene, with her permission of course)  Here's a couple close-ups.  It's an easy, fairly open lace-work pattern that looks far more complicated than it actually is.  It's also lightweight and comfortable on.    I played around and took some pics before I mailed it off.  Last week I worked on a purple version, which I inadvertently made wider than the original.  (Nothing like screwing up your own pattern, huh?)  I forgot that I only put one repeat of garter rows between the lace repeats, oh well.  The mix up caused me to run out of yarn in the middle of THE VERY LAST ROW...

Notice the lovely blog re-design?  Surely you have, it would be hard to miss it!  I had Miss Kaelah Bee help me out with it and now I think it looks fantastic!  If you are not the super-tech type but want to give your blog a face lift, hit her up.  The button for her blog, Little Chief Honeybee, is over on the right under Daily Reads. Next up in yesterday's Day-of-total-awesomeness I received the purse I ordered from atouchofstardust on etsy.  It's so pretty!  It's a lovely grey-blue with big pretty white flowers and a grey strip and handles.  I custom ordered it based on 2 other bags in her shop, using the elements I liked from each one.  It took me months to decide on the perfect bag because she has so many amazingly wonderful ones. Also in yesterday's awesomeness I got to go have Peachwave with 2 ladies whose company I very much enjoy!  Thanks for coming out with me, Jen & Gracie!  I needed to hit up Michaels for a couple t...

Way back right after Christmas I think I mentioned that Ben had given me a set of curry spices for Christmas.  I love curry and I love to cook, so this was definitely a perfect gift.  Yesterday, here in Oklahoma, we all received the gift of a perfect 70 degree day, so I decided to grill.  I don't tend to follow recipes and I was also trying to keep everything as healthy as possible, so the big grill basket of veggies got a spray of sesame oil, just enough to lightly coat, and a sprinkle of sweet curry powder.    There wasn't time to actually marinate the chicken in the tikka masala, so first I made a sauce with the spices and let that sit, then I sprayed the chicken breasts with the sesame oil and rubbed some spice in to them and tossed them on the grill.  Yum.  Once the veggies had come off the grill I tossed them with some sesame seeds that I had toasted.  Be careful, those things can go from toasted to burnt in a split second.  Some mango ...