KnittyBug

Sorry I’ve been MIA this past week. I’ve got a lot to post about but first things first.
I have been tagged by Kim and Marlene .

Here’s the rules:
Each person tagged gives 7 random facts about themselves. Those who are tagged need to write on their own blog those 7 facts as well as the rules of the game. You need to tag seven others and list their names on your blog. You have to leave those you plan on tagging a note in their comments so they know that they have been tagged and to read your blog.

My random facts:

1. I am addicted to M&M’s. Really it’s a bad addiction because I polish off those pounder bags in a day. Around the holidays I managed to eat 6 bags…which were supposed to be for one of those decorative candy jars. I don’t know what it is but I just can’t help it.

2. I never add salt, pepper, or garlic to my food. For some reason adding seasonings always make things taste horrible to me. So I just don’t do it.

3. I have a bee/wasp phobia. Now honeybees or bumble bees that are on plants doing there job don’t bug me….as long as they don’t hover near me and just stick to the flowers. However any bee/wasp that gets too close to me causes me to freak out…yeah I end up running away and the neighbors probably think I’m nuts.

4. I have a super sense of smell. The hubby thinks it’s crazy and I can bust him when he’s had fast food for lunch.

5. I taught myself to knit. My Aunt showed me how to crochet when I was eight but I used to watch my Great Grandmother knit but I never tried it or asked her to teach me. I ended up a couple of years ago watching some show and wanted to learn. So I taught myself.

6. I love snow but I don’t ski. I tried to ski once in gym class in elementary school and didn’t like it.

7. I love dogs. My first pet was a German Sheppard and I had him until he was thirteen. I’ve had Jake for 11 years and I think I might be getting a play mate for him soon.

I know this has been going around so I’m not going to officially tag anyone….but if your reading this and you haven’t done it yet then consider yourself tagged. ;)

Btw it’s taken a couple of days for me to post this because I have been so busy…hence the non-tagging too.
And to complete my busy week/ weekend another visitor is coming tomorrow….the MIL.

When I was a child I used to stub my toes, trip while walking, or skin my knees….all the time. I would either have a sore toe or a scabby knee just about ever other day. I was just plain clumsy. My mother used to constantly tell me to watch were I was going and pay attention. She also thinks now that the reason I was so clumsy was because I grew so fast ( I was a really tall child) and I was similar to those clumsy fawns with there lanky long legs. But to this day I still stub my toes and sometimes I trip but I don’t normally fall because I’ve been pretty good at remembering what my Mother told me. Everybody does get overwhelmed though and sometimes thinking of two many things at once can cause the brain to not pay attention to the important task at hand ….like walking down three stairs. So I fell and did something to my ankle and it was so stupid because I just completely missed the step. So much for listening to Mom about paying attention. The ankle is a little swollen and bruised, but it’s the stiffness and the feeling like I stepped on hot sand that is bothersome. It could have been worse…I could have missed the landing and fallen completely down the basement stairs. That thought crossed my mind too as I was midway through the fall and I thought of another blogger that fell a while back and broke her leg. Yes during the process of falling I thought wow this is so familiar…like I’ve been here before….oh no it was…oh crap I’m going to break my leg. But thankfully I didn’t. The other interesting point to this is that my Mom is coming for a visit..today... so I’ll hear all about how important it is to pay attention this weekend. ;) Wait until she sees Peanut's little knees, they have evidence of her inherited clumsiness.
So in my need to sit and relax and elevate my foot I pulled out that green yarn and cast on something for myself.

To cheer me up my Clematis bloomed….but it’s not the right color.



It’s supposed to be white and pink.

Now that the count down has started for my Mom’s arrival….. I need to clean up the house.
That’s another advisement she gave me a while back…a clean house is a comfortable house and it’s best to make your guests feel at home. I guess I should really bandage up my foot so she’ll let me slide on this one.

Well that’s what I need to do….make some lists. A list for knits to be knitted and household things to be completed. I got sidetracked this weekend and decided to jump in and paint that bathroom. Yes I spent Mother's Day painting...and eating the chocolate I got. I actually love to paint…it’s the process, just like knitting. My favorite part is sitting there after completing the room and thinking to myself how clean it looks. It won’t stay that way for long and soon the walls will have little handprints all over them, but for a few days it looks so clean. Anyways I did that instead of working on Monica and seaming up the cardi. So no new progress or change pics here.

However I do have a few new blooms in the garden.

This is the yarn for my next project…maybe. I love the color green…and especially shades like a granny apple and leaf. This is leaf garden from Patons. Purchase a long while back just because of the color.

This is what I cast on with some of my new cotton ease.

It’s Monica from Knitty. Very cute and easy pattern that I modified for knitting in the round. However the color choices were not good. I picked violet for the the body and berry for the ruffle. Peanut is just not into it and after I let it sit for two days on the table I wasn't really into it either. I was trying for a girly purple /pink theme.



The violet is too dark and is more of a blue tone and is just too overpowering for the berry which is a soft pink. Now the two would look cute as stripes but with this top it’s just not a good choice. I do love the style of this little top and it was such a quick knit that I’m definitely going to re-knit it. I told Peanut that I would make her something before I start another something for myself. So the project list for this weekend is work on a new Monica and seam that drops cardi that I completely forgot about.

Again today it’s too humid to start painting the bath, so we have plans to check out the garden. Remember all these? Well the rabbits got to them. It’s funny how we have this large population of rabbits and we live in the city. When we first moved here we thought it was nice to have the wild life. But now at times they can be more destructive then cute. So to stop them from eating all the plants and to stick to eating the clover we’ll be spraying everything with apple bitter. It’s that stuff you can spray on just about anything to stop a puppy or dog from chewing and I found out last summer it’s a great way to get the bunnies from eating my hosta’s.

They don’t eat these.




Thankfully they don’t eat these either.


Who knew I could grow stuff. :)