King Rufus, Studio and Eve Photos~

The other night the girls and I took some time to make a few paper houses for our holiday tree.

(We only made a few, I will post them once they are all finished.)

BUT... the cats decided to be ever-so-helpful.

Eve was shooting pics of them the entire time.

Rufus was especially hilarious, with this grand attitude. the turd.

Here is the flickr link, you can go see more of the cat images if you choose.

Right now poor Ann is trying to make pom-pom ornaments, and they will NOT leave her alone. They LOVE poms. I find them everywhere, in the food bowl, in the litter box! If I move the couch there is a crypt of them, along with misc. beads, missing crochet hooks and rubber bands.

Here are some shots of the back studio... already a few days old.

Shelves of yarn, journaling supplies and art supplies~

Main table top.. with piles of denim from Eve's bag sewing fit she had, knit items, a hat display form and paints~

Yarn and art journals~

I am so thankful for these shelves... imagine this stuff piled up in the corners! bah!

Here are Eve's shots of the moon over Mt. Adams~

and Mt. St. Helens~

A great shot of the trees at dusk~

Bohemian

Oh I love the Muppets so.

It's risky to say this where the world can read it, but....

this is what the inside of my head is like most of the time.

"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality? Open your eyes, look up to the sky and seeeee...."

Thank you Jim Henson for just being YOU.

To see ALL of the new Muppet clips GO HERE.

My Podcast Interview~

I did it.

Today I was honored to be interviewed by the sparkling and amazingly colorful Ricë Freeman-Zachery!

It was a blast and she so is easy to talk to... not that she had a chance to say much. (shocker)

She asks the best questions!

I actually did not sound like the rambling spaz I thought I did.

Still not a fan of hearing my recorded voice (shudder).

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE PODCAST

and to her Podcast notes.

It should be up in iTunes soon also, under "Notes from the VooDoo Lounge" podcast.

Look for a fun MW giveaway on her blog-- coming soon! ( I will let you know when it is up!)

So GO--- fix yourself your beverage of choice and grab your knitting!

Let me know what you think?

and Thanks Ricë!

Naughty Scarf~

It's in time out.

I am angry with it.

First it broke my Denise 40" cable.

THEN it outgrew my cables I connected together with the one and only extender I can find. Wonder where they went? weird.

grump.

I think I may let the Bad Kitties have at it-- if I can rouse them from their naps.

All I can say is, it better be FABULOUS when it is done.

grumble (idiot scarf)

I must be slow-out-of-the-gate. I have had my fantasticly marvelous iMac for 3+ months now and just realized the built-in-camera-thingy has these really cool effects toys on it.

(giggle, hair toss)

LOVE this one. I may make it into a banner.

I think I look younger in it. maybe 30? (rather than 39?)

and this one is just creepy and wrong.... heehee

Awkward? Knit.

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are

willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try
something new."
-- Brian Tracy

I love this quote, but he makes it sound like one makes a conscious choice to move out of their comfort zones. Am I really making a choice to do this? It seems more like an inherent trait of mine, to just cause trouble for myself. Not trouble... because that is a negative word. awkwardness. (using Mr. Tracy's word).

I have this constant, intense craving for a rut. a routine. predictability. But then when I fall into a rut, or a routine, I fight like hell to get out of it, to mix things up. I hate having to do the same thing over and over. contradiction? snort.

This is what I like about knitting, how it is repetitive, and comforting and rhythmic, but at the same time things are always changing. You have to pay attention to your pattern and project. You cannot just follow a knitting pattern without questioning or modifying or reinventing some part of it. No two people knit the same or are shaped the same, so a pattern or project needs to be approached like it is a recipe.

I knit when I am tired or weary or frightened (to comfort and heal) or happy or excited or squirrely (to calm myself down).

The past few weeks I have held this feeling of...? I want to call it impending doom, but it is not a negative, scary thing, but rather a feeling that something big is coming.
and I don't know what it is . and my control-issue psyche does NOT like not knowing.

So I walk around with this feeling of oh shit. Now what?
yo-yo-ing between oh shit and anticipation and excitement.

I exhaust myself.
I want to plan what this thing is or will be. I want to tackle it with my lists and agendas. I want to do it now. I do not to wait or marinate or see what life is going to bring.

So I have been knitting a lot. A LOT. It seems to tune out those voices that say... hang on... it's coming! Are you ready?

Ready? how can I be ready? sigh.

So the Journey is to just BE and to listen and to knit and try to be ready.
So when it all comes I know it and can soak it up and have fun.

ohm

I am crazy? Does anyone else do this?

Rainbow over Salmon Creek (taken by Eve).

Hats! The Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head Hat

Hat #5~

The "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" hat.

Knit from a mutation of my Journey Hat pattern... not as many lace rows and I pretty much just knit and shaped as I went.

I was surprised how cute this yarn was once knit... I was not a big fan of it in skein-form.

Iridescent beads really look like raindrops. The perfect Portland Hat!

Here is the yarn before knitting... 100-ish yards.

Hats! "The Hippie Skull Hugger Hat"

Hat #4...

This hat is knit a make-it-as-you-go pattern by ME.

Garter edge, then knit until it seems right, then decrease. simple.

It hugs your head, just as it's name says...

Knit from my Hippie Skull Hugger Skein~ 96 yards