Posted by SewPixie on December 4th, 2008 in Daily Life

So yeah, I’ve pretty much had a headache all week. Yuck.

The ex is coming by tomorrow to get some of the stuff out of the back room closet. Thank goodness, I need that room for craft supplies dang it!!! Yeah, yeah I have a craft room, but um, I kinda have too much stuff. I did get a chance today to give some of me extra supplies to the Kindergarden class of my coworker’s little girl. So that will be a good way to destash some things I probably will never use.

I did stash some more music recently. I started listening to Sticks and String, which is a great podcast, and there was some really nice piano music by Rob Costlow. I popped over to Magnatune and bought one of his albums and guees what, the artist is from Indiana! And went to Ball State for a bit before transferring to IU. Let’s all sings It’s A Small World…one..two..three and go. If anyone likes piano music let me know because the cool thing with Magnatune is that when you buy music you can give it to 3 friends for free. Neat huh.

Oh and before I go, who said it was okay for it to be December already? I have to finish up a quilt for one niece and finish socks for another one. Yipes!

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Posted by SewPixie on November 17th, 2008 in Daily Life

YAY! I received my ITIL exam results this morning. I passed!! I missed one question, woot woot!

On the needles are several project still: Baby Surprise, Moebius wrap, Mystery KAL Blanket, Mystery KAL Bag (the one I started during the Ravelympics), and Bridget’s socks.

I am also working on inventory for the shop. The fabulous Rob at Bullfrog (where I got my stamp) is cutting me a new template for cutting out the back pieces so I’m pretty excited about that. In the mean time I am working on ones I have had cut for ages. Oh, and my new tags arrived so I will start to use those once my current ones are all gone.

Which leads me to a question about packaging. When I first started, the bags were wrapped in tissue paper. Then for a while I had plastic goody bags, and after that zip top bags. I like the zip top bags because it makes it easy to keep them lint free and visible. Plus, I figure the person can re-use the bag. I’ve been making stickers with my new stamp to put on the bags. THen I may punch a hole in the Moo cards and attach that to the zipper tab as the ‘tag’. Does the old tissue paper packaging seem more ’special’ or are zip top bags just fine?

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Posted by SewPixie on November 1st, 2008 in Knitting, Yarn

The work stuff last night went well. My defrags were scheduled until 10am but they finished up around 6 so it actually fit inside the normal maintenance window. I’m not certain if it is my Windows VM or what but RPC over HTTPS is dog slow so I’m not too sure about that change.

Anyways, back to the knitting! Episode 70 of Cast On went up the other day (YAY!) so I had a listen and worked some more o the TYF Mystery Blanket. I am a little way in to Clue #6. It is pretty neat how they have it set up. Each clue starts with a question with two choices. You work pattern A or B depending on your answer. The questions are like do you have straight hair or curly hair? Do you like spaghetti O’s or pasta salad? Rise early or sleep in? Cool huh.

Clue 6 is the rise early or sleep in question. Sleep in, no contest! So as you can see in the photo I am starting to get little triangles that point down for the sleeping in. I also switched from the 24″ Addi Turbo (woosh) circular to a 40″ Knit Picks Options circular. I have quite a lot of 40″ cables. I forgot they came in packs of two….so I ordered like 3, which meant I got 6. Doh! So if anyone need to borrow a 40″ I’ve got you covered.

I have laundry and cleaning to do but I did go get groceries, and got a lot done on the blog design and new shop (I even ordered a custom stamp from the logo I made) so I am going to sit back and knit and watch some movies. There are a lot of projects I want to cast on so I wanna get going!

And a big YARRRR mateys to Jen’s little ones. Such cute little pirates!

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Posted by SewPixie on October 21st, 2008 in Daily Life, Knitting, Yarn

So my stupid DLP TV went out AGAIN on Sunday. Now the issues can probably be fixed with a soldering iron and getting at a board inside the thing but I hate the thing so I refuse to do it. So I am giving it to the ex and went out last night and bought a new TV. I got a Sony Bravia and last night it worked really well (OMG did anyone watch Heros and/or How I Met Your Mother???). My friend Devon helped me pick it out then she and I met up with Candace at Olive Garden where I had more than my equal share of the wine. Ooops.

I am working away on the TYF Mystery KAL blanket. I’ve moved on to Clue 4 and after Candy’s help I understand the stitch pattern well enough to correct mistakes. This weekend Candace and I will be going to a mobius shawl class so that should be good. And if I haven’t said it lately, if you knit listen to the podcast Cast On. Brenda Dane reminds me of my sister and there are loads of good stories as well as good music.

Oh yes…PowerShell. PowerShell is the best thing since sliced bread. I am running my script right now that goes to all of my Exchange 2003 servers and grabs the application log events and such to give me the database sizes along with how much of that is dumpster items and whitespace. It is soooooo cool!!!

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Posted by SewPixie on August 7th, 2008 in Daily Life, Knitting, Pets, Yarn

Okay so after much debating, I joined Ravelympics at the last minute. The deal is that you start your project during opening ceremonies of the Olympics (5am my time!!) and then finish by the closing ceremonies. I decided to use the yarn I bought for another Mystery Bag\Sampler Bag.

So since I am really bad at waking up early I may cast on at 5am then promptly go back to sleep.

Speaking of waking up….Pixel (my cat) understand English. I swear! When I came back from Indiana but was still on vacation he was waking me up at around 8am. By ‘wake me up’ I mean that he meows and paws at me until I get up and give him wet food. Sunday night I tell him that I have to go to work in the morning so I need to be up by 6:45-7am. He starts waking me up at 6:30am. The same thing Tuesday morning. Tuesday night I went to bed really late so I told him I was going to sleep in and not get up until 7:30. He starts at 7:15. I am not kidding! Then last night I tell him that my carpool ride is going to the gym at lunch so I have to get up earlier like 6:30-6:45. Yes, he started waking me up at 6:15am! So either his internal clock is 15 minutes off or he knows me well enough to guess that I will want a snooze. Hehehe!

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Posted by SewPixie on June 8th, 2008 in Daily Life, Knitting, Yarn

I have been a bad blogger once again. Actually, I never am much of a good blogger but eh. Some may notice the time on this entry then wonder if I have been to bed yet. Those of you not in the know…I am a notorious late sleeper. Yesterday I didn’t get out of bed until 2pm, though in my defense I felt a bit ill. Well, Napoleon (my ferret) started sneezing around 5am and I am such a hypochondriac about the furry kids that I had to investigate. He is fine now, probably a little cold or dander in her nose or somesuch. I cleaned out his room\cage though and out in fresh linens (I don’t use bedding like with hamsters or something), water, food, etc.

I have been knitting like crazy lately. Candace, Suzanne, and I all joined the Mystery KAL at Tempe Yarn and Fiber. It doesn’t start until Wednesday so I am on pins and needles with my gauge swatch all ready to go. We know it will be a bag and use four colors of Cascade 220 Superwash and that is about it. Major kudos to Terry and Candy for designing the pattern and the mystery. Upwards of 60 people are signed up for the KAL! I chose the Petroglyph colorway, Candace chose her own colors, and Suzanne went with Monsoon.

I did still manage though to finally baste my latest quilt. Now just to freemotion the quilting and bind it.

I also bought a new camera. I got a used Nikon D40. I still have a ways to go in learning just how to use it but very slowly some of my knowledge from high school photo class is coming back to me. I really like the pictures I am getting form it though. I am keeping the Canon though since I don’t want to take this big camera with me everywhere.

The pets are doing well. We had a bit of a scare with Kitaro a couple weeks ago. B moved again and the housemates let Kit into the backyard and he got away. Freaked me the hell out since it is clear across town. His tag still has my number on it so thankfully a nice person found him and he got back to B’s safe and sound. He got a firm talking to by me when he was home next. That dog!

I am still going strong with my Blythe 365 project. I restarted Crafting 365 again a while back and am about 50 days into it this time. Whew.

Other than that…trying to clean the house as usual. My oldest niece will be in town next weekend so that will be awesome to see her. Also next weekend, Candace and I are going up to Jerome for Knit in Public Day. That should be cool. I’ve never been to Jerome but hear it is funky and artsy. Woo! Oh yes! And I have my flight booked for Indianapolis at the end of July. I didn’t take as much time as I had wanted all at once due to schedules at work but I am flying out Saturday the 26th and flying back on Wednesday August 2nd. Even with that vacation I still had oh about 12 vacations days left so I am also taking random days off here and there. I am so terrible about not taking my vacation days. I will be getting a head start next fiscal year though as I will be going to California in September to visit Deana since I’ve known since before Kindergarden. Yay!!

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