AnotherPurl :: a knitter's life

we must all worship Buddha

He comes in silver, brass or lemon?

 
A few bullet points.

• I'm going to see Mikado tonight.   
• Red velvet whoopie pies were a success.
• Also also peanut butter pie.
• I'm going to stop by Sweet, because I haven't eaten enough sweets today.

sleep is a crutch for the weak

The last big rush of the holiday season is upon us, and I'm frankly running out of time to get everything done.  For me, this mostly means baking and candy making this year, but I also want to knit a tree topper and finish another red scarf and work on my commissions (most of which are due after the holidays).

So, dropping sleep.  It's gotta be done, right?

Tomorrow night I'm making red velvet whoopie pies.  After that I'm making a cake and then the following weekend I am going to have a race to make various pate de fruit and chocolate covered sweets (like peanut butter balls) which I am mailing out for the holidays.

The 26th I am going to crash, sleep all day, and forget that I ever cared about fantasy football (I didn't make it to the playoffs this season, because I didn't find out my last player was inactive until this morning).  Whoops!

I'm a loser!

Whee!  I'm one of the biggest losers this week in Loser League. 

My fantasy football season is going down the tubes rather spectacularly as I'm trying to crawl my way into a playoff spot, but have to outscore my nearest competitor and win my next two games to do so.  Umm, not going to happen.  At least my loser season is going OK.  This week my stream of football players tried their best to not score any points at all.  If you want to know how a bad team is created, first you start with DelHomme.  Dawson (Kicker) also does a good (or is that bad) job for me.  I just know that bad is a good thing in my little neck of the woods.

It's not all football around here.  I have a head cold, which is irritating but not fatal so I am back to doing my normal stuff now after a day of rest.  What I'm doing is finishing my second Red Scarf for the Orphan Foundation of America.  It's really tempting to put tassels on it, but I think that might be too much for some people.  I will have to resist!

This scarf took me about 5 days with no work on it at all yesterday, so I think I have enough time to make a third one.  I'm just out of red or reddish yarn unless I want to combine scraps of yarn from four different shades and three different weights.  Not really going to happen.  There should be a picture tomorrow though! 

batting my eyes at the gift giving gods

Rustling Leaf Press is pleased to announce it's latest bundle of joy! The Enchanted Sole has arrived. It's a fresh new collection of socks from Janel Laidman, author of The Eclectic Sole, and this time the socks are all inspired by myths and legends.

via www.rustlingleafpress.com

I keep making a mistake.  It's called ravelry.  About a month ago I added the Firebird (rav link) socks to my queue.  I've been enjoying my little forays into fair isle, and these socks are stunning.  The thing is that I really don't need a new sock book, but if I want to make the other colorwork patterns (rav link) and the Galadriel (rav link) socks it won't be cost effective to buy the patterns individually.  I wonder if the library buys books upon suggestions, because this would be a nice addition to my local library.

I will probably just buy it eventually, but right now I'm just mooning over some gorgeous sock patterns.