Boating

Working on my tan

Sunset on Waikiki beach

this is what our house looks like!

Somehow we missed out on all the snow that Portland got this winter! this picture was taken by my brother in law.

I need a nap already

How awful. We are stranded in Waikiki for the next three days. we are heading home christmas eve and hopefully the snow and ice storms in portland will be over.

Macadamia nuts in shell

Macadamia nut farm

Chinaman's hat and turtle rock

Turtle rock and china man's hat

Blowhole

Sunset

Valley of the Temples

valley of the temples

Pretty flowers

The flowers match my top

Turtle Bay

Hello Kitty Cupcakes!!!!!!!!!!

Diamond head

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Diamond head

Honey Girl mural

I'm a pineapple

Dole Plantation

Leonards truck!

Yummy malasadas

KoOlina Golf course

golf course by our resort with black swans in the lake

RC airplane

Owen flying a remote control air plane

Pali lookout

Pali point

Largest Aloha Shirt

Hilo hattie

Maui Style

Yummy potato chips

Surfboards at Costco

Only in hawaii! Surf boards at costco

breakfast a coconut turnover

Coconut Turnover

Waiola Shave Ice

Way for shave ice on a got day

Sunset

Pretty palm trees

Dharma bus

Dharma bus at Othersville

Aloha

Hello from Oahu!

The following posts are from my vacation to Hawaii in Dec!

New craft podcast to check out

Check out this brand new podcast: At the Kitchen Table

Deb is a fellow PDX Knitblogger and crafter who owns a farm with bunnies, goats and chickens!

I cannot wait for her next episode!!

Mmm, chocolates

Yummy

Ernie and Pearl

Pearl (my angora rabbit) is madly in love with my cat Ernie! Can you believe it??

Here's some proof!

Fetching

fetching

I finished my first pair of fingerless mitts! It only took me a day of knitting to make both of them. The magical part was making the thumb!!

The pattern is from knitty.com.

OFFF Haul

Holy cow, I didn't post about my Oregon Flock and Fiber haul?? Well, this is totally a better late than never situation. I think that I posted on the OFFF ravelry group, but forgot to blog it here.

This is what I walked away with!
4 skeins of Blue Moon Socks that Rock
2 Blue Moon patterns
1 skein Fresh Yarn sock yarn
4oz Knitted Wit merino
2 oz angora fiber
8oz Sari Silk fiber
blue nylon fiber
1oz batt - thanks to a fellow PDX Knit blogger
a Niddy Noddy
a mini basket

And an Ernie cat that is hamming it up.

Here's a pic of me at OFFF with gail, I"m just showing off my blue moon stuff (photo by Angela).

Mason Dixon (Oct 17)

Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne were in Portland a few weeks ago to talk about their new book "Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines" That same day I was driving back from a week long trip and I made it a point to be back in time to see them. They did a slide show talk on how they met and how they developed this book. It was pretty funny. The one lesson that struck me was to "Pull from the tangle" (You know that big knot you get in your yarn when you are knitting and you can't get it undone), the term basically means to just deal with what is going on and to pull from the tangle and keep going.

Check it out, I got my book signed and stamped!

They even brought the samples photographed in the book for us all to fondle!

Me and Kerin wearing the "Pardon Me" wigs

Yeah, I'm a little late blogging about this book signing, but better late than never right??

Double blogging

I just found out that MonicaPDX blogged about me in her OFFF post that I was blogging about her, so I figure I should really blog that!

Happy Birthday to me!

If I was a cake, this is what I would look like!



I'm a little late posting, but my 29th birthday was last Wednesday the 24th. I had a fun time at my knit night. My mom surprised me by showing up, that was a shock. I did not expect to see her. The cake was so delicious, even if it dyed my tongue green.

Thanks Susan for arranging the cake, it was a hit!!

Me and mom knitting.


One of my favorite gifts was a headlamp from Owen. This means I can knit in low light or even in the car at night! Awesome!

Bunny Love

I fell into bunny love this weekend. I didn't mean to, it just happened! I met a gorgeous German Angora rabbit and I didn't want to let her go. I contacted the owner and "Pearl" is still available to purchase, so guess what? I am going to be a bunny mom!

OFFF

This is what I walked away with from the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival:

4 skeins of Blue Moon Socks that Rock
2 Blue Moon patterns
1 skein Fresh Yarn sock yarn
4oz Knitted Wit merino
2 oz angora fiber
8oz Sari Silk fiber
blue nylon fiber
1oz batt - thanks to a fellow PDX Knit blogger
a Niddy Noddy
a mini basket

Wool Pets

Don't I just look enthusiastic about making my woolpet?? Well, I must say it was so much fun to stab at it!

Here's the finished product:

I should have used more wool for his top shell, because he is kind of flat.

I bought my Mother in Law the Rabbit kit, I sure hope she likes it.

Extreme Knitting

I wouldn't normally consider myself an extreme knitter, however last weekend I found myself doing just that! We were in Bend, OR for a friend's birthday and we went to Lava River Cave and Paulina Peak on the Newberry Crater!

In one day, I went from:

knitting in a 40 degree F cave 1 mile underground...




...to knitting at 8,000 feet above sea level!!




If that's not extreme enough, my husband got in on the action and did extreme kite flying at 8,000 feet!!

TKGA!!!

The TKGA fall show is in Portland this year. I am a booth assistant for my friend Susan who owns Abstract Fiber . It was a great day, I was surrounded by awesome fiber and being her booth minion, I got to spin and knit too! Oh and not to mention all the great shopping! I was able to slip out a few times to do some shopping re-con for Sunday (that's when my mom is coming up for the show). So all that made this day great, but to top it off, I got to meet 3 knitting "stars"!!! Kelley Petkun (owner of knitpicks), Cat Bordhi (sock maven) and Annie Modesitt (need I say more?) How cool is that? I got an autographed copy of Annie's new book and I will be getting a signed copy of Wool Pets too! Yay!



Me, Kelley Petkun and Xena

Oh yes, Xena is just as cute in person! She licked my hand too!!!



Me and Cat Bordhi

Me and Annie Modesitt (coming soon)

I'm such a dork and had a total brain malfunction I couldn't think of things I wanted to say to them! Oh well, today made up for the time I almost met Debbie Stoller.