A mother is the most wonderful person in the world.

via: the disney princess

 I guess my internet decided not to post this post yesterday, because I just noticed that it was stuck in my posts area.  :(

Anyway... Happy Mother's Day Mom!  No matter what happens, I know you will always be my biggest fan.  I love you!

Also happy mothers day to my mother-in-law, my mimi, my sister-in-law and all of my aunties who might be reading this!  I love you guys too!

Plymouth Ice Festival

Well, my first class of the semester is finally over.  I think I mentioned it before, but just incase I haven't, it was a class about how to take online classes. It didn't matter that one of my credits I transferred was from an online class,  I still had to take the class anyway and let me tell you, it was kind of a pain in the butt.  To get you used to what taking a full course load was like we were given a LOT of work to do.  I had 2 or 3 papers to write a week.  My next 2 courses start on the 17th of next month so I have some down time to catch up on my knitting and all of my posts here about the few things I did manage to finish knitting.

I meant to post these pictures earlier, but all of my papers about time management got in the way.  So without further ado, here are a few pictures from the Plymouth Ice Festival that I went to with my mom, my pops and Kevin.

Cold Penguins.

Reindeer.  I think?

ICE DINOS.  OH YES!!!

CHAINSAW BEAR.  BEING CHANSAWED IN FRONT OF MY VERY EYES!

As you can see it was cold, but very awesome.  After walking around and freezing our butts off, we went to have pizza.  Kevin and I got an all cheese one, but my mom and dad got some weird sausage and ham one.  Kevin and I rated the cheese pizza a 7 out of 10, but Kevin said that our parents pizza tasted like 'the meat was from Kroger.' 

And because it's not a post if I don't post a picture of my always hungry piggies :D :

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSICA!!!

I'm not sure if you will see this, so I'll drop you an e-mail just to be on the safe side. I hope you have a wonderful birthday!

Tears of a Rapper

Pattern: Naked Star Hat by Irina Bil

Yarn: Patons Classic Wool Merino in Black

Needle Size: 1 for the Ribbing and 2 for the body of the hat

Dates: December 20th - December 22nd

My Project Name: This one is named after the song Hurt Feelings by Flight of the Conchords:

Hurt Feelings from Brian Kessler on Vimeo.

Modifications: I kind of used this pattern as more of a guideline because I loved the shape of it. I was in a big hurry to finish up all of my Christmas knitting, and when I saw that this was knit flat and then seamed together I quickly decided I would use the sizing and decreasing of this hat and wing everything else. I basically just knit ribbing for the body. In the round, after the brim I knit a row and then k1, p1 for the next row.

I ended up checking gauge and got it on size TWO needles. When I was about halfway through the hat I ended up realizing I could have cut down my cast on number to use larger needles but I was in such a hurry to start that it didn't even register to me right away. Knitting on such small needles so quickly made my wrists hurt pretty bad so if I ever make something like this again I'm definitely going to be more careful before starting.

New techniques learned: None.

Notes: Nothing special to add to this one, except my brother seemed to like it.

More Pictures:

From Christmas day. Can you see him back there wearing it?

Lights Before Christmas and Warm Woolies

I missed out on making a Thanksgiving post, so I hope everyone had a wonderful one. I didn't actually bake anything this year, Ronnie and I went to my parents and enjoyed everything they made over there. Yummy!

On Friday my mom, Kevin, Kevin's girlfriend Emily, Aunti Kay, and Sarah and I all made our way up to the Toledo Zoo to see the Lights Before Christmas. Although it didn't snow, it was pretty cold. The temperature was in the low 30's, but with the windchill it felt like it was around 15 degrees. I invested in a pair of super warm snow boots this year that make me look like I'm walking on the moon. I also covered myself from head to toe in my knitting.

there is a reason I look like a marshmellow

I wore my ear flap hat (made from Patons Wool) , my squish scarf (made from Misti Alpaca Super Chunky) , a tee-shirt over a thermals with my Oh Stewardess cardigan (made from Shepherds Fiber Mill Shepherds Wool) over that, all under my jacket. I wore my cabled mitts (in Patons Wool) over a pair of regular ole gloves (I ended up shoving the mittens inside of my coat because I was just too warm), jeans with my thermal leggings annnnd my In The Woods slipper socks (made from Patons Wool) inside of my boots with their super warm booties. All links go to items on my Ravelry profile. :)

I usually despise doing these kinds of winter things because I hate feeling cold, but I have to say with all of my woolies I was INCREDIBLY warm. I kept taking items off if we would step inside a building because I was getting too hot. All this stuff should come in handy next month when we do Christmas at Greenfield Village. Let's just hope it doesn't sleet this year.

just for fun, here is a picture of my brother on a metal gorilla. mom you're embarrassing me! ha!

I've been hard at work on my knitting. I've got about 90% of one of the Ringwood gloves done for my moms Christmas present. I took a break from the Percy Shawl I'm knitting because I need another cake of yarn, and I think I will order a few more with it. Decisions, decisions.

I've read A LOT this month. I probably won't be writing any reviews, but I will do a round up of what I've read at the very end of the month. I'm going to try to squeeze one more book in before I do. Thank heavens for audio books. Knitting and listening to a book is pure heaven.