Motivation!

It’s back! I found my motivation again! I’m not exactly sure how I managed to misplace something like that.. but who cares? It’s here now! I learned how to crochet over the weekend and I’m trying to find some new, fun ways to mix my two yarning abilities.

On another topic… I got a bunch of my stuff back from my parents place that’s all for now. I’m sure I’ll update more later. Hopefully not too much later.

-Sprite

Model Maddness

I’ve been going apeshit all week trying to find people to model my hats and scarves. Tara’s got it easy- she does kid stuff. Kids love hats. I’m stuck with image obsessed adults. I think I drew the short end of the deal here. I can’t find anybody to model for me and I simply refuse to model more of our stuff because I think it’s tacky and makes me look self-important. I’m getting some help on the model search, though, and I would totally appreciate it if anybody happens to know of people in or around Carlisle, Pennsylvania willing to model hats and scarves. I name my products after the people who model them- so that’s kinda cool. Oh! And I pay in coffee. I make banging coffee. Just saying.

With that said… I’ve got some sort of creative block going. I can’t think of a single new thing to make right now. It’s the weekend so I think I’m going to give myself until Monday to start a new project. Maybe a few days away from my needles will isnpire me or something. Besides… my kids miss me lol. I’m always shutting myself away in the mud room to knit so I think I’m going to take today and tomorrow (EARHT DAY, BITCHES!!) to have more quality time with my kids. Tara’s supposed to come over tomorrow for some Eath Day adventures in my back yard. We’re hoping to weed it out before the rain starts and then move our activities inside and teach our kids more about recycling, up-cycling, and environmental issues in the house (things like saving power, water conservation, and whatever else we can think of).

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR EARTH DAY PLANS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION. I’m dying to hear what other people are doing (and if you read this AFTER Earth Day, please tell us what you DID do) and how you plan to make a difference in your area. I think if every single person picked up ONE piece of litter and remembered to recycle ONE thing more than they normally do the whole world would be better off)

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Babysitting Blues

I’ve been babysitting my niece, Rayne, all week… and I haven’t been able to find the time or energy to knit a single thing. I’ve started the same ichord at least a dozen times. It’s like baby blues… but for babysitters. I cannot wait for a day off so I can sit down and knit something. My fingers are practically itching for some yarn.

We do, however, have some sweet shit up on our Etsy. Check it outttt

 

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Looking Up

Ahhh things around here are slowly looking up. We’re honing our organizational skills, managing our time a little better, and having a great time doing it. I know a lot of people say things about how great their job is- and unless they work with me, I don’t believe them. I’m sure other jobs are great but, no job is as great as mine.

Speaking of jobs… I totally have an interview today at 1:15 for another job. It’s at a cigarette outlet a few blocks from my house. That’s right… cigarettes. Which I’m hoping means they’ll be totally okay with the fact that underneath my perfume there’s always an underlying musk of stale cigarette.

And I’ll leave you with that information… cause I have some cleaning to do, some knitting to finish, and hopefully a shower to take lol.

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Updates…

In case you can’t tell by looking at our fancy new picture- we’ve finally made our logo. It took us FOREVERRRR but, we’re super proud of it.
We’ve both been working on our custom ordered hats for the past couple weeks, so hopefully we’ll get back to the regular knitting soon.

Oh! I have exciting news! I might have mentioned it before but, I’m not positive.. I have somebody to teach me how to crochet! I’ve been dying to relearn how to do it for years. My mom was into crocheting when I was young so she taught me, like, a million years ago- but like all other knowledge, this yarning info was a use it or lose it kinda thing. Over the past, like, 15 years I’ve managed to forget everything. Well, I can start something… I just don’t know how to get past the first chain. So once Josh teaches me I’ll actually be able to do cool things. I wanna start making cute appliqués for hats and stuff.

Now I’m gonna go feed my kids… go figure, kids actually need you to pay attention to them lol.

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All Work and No Play..

Does NOT actually make me a dull person. I’m getting sick of being told how lame it is that my idea of fun is sitting at my kitchen table watching a movie on my laptop and knitting instead of goin’ to clubs with my friends and people my own age. Trust me, if I WANTED to be around ill-mannered, rude, drunk bro’s I’d only have to go a few blocks away to Dickenson. I don’t need to go to a club- I don’t drink much. I don’t need to get wasted to have fun. I don’t actually enjoy it at all. I have plenty of fun trying to come up with new patterns for hats and scarves. Seriously.

What’s with this generation? I don’t get it at all. Has it always been like this? Are responsible people always teased for being boring? Fuckthatnoise. I’d rather feel accomplished after a day of knitting than like I have a jackhammer in my head after a night of drinking. I’d rather have a new hat to wear after an hour of watching a movie than a new disease to worry about because my new internet boyfriend lied to me about his medical history. Grrrr. I hate idiots.

Sorry for the rant… but if I can’t do it here where the fuck am I gonna go to whine about the people in my life??

-Sprite

I have a super handsome baby!!!!

Sooooo…. I entered this handsome man in a photo contest…. Pleeeeease go vote for him <3

 

Right  here!!   http://gapc-vote.com/?p=3279000&c=sk

 

-tara

 

spring fever

So every year, without fail, I lose all motivation from January-April… except this year. I’ve had, like, spurts of motivation. None in a while, clearly, but I’m having one today so be joyous.

I’m in the middle of making 9 custom-ordered hats, started ANOTHER blog with Tara about our current diets (seriously) and FINALLY started actually reading my “Teach Yourself Croatian” book beyond the first page. I’m on a roll. Granted a lot of this sudden motivation and energy is my way of avoiding depression, but what the hell. I might as well be useful when I feel like crap, right?

Oh, so, personal details. My son Declan is FINALLY getting ready to talk. I can sense it. He’s been saying (with PERFECT annunciation,the entire alphabet). I’m in Mama heaven.

I’m positive I’ll write more later.

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LazyLazyLazy

Well…. Not exactly lazy, per say… Just… Distracted. It’s been gorgeous outside so i’ve been more occupied with taking Eowyn out to ride her new bike, and Abram out to see the woods. (He is his father’s son, and therefore has a massive obsession with trees.)

Don’t let it be said though, that I haven’t done ANNNNNYthing…

I was thinking one day that the coming of spring usually drains a bit of my knitting motivation, since I am a die-hard lover of bulky yarns, and so once it gets warm out, I run out of things to knit that are in any way seasonally logical.

Butttt… This is my first spring, as a knitter, with a baby…. On top of that, a baby who LOVVVVES to be outside(Seriously.. He wouldn’t take a pacifier to save his life, but if he’s crying, the waterworks end instantly when he is carried outdoors. BUT, most of the places we walk are very shaded, or near the water and although it’s getting warmer out, our walks are generally still pretty windy and cold, so I decided I needed some fingerless gloves since pushing the stroller keeps me from being able to use my pockets, and I detest gloves with fingertips. I feel like I can’t keep a grip on anything.

So I went about the task of finding a pattern for a pair, and knitting them up in some colors that still made me think of spring. I ended up using two kinds of yarn, an organic cotton, and a worsted weight 100% alpaca. And they are…. Perfect.

 

 

-tara

Technology… fuckit.

So I can’t update from my phone and I no longer have a computer- my son Jack and Tara’s daughter Eowyn spilled juice on my keyboard. Okay, so I have a computer, just not a keyboard. Hard to blog without one, honestly. Anyway, my roommate’s out with the girl he’s been dating so I hijacked his computer JUST for updating the blog. Feel important. I could totally be watching a movie right now lol.
Anyway, not much in our knitting world right now. I got dumped so I’m rage knitting a few hats and a couple scarves. I have no idea what Tara’s working on right now, though. I know she’s added a few things to our etsy since I last updated this, so you should totally go check that shit out.

My kids have been driving me crazy all weekend. I mean, it’s like they pick the days I’m most upset to be total assholes lol. I’m considering putting down my knitting needles for a while to clean my house. By clean I do, of course, mean deep clean. Like, scrub out the weird cracks in my pergo floors and wash the walls. I feel like something positive should come out of my current celibacy and a clean house is definitely a good thing . Not that my kids will let it stay clean for more than a few hours… it’s the thought that counts, right?

So, yeah. I think riiiight now I’m going to finish the hat that I’m making for myself and start cleaning. I might even bust out the vacuum today I was going to put it all off till tomorrow but what the hell, today’s as good as any other day.

This time I PROMISE I’ll actually figure out how to upload pictures. Once I finish all these hats I’ll take pictures of them (possibly on my super cute kids) and put them on here before I get them up on etsy. You guys will be the first to see them…. which I kinda hope will encourage you to buy them, obviously lol.

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