A Few of My Favorite Things....

It's 1 a.m and I am having problems drifting off to sleep, so I thought I'd blog a bit....I haven't made too much progress on the lace wrap as you can see in the picture. I am seriously considering frogging it and combining it with a little thicker yarn so the wrap gets finished before I am go blind from having to maneuver around the tiny stitches..... Next to the yarn, there is my favorite mug which is holding my current favorite drink: chai tea. I found some of the chai tea concentrate at Green Acres Natural food store here in Wichita and when combined with milk, it is DIVINE! There is a particular brand of milk that I buy that makes it extra special. This milk comes in glass bottles from a Kansas Dairy, Twig Dairy, and is the best milk I've tasted EVER! They don't use steroids or any other medications on the cattle, so you aren't bulking up on toxins, but what makes it special is there is usually a thin layer if cream in the bottles of whole milk and sometimes the 2%. The only store in Wichita that carries it is ( some of ) the Dillion's grocery stores--unfortunately none close to me so I have to get a couple bottles each time I am at a Dillon's that carries it. The store at 21st and Maize had this brand in cappuccino---I could not even describe how good it was!!!! I recently discovered that that store also has the chai concentrate I usually buy elsewhere. This makes me REALLY happy--I'll be able to satisfy my "addiction" in one stop!!

While I didn't make the mug that holds my chai, I did throw the two containers in the background. I really like the blue green one and plan on doing quite a few more in that color. I threw 9 more pots this week on the wheel, so I'll definitely have more of this color on some of those. The brown one turned out pretty also. I'll definitely do more in that color too. I am using most of the containers I've thrown so far as knitting needle holders. I photographed these in incandescent lighting, so please excuse the yellow cast. I'll get some more pictures later in sunlight...

My goal this week is to walk into Twist and abstain from whipping out my checkbook! I bought the top down book from Cabin Fever (I LOVE this company!!!) and Knitting Around by Elizabeth Zimmerman. I've never played with an EZ pattern so I figured I'd try. This book has a lot of stories in it so I found it entertaining. I REALLY need to quit buying books and yarn--at least until I get my three UFO's finished!! You can laugh now at the ridiculous nature of that last statement and the possibility that :

(A:) I am going to quit buying yarn and books until (B:) I finish all my UFO's.

.....Optimism...foolhardy optimism....and when I wake up, I shall remember none of this....