☼ Happy Summer ☼

Hello Everyone. Yes we are alive and well. The summer is moving right along. I just wanted to let everyone know that we haven't forgotten about this blog. It has just not been a priority of late. We have been busy knitting and busy with life. We had a graduation, two Birthday's(mine and Chelette's) and a vacation since our last post. There has been knitting going on as well, just not as fast as we would like. We have decided we have to stop buying yarn and start knitting more♥(sounds good anyway) We are doing a KAL for the Everyway wrap, I am also working on Spring Foward socks in Woolmeise(Zenzi) and Chelette is working on another Rusted Root.

This has already started to be one of the hottest year's on record, not just here on the east coast but all over the Globe, India, Australia, Brazil, Eastern Europe and Asia. So we are trying our best to stay as cool as possible. We finally got some rain on Saturday. The grasses and plants could sure use it. It has started to rain just now as I am writing this post. YaY!

Last Thursday we made our first visit to The Manning's in Bristol Pennsylvania. Only about 2 hours away. We went up early in the morning. Our good friends Jana and Diane are going to be leaving the area, so we thought this would be a great way to spend time together before they leave us. We made a stop at The Woolstock Yarn Shop in Glyndon, Md on the way home. It is a cute shop with lots of yarn and they carry a large selection of koigu. The highlight of our trip was Sydney's Restaurant, located right down the road from The Manning's. The food was gourmet and quite delicious. Definitely worth the trip.

Okay not to much at once here. I will tell you that we are having a blogiversay coming up soon and there will be giveaways(Woolmeise) so stay tuned about that in a up coming post. We decided that our yarn stash is starting to get out of hand, so why not share it ♥ Happy Summer~

this picture is minus me (cici) and Jana


Every one wanted to play with the spindles


This was my dessert from Sydney's


I was able to capture this awesome butterfly on the
grounds of the Manning's

Then on Wednesday night's sit and knit, we had a going away party for our good friend Jana(FlyngMunky). She has a shop on Etsy, she spins and dye the most beautiful yarn. Go check her out. She does some amazing work♥ She will be relocating to the Atlanta Georgia area. We will miss her. Good Luck Jana!!! We know you will be back♥
As always there are move photos on Flickr
that you can check out.
Have a great week. I hope you get to do something you Love♥

Update: I just found out that Carol over @ Meir Cat, Chats and Fiber video taped a portion of our Sit and Knit Celebration. She has a very cool blog that warrants checking out. I always look forward to reading and seeing what she is up to, whether it's about her crochet skills, or her 3 adorable cats, Jake, Maus & Moshe'. She has a great sense of humor and is the best writer I know♥

Finally Connected/Giveaway

So, if you are reading this it means I finally got my internet connected. First I didn't know if I had a wireless card and then I had to buy a router and an adapter. It cost about $100 bucks altogether. I really didn't suffer to bad because I have a Black Berry and can do almost everything I can do on a computer. I was hoping to get more knitting done but it turns out, that didn't really happen either.


I have however worked my butt off for the past month and didn't get my Saturday's off. I so need a vacation, which is coming up next week. I am taking a short trip to New York. Chelette is also taking a trip to Texas.

Hope everyone is having a good summer. It's has been blazing hot here on the east coast. We haven't had rain in weeks. It does feel like summer is almost over though. Most of the kids go back to school next week.
I am settling in my new place and enjoying my short commute to work. I have been going up to DC for knit night, which is the highlight of my week. A Tangled Skein is have a big sale and I will be checking it out tomorrow.

I am sad that Nurse Jackie and True Blood are coming to an end. I guess I can catch some of the other shows that I missed On Demand. I want to see Hung, Weeds, Californication and Entourage. I so, enjoyed Dexter and can't wait for Season 3. Hawthorne was pretty good too. I am hoping The Ladies Number One Detective Agency come back too. Of course I can count on the Medium and Ghost Whisperer, will always be on. And I never miss Dog Whisperer, Cesar is the MAN!

In knitting news. I am so close to finishing my toe up magic loop
socks it's not funny. Hopefully next week. Chelette has finished
another pair♥ Both are on our ravelry page

Giveaways
First go to Enter the Knotty Knitter’s Blog Contest
Introducing the “Sandrasingh.com Exclusive Collection,” the first pattern in this series is ready…

“Isabella’s Mittens Kit” Giveaway! One lucky winner will receive the isabella mittens kit which includes: mittens pattern only and 2 skeins of malabrigo merino worsted 1 skein of holly hock and 1 skein of marron oscuro. Deadline to enter is August 30th 2009 at midnight.

Then Go here for the Dyson Giveaway you have been waiting for....
One reader will be getting the Dyson DC24
(see the picture to the right).
This vacuum is like the little brother of the DC25,
it's just a little smaller and lighter.
The DC24 has a ARV of $499.00.

Alright it's pass my bedtime.
I just wanted to let y'all know I'M BACK!!!♥

Sorry I didn't post 10 on Tuesday. I did plan to
do it. It will be my own version coming next week♥

Stimulating the Economy................

How?? You buy yarn! There were three yarn parties all in one weekend and we went to all three, yes all three. hahahaha. It started out at A Tangled Skein with the Friday the 13th party. Lots of knitters, food and best of all the yarn was 20% off until midnight. While hanging out at the party our dear friend Susan B told us that Knit Happens was celebrating their 5 year anniversary with a yarn sale and party on Saturday. We decided to check out the sale and it was everything and more than we had even dreamed of – they had Jade Sapphire Cashmere for 70% off –Debbie Bliss Donegal Tweed 50% off –Schaeffer silk 40% off and to top it off the books and patterns were 50% off….

Here we are day 3 headed to the Homespun Yarn party in Savage Mills which we had already planned to attend –we had to pinch ourselves to see if it was real. Could there really be another yarn party --we haven’t had this much fun since MDSW/Stitches. We got some really nice handspun yarns. It was interesting to see some of the same people at all three parties. Also, we met Claudia and Denise, two ladies that read our blog. More photos on cici's flicker and cj's flicker.

The parties are over and we decided that we have stimulated our STASH and hope that we have done our part in stimulating the ECONOMY and there will be no more YARN buying until MDSW! Thanks for a great weekend. Now it's time to start knitting♥