Odds then Ends then the Sisterhood

Yesterday was Dear Son's 9th Birthday.  This picture sure tipped my cuteness scales! That's one excited boy!  Happy Birthday, B!

His favorite present?  A wicked game created by non-mothers who never had to pick up a tiny piece in their miserable lives, nor did they ever have a 9-year-old pleading with them into the night to play the blasted thing with him! HeroScape, schmeroscape.  Sheesh.  He bought it with his birthday money at Target and it makes his heart sing.  Curse them.  Way worse than Candyland or Sorry.  See the gameboard?  A whole bunch of hexagons you have get to configure according to the battle you want to have..The hedgehog?  Our addition.  We ordered pizza, had cake and opened presents.  Oh, and played Heroscape.  Which made this boy very, very happy.  And that is all that counts, mommycrabbypants.

40 Days Update

And here finally is the picture of the knitting Jocele sent for 40 Days -- I kept putting it off hoping I'd get the sweater from my friend at the shop...but not posting it any longer would be unseemly.  There are two hats, two pairs of very cute socks (the red ones are mine - did I ever show you a finished product?) and a cotton facecloth as well as toiletries.  That Jocele is a good egg.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Stash Begins

And I'm having a crisis of confidence.  I have a ton of "scarf yarn" -- you know, novelty stuff like Eros and Dazzlelash, like Fizz and Giardino -- from when I was teaching the scarf class.  Really, I didn't buy much of it out of my pocket but with the proceeds of the classes, but still...the bubble is past.  Maybe I'll post some of it for trades.  But I digress.  Anyway, much of the more mainstream yarn I have in my stash is either swatched up for a project and now wrapped up and scraggly, or ... well ... yarn I really want to make something out of.

Don't get me wrong,  the yarn I've included is great yarn.  All of it (well some is what I'd call novelty, but it's cool novelty yarn).  Lots of Cascade 220, some hand-painted boucle and sock yarn, some Trekking and Regia (I thought I had more, but I've swatched with someof it so it's wound around itself and not up to Sisterhood standards...).   Some of it is wound already and I don't remember what company it's from.  There's some Fiesta boucle and a shoulder scarf pattern for it -- even the needles.  Actually, there are lots of patterns.  Lots of kinds of patterns, kids and adults. 

I hope its ... well ... I hope everyone in the Sisterhood can find something she wants to trade for, that's all.  I'd like to add more yarn but it won't fit in the box -- which is I guess a good thing.  So...I need to just do this.  It's the first one and it'll be fine.... Let the traveling begin!

A box filled with what you see here is going to Pat tomorrow.  We'll see how this goes.

I'm sending an email to those of you participating to get your information so I can orchestrate the route of the Stash.  Look for that, will you?  See you on the flipside!

Comments

[Jennifer]

Oooo, the box's travel is set to begin...

[Cara]

That's a great picture! Happy Birthday!

[Pat K]

Whoa. Serious pick-and-choose issues coming up, I can see. I shall be tied in knots. And loving it! Woohoo!

[Jenn]

As you know, the Urban Knitters participate in the Holiday Boutique at Womens Support every year. Novelty yarn scarves are still our best seller.

I would so totally play that game with him. He's grown so much! He must have been 4 the last time I saw him. I still remember the book club meeting when his Daddy sent him out to us ... stark naked. :)

[Lucia]

I see several things there that I would kill for, er, wouldn't mind having. Ruth, knitting needles at 20 paces!

[margene]

DS is a very handsome guy! Happy Birthday kiddo!
Good luck with the Traveling Sisterhood Stash!!

[Amanda]

Huzzah!!!! I can see all of it!!! Tel the boy Happy Birthday from us. Maybe we'll have to Cinco de Mayo on Friday to have a Glendale celebration.

Good luck with the Sisterhood box!
Peace, A

[Ruth]

Oh, I love the picture of B. I would be excited about that cake, too .... it looks delicious.

Did I make the Sisterhood cut-off? I'm hoping so, because I can already see some stuff that I covet .....