Christmas!

Christmas was great because I got a lot of neat thins!

-1 skein of Socks That Rock mediumweight in Purple Rain but it isn't here yet because of the snow that the BMFA people had. It's on its way now though.
-Organic Fair Trade Mint Dark Chocolate.
-Mason Dixon Knitting: Outside the Lines
-$30 towards a Nintendo DS

From my other side of my family I got:
$10
$25 Target gift card
pink hoodie
1 skein of Regia Design Line Kaffe Fassett yarn (blue)
1 skein of Patons Stretch Socks (which is now becoming a pair of Breeze socks.
1 skein of bamboo yarn that is soft and blue/tan
pink hoodie
horse calendar
$25 barnes & noble gift card which is now Free Range Knitter and All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot. I was going to buy It Itches but I couldn't find it.
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From my other side of my family I got:
2 skeins of Schoeller + Stahl Fortissima Colori Socka Color in blue/teal color
1 skein of Plymouth Sockotta in light blue/purple color
red Vera Bradley wallet with movie coupons
$30 iTunes gift card

I need to charge my camera batteries and then I will have pics of the yarn. Also! I was saving up for a Polar White Nintendo DS and my dad said he would pay the rest of the money for it. So on Saturday we went to Target which was where I wanted to buy it because I like Target. All they had was one of the Guitar Hero Nintendo DS bundles which was not what I wanted. So I used my Target giftcard to buy Mario Kart DS instead. That is a really, really fun game. You should buy it if you don't have it already.
Then my sister had been to Kmart the previous week and had seen Polar White DS's there so we went there and they had empty boxes out instead of locking up the real boxes so we had to ask an employee to get one for us. She had a really bad attitude. She was like, "Oh, I don't know about that..." which I thought was REALLY irritating. You'd think she would be happy to sell a DS. *rolls eyes* We paid for it in cash which probably irritated her more but I actually had cash so whatever.
Then I opened it in the car which my sister took pics of. Right away I turned it on and set it up (put name, birthday, etc) but couldn't play it yet because it needed to be fully charged.
Then we went to Milwaukee to spend our B&N gift cards. We were walking through the food court when we saw our cousins which was really interesting because we don't see them places very much. Then we went to B&N and bought our books and were going to go home but my mom had to go to my aunt's house for something and I didn't get home until later and still had to wait 3 hours for the DS to charge. x.x
We went to blockbuster yesterday and found Brain Age 2 for only $12! It sells for $20 in the stores so my dad let me get it. :)

edit: OH! I finished my My So Called Scarf. It's as tall as me and it only took 1 skein of Malabrigo in Shocking Pink!

Something Purple...

I finished my Something Purple sweater tonight minus the button! Hooray! It took me almost the exact time that the Wicked sweater took plus one day. 5 months, 1 week, and 1 day. I'll have a picture whenever I have an available camera. The batteries are still dead and I haven't charged them yet.

I won!

Hooray! 50078 words! Technically 50001 but the verifier bumped it up a bit.

Nanowrimo is almost over!

I have currently 47,713 words and I will probably finish tomorrow. I want to try to reach tomorrow's word count goal tonight which is 48,338 words which is only about 600 words more. I am so excited about being almost finished!!

My My So Called Scarf is about 16 inches long and I love it! Maybe I will have a chance to take pictures tomorrow. I hope.

My black gloves that I am making for the holiday parade on Sunday so my hands don't freeze while I play my flute are nearly finished. I just need to do the thumb and make the pinky finger shorter because I screwed up and didn't measure it properly.

My Something Purple sweater needs like 1/2 or 3/4 inch more on the button band and then the sleeves and then it will be finished! Yay!

I will have more time for this when I finish Nanowrimo. I'm so excited for Christmas because I love Christmas! I'm saving up for a Nintendo DS because I really really want one and most likely will not get one for Christmas so I will buy it myself. Currently I have $32 dollars and I need $130.

Nanowrimo

This month I have been doing NaNoWriMo which is National Novel Writing Month. At this precise moment I have 27,323 words out of 50k needed. It is going pretty well except I just want to play SimCity 3000 tonight and I don't want to write more tonight. x.x But I will anyways. I have not finished anything in a while because I haven't been knitting much this month because I've been writing a lot. I'm writing this because I'm procrastinating writing my mini argumentative essay for my composition class. -.- It feels weird to use contractions because I have almost no contractions in the novel I'm writing because it counts for more words if you just write the words separately. (2 words instead of 1).

Long time, no post

Since I've last posted, I've finished:

Seedless Watermelon socks
Ardelle hat
Baby Bolero
Snails and slugs (mochimochi land)

I have 1.5 inches to go on the ribbing on my Something Purple sweater!

A few weeks ago I bought a skein of Malabrigo worsted in the color Shocking Pink. It will become a My So Called Scarf which will be started soon, hopefully.

I'm also working on a mini sweater from the Minutia (berroco) pattern. I'm using my dale of norway baby ull yarn in light blue and medium blue and size 1 needles. It is very cute. It just needs one sleeve, seams sewn, and the collar knit. :)

I also made a dishcloth from the Blissful Moss Rib dishcloth pattern.

I love the cold weather because it means I can finally wear all the warm stuff I've knitted!

No pictures tonight, sorry. I need to take pictures still and I have to go to bed soon. :)

Fair again

Today was the second day of horse judging for the fair and yesterday was the horseless horse groom showmanship classes. I was in beginner showmanship and I got a red ribbon. Then today I had horseless horse groom walk/trot equitation and I got a red ribbon in that too. The pony I showed is a haflinger mare named Candy. My show coat looks like a real one but it's just a blazer that we got at Goodwill for $5! Also my Wicked sweater got a merit ribbon!