organized and calm

well sort of calm...as calm as i ever get anyhow. *slightly hysterical giggle and hair tugging*
i took all of your good advise and came up with this plan to keep track of my swaps and gifts to be made and stuff like that. i made a folder and put tabs in it each swap or gift has a tab. inside each tab area are sheets that say stuff like "rules" and "spoilee" where i can put all the things i know about the swap and my swap partner. i also put in sheets for ideas (because usually i doodle out my ideas and make lists of all the possible things i COULD make till i decide on the best ones) and a sheet for patterns (where i can keep any pertinint patterns.) each tab also has a check list with a hopefull date to finish each item. in the front i printed some calendars so that i can see what hard deadlines are comming up for mailing etc. i also set up my phone to do reminders a day before the actuall mailing date. yay! i really do feel much better now and have no fear that anything will get forgotten even durring my big move to california. :0) how about a pic of my supper spiffy folder? ok.

Click Click go my needles

I have finished my shopping but am still working on the socks. I think my owl is getting anxious!

eureka

I finished my socks this weekend and started some cookie a pattern pomtomous and it is great but I still need to go shop for some sweet goodies for my buddy. I am excited. I am just past the heel on my first of the new socks and I am calling them my rainbow fish socks because they are made out of pagewood farms crayon color yarn and the pattern looks like fish scales they are more awesome then I could have expected and the pattern is easy to follow at work between calls :) aimee

Quote Quiz

Okay who said this, extra fame if you give the circumstances:

"never, ever again .... that was the worst -- "

Almost ready to go

The socks are done, goodies are ready, and I have a box. Now I just need to get everything in and make it to the owlery. :D

Cliodna Boomslang, Ravenclaw

Frogged

I have finally decided that I don't like the original pattern that I chose. So I have ripped everything out and am going to start over.

Quote Game

"Well, who cares what he's interested in? What is he, when you come down to it? Just some stupid teacher."

too much homework

i am having a very hermioneish frazzled sort of moment. i can not find my time turner either. so i am in a few swaps and they are all harry potter related :0). its like a sickness. hahaha. i am in this swap and i have everything done plus some for my spoilee, except for the socks i did decide to take them out and start over after all but i am part way through my first one (again). i do love the way the yarn is knitting up. i am doing the HSKS6 too. i am very excited about it and they are really active over there with the chatting and the games. they also have a dueling club that sounds like fun. i might have to pass on that though because i would hate to take on too much and be all stressed out. i feel like if you are hating making something because you are too busy or whatever then those vibes get in your project. if you make something you should make it with love in your heart and that gets in your project too (ugh, my hippie muggle parents DID rub off on me. sheesh). anyhow i am also in a transfiguration swap. where you take an altoids tin and transfigure it into something else. can you say "fereverto"? i have a pretty good idea for that one but havent started it either and its due by the end of the month. plus i am moving back to california from colorado by the end of the month. how do you guys keep track of all your swaps and due dates for swaps and challenges and the like? just curious. i am just feeling like i am forgetting something. i dont want to let anyone down. i like to be a great swap partner and make something really nice you know. i dont feel like i am overbooked for the swaps (i have done more than this and had no prob at all) i think it might just be the moving. can someone please make me a claming draught? *wrings hands*

Quote Quiz

so confident am I, that I've already got the next quote ...

"You gave Mr. Malfoy quite a fright"

Okay who said it, to whom, and what were they speaking about???

Quote Quiz

OK here it is: Tell me who said it, what book and when.

"First think of a person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and the end of the end?
And finally give me the sound often heard
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?"

Extra virtual brownies for the answer to the riddle. Grandma

little ravenclaw socks

I had to share! The main part is made with left-over yarn from Wisteria's ravenclaw socks. Grandma

#2 is half done :)

Well, sock #2 is nearly ready to turn the heel. I'm pleased with the look of the pattern, especially for a Slytherin partner. Can't post pics, so I hope my partner will not only post pics of what she gets, but of what she sends, as well.

Lady Felula
Gryffindor House

Someone hexed blogger

So I had a draft of the post I wanted to write and I went back today to finish and post it; however it is gone. Lost in the internets like it never existed. Sigh it's been a long week. Bella's socks aren't going as well as I hoped once again the sock in progress has turned back into a ball'o'yarn. I'm going to try again once the common room is quiet and I'm not so tired. I have some much essays to do that the parchment is piled so high it almost reaches the top of my canopy when sitting on my desk! Well it's off to bed for me it's been a long day with Quidditch practice and a Hogsmeade trip and I have to spend all day tomorrow finishing my homework *sigh*

Hey I am half way through sock # two but had to stop to knit emergency birthday socks for my soon to be five year old. :) I was home sick three days and had taken one day off so at least I got a bit done here and there I think I get more knitting done at work lol.

quote game

"I am fortunate, extremely fortunate, that i have you, Severus."

who and why?

found on engrishfunny.com

more the engrish!

allitrya spelling- gryffindor

Quote game

Here we are - it took me a few days to come uip with this - Who said it, to whom, in which book?

"Well, he's not my type, but he'll do,"

Yarn and pattern bought

Finally found the yarn and the pattern I will use for my partner's socks. I have to finish up one little thing before I can get started but I should be starting by the end of this weekend if all goes well.

Selina Starfire
Gryffindor

new poll

hey everyone - just out of curiosity I put a new poll on my blog page if anyone wants to do it ... no house points or anything, but it is completely anonymous ... just wondering how old everyone is in real/muggle-life

Queen Frysia
Slytherin

Perfect Sock Yarn

Hi everyone I received my pal's sock yarn this week and I think she will like it. My pal said her favorite character is Serius Black and lo and behold I found some sock yarn in the Serius Black colorway. I haven't been able to post much with work and watching my grandchildren but that should change now. Pren, just wanted to let you know I am posting a picture of the Noro Wave scarf on my blog. It turned out beautiful.

All for now as I need to e-mail my pal and post on my blog.