Possibilities

Even though I feel like I already have the world's largest yarn collection, I couldn't pass up this gorgeous 100% cotton yarn: Queensland Soft Wave from WEBS: YARN! It was on sale for $2.59 a ball! Amazing deal. I'm pretty excited to get knitting with it, so stay tuned for more projects!

September Means Fall Weather!

I'm so excited for September because that means Autumn-my fave season- (Sept 22nd) and cooler weather. So, all these great knits I've been doing all during the hot summer will actually be able to get some use! I just finished this really great baby hat last night:



It's from another Ravelry pattern: HAT! I'm thinking of adding some knit flowers to the side to liven it up a bit. I can't wait to see how it looks on an actual baby because you'll be able to see the ruffle a bit better. This hat was one of my favorites to knit because it's pure cashmere! This should fit approximately an 18 month old :)

My Martian!

All of my friends are amazing peeps and are constantly doing amazing things. Recently my friend Kristine Ferrone went to the Arctic to perform a Mars-similar mission. Her objectives were to experience life as it would be on Mars and to perform some experiments in Mars-like conditions. The whole thing was very neat and you can read all about it on her blog (in my fave blog list- The Asian and the Martian). When she came back in August she gave me a mission patch! Her first of many I'm sure! Here's a glimpse of that awesome action:

Small hands

I found this pattern for baby 'miittens' on Ravelry: MIITTENS! While I'm not a huge Nintendo Wii or video game fan in general, these were genius. They're made to look like the "Mii" hands on Wii bowling. They're genius because babies tend to scratch themselves with their teeny tiny very hard to trim nails and these mittens protect them from that. They also keep them from putting their hand sin their mouth because the mitts are so big! Genius! I haven't bought the stuffing for the top yet but this is basically how they look:

Baking Gone Whole Wheat

I like to keep the food that comes from my kitchen as healthy as possible, however, baked goods are usually the exception. Those delicious goodies are usually loaded with sugar and butter, yum! However, I ran out of regular flour this weekend in the middle of making yet another set of zucchini bread (yes I still have more zucchinis) and I had to use the whole wheat flour that I had leftover from some 'healthified' chocolate chip cookies. The zucchini bread turned out ok, a little dry so next time I'll have to add extra oil. I think I'm going to try and work with wheat flour as often as possible to allow the healthy foods theme to spill over into my baking :)

Another baby hat

This pattern is really adorable and super easy to do as well. I knit mine on size 8 needles so it came out a bit small, but I think it will still be really cute on a newborn. The pattern can be found here: HAT! Here is my version:

Puppies!

Well our puppies are about a year and 5 months old now. They've gotten so big since we picked them up last May! According to their vet visit in June Baloo weighed 76.9 lbs and Bernoulli weighed 70.6 lbs. Here's a picture of Baloo in our new apartment, happy boy:



And here is a picture of Bernoulli after his first trip to the brand new dog park at Bay Area Park:



And here is one of them at the little beach in Seabrook off the Seabrook trail:



One more (Mommy likes to take pictures of her pups):