I know that posting is happening few and far between these days, but that is the craziness that is my life right now! With the moving and the packing all my fibery goodness has been hidden away until I can get it into the new apt.

So for now let me tell you about two things I have recently gotten myself into :).

Plurk should be the first thing you should know about. It’s a great amount of fun and totally Bo-nanner-rific. (If you plurk it, the Bo-nanas will come)

The next great idea was introduced to me in Plurk. Miss V (of Lime & Violet) has started up a wonderful chapter for Farmgirl Sisterhood full of the lovely ladies of plurk! We are the Plurkette Hencircle. Whether we are city girls or country girls, we are getting together to share our inner and outer farmgirl. Our first assignment, introduce ourselves.

I am Corey. I am a 26 year old city girl (but a complete mountain girl in my soul) residing in Charlotte NC with my wonderful husband. No, I did not grow up on a farm, or even around a lot of farms. I did spend time out in Indiana with my mom’s side of the family. Most of them did live on farms, but other than going to pet the animals and get lost once or twice in the cornfield, I didn’t really do much on a farm.

So what is it drawing me this way you ask? Well, as I am getting older I am starting to understand the value of the handmade and homegrown.

I started knitting about a year ago, and started spinning about 3-4 months ago. This kind of creativity is leading me to want to do more.

What else can I create that will be good for this environment, my home, my family, etc.?

I want to do more.

I want to learn to plant something and make it grow even if it is just a small plant box off our apartment balcony. At this point the only think we have grown is from our Aero-Garden (which is really cool if you haven’t ever seen one).

So, at this point I am trying to tap into my inner farmgirl, let us see where the journey takes me!

Love, Stitches, & Farmgirl Sisterhood!

C.M.S.S.

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So, after quite a long silence from me I am back. And What better way to start posting again, than with my dad! Happy Father’s Day Dad! I love you with all of my heart.

This is the man that has taught me that “This too shall pass.” Sometimes I need to still step back and remember that. He has been one of my biggest supporters in anything and everything I have ever done or attempted to do. He has given me so much in my life that I can never really thank him enough. I love you dad, and I hope you always know that!

Happy Father’s Day, to my Dad and to all Dad’s out there!

Love & Stitches,

C.M.S.S.

To my mother,
I owe you more than I will ever be able to begin to repay. You have taught me a lot about life, love, and how to be the person I am today. You have always been there for me, to pick up the pieces when I had fallen apart, and to laugh and celebrate moments of joy. You are my mother, and my best friend. Who could ask for anything more?
Happy mother’s day mom.
Love,
Corey

“One short day, in the Emerald City!” Forgive me slightly, but I have been to see Wicked rather recently, and I can’t seem to get it out of my head! It seems to be so even when I am buying yarn!!!

Can we just have a moment to just sigh over this!!!

This was my first skein of Yarn Nerd, and I tell you people, it WILL NOT be the last!

I know it is hard to see, but this is the 900 MHz Sock. I jumped on this when the Loopy Ewe got it in.

I am wishing that I had gotten maybe another skein of it.

Hmmm…. maybe I shall order from his website sometime!! Hope you all enjoy!

Love & Stitches,

C.M.S.S.

I know, I know. Bad Blogger!! I have not taken any WIP project pictures in a while so there is not progress to post here as of yet. I am going to try to take some pictures tonight at BaM so that maybe I can post a real WiP Wednesday post tonight. We shall see!

For now I leave you with pictures of two of my most favorite munchkins in the world!!!

Little Chunky Monkey Noah seeing how much pepper he can get everywhere!

And here we have new to this world, Sarah Elizabeth Berg!

Girl is going to be a singer. Trust me!

Brandon and Karoline, you have wonderful, beautiful children! I love you guys and I miss you already!

Love & Stitches,

C.M.S.S.

I really cannot believe it is week three for the FAL! I know I have been doing WW for about 14 weeks now and THAT blows my mind. Well, I know last week was kind of a downer. You wanna know what happened to me this week?

WEEEEELLLLLL…. much has been improved, even though I was less of an angel about what I ate this week. I blame The Counter.

I did get to ride on Sunday though. I did a six mile bike ride and I felt great! It is such a meditative thing for me. I really need to think about getting a little iPod to take wiht me. I have my big clunker, I am just afraid it will fall off mid ride and bust into a zillion pieces.

Ok so the numbers… here they are!

Last week: 231.4

This week: 229.6 (or 229.4 according to the WW scale)

Total loss: 24.6lbs

Either way that is at least 1.8 lbs down for the week! YAY!!

I am a mere .4lbs away from my 10% loss. Is that not incredible?????!!!!!! I am just amazed at how well this is working for me. It is really starting to help my self esteem and feeling of accomplishment. I had to go buy a few pairs of pants on Sunday. I bought one pair that fit right now and two that are slightly too tight, because by next week sometime they should fit. At the rate I am going anyway!!!

I hope that everyone else out there that is trudging on with their fitness fight is doing well! And if you are going through a rough patch, don’t worry! I’ve been there, I still struggle!!! You can overcome any of it!!

Love & Fitness,

C.M.S.S.

Cross Posted at: Fitness-A-Long

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What happens when you are a knitter and you do not go to Maryland Sheep & Wool?

Well, you whine a bit, you wish you could go, you check the blogs of people who did go everyday hoping to live vicariously through them.

And then you find some really great people to do a yarn store crawl with!!!!! I was both a good blogger and a bad blogger that day. I started off good and once we walked into that first shop I was bad. Sooooo I only have two pictures from the day. Sorry! But there shall be many pictures of the swag I came back with later! Keep an eye out on Yarn Pr0n days and such!!!

Dani on the left driving and Mary on the right. We are headed across the border!

Haha! I see you!

Dani, Mary, and I got in the car nice and early, headed across the border to Fuzzy Mabel’s yarn shop in Good ‘ole Lancaster, SC. I used to live there so it’s a little weird going there when I do get a chance. But what a lovely shop!! They have a great selection and a very nice open shop to walk around in! I will definitely be making a trip back there!!

Next we headed back up to Pineville to grab some grub at the yummy Mexican restaurant around the corner from my house!

After stuffing our faces we ended up at Charlotte Yarn. I have no idea how that happens ever!! But we hung out and saw Jane Prater!! YAY! We stayed long enough to have a beer with her and then we called it a day! It was quite fantastic and I hope we get to do it again sometime!

Ok! And on to what today is all about!!! Hand spun Monday!!!! The first one I gave you a sneak peek at a few days ago. It is the Romney fiber that Heather has a metric ton of and graciously let us dye at her house!!

This is about 1/2 a lb. of Falkland top that Cristi was wonderful to share with me! I wasn’t planning on showing it yet, but It is the first project that I have spun that I am sooooo proud of!! There is nothing over-spun and it is just gorgeous!!!!

There really are no other words! I love it!

Love & Stitches,

C.M.S.S.

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No, it isn’t sushi, although it does look yummy doesn’t it?

You think you know what it is don’t you. But you are saying,

“How could she possibly have this? It is a discontinued colorway!! I mean, the Yarn Harlot herself coudn’t even find this!!!”

And I respond, yes my friend, I did find it, I was lucky enough to stumble across this at Knitch!

The answer is right under this picture! I betcha J.P. knows what it is!!!!

Ahhh, yes. It is Regia Nation Color. Colorway 5399 Lot 14069. Discontinued and oooohhhh sooooo beautiful!

It is 75% New Wool and 25% Polyamide and there are 50 g in each ball.

I love that they look like they are completely different colorways, but they are not!!!

I feel some very fun and festive socks in my future!!

Love & Stitches,

C.M.S.S.

]]> http://knitdiva.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/54/feed/ Corey http://knitdiva.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/what-do-you-mean-red-dwarf/ http://knitdiva.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/what-do-you-mean-red-dwarf/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:36:37 +0000 knitdiva http://knitdiva.wordpress.com/?p=53

So here is a funny story for you all for “hump” day. I thought I was being clever, doing my two at a time toe-up socks. I decided on this second pair to add a lace panel to show that I could design socks too!!

So I sat myself down with all my stitch dictionaries and went to town! I had several in the running, and finally the Fish Scale Lace pattern won the coveted spot for my insteps. Here I am happily knitting along, and I show my accomplishment to Cristi. She’s designed socks, she can tell me if I am doing ok!!!

I am such a dork people!!! Ya know that her Red Dwarf Socks are pretty much the same thing I’m doing here!!!! I suppose I would like to chalk it up to “great minds think alike.”

Yea, thats it!!! We will go with that.

*Sighs* At any rate, you have seen these socks in a few previous posts, the most recent being this one, where they are in the hands of the Yarn Harlot!!!

So they have made a lot of progress since you all last saw them. They were just mere toes then….. my how they grow!!

And of course, they travel in style! Shall I do my duty of enabling a bit? OF COURSE I WILL!!!!!

The Namaste Clutch is a fantastic little bag! A lot bigger than I originally thought it would be.

This side is for your purse things!!

When you open the two sides, there is a place to store needles in the center.

I don’t really use straight needles, however, I don’t see why you couldn’t throw a pen or two in here!!

And, of course, there is a side for a project! My little socks fit in there just perfect! I throw the clutch into the bigger bag I take to work.

That way if I need to run into the store while I am out and about, I can just grab the clutch and not the whole bag.

This also makes it easier for me to switch between knitting bags. I don’t have to relocate purse items, because they are all right here!!!!!

And, again, of course, I got it in green!!!

Now I do not have anything else, because I got lazy and didn’t take new pictures of everything. I do have a little teaser for you for Monday’s post!!!

Love & Stitches,

C.M.S.S.

Welcome to part 2 of Busting Fat Tuesday!! It has been an extremely busy week this week, what with new job and all! This is going to be an extremely short post.

Despiste my trying to keep up with my good eating habits, I have been focusing more on the new job. So like I thought might happen, I had a slight gain this week. But it is really nothing to freak over.

I am going to say, to be positive, that I am very proud of myself for it not being a bigger gain.

I have the power to maintain and I am very grateful for that.

Having said that I intend to try and get some more exercise in this week and more water. Also I am going to be aware of the “extras” that may be on my foods; like the dressings and cheese on salads and sandwiches.

So for my numbers:

Last week’s Weight: 230.8

This week’s Weight: 231.4

So there was only a .6 lb gain. Is that even enough to call a gain? I’m not sure that I do!!! Hopefully all will go well at my other WW weigh in this week and I can report a loss next week!

Love & Fitness,

C.M.S.S.