Hi ya'll. So I've been busy. I am working on a new meal plan but honestly, I am running like 6 recipes behind so there is much less rush. To let you know, this scallop recipe, this bean recipe, this pork recipe, and this stew recipe are more than a little amazing. We've been having some awesome wins on the food front lately.
A quick word on wedding planning for anyone who wants to skip this section...I am (not shockingly) in stasis between totally fine and "run screaming from the room" overwhelmed. Most of the time I feel fine but then, out of nowhere, something will occur to me and I feel like the walls are closing in. Does everyone feel this way? Do you wake up in the middle of the night and have to tell yourself there is NO need to grab pen and paper and jot down the 12 things you remember need doing?
On the soap front, I do have a new product to share. It is Primal Elements Sugar Body Scrub in Flower Child. I got this a few weeks back while The CEO and I were in New Hope, PA exploring. I landed at Soap Opera, which I knew roughly because I got an awesome skull soap from The CEO's mom for Christmas from there. (on a side note, if you live anywhere near New Hope and haven't been, you should go).
But this sugar scrub is without compare. It works like a scrub and a soap without chintzing on either front. I used it this morning and took longer in the shower than usual because I was enjoying this soap. There's a video on the link if you don't believe me. There are some chemically ingredients but, for a commercial soap, this one is good. And it is paraben free, which is nice. I just browsed the Web site and there are about 5 others I would like to try...so here we go on that front. I find myself a much more monogamous soaper lately, and I am not sure how I feel about it.
And on the knitting front, things have been more up and down. This year has been way more of a mixed bag than usual. I told The CEO I even had a moment in which I was so upset I contemplated setting aside the needles. That lasted about a minute.
After I ran out of yarn for The CEO's hiking cape and realized Hobby Lobby didn't have it and this yarn is apparently backordered for eternity, I started a bad a$$ cowl I got the materials for at Vogue Knitting Live back in January. I realized pretty quickly the fabric wasn't exactly right but I kept knitting. And finished and The CEO was kind enough to tell me that I made a GORGEOUS scarf...but it wasn't going to end up what I wanted it to be. Turns out the lovely lady I bought it from, suggested a yarn that is completely inappropriate for the pattern. YARG! So I am going to make it with the right stuff next time, which I hope to find at Maryland Sheep and Wool in May.
I made some other stuff that worked out ok...the sparkle socks are nice, I made a scarf, I did make some super cute boot toppers out of yak
I also made another sweater, this one from an awesome pattern that I proceeded to muck up six ways from next Tuesday. The end product looks ok but I could have done better and I want to make another one...correct without surgery!
I also made a sock for The CEO to wear at the wedding. Trouble is, it is too small! I am hoping, since it is alpaca, it'll loosen up some with blocking. But I may have to frog and start over...and it is on size 0 needles. But I don't mind, as I love the CEO...but what is WRONG with me?
And then my wedding shawl. I started one pattern and realized about halfway through the first section that I didn't understand the second half of the pattern at all. Not even a little. I chalked it up to not having much lace knitting experience so I frogged and picked another pattern (wouldn't you know that when I took it off the needles to frog, it looked exactly right.) And I was happily knitting away on it.
But I had been feeling terrible for awhile. Sniffly and achey and ugh...mostly in the mornings and evenings. But like I was fighting something.
And then, The CEO and I road the train together last week. I took out my shawl and was knitting away. By the time we both got home, we were sniffling in unison. The CEO and I had a discussion and both think perhaps the yarn is the culprit. It would seem we are both 100% allergic to 100% mohair.
Did I mention ARG!
So my gorgeous yarn will most likely have to go to another home. And I will have to find another wedding shawl yarn.
However, I am currently knitting these yellow socks (which I think I am giving to my mom) and they seem ok.
For Now...
NoM
~EK
A quick word on wedding planning for anyone who wants to skip this section...I am (not shockingly) in stasis between totally fine and "run screaming from the room" overwhelmed. Most of the time I feel fine but then, out of nowhere, something will occur to me and I feel like the walls are closing in. Does everyone feel this way? Do you wake up in the middle of the night and have to tell yourself there is NO need to grab pen and paper and jot down the 12 things you remember need doing?
On the soap front, I do have a new product to share. It is Primal Elements Sugar Body Scrub in Flower Child. I got this a few weeks back while The CEO and I were in New Hope, PA exploring. I landed at Soap Opera, which I knew roughly because I got an awesome skull soap from The CEO's mom for Christmas from there. (on a side note, if you live anywhere near New Hope and haven't been, you should go).
But this sugar scrub is without compare. It works like a scrub and a soap without chintzing on either front. I used it this morning and took longer in the shower than usual because I was enjoying this soap. There's a video on the link if you don't believe me. There are some chemically ingredients but, for a commercial soap, this one is good. And it is paraben free, which is nice. I just browsed the Web site and there are about 5 others I would like to try...so here we go on that front. I find myself a much more monogamous soaper lately, and I am not sure how I feel about it.
And on the knitting front, things have been more up and down. This year has been way more of a mixed bag than usual. I told The CEO I even had a moment in which I was so upset I contemplated setting aside the needles. That lasted about a minute.
After I ran out of yarn for The CEO's hiking cape and realized Hobby Lobby didn't have it and this yarn is apparently backordered for eternity, I started a bad a$$ cowl I got the materials for at Vogue Knitting Live back in January. I realized pretty quickly the fabric wasn't exactly right but I kept knitting. And finished and The CEO was kind enough to tell me that I made a GORGEOUS scarf...but it wasn't going to end up what I wanted it to be. Turns out the lovely lady I bought it from, suggested a yarn that is completely inappropriate for the pattern. YARG! So I am going to make it with the right stuff next time, which I hope to find at Maryland Sheep and Wool in May.
I made some other stuff that worked out ok...the sparkle socks are nice, I made a scarf, I did make some super cute boot toppers out of yak
I also made another sweater, this one from an awesome pattern that I proceeded to muck up six ways from next Tuesday. The end product looks ok but I could have done better and I want to make another one...correct without surgery!
I also made a sock for The CEO to wear at the wedding. Trouble is, it is too small! I am hoping, since it is alpaca, it'll loosen up some with blocking. But I may have to frog and start over...and it is on size 0 needles. But I don't mind, as I love the CEO...but what is WRONG with me?
And then my wedding shawl. I started one pattern and realized about halfway through the first section that I didn't understand the second half of the pattern at all. Not even a little. I chalked it up to not having much lace knitting experience so I frogged and picked another pattern (wouldn't you know that when I took it off the needles to frog, it looked exactly right.) And I was happily knitting away on it.
But I had been feeling terrible for awhile. Sniffly and achey and ugh...mostly in the mornings and evenings. But like I was fighting something.
And then, The CEO and I road the train together last week. I took out my shawl and was knitting away. By the time we both got home, we were sniffling in unison. The CEO and I had a discussion and both think perhaps the yarn is the culprit. It would seem we are both 100% allergic to 100% mohair.
Did I mention ARG!
So my gorgeous yarn will most likely have to go to another home. And I will have to find another wedding shawl yarn.
However, I am currently knitting these yellow socks (which I think I am giving to my mom) and they seem ok.
For Now...
NoM
~EK
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