Reading has been hard as of late - whenever I sit down to read I fall alseep in about 2 seconds (the last several nights I've fallen asleep with the bedside lamp on, Pandora streaming through the Blu-Ray, my nook on my face, and the cats snuggled under my arm only to wake up when my alarm goes off and wonder what idiot left the TV and light on; I blame the cats for activating the "sleep" neuro-chemicals). I do have two reviews to finish writing but I've been so busy with work and knitting I haven't had much time to write.
Speaking of knitting....
I finished the shawlette for my boss (shhhh.... she doesn't know that it's for her). I have to get it blocked out - challenging because this is a curved piece so I don't have a straight edge to pin out first. Edyie gave me some pointers so we'll see how it goes.
While I was in the yarn shop I was captured by yarn fumes.
Cashmere yarn fumes - they held me ransom until my debit card freed me. Araucania Trauco Cashmere in a beautiful berry colorway. It was on sale, not quite half off, and I can't wait to see what I can make from it.
Then I bought my Christmas present to myself because it
also went on sale. I've been salivating over D-SLR cameras for quite some time. My little Canon point-and-shoot is nice to just take quick pictures/videos but it never quite satisfied for taking really nice shots; nothing came out looking quite like how I saw it. I learned to take pictures using my Dad's 35mm camera with it's lenses and manual aperture/exposure settings so I wanted a more "professional" level camera. I stopped in at Best Buy to see what early holiday deals they had and the Canon EOS Rebel XS/1000D I'd been looking at was ON SALE! Merry Christmas! I already tried it out on the shawlette and cashmere yarn, but I got the cats into the act....
and they weren't quite up to cooperating, choosing instead to come and "love" the camera lens (I felt like I was on Wild Kingdom with the animals ganging up on me). They kept licking their noses when I clicked the shutter:
Dante finally let me take a nice profile picture of him.
Isn't it nice? No "lazar kitteh eyz" in sight. All the pictures are wonderful and I just need to learn about all the bells and whistles on my new baby (I already figured out that if I fiddle with the "White Balance" I can take pictures that are blue - wicked!). I plan on taking TONS of holiday pictures (this is also part of the plan, if I take the pictures then I don't have to be in
any of them, hah).
I wish I could knit.. I think of trying to learn every once in a while, but I never do.
ReplyDelete@iris - It is terribly handy - I was determined to teach myself after coveting a $500 red cashmere scarf about 5 years ago....I bet myself that I could knit a scarf as nice or better than the one I saw. I did - for only $30 in 50/50 wool/llama.
ReplyDeleteAnd I've been going ever since (it's every bit addictive as reading).
Hmmm, you are in Sweden right now and they do have an excellent knitting industry.