Blankie #2

I decided to crochet another blankie, this time a pint sized one for Baby L who is technically a toddler now. This one is normal kid blankie size. I am using some Bernat Baby Coordinates Sweet Stripes. It is the pink and purple striping one and it is really soft. This is one of the skeins that I got for Christmas from my mom this year. I started it on Sunday and I have around 16 rows so far. I think it is going fairly well. I am using the Brittany H hook that I bought on a yarn crawl with my Mom in NC. I am hooked on Brittany, excuse the pun there. I like the warmth of it and the smoothness. I would say it's a tie with my Addi hooks, both kinds are close in price and not available at Wal-Mart.

I had a great time at genealogy class on Saturday. I plan on going to the once a month meetings because they are in the evenings and they don't conflict with my night class. I also read Paula Deen's autobiography, It Ain't All About the Cookin' and I absolutely loved it. I can hear her voice narrating the story. It has recipes too for those of you that like to cook and don't just read the recipes like me.

Sunday, my sister and i made a trip to Owasso because target had Sharpie Accent highlighters (2 skinny + 1 mini) $2 for a dollar and if that wasn't enough, they had 24 packs of colored Sharpies for $10. $10 usually buys a couple of Sharpies, so this was a sale to squeal for. I use colored Sharpies a lot in my art journal. They also had five star one subject notebooks for $1.50 which is almost half price. I also found the new issue of Interweave Knitting-- the felt issue. It is pretty cool. I don't felt much, but I find the process to be fascinating.

So I am one of the few people that didn't read Harry Potter this weekend. My sister and I made a mutual choice to lock it up in the trunk of her car until we were done with our summer school finals. My sis is done tomorrow and I will be done on Friday hopefully. The more I thought about it, since it is unlikely that there will be another anytime soon, it doesn't make much sense to speed through this one.

J's birthday is this weekend, so I am mailing him his birthday cd. It makes him happy and I just love to make mix cds, that is what it really boils down to.

I got my partner for the Mac Appreciation swap on Craftster. I think it will be fun. I think I will bust out some embroidery on this one.

Oh, the Dave Matthews Band tickets for my birthday blow-out in Dallas arrived yesterday. My sister and I had a moment of silence/drool to bask in the moment. Then I put them up on my bookshelf for safe keeping, so they would not get lost in my sister's piles of crap. Sunshine is going with us, so I know this is going to be a shitload of fun.