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So on the car ride along the coast I started to work up what I hope will be a shawl, but being a new knitter I am not sure what the hell I am doing! But I am going to try! The yarn on the left is the one I bought from Carolyn about 2 years ago and ripped out of the first attempt, the second is store bought from yesterday.
When I first tried to work up the Carolyn yarn after the first row it started to optain a huge trail behind the stitch, so I had to rip out. I tried about 3 times and then today I used the store bought with the other hand spun and wahla it worked up with no trail! I am so new to knitting I have NO idea why it would do that!
Here is the working of the shawl so far:
Ah, the worlds greatest boyfriend scooped me up and took me to Half Moon Bay for a little lunch on the beach, it was nice and froggie! I loved it! A simple subway lunch and then headed downtown for my fav shop Tolkenz, where of course I bought another dress AND a shorts jump suit! hee hee hee
So two things in my closet have to go! I think I will be taking pics and uploading here for some sales later when I get my act together!
We drove the historic coast highway 1 all the way to Santa Cruz and down Highway 17 to home. It was a nice day, but I am hurting! This back thing is getting on my last nerve! I am in so much pain it is not funny!
What a great day! I got up early,and met the girls at what I call Little Europe, Santana Row, in San Jose! It is like spending a day in Europe and it is fantastic! Although my feet are killing me! Yikes I hurt but boy was it worth it! I LOVE being with these women! I have such a good time! AND this is the first time in a year that we have gotten together that we have NOT done any form of art! This is not a lazy group! But it was fun today even without the art!
They made ME decide where to have lunch there...so I of course picked the French Restaurant! With all things French that I am obsessed with why not! I pretended we were in a little cafe in Paris! I have never had French food and I didn't today either! LOL I had American food with a French flair! The place is the Left Bank and the card says it is Authentic French Brasserie, (however, I don't think they have what I had in FRANCE!)
I tried Watermelon soup! It was cold and DIVINE! I am going to have to try to find out how to make it! It was beautiful! I had a beautiful hamburger with blue cheese, avocado and bacon...with FRYS! (LOL not so French!) and I didn't eat the bun! And we had a beautiful cheese platter for a before the meal nibble! I also had TWO glasses of the most buttery/oak wine! Oh the aroma was good...rather than the French one, I took the California wine, and I am glad I did...LOVED it!
During the LONG wonderful lunch, that I think was at least 2 hours, it was divine, they surprised me with gifts! Yeah! Gifts! Handmade wonderful items! Lucy made me a wonderful altered tin that had a Gypsy hanging mixed media piece!!! A naked Gypsy in the center.
Bev made me a BEAUTIFUL handmade purse!!! I am going to use it for my knitting and to carry my current art projects! Inside the pockets were wonderful treasures, some Tinker Bell items!!!! AND a BEAUTIFUL Gypsy Pin!!! OHMYGAWD it was wonderful!
Now, Beth sweet heart that she is bought me my Garden Mirror and gave it to me way early and I have been enjoying it for MONTHS! It is the best and I so enjoy being in my garden looking at it!
From the front of the French Restaurant if you look up across the street you can see a patio and they have a small table and chairs with an Eiffel tower!!!! Too yummy!
Lucy received her crown yesterday from SLO trip, I have to pay for mine! But here are some photos! They are fun, but I swear that is the SMALL one...lets see if we can tell:
Hum...maybe it is the right size? NO, when you have them side by size they are smaller!
We also did the 3 coins in the fountain thing! We got a few coins and made our wishes and threw them over our shoulders into the fountains hoping the wishes will come true! Such an awesome moment when all your friends do it at the same time!
Lucy showed us what she did with her orphan coat! I have to start mine! Just start! Put some buttons and go from there! It is DIVINE! I love the felt pockets! she also showed us the two signatures she finished for her Gypsy book! I have to start one AFTER I finish Bruces!
Speaking of Bruce, I wore the pin he gave me today! I got many compliments! Waving hello to Bruce since he reads the blog!Tomorrow I will share with you what I bought on the shopping spree! for now I am exhausted and my feet are killing me I am off to bed!
This is what I looked like the last day I was 45 years old!
My son who is SPUN from his marriage dissolving is spinning more and more out of control. Last time I saw him, he told me how he was going to BRAZIL with his cousin. He SOLD everything he owned except his car...
Never mind that it is NOT safe there...Never mind he DOESN'T speak the language or that drivers have killed tourists in taxi's...bla bla bla now this! A mothers heart just can't take it!He was doing SO well...he had really gotten his shit together, I was so proud, not that I am not still proud of him...but man...my heart is just breaking.
SAO PAULO, Brazil - The pilot of an airliner that burst into flames after trying to land on a short, rain-slicked runway apparently tried to take off again, barely clearing rush-hour traffic on a major highway. The death toll rose Wednesday to 189 and could climb higher.
The TAM airlines Airbus-320 flight that originated in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil on Tuesday cleared the airport fence at the end of the runway and the busy highway but slammed into a gas station and a TAM building, causing an inferno.
The 6,362-foot runway at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport has been repeatedly criticized as dangerously short. Two planes slipped off it in rainy weather just a day earlier. Pilots call it the "aircraft carrier" — it's so short and surrounded by heavily populated neighborhoods that they're told to take off again and fly around if they overshoot the first 1,000 feet of runway.
By contrast, New York's LaGuardia Airport has a 7,003-foot runway that accommodates similar planes, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
"What appears to have happened is that he (the pilot) didn't manage to land and he tried to take off again," said Capt. Marcos, a fire department spokesman who would only identify himself by rank and first name in accordance with department guidelines.
From dancing in the morning before work because I just felt silly today, to working out with yoga after work! I am one tired girl and on her way to bed! LOL
Look at my new book! It is a Nightmare catcher! You write all your fears and nightmares in it! LOL
I love that it is orange and has ONE eye!
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