Tifffany's Ramblings

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Red Scarf Project



My scarves are all packed up and ready to be shipped. I had several premade, but here are a few I made specially for the drive.

First up, altho this scarf might look pink it's because I had to shoot it in low light to get the texture and then macro retouch it. It's based off the irish hiking scarf, but I switched one of the cables and made it a bit smaller. I doubled up on the yarn and used a larger needle, and voila:

Next is what you get when you have 2 balls of woolease and a crochet hook:

I realize this isn't red, but they said any gender neutral colors will do. So armed with some homespun I had in stash and leftover... I made this:

Finally, a crocheted scarf I worked up with some orange yarn. It's kind of close to red:

That's all for now. Hopefully I'll have a new pair of completed socks soon!

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

I love CNN! No, really, I do! You might think that's me being sarcastic, but I don't have a sarcastic bone in my body! OK obviously my body is built of nothing but sarcasm and cake... but CNN really is fun. Today they had up a nifty article on desk accessories. They listed some really fun stuff BUT (and I have a big one) they only link to the main site not to the specific product. AND no pics... go figure. But you can still click here to see their list of best office doodads.

In other news, here are a few pics of my trip to Disney with my honeybunny this past New Year's. No pics on New Year's Eve cause the place was packed and a camera person was ne'er to be found. We spent it at the Magic Kingdom tho... and when midnight hit we were surrounded by fireworks. Way cool (and warm)

New Year's Day was spent at MGM:



We had a blast there and got gifted in their "year of a million dreams" campaign. FUN! And the New York area was BEAUTIFUL at night with all the lights up. Unfortunately it was raining so they couldn't "dance". We saw the Indiana Jones show, the Lights, Motor Action, stunt show, and the nifty nighttime light show (in the rain, of course). We did as much as we could here but still ran out of time. I loved this park!

The next day we went to Animal Kingdom and posed in front of the Tree of Life:



and with Mickey:



and Goofy:



It was a pretty fun park... but there was a downside. The Finding Nemo musical wasn't quite up to snuff. It was well done I guess... but way too kidsy. The puppets were neat, but the people holding them were super visible and THEIR MOUTHS MOVED. Just not what I was expecting. We also saw the Bug's Life show which was fun, but smelled. Those bugs are frisky. In fact, all of the 3D shows were a good time.

After Animal Kingdom, we headed to downtown disney and Pleasure Island. I don't have any digital pics of this, but it was SUPER FUN. We loved the Adventurer's Club and went back the next night as well (cause after you pay $23 for a pass you can add 5 more days for just $5. Too bad we found this out our 2nd to last night).

Last full day was spent at Epcot:



This was alright... but probably the least fun of the parks. We were too tired to really walk around the country part, but what we saw was fun. I got cookies in Norway and we rode the ride there. We also got lucky with gifted Fast Passes for the Mission Space, and real ones for the Test Track. I had a super huge headache and thought I might have to pass on th Test Track, but luckily it was gone by the time we were due to go on it.

The last day, we had a few hours to spend so we went back to the Magic Kingdom. This time we scored pics in front of the castle:



We had just enough time to ride its a small world for the 3rd(! not my choice) time and the Teacups for the 2nd (looove em). And for me to have my 2nd breakfast, lunch, and ice cream. So like 3 hours ;)

In knitting news, I've done a couple pairs of socks and some scarves for the Red Scarf project. Pics of those if I can force myself to take em. Knit on!