Hey everyone!  I got my domain up and running and I'm moving perminently to www.knitstressinc.net so go ahead and update you links!

I bought the flight and hotel tickets for our Honeymoon.  This is where were are we will be staying for seven days.  Pretty neat huh?  We're leaving Sept 14th and coming back the 21st.  OH!  I can't wait!

Here are some of the places we're going to go:
Osaka Castle (and there's two other temples as well)
Aquarium Kaiukan (Multiple Story Aquarium Tanks)
Minami (Shopping Shopping Eatting Shopping)
Umeda Sky Building  (With it's Floating Garden)
Peace Osaka (WWII Memorial)

Just to name a few!!  *Jumping with excitement!

TTYL!
Foxy

The following is a burlbe that has nothing to do with knitting but me getting over that fact that I'm a freak.  It's not necessary to read (it's mostly so I can get this out of my system), scroll down to the *** to skip it, but read on if you want.  ^_^

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I am such a freak when it come to what other people think of me.  Sometimes I over do it and get upset over something little.  When I look back on it, I think it is unnecessary for me to get upset or over analyze everything that was said.  Really- if someone doesn't like something about me, it doesn't change how I feel about myself.  Sometimes I forget this and have to remind myself that it's ok that not everyone can like me.  In return, this makes me appreciate my friends and family more, knowing they like/love me despite my freakishness.  ^^  Each person has qualities that they possess (their own freakishness) that mesh better with some people than others.  I guess that's something that makes everyone unique: our choice of how much unconventionality (good and bad) we want in our lives.  Some people can handle more than others.  When I think of it that way, everyone is a freak, so what do I care what a freak thinks of me right?  :P  Hehe.  Ahh, so much better.

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ALRIGHT!  On to other things.  Last night, I taught my little sister how to sew.  We started making little booty boxer shorts.  They are so cute!  I really enjoyed spending one on one time with her, teaching her something new, and making something together.  She's not a fashion nut, but she does have her own really cool style about her; and I thought that being as unique as she is, she would enjoy making her own clothes.  She caught on quick so I know she's going to make some cute things once she starts.

I really need to get my butt in gear about pictures.  Lol.  There just doesn't seem to be enough time in the day for me right now.  We're going to DF's parents house tonight for dinner/crafts/games so I'm going to try my hardest to get pictures of all my stuff!  I'll do my best to get that done!  I've been completly enthralled with these projects I'm currently working on- almost to an obsessive degree.  You know how that goes right?  >D  Hehe.  Those projects are:

Not a Shrug (with shorter sleeves since it's summer time)
"Heart" knitted/sewn shirt
Booty boxers (for my little sis)

I'm actually at work right now, and I need to get back to it.  Have a great day everyone!

*waves*

Foxy

A couple of years ago I had another blog and I made friends with this really crafty lady, Dot, who was an AWESOME crocheter.  Slowly I stopped using that blog and moved to myspace, and lost contact with her.  While blog hopping just now I found her again!  She is a really neat lady with a passion for crocheting you can see in her patterns.  Some of my favorites are:  Pony Tail Hat, Butterfly Beauty, Sarah's Shells, Lacy Legwarmers, and Sunburst Scarf (which is on her main page right now).  I definatly recommend checking out her blog and her patterns.

*waves and big hellos to Dot*
FoxyLady

Sorry for not posting pictures like I said I would.  My DF took pics of me wearing the finished projects, but I don't think they looked flattering on me (we were in a hurry when we took them).  So maybe sometime here, I'll fix myself up and we'll take better pictures of them.  ^^

I finished another sewn/knitted top.  It turned out too small so I'm going to give it to a friend.  All the new projects I want to start, I don't have the needles for.  *Time to go shopping!*    DF's sister is having a baby and she wants me to make bonnets and matching booties for the baby.  And I need all these random sized circular needles...  ><  Oh well, the bonnets and booties will turn out so cute!!

On the wedding front:  we changed out plans about the wedding.  We're not going to have one.  Instead, we're going to go down to the court house and sign the papers, then we're going to take all the money that would have gone into the wedding and go to Japan for a week.  0.o  Yep.  7 days and 6 nights.  <3  We're planning on going to stay in Osaka.  We're told there's a 12 story Anime store there.  OH!  And the hotel (the New Otani) is really close to the shopping district.  I CAN'T WAIT!

That's all for now!

*loves*
Foxylady

I had a full post and was ready to post it but I typed ctrl+r and refreshed the page and lost the post.  >.>

So let me summarize my post:

Today was Cool Desert Nights which is an annual car show at the stripmall that I work at.  A lot of the shops have sidewalk sales and I was the lucky gal who was chosen to brave the 90+ degree weather all day.  My brib was that I would be able to knit all day, so I figure it's a fair trade off.

This week has proved to be pretty productive for me.  My sister got her present, (which was a felted laptop case), I finished the ruffled bra top, I started and finished a sewn and knitted halter top, and I started putting bias or binding around a blanket.

I took a white and purple pokadot button-up shirt that was too big, and sized it down to fit me, cut the top half of it off and sewed on rick-rack and knitted on a halter top.  Surprisingly it acutally turned out.  This is what I worked on today while outside at the sidewalk sale.  It was sewed it up a couple nights ago, and I spent today knitting the halter onto the shirt.  The length isn't exactly what I was originally thinking- I wanted it a bit longer, but I'm happy with the results.  I'm thinking about starting another one tonight.   This one is going to be a shade of baby pink with a twist top.  It has potential!

Well that's all for now.  I'll try to get pictures up soon of all my finished projects.

See ya!

Foxy

LOL, it's true!  I've spent the past two hours checking out patterns for tanks and baby bonnets.  My soon to be SIL is having a baby soon and she wants me to make her a bazillion bonnets.  Unfortunatly I didn't find any bonnet patterns, but I DID find this cute halter.  I think she'll like it.  I printed that one out and a bunch of other cute tops:

Armwarmers - not a tank i know but it's cute

Lucciola - i liked the tech on this one, not so much the pattern itself

Alluring Halter - pretty

Cedar - nice twists

Razor Cami - I LOVE THIS!!!

Halter - super cute!

there are a few more but i'll post those later... time to get off of work.

laters!

FL

Good and bad news.  Bad- I have the ruffled bra top almost finished and it looks like crap.  I don't have enough yarn to make the long ruffles, but I thought short ones would flatter this yarn anyways.  Well it looks bad and it drapes all wrong.  Sometime soon I'm going to frog it so I can use the yarn sometime because I really like this yarn.  Good news, I bought the orange Lion Brand Microspun yarn (the exact yarn the pattern calls for) and I LOVE IT!  This yarn is so fun to knit and it knits up incredibly, and it's going to look amazing!  I started it last night and I've got a good chunk of it done already.  *yay*

That's all for today.  I'm at work so I need to be short.

*waves*
Foxy

I went and bought a new copy of the latest Knit.1 magazine.  I'm SO excited to be able to finish the 'ruffled bra top'!  A lot of fun stuff has been happening lately, I finished blocking the 'shaped tank' from the same Knit.1(a picture will follow shortly I hope).  I sent in a submission to Debbie Stoller for her new book, she'll be making the announcement of who she selected in a week!  *crossesfingers*  We went and took our "Save the Date" pictures which look AWESOME.

Okay, time to get back to work!

*waves*

Foxylady

My Knit.1 magazine is giggling to itself while saying those words to me from the black hole it's hid itself in.  The magazine has completly eluded me at my attempts of finding it.  I'm thinking the Knitting Goddess got bored and decided to take my magazine for company for a while.  It's total and complete sadness.  I can't complete my projects now.  Hmm... I guess this gives me time to focus on other things!  ^-^