i've not been knitting much lately cause i bought my own domain!!!!!!!!!!  so, right now, my head is a whirl with CSS and Index templates and the what not.  i'm really really jazzed about it!  i danced around the apartment for almost 45 minutes when it all went through.  i'll keep you all updated...should be a week or so, depending on how much i feel the need for pesky sleep and what not.  

my 100th post--holy crap.  the 1 year Blogiversary came and went without fanfare, but somehow, the 100th post feels like a huge milestone.  in honor of it, this will be a GIGANTIC post.  yippee!!!!
this weekend involed running around to 3 different LYS.  mmmmm.  G and i finally got to check out Sheep Street Fibers.  It's a lovely shop, and i really wish that my wheel wasn't being a shithead, cause there was soooo many different spinning fibers there!  silk hankies, merino top dyed lovely jewel tones, cashmere, merino/silk blends...oh, it made me dizzy!  i resited temptation, listened to the reasonable voice in my head saying "um...your wheels all janky.  maybe you should just get some yarn..."  and i did that.  i picked up 2 skiens of Nature Spun Worsted in Coffee Bean and Garland for mittens (more on those in a second). 
then, we went to Stitches & Scones.  oh, i love that store.  we picked up one of their bags--and what a great bag it is--zipper pockets, big enough for a sweater in progress--that gives us a 10% discount every time we shop there.  how cool is that?  i also picked up a set of Bryspun DPN's (i love the Bryspun needles and their scoopy little tips) and a pair of 9 mm, 47" long Addis to use with mobius strip things.  i finally broke down and bought a skien of Malabrigo merino.  the colorway i picked at first confused me--it's not really of colors i normally would chose--then i looked at it all wound into a ball and it hit me:  it lookes exactly like autumn leaves!  autumn is my most favorite season, and i'm hard-core gunning for it to get here!  i think the yarn was my plea to mother nature to hurry it up!  i'm planning on making a felted bowl or bag or something with this.  it's really lovely yarn, and i sorta want to buy enough to make a little nest out of...*sigh*
i got some new beadworking tools, and i made up a few stitch markers on Sunday.  i love the subversive set on the bottom--they make me giggle so. 
i really needed a break from Eris, so i decided to make these awsome squirrel & oak mittens from Hello Yarn.  i got some Dale Falk at Mass Ave on Friday, cast on and finished mitten 1 in about 3.5 hours (whoot!) green and chocolate brown (their gonna be "thin minttnes" hahaha).  blocked it out and all that, and CRAP!!!  i don't make mittens, so i'm not terribly firmilar with the sizing and what not.  and, as small as i am, i have freakishly long fingers (i normally can't wear store bought gloves and such cause the fingers are always waaaayyy too short).  these factors combined to make a tiny weeny mitten that doesn't fit me at all!  and it looked so good!  i picked up some worsted weight yarn (above mentioned Nature Spun) and some 3.5 mm DPN's, and i think that that will make a mitten that i'll actually be able to wear.  i'm also going to change the pattern to make the thumb with a gore.
my Lace Swap pal let me know that my package is in the post!  it's coming from Australia!  how cool is that????  i'm super jazzed!

i bought a couple of new pattens this week.  i'm sorta in love with the idea of PDF patterns--it's such instant gratification!  First i picked up Leda's Dream from Melanie at Pink Lemon Twist.  you might remember some previous posts on the Mystery Stole along (Melanie designed that pattern, too).  well, i frogged it, even after i had started it over.  the stole is predominatly stockinette stitch, and i just wasn't loving it.  i may grab up some of the new Gloss yarn from knitpicks to make it at a later date, but right now, i just wanted something really lacey to use the Merino Lace yarn on.  and i think that Leda's Dream fills that bill.
i am totally singing the praises of Bonne Marie over at Chicknits.  i had some problems with the ordering system she has, and she was so freaking helpful.  i love love love her.  she was totally the best and helped me get two patterns that i've been drooling over.  Cece caught my eye right away.  i think that i have finally found the pattern that the infamous Lily yarn has been waiting for--turns out that i wouldn't have had enough to make the v-neck cardi i wrote up...guess that's another thing to add to a future Knitpicks order!  i also got a copy of the Ribby Cardi.  i've been lusting after this one almost as long as i've been knitting.  i've read about it on Lori's blog, and heard nothing but good things about it on the various boards i frequent.  so woot!
i'm participating in the Mysterious and Lacey Swap and i've gotten my package all together to send to my pal.  here's what i'm sending--just wanted some feedback on it.  i always get swap anxiety.  it's just a little scary, and i don't want to dissapoint!

now, a question:  what do you, the comment-leavers (and you lurkers too!  come outta hiding and answer, why don'tcha??) think the best way for me to respond to your comments?  emails?  semaphore?? 

and now, a shout out (tee hee) to Dani.  she helped me suss out the banner problem i was having, and i think she's the bee's knees! 

i've decided that my blog needs a facelift, so that's what with the wierdness.  that, and the fact that it's been about 3 years since i took that web design class.....