Did I tell you I gave up caffeine? I did. No more coffee for me, unless it's decaf. It's a rather heartbreaking tale-- I LOVE my coffee. The whole routine, getting so much accomplished in the morning on my caffeine-high, that little perk in the afternoon after a nice nonfat latte... BUT my obsession with coffee was not so healthy, especially with the whole trying to conceive thing, so I've given it up. It's been almost two weeks, and I still miss it. Once upon a time, I drank at least a half a pot of coffee a day, so I was an addict, for sure. A few months ago, I switched to mostly half-caff, but a few weeks before deciding to go cold-turkey, I was indulging in almost daily grande nonfat lattes. I'm not getting the headaches anymore, since it has been almost two whole weeks, but Jason has noticed I'm a wee bit crankier. I told him to go take his delicious cup of caffeine elsewhere and shut up. Ok I didn't say that, but I may have been thinking it. I've already decided-- once I have my little ones, I'll definitely be drinking the delicious cuppa again.
Anyway, in knitting news, I've nearly completed my One Skein project for my pal. It's a Sophie bag waiting to be felted, but I want to do some sort of embellishment on it-- perhaps I'll try my hand at needle felting. I'm still uncertain. I do have another month to decide though.
I also made a recent stash enhancement. It's handpaintedyarn's delicious wool:
I really just can't get enough of their yarn. I'm also eyeing the hemp yarn at elann and their cotton/acrylic blend they just put up-- I'm thinking it would be similar to cotton ease, which of course I love!
And I'm still plugging away on my cardigan. Getting close to the bottom, and then I can start the sleeves.
I'm seeing so many awesome, beautiful, loverly Green Gables lately, that I'm really tempted to buy the pattern and cast on, but I want to finish my cardi first.
I'm also coveting Ms.Marigold like the ones here and here and many other places...
Or maybe Ballerina from Magknits... or something from Wrap Style... or a new pair of socks... oh the knitting bug has hit again! Yippee for that.
I signed up for another swap this week,
Oh and a special note to secret pals, I failed to mention it, but I'm obsessed with garden gnomes :)