a good mail day!

I got home from work today and found all of this waiting on our porch:


Yay! Berroco Suede in Hopalong Cassidy & Wild Bill for the Suede Booties I'm making for a friend who is expecting. Thanks so much to Ravelry users ewe-mexico and somebunnyslove for giving these up as this kind of yarn is not available at my LYS.

and a mini Easter Basket from my parents including a Dunkin Donuts Gift Card :-D

Now if only my Fitted Knits book from half.com would come... The order was confirmed on March 1 but half.com provided a window of March 11-21 for the book to arrive (to NJ... from Michigan). The seller hasn't responded to two separate emails over the last two weeks... I'm guessing I'll be filing a claim when it doesn't come in tomorrow's mail :-(

Time to enjoy my 4 day weekend!

a very random post.

Here are some fun pictures from this weekend.

Molly helping my husband on the laptop:

Husband made Peanut Butter cookies while I went to the store to get ingredients for these grasshopper cupcakes so I could bring something "green" to work tomorrow for our St. Patrick's Day party.
Our hat rack came this week and we hung it up this weekend, and tested it out with some hats and Molly's fleece jacket.
I found some clothes to donate, here's a favorite (wool) Old Navy sweater of mine... I love the color... but it accidentally went in the dryer a couple weeks ago. We put it on Molly and took lots of pictures. Turns out our arms are about the same length.

Just wanted an excuse to post some pictures. I guess I should include something knitting related! I've been working on the Eyelet Skirt by Kat Coyle from Knitty. I won't be making it quite as flouncy as the picture though, will be doing fewer increases in the eyelet section at the bottom. And here's a picture of where I'm at right now: the first three repeats of the eyelet pattern:

Too many knitting needles

Too many knitting needles
Originally uploaded by anicebag

I also wanted to add that I finally took inventory of all my knitting needles - mine and those that were my grandma/great grandma's... I have a lot. I had a handy little wallet-sized card from Kaleidescope Yarns in VT to keep track of my needles but I can't seem to find it. so I cleaned out all the old broken ones, and really heavy old metal ones (presumably from my great grandma?), and put them all on Ravelry so I can keep track.

Here's a picture of some of them...

Rusted Root finished

Rusted Root finished
Originally uploaded by anicebag

Thanks to a gross rainy Saturday this weekend I was able to finish my Rusted Root top! I started it Monday March 3rd... I'm pretty happy with it! I'm trying to decide if I made it a little too long - I think I will decide after I wash it. I also hope the sleeves get a little less puffy after washing... I thought they were too puffy on me, but it looks ok in the picture.