Candian Beer Yarn Discount

A book carrying Canadian, eh? Very proud!

I think you should forgo the LYS for your Handmaiden yarn and just buy direct. You need some sort of wholesale discount. Actually a Hosale discount.

No, better yet, you need a Pimp Discount. You get samples from Handmaiden, knit chat it up all over the internet and then sales for that color go way up. As those Guinness Guys would say..."BRILLIANT!"

Look out America...

Dear Holly:

Well, it's official - I am now a book-carrying Canajan!!

And it only took two months! And they didn't even call my references!!

I'm really surprised at that, anyway, given the photo I sent to them:

Remember this? I look as though I had been drinking for a week and hadn't slept. (It was only midnight knitting. Really...).

So, any day now, you might find me pounding on the door of the secret Zombie Prom meetings to be let in:

Hey - you haven't sent me the secret knock yet!!!

If you don't watch it, I may just have to come down and kick your @$$ instead!

See how tough I look with my reconstructed cardigan?!?

Well, I'd better stop procrastinating and get back to work - 2 1/2 business days left to close about a million files, do my dockets, and finish revising a textbook chapter...

Oh, I forgot about that.

Or - well, it's almost 10:30, which means I could always just walk over to Spadina and hop the tram to Lettuce Knit, where I will be seeking Handmaiden Flaxen desperately... it opens at 11:00 a.m.

And then it will be about time for lunch... !!!

Ciao for now,

Kristina

humbuggery and pretty things

Hey Holly: hope all is well on your side of the border. My week is going passably, aside from the mountain of work I must plough through before going on vacation next week (which is why, of course, I'm on here blogging for the first time in days).

The weather is dragging me down. Today, grey grey grey and freezing rain.

So - I'm wearing this with a t-shirt underneath, just so's I can freeze while waiting at the bus stop!!!

Remember this>

Well, I finally had to face up to the fact that short squat greeks were not intended to wear 80" long scarves - the scarf just looked like an ornate whiplash brace on me. So, it has now morphed into this:

Not bad, eh?

The mystery of the custard-filled timbits is as yet unsolved. I stopped at the one handy to work this morning and they had no clue what I was talking about. SIGH.

So, I had to console myself by stroking this:



A Moebius capelet, made with Fleece Artist Grande Godiva. Unfortunately, I look ridiculous as well - so it will be going to my mother with her Christmas package.

Is the Zombie Roadshow ever going to cross the border? I'd settle for meeting up in Windsor at some point, although I really do think you should come to Toronto for a LYS crawl. Start saving your pennies!

Cheers,

Kristina

hoser hats, yarn, more yarn and work.

Hi Holly:

love the hoser hat! The stick on curls are a nice idea. The way my hair turned out this morning, the hat should never fall off my head - the curls are all over the place.

Meanwhile, the coworkers are all saying "gee, I wish I had naturally curly hair like you". Grr.

I must confess that I did not make it out to the Shoe Company on Sunday. Was too demoralised by being splashed by an oncoming vehicle. I did, however, make it to the LYS:



Perfect fodder for a future Tomato, don't you think?

Am almost finished JJs cardigan. If all goes well I will finish the second front piece during the website meeting today.

On Friday am out of the office for an all-day seminar on the law of residential tenancies (sigh). Will be taking this:

to knit the scarf pattern which is attached.

I'm glad you have benefitted from my sharing my housekeeping tips. Just don't tell the Ogre who filled you in. He looks big and scary.

Watched "A Shrek Christmas" last evening, on the topic of ogres. Fairly comical.

Sent off the design idea package to Interweave Knits this morning. Please wish me luck (yeah right, like they're going to publish my design in IK - although they may well publish my chickenscratch sketches for their "How Not To Submit Designs" tutorial). I must announce, however, that Santa Postie was on duty today at the local substation. SIGH. I asked for tracking AND registering and surrendered my precious package to his nicotine-stained hands.

Had best sign off and get some work done. I'm on intake today, which means I just sit here doing work and hoping that the telephone doesn't ring with some wonky social assistance overpayment recalculation question, the answer to which I should know off the top of my head, but of course don't. The colleague I go whimpering and whinging to when this happens is on vacation this week. How very inconvenient of him to take vacation. I should write a strong letter to the all-staff Email list, really.

Cheers and stay warm (the sun is shining up here this morning. That's something, I guess, but it's still %&#*@$(@#*$&(@# snowing. And tonight is Laundry Night in Canada...).

Kristina