OH PS!

So in conclusion with the soupa doopa blankets and soups me and my fifi has given one of our friends a blanket and soup. If you look below, the blanket with all the bright colors? That was matched with my fifi's soup, which was a roasted red pepper coconut soup. The brightness and zesty flavors of the soup matched the flare of the blanket quite nicely. My friend invited people over and we partook on his soup which was divine! I personally don't like coconut, but this was SOOO good. Everyone held their bowls blowing over it like they were protecting a little child and whispering slight breaths to cool it down as the thick liquid dripped down our throats, creating a warming sensation to fight the negative 8 degree temps of Chicago.

I LOVED THAT SOUP! The next soup (but it's really a stew) that has been requested is Pasole-A Mexican classic and favorite, an American anomaly (people don't know about that red chile sauce and hominy! TO DIE FOR!)

Day 2:

Well day one I'm skipping over. Day one was well...i drank, and i smoked and it was fun, but i was sad. However, I did get a lot done. I cleaned with my fiance and I discussed with him what i wanted to do and he said he is down. He's a cook, so i have that working for me with the eating healthy, and he always making sure that he's taking care of me (plus i get really tired and cooking is not something i want to come home to do...). So i shared my new found passion of wanting to quit smoking and wanting to cut back drinking and we made a pact to one another to do it. Quit smoking at least.

Well day one has come and gone and i have successfully completed one day smoke free. Now I was okay until i came home and took a look at my 9 hrs of a day that was wasted working in an office room and dialing numbers and it made me depressed. 9 hrs when i could be doing something that actually means something to me, however i have to now chant the mantra that each American tells themselves when they're at the job they hate, "At least I have a job." The days of taking your job for granted are now gone as thousands of Americans are loosing their jobs daily. If i lost my job me and my fiance would have to move to North Carolina and live with the fams.

Anywho, I really wanted a cigarette at that time, and Adrian (my fifi) held me and we talked, I talked it out and he supported me. So smoking-one day: check.

Ohh but on the first day me and my fifi did run for 3 miles! So that's good. Baby steps, one day at a time, step by step, just breathhhhh....

a change of pace

So i just added myself to the buy handmade http://www.buyhandmade.org/
website where I pledge to buy homemade and make homemade only. that is hard. but i'm looking at a change of pace. I am trying to move forward into not complaining about how our world is going to hell in a hand basket, instead i am acting. taking a stand in what I can do to make a difference: and this is my first report.
What differences do you want to make you ask? Well, let me tell you:
1. I have made a pledge to buy homemade crafts and make homemade crafts for friends and family for presents and what nots. So yes, that includes sewing clothes and really pumping up the volume on this knitting and crocheting fun.
2. Stop smoking. Why talk about how everything else is going to give me cancer when i can't/won't quit smoking.
3. stop drinking so much (i don't drink a whole lot. I just REALLY love nightcaps!). REally? Is my life all that horrible that i have to fall into the endless routine of drinking when i get home? NO IT ISN'T! i have a wonderful life and i want to live long enough to experience it. Plus i could be doing something better with my time like knitting, or crocheting or creating something!
4. eat right, eat healthy. organic, veggies, no fast food, no processed shit, no processed sugars, KNOWING WHERE MY FUCKING FOOD IS COMING FROM! That's what i want to do! I want to know what i am eating! If i can't recreate it at home then i'm not eating it!
5. Be a craftavist. I am not, can not, be one of the vegan rollin' activist. I say more power to them, but i just can't roll like that. That takes a hell of a lot of will power and i just can't get down like that. For instance, my 2 days of being vegan sent me into a spiral of binge eating off of the carcus of a cow! AND I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT! I'm also not a big hippie or hipster or trendster, or emmo punk lovin tree hugin twenty something who can stand in the cold and protest for x cause. That just not me. Never has been. So I think I found what I can do to make a difference in my own way. I'm going to be a craftavist. Where I am going to recycle everything making it into a colorful work of art, it'll be fun instead of feeling like a chore. I will give my presents to others and they'll ask, "Where did you get this funky purse?"And i'll respond, "I made it out of my grocery bags!" They'll think it's amazing and want to join in the cause and i would have made a change right there. taking things that would otherwise be trash and making something wonderful and beautiful instead.
5. Excercise. I'm going to run. I'm going to do the only thing that i know how to do to get closer to meditation, to get closer to God. Everybody has there thing and this is mine. so chk it.

So here is my declaration. Now, I know myself. I know that I am wavering usually, today i'm gong ho, tomorrow i'm tired and full of excuses. But that's what a chronicle is right? You're here to read the hardships and the steps forward in my success (or failure). Hope you follow along, and only wish me good tidings, I don't need negative energy my way.

PS: it would be really interesting if anyone who reads this can see if they could do the same thing if they're interested. Then we could read each other's chronicles and help one another. K :O)

fun shawl, warm shawl

I made this one for my mommy. she raves on and on about it and says that I should make more for myself because i live in chicago. I suppose i should but i fail to make anything for myself ever. well we'll see.

granny shoulders

Well this looks like a granny caplet but when you take a look at the design and the yarn i think it would be a great addition to a plain camisole or a white shirt, but here you will see my mom with her white sweater, i would think you shouldn't wear it like that, but it can be worn anyway you like it. I made this for my sister and stole it from her for this photo.

hobo scarf

Now this is knitted scarf that has four different strips, with three different colors on one strip, connected by bobble balls. A lot? I know. but it's really cool when you wrap it around your neck as you'll see above. And it is modeled by my lovely mother! :o) Oh, and I made this for my sister. She seems to love it. She wears it everday I hear.

Technicolor dream blanket

This is a blanket I made from the Stitch and Bitch Happy Hooker book. I decided I was going to make a blanket for my best friend who just got married. This blanket is a testament to her personality. I think it's fun. It's also fun because I made it double sided when connecting the squares.