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Owls seem to be a big trend currently. I get on etsy and I see owl EVERYTHING. The cutest fabrics are owls. The neatest jewelry is owls. and the most adorable knitted items are owls.

I’m adding my own owl touch.
Sleepy Owl Pillow

Mini Owl

Right now I’m using just regular fiber stuffing. But I want to find something better to use for stuffing the owl pillow. To make it more pillow like. But Skyler loves the owls. I guess that’s really all that matters.

The Monster Chunk King…

and his monster chunk minions..

for August Break….

Finally, after about a million fucking years, I’m going back to school. I’m kicking myself for doing it so late in the game. I’m kicking myself for taking so many years off. And I’m kicking myself because while every application I have to turn in, every piece of vital information they need from me is turned in, I might not get the financial aid I need to be able to cover the costs of school. Because, in my normal procrastination ways, I waited to send in for my transcripts. And they took a lot longer than what I expected. I filled out the FAFSA & the admission application about a month & a half ago. But I procrastinated on getting the transcripts to them. Because they don’t do anything with the financial aid applications until they have transcripts. So now I have 1 week to pay for the classes I’m taking. 1 week of praying & hoping that I get awarded SOMETHING. 1 week of trying to figure out if that’s enough time to get a student loan.

-sigh-

And if I don’t get the money by August 12th, I’m going to have to drop the classes and try again Spring Semester. And maybe then I can make sure I have everything turned in on time and get registered for classes before they are full. (I managed to get 4 out of the 5/6 I intended on taking).

And for my August Break…. even though I posted a mouthful…

I am taking an August Break….
Okay, here’s the plan for the August break: you simply share one photo (or more!) per day on your blog – Monday to Friday, or every day. Or whenever you want. Using any camera – DSLR, compact, Polaroid, Holga, iPhone (my choice), Instax, 35mm, video – with or without words – anything goes – for the whole of August. No pressure – just looking at August through your camera lens as a way to be more present this summer. And to have a little break from the pressures and expectations of regular blogging.

Because I haven’t regularly blogged since June. (probably before that.)
Because I miss blogging so much.
Because I feel pressured to blog. Only to come here and not know what to say.
Because this is the perfect challenge inspiration to get back into blogging.

I decided that I needed to update my ravelry stash and project photos. So while taking photos of the yarn, Skyler decided to jump in and get in on the action.

I love my sweet booger butt.

Saturday, we spent a few hours at the zoo with some wonderful friends.

And I got over my fear of fingering weight yarn and took the plunge to knit a shawl.

I’ve more than doubled my progress since taking this photo this morning.

And today we spent a few hours outside, in the blistering heat & scorching sun. Splashing and swimming in the pool.

what a wonderful weekend it was.

I’m not much of a hat person, but I fell in love with the Star Crossed Slouchy Beret that I found on ravelry. I wanted to practice with dyeing yarn, so I bought some bare yarn from Knitpicks, some dyes and did some research. After coming to the conclusion that it can’t be as hard as it sounds, I dyed up my first skein of yarn. unfortunately I don’t have a photo of it And then I dyed up more yarn and more yarn and more yarn.
This has to be my favorite. While I’m still perfecting the coloring and how to get the pretty pooling, I’m having fun.

And this is the Star Crossed Slouchy Beret. Knit up with my first skein of hand dyed yarn. And I LOVE the finished hat. While I would prefer it in a solid color, I think the variegated coloring works. I love how it turned out.

Now I’m doing a scarf with the two skeins of yarn that I dyed up the other weekend. Same colors, it’s going to be just as pretty!

For a week they were reporting a big snow blizzard to hit Tennessee. First it started as 2-4 inches. Then 4-6 inches. I think eventually it got along the lines of people swearing it was going to be huge. The biggest snow storm since 2003! For the record, there are parts of Tennessee that got 3/4 of an inch of snow in 2009. Most likely the same amount the past few years. It doesn’t snow. And when it might flurry, it barely sticks. And whatever does stick, sticks to the road where it melts and then freezes overnight. We get ice. Damn ice…

Anyways, so we actually got about an inch of snow this past Thursday. They were warning everyone that it was going to start around midnight Thursday morning. It started snowing 10am where I live. They had started calling off school Wednesday night and I found out that the kiddos daycare was closed Thursday morning. So he stayed home with Grandpa. And when I got home from work, he went to play in the snow.

And he loved playing in the barely an inch of snow. It wasn’t the right kind of snow to make snowballs with. So instead he just picked up handfuls and flung them at me.


But he did have fun. Until he was completely covered from head to toe in snow, frozen and exhausted. At that time I announced that it was time for hot chocolate and a snack.

Yeah…. he was ready to go inside. But being cold, frozen and tired didn’t stop him from talking about how he played in the snow. Now if we could just get one big snowstorm so he can REALLY play in the snow and build a snowman and throw snowballs. The puny one inch of snow that we got that day would be just a thing of the past.

My days have been filled with this

and this

and this

.

Of course work and sleep and eating are added into the equation, but I don’t have a photo to represent those.

I feel like there is something missing…