ok, so it’s nothing big, but i did blog at least once for every day of november.    i really will try to keep it to three posts a week-ish, from here forward…

i finished another gift knit:

and that momentum takes me into the remaining 6 Christmas knitting projects (one is started, already).  let’s see if i can swing it.    there’s a little bit of other craftiness involved in the gifting plans, we’ll see how it all comes together…

as november comes to an end…  and not far behind the year 2009…  i wonder how it all goes by so quickly!

on a much lesser scale, i can’t believe the holiday weekend is already over and i’m back at work, tomorrow.  can you believe tuesday is DECEMBER 1ST?!?!

i got a little more holiday shopping done, today, as well as finishing a Christmas knit:

i also moved forward on another that had been dormant for a couple weeks:

there’s so much more to do…  but i’m feeling like i’m at least progressing. 

enjoyed plenty more family time, today, too.  that’s what the holidays are really about, right?!?  and got my hands on a new holiday music album.  sugarland’s green & gold.  also got sister hazel’s merry little Christmas as my cell ringtone for the next month.  hehehe  holiday spirit…  i haz it.

p.s.  i heart knitting.  seriously.

today’s successes were of the purchasing variety…

i worked the shop and not only did we beat last year’s sales for the day, i contributed by falling victim to classic elite’s inca marl at 50% off…

i also got to have a fun dinner with some fam, got a little holiday shopping in at barnes & noble, and reclaimed my yellow bulky ribs and ruffles scarf from the gap, where i left it two weeks ago (hehehe  wooops), added a couple things to my amazon wish list, shared it with fam, and have spent the rest of the evening here working on gift knitting.  nice way to spend a saturday, if i do say so, myself!

so the mittens i’m working on are done but for one more thumb!

and while i was at a couple gatherings today i couldn’t knit on anything gifty that i had going, so i worked on these socks…

that’s handspun that jackie made me two years ago.  they’re finally in the home stretch.  i’ve wound off what i probably overestimated to be cuff & bind off and will work until one of the two balls that i split it into runs out.  the joy of two at a time, toe up…

and finner friday, of course.  he thinks the holidays wear him out…

i almost panicked just now thinking “i have to post to my blog!” but then i remembered i did a mug shot thursday post, this morning.

just for fun, here’s a non-mug shot, as well… mom busted out the waterford, as well as the china and the silver.

thankful for coffee!

Originally uploaded by noppstar

happy thanksgiving mug shot thursday! bonus finner face!

- looking forward to mashed potatoes.

- glad she only has to travel two blocks, tomorrow.

- going to combat a few of the plethora of calories ingested tomorrow by takin’ a walk with her momma in the morning.

- happy to have a four day weekend.

- laughing at finnigan and his silly antics.

- probably missing your face.

- pretty pleased that nothing gets her so geeked up that she needs to be anywhere at 3 or 4 or 5 am on friday morning.

- considering stalking a couple online sales, though. 

- hoping she really takes advantage of the downtime she should have this weekend.

- excited to work at the yarn shop saturday.

- feeling thankful for so very much in her life.

- wishing she hadn’t eaten so much at dinner.

- thinking she should go to bed soon.

- trying to get all the flight of the conchords songs out of her head.  otherwise her family will hear her made up thanksgiving renditions all day tomorrow…  dark turkey, white turkey…

- loving the cutie cute necklace she got at the diy trunk show last weekend in chicago.

- needing to post this in the next 12 minutes.

- almost done with another Christmas gift knit!

- wanting everyone she loves and adores to travel safe and enjoy the holiday weekend.

- just remembering her momma got two of her fave sam adams beers for tomorrow.  how quickly i forget, i pre-indulged while i was over there earlier tonight, dusting.

- apparently full of random tidbits, tonight.

- done with the status updates…  for now. 

hand turkeys are fun
masterpieces, even for
vegetarians

(look becca – even you can play!!  )

heeeeeeee!  here is the flock of hand turkeys that has responded to my turkey call…

please take a sec to check out missy’s response.  truthfully, she’d started her project before i requested response, but it’s fitting and soooooo stinkin’ cute!!

cary got literal.

kristy did a bit of a hand turkey self-portrait

jen’s brain is on flying home to her sweetie as soon as possible after she rocks her second big test in two days, tonight!!

our true artist meghan got literary on us

cary’s little guy outdid us all with some real autumn coloring!

ali’s looks like he’s at attention, to me!  ready to run as far from the thanksgiving table as he can!!

and becca’s also looks like she wants to survive the holiday season.  a turkey in sheep’s clothing!  hee!

it’s getting to the end of the month and my brain is getting pretty foggy in terms of blog fodder.  i get all these brilliant ideas while i’m away from the computer and if i don’t write them down they get all tangled in the rest of the silly thoughts i have throughout the day and by the time i make it to the blog, i’m at a loss.  just 7 more posts, though for the blog-a-day marathon that is november!

i barely knit a stitch, today. and only on things i can’t blog about, so i have no photos of that.

i was going to take a pic of the glass of wine i had with dinner, but it was too dark to get a good shot with my phone.  the point being that i was carded for wine for the second time in less than a week.  that always lifts a girl’s spirits. 

oooh, here’s a picture!!  i showed my buddy mitchell (he’s 4) how to do a hand turkey, today.  he seemed terribly impressed.  i think you should all do one and post it to flickr and put the link here or email it to me.  here’s mitchell’s.  i traced and added the lovely features, he just supplied the hand.

it could use a little color.  and his fingers all do separate more than that, but i was using a sharpie and i didn’t want to get any on his fingers, so i was over careful and that’s why the turkey looks like he might need counseling for his fused feathers.  so show me your festive fingers.  you know you want to.

so the project i picked up yarn and needles for at loopy, friday night, was on and back off the needles in less than 24 hours.

it’s the foliage hat from fall 2007 knitty in malabrigo worsted, colorway is brisa.  hoping the recipient will like it, i’m certain it will look adorable on her.  stinkin’ cute, even.

now home from chicago after a wonderful weekend, just hangin’ with the girls.  it was a quick and safe and smooth ride both ways and mary was great road company, navigator, dj.    kristy and the weens proved to be the hostesses with the mostestest!

pretty worn out by whatever bug stole my voice and has me stuffed up and coughin’, so an early night is in store.