Pens, Paper, & Ammo

Wanted for yarn etin’.

Ah, Sergio. I love the little guy - he’s loving, affectionate, and always willing to cuddle up next to me when I’m having a bad day. He does have one major flaw - he’s a yarn junkie. I’ve often heard of knitters having troubles with their feline companions meddling in their animal-fiber yarns, but Sergio is happily willing to chow down on any and all items in string form. I do everything in my power to assure that cat doesn’t meet yarn… but every once in a while he finds things that were put in areas thought to be “cat proof.” Case in point:

Arrrgghhh!

He ate right down to the short rows of the Curly Purly soaker I made a few months ago. I have no idea how he found it. I can probably salvage the soaker, but I’m certainly not happy about it.

Anyway, I also threw together a simple summer salad with tuna today in a vain attempt to counteract all the Oreos that I had eaten over the past two days*.

Refreshing!

Cold Tuna Salad

• 1 can light tuna in water, drained
• 1/4 lb fresh green beans - blanched and cooled
• 1 ear of sweet corn - cooked, cooled, and cut from the ear
• 1/4 small pepper, chopped- any color
• 1/4 small onion, chopped
• juice of 1/2 lemon
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• salt and pepper to taste

Mix all ingredient together in a bowl and eat!

It was nice to have something light and healthy for supper. I’ll definitely make this again sometime. I imagine pretty much any vegetable would be excellent in it.

*It’s often easy to tell when the MH does the grocery shopping…

Only 18 days to go! I don’t have much to write, but here are some pictures!

While we didn’t actually celebrate Father’s Day this year (and we weren’t going to “jinx” it by doing it early), I did give him a small basket filled with “new daddy essentials.”

Caffeinated hot chocolate, baby manual, ear plugs, Aleve, Dove Chocolates, a mug that says “#1 Dad” in binary, gum, rubber ducky, and a onesie.

Yeah, we’re geeks.

The nursery is pretty much done:

It looks much better in person, I swear. The tin-foil is there to teach Sergio (pictured) that the crib is not his personal bed.

…and The Nooblet’s coming-home outfit was finally decided upon and I another pair of booties.

Yes, I know they don’t quite match. I have vowed not to purchase more yarn until next year. I’m sure she won’t mind.

I’m addicted to this pattern. Can you tell?

Made these in a couple of hours - the result was face-meltingly adorable.  Hope you aren’t sick of looking at our balcony…

 
Made with Bernat Softee - definitely not the best yarn in the world.

Pattern here! 

Attempting to do some stash-busting, I made a few more things for the Nooblet.

This was supposed to have bunny ears, but the design on the top is too pretty to cover up.

I’m still not sure why I made this hat. It’s so girly it hurts. There’s also a little flower that goes with it, but I forgot to put it on.

I also finished a pair of mary janes, but I’ll post those tomorrow.  Time to go attempt to sleep.  Wish me luck.

I did this fun little meme I found on Bittersweet instead.  Here are the rules:

The concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker).

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name

 Click on it to see the rules and hover over boxes on Flickr to learn how the pictures pertain to me.