Day: March 2, 2009

On Thursday, I bought a hook, on Friday I taught myself how, on Saturday I practiced, and on Sunday I crocheted an adorable, tiny  amigurumi tiger!  According to Wikipedia, amigurumi is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting stuffed dolls. Amigurumi can be as simple as This or This and as complex as This orThis. Simple or Difficult, the end result is always adorable!!! My modest little tiger is not quite finished yet as he doesn’t have any eyes or other facial features, but as soon as he does, I’ll take a picture and post it up!

I got the pattern from this really cool magazine that Dad got for me called Knit.1  It included an easy starting project for knitting lace that I want to do, and of course the 12 amigurumi zodiac animal patterns. 🙂  I am soooo excited about all my crafting! I have a blue and green scarf that’s almost done, 1/4 of a pair of purple fingerless gloves done, 9/10ths of the way done with an embroidered Betty Blonde napkin, a new fruit-themed napkin to embroider, TONS of amigurumi, Betty Blonde (of course) and maybe some knitted lace! Yay!

So on Thursday (maybe Friday) my neighbor friend Jenna came over in the afternoon and went with us to Christian’s guitar lesson.  We went to the Micheal’s that is right next door to the music store where Christian takes lessons, and looked at all the yarn. Jenna and I are crafting buddies now that she has learned to knit.  An added benefit of being her friend: someone gave her a huge box full of embroidery and cross stitch goodies and she is kind enough to share with me. 🙂  After that we all went to the gym. I usually do the ellyptical with mom, but this time Jenna and I walked around the track.  After that we went home and she and Christian and I all dissected the worm. Thankfully Jenna was brave enough to pull the worm out of the dead animal bag.  Unfortunately, all of the animals were placed in one big bag, with nothing separating them. 😛  We had SO much fun dissecting the worm though!!!  I was surprised! I thought I’d be really squeamish (and I was at first), but it was awesome.

We had a two hour snow delay here at work.  They shut down all the government schools and many of the private schools in the area.  It never crossed my mind that we might have a good snow in North Carolina in March.  Amazing.  It rained most of the weekend, too.  We enjoyed that by spending most of the day inside doing crafts and working on the computer.  We bought Kelly a knitting magazine when we went to the Borders while Lorena was shopping at Costco.  She spent most of Saturday crocheting here way through the animals of the Chinese Zodiac.  Hopefully she will write about that and put up some pictures over the next couple of weeks.  On Sunday evening, the kids cleaned up the kitchen and the bonus room for Lorena.  Christian untangled all the rats nest of cables up there.  Now we need to hang them on a peg-board, but we have to get a peg-board first.

When I got onto the computer this morning, I noticed that we were missing all the bookmarks.  I falsely accused Christian of overwriting the bookmarks when he installed Xubuntu on Kelly’s eeePC.  Then, when I got into work, I a message came up when I was using Firefox that said there is a bug in Firefox/Foxmarks that causes the default bookmarks to replace the stored bookmarks.  Sorry about that Christian.  I zapped all the bookmarks, but have them saved on my laptop at home, but have decided our bookmarks are getting to messy anyway, so we are going to start over from scratch.  Xubuntu is an amazing solution for even a minimal eeePC like Kelly’s that has only 2G of RAM.  I hope Christian is going to write about it in Nerdhow.  I liked it so much that I replaced it on the old Linux/Homeschool computer that will now be Lorena’s computer.  The new Dual Boot Ubuntu/Vista (soon to be Windows 7) computer is supposed to get here on Wednesday.