Potter Wordplay

So I am banging away on a baby blanket for my sister's baby and shhhh it's a secret! So while I work furiously to finish in time she is due in lets count 1, 2 yes 2 days! ARGH! and not to mention I can't knit the hat OR the booties till the baby is born because the sex is yet unknown! Argh! If it's a girl I want to make some of those really cute Maryjane looking booties with some girly buttons, if it's a boy some baby chucks in soft soft yarn, with real laces. A girl will get those too just in purple or something like that because well with 2 boys and how fast baby stuff knits up if she has a girl it's getting all dolled up by Auntie! :)

And on to the Wordplay. As we all know I am signed up with the Hogwarts Sock Swap 3 and over on our blog we are doing a Harry Potter word association game and it's really a lot of fun. Though only signed up members can play and sign ups are closed I thought it fun enough that outsiders might want to pop in for a read. HSS3 pop in and have a read you'll have to start at the bottom and work your way up.

Sorry still no pics dang camera! Don't believe sears when they tell you that if you buy the extended warranty that all you need is your phone number and all is well it's crap! Nikon still wants to charge me 90 bucks to fix the latch that holds the battery in! It's their crappy plastic latch that broke not a lens or anything. 90 bucks! for 200 I can get one that is better than what I have now! If I didn't like my camera so much I'd blow them off but I did pay for an extended warranty so I'm faxing and re faxing and now I'm about to start yelling at people. Oh and you don't want yelling oh no you don't want that. I think I'll let me Aunt loose on them first she is better than I am at getting people what they want.
My husband is an evil genius he plays stupid, asks the same questions over and over again until they pass him on to a manager with a whisper of "I think he's retarded or something." Then he does the same thing to the manager until he ends up with a credit card with a 3.5 percentage rate across the board on all purchase ever made in the history of the card and whatever balance is now on the card. I truly am astonished.
When I first married him and heard him doing this on the phone I thought my god his communication skills are lacking until it kept working and I realized he is a genius! He talks circles around them until they give in and give him whatever it is he wants to get him off the phone.
Maybe he should call Nikon for me.
Later!

Camera Busted!

Well no new knitting photos. I've just sent in my cammera to be fixed. I've been without long enough. So soon I will be able to take pictures of recent projects. Working on the socks for the Hogwarts sock swap after knitting and frogging about 4 different patterns and finding them not stretchy enough. And don't try and knit a size 8 1/2 sock from the book more sensational knitted socks the foot circumfrence for an 8 1/2 shoes just doesn't match up with any guage I could get with my yarn. Bah! It was frustrating indead! So I found the Pembrookshire Pathways socks. A nice lace pattern only a 4 row repeat and very stretchy but it huggs and is springy. The lace pattern doesn't disrupt the integrity of the striping in the yarn. I got my pal some self stripping yarn from cosmicfibers in her Hogwarts house colors. I'm excited!

Other fun news is that I sold my first sock knitting pouch at my etsy shop. It's going to be used for a giveaway on an Ravelry group called Mallabrigo Junkies, and now I'm dieing to get my hands on some Mallabrigo no one here in town carries it, but Jimmy Bean's Wool carries it and well they are fabulous to order from and they are in Reno, Nevada so shipping is fast fast fast! :)

Last summer we stopped for the night in Reno on our trip to the northwestern coast of the US and I knew they were there and I wanted to go the next day but I was dellerious from lack of sleep by the next morning I hadn't slept in almost 50 something hours because the bed was so hard and the baby wouldn't sleep and well my hubby was snorring and it made a very bad night so I just got in the car and my husband drove out of town and I totaly forgot! I want to go back this summer just for the yarn, but my husband has no desire to see Reno again, and really when you live in Vegas and then go to Reno it's like going to the state fair instead of Disneyland.

Well I have only one disk left of The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan to listen to so I'll be hiding over here by the computer listening with the noise canceling headphones and knitting until it's time to feed the monsters because Mommy's espresso hasn't kicked in yet.

Hogwarts Sock Swap 3

Ok first sockwars geeky right? Well now it's Hogwarts Sock Swap 3! Yay! I'm excited. I've been sorted into Gryffindor, but I always am. And they even had you get a Potter name so per a very nicely provided webpage where you enter your name and it gives you your Potter name I am Ophelia Ballycastle. I thought it was cute so I didn't try the other name generator provided. I'm so excited! My son and I are totaly into Harry Potter. We even bought him a huge Harry Potter loft bed with a castle and everything. I'll take pictures.
Part of the swap is to send along a Potter related pattern yarn and needles. And well I've been wanting to make a knitted wand for the big monster because he is horrible with those toy wands he always breaks them! He broke the last one bfore I had time to find the obscure sized batteries it needed to make sounds and light up. I'm thinking of doing it felted because with the felting I could stuff it with bumpy stuff to dry to give it woody texture. But perhaps I'll send along a new sock pattern too. I have an idea for a colorway and pattern to make a sock names for one of the dragons. But we will see how that goes. The boys are trying to destroy my house so I think I'm going to go lock myself in the bathroom for 10 minutes.