Baking, Knitting, and other "Domestic" Activities

When I was a much younger person my step-mom used to jokingly call me "her domestic diva" or "her little housewife." I think she may still be convinced that of her five children, I'm going to be the first to have kids. That isn't all that likely since her two oldest sons are five or six years older than I am. I also have been thinking about what I want in my life and having a family has really moved down the list in the past few years. I want to enjoy my life before I "settle down." Not that doing that means you can't enjoy life... for some reason I feel like I'm digging myself into a hole... Anyway the entire point of that little story was... well, ok, there wasn't really a point, it just has to do with me spending the past week knitting and cleaning, and then having a riveting Friday night of baking banana bread. Needless to say, I don't have much of a life right now.

Oh and unfortunately, I had a small casualty due to flour inhalation while baking tonight. Ok, I'm probably the only person that finds that funny.

A Late Night Knitting Fiasco

Well, tonight I couldn't sleep so I decided to try and pick up my knitting projects. I haven't touched either of them since last spring, before I moved back to Bend, so I wasn't exactly sure on the patterns that I was following. I started with an orange scarf that I originally started as a birthday present for my brother. I'm not sure he'll actually like it and since his birthday is past it might end up as his Christmas present, I'm not sure. Anyway, that one went fine, I followed my pattern and got a bit done and back into the swing of knitting. After that I went to my other scarf. The one up above. Somehow... I'm not really sure how... but somehow, I completely messed it up. I'm so annoyed, I think I've started at least five projects with this yarn (which I love) but keep getting unhappy or, in this case, messing up royally and ending up tearing all my work out. I'm thinking that on this next try I'm going to use a larger set of needles and maybe even try this stitch, though I do like this one (aka the one I just messed up).

On a completely unrelated note, this is my 100th post, which seems pretty crazy to me. Thanks to everyone that reads this and puts up with my random rambles.

Street wanderings

So tonight I decided to go look at some books at Powell's.
Some research...

Probably my favorite section in the entire store... knitting!

Speaking of knitting, I found this little piece of graffiti knitting right outside of Powell's! I was excited because I plan on doing something similar, but much larger scale (hopefully a tree) in the future.

And, finally, I am in love with the windows at Anthropologie. I can not get enough of them, ever.