Coloradiversary

May 16th.  Exactly one year ago I packed up my car, my dog and my yarn and trekked north about 600 miles and haven’t looked back.

what’s not to love?

I’ve had so many adventures

cute mountain towns everywhere

Met so many great people

Festivals and Events Everywhere

and moved so far forward in my life

4 different, distinct seasons

I love it here

You Are My Sunshine

This yarn came in the mail the other week and, really, isn’t it gorgeous?  The story behind the color is that with a sad ending and as a result a percentage of the sales of this particular limited edition colorway went to families who have lost a baby.

You Are My Sunshine by Three Irish Girls

I’m happy to have supported such a cause and now all that’s left is designing a project suited for such special yarn.

so much depth

The yarn is from Three Irish Girls and it’s my first experience with them but the communication was pleasant, the yarn is gorgeous and the merino/nylon content should hold well against wear.

Musical Monday: Kiss Me Like You Mean It

Happy Monday!  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend filled with adventures, I certainly try to every weekend.  It makes Monday more bearable when you live up the weekends, don’t you think?

Kiss Me Like You Mean It by Amy Kuney

Secrets

Ok Jena, you motivated me (you may wanna go read hers too, it might make more sense of mine hehe).  Today I’ll share some of my secrets – the things that I’m not comfortable sharing with the world, with total strangers and with my readers in an effort to push the bloggy world into a “real” world where people make mistakes and have confidence issues, where not everything is the perfect picture we all feel comfortable sharing when things go right and the less than perfect picture we keep to ourselves the rest (or majority of) the time. So, my secrets, my fears, my less-than-perfects:

• I compare myself – even though I’m the world’s hugest promoter of owning yourself and never comparing, I do it too.  I compare myself to other bloggers, other designers, other knitters.  As is the result with most comparisons, I always come out on the bottom when I do this – my pictures aren’t as good, my knitting isn’t as interesting to look at, I don’t have as many readers.  Fuck jealousy.
• I’m impatient – I know what I want, I know where I want to be and I want to be there right freaking now damnit!  I want to make a career out of my knitting and designing and I want to be working for myself right now and not have this day job where I’m somebody else’s minion.  I should just be enjoying the ride (and I am, really, I just want it to be fast enough to need one of those full-body-harness-seatbelts) Fuck impatience.
• I don’t think I’m good enough – I critique my own designs, that could have been cooler, I should have added that, why didn’t I change this?  Why can’t I just leave it alone and love the project the way it is? Fuck doubt.
• I’m afraid of my readers – yes I love you guys and I truly do want you here, but  I’m afraid that you won’t like me, that you don’t think I’m interesting or cool.  I want you to think I’m cool, I think you’re cool and I just wanna fit in. This is probably one of my biggest secret fears fo’ reals, without you guys I’d be talking to myself online and in my kitchen.  Fuck worrying about what other people think.

Whew.  So now it’s written….and hitting publish may be difficult but it’ll be done…I think.  I think it’d be cool if ya’ll participated – we may get a bit closer knowing that we’re all going through the same things, thoughts and complexes…or maybe it’s just me out here all alone….

Musical Monday: Robots in Love

Welcome back!  I hope you all had a great weekend and are ready to start off the week

Today I’m sharing a song that’s been on repeat around these parts, the song sounds upbeat, the lyrics are kind of sad but clever, all in all, it’s a good piece of music,

Robots in Love by Beautiful Small Machines

New Artwork

My momma was in town yesterday so I took a hiatus from blogging, but I wanted to come show you my new art-y additions to our craft room!

three pretty pictures

I took all of these photos myself and figured, what better way to decorate and inspire?  I love the colors, the energy and the memories that come with these photos

cake porn

flowers

skein porn

How do you prefer to decorate?

WIP Wednesday: Yellow is Always in Season

I’ve not got much to say about this right  now, but I do think its pretty and the alpaca/silk blend is pretty to my hands too

you are my sunshine, my only sunshine

Skip on over to Tami’s blog to share your own and read more WIPs!