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Travel-less Adventures

You ever have those weekends that are full of unexpected adventures, good times and great finds where you don’t even leave town?

We had one of those.

Saturday we went to an Italian Festival being held nearby.

We saw the most massive rice crispy treats

They are almost the size of her head!

Children stomping grapes to make into wine

young ones helping old ones

And far too many men in far too many tights twirling and throwing flags

straight from Italy. Seriously, couldn't speak English

Sunday we attended a farmer’s market and art bazaar where I met Lexis of Lexisworks and Shay picked up an adorable necklace from BarberryandLace.

Later that afternoon, after many chores had been done, laundry cleaned and the house not looking like a *total* wreck we decided we needed an adventure.  We grabbed our cameras, picked a direction (right vs. left) and found ourselves in an industrial part of town with graffiti skulls looking to start a fight.

I was trying to protect my roomie but first had to put my game face on

Preparing for Battle

We battled fiercely

On guard!

But in the end, his comrade came out of nowhere and took me out.

A kick to the face left me in disgrace

Sadly, Shay then had to run for her life from the monstrous green man (too many veggies in his childhood perhaps?  Nah.  Couldn’t be.)

The Green Veggie Giant on 'roids

Wandering on, we found some trains.  “Lay on the tracks” she tells me.  Pft.  Sure.  That doesn’t sound precarious now does it?

Trains are seriously huge

“Wouldn’t it be funny if one of the trains started moving with you on it?” She says.

Ignore the "broken" arm...

Don’t jinx things like that miss, as soon as I jumped off this train, away it rolled and the windmill blades were taken closer to their destination.  We, luckily, stayed behind.

Moving to a more colorful part of town, we stumbled upon more than we expected when a car show just so happened to be taking place in the parking lot behind.  Let me twll you, *that* was an experience.  So many hydrolics and shiny things, child-sized bikes that were decked out to the max and staged with Chuckie dolls that no one could ever possibly want to ride, old old old cars and did I mention shiny?

Blindingly shiny at some angles

I hope your weekend was just as adventurous as ours!  Can’t wait to see what the next one holds  :)

Children’s Knitting Classes

Fall is a pretty typical back-to-school time and knitting classes aren’t excluded!  I will be teaching children’s knitting classes at The Recycled Lamb in Lakewood, CO onThursday afternoons throughout the month of September and I’d love to teach your munchkin how to begin this addictive and therapeutic past-time/hobby/sport*.

Be sure to sign up soon! Classes begin next week!!

I hope this develops into more classes being taught and lots of new fiber-y friends and yarn-y connections :)

*sure knitting can be a sport, its called speed knitting, haven’t you heard?

4th of July Weekend Roadtrip

I went on a little road-trip this weekend with two of my roommates and our three dogs, kind of played it by ear and decided some things on a whim and of course it was a blast!

We started off driving to Colorado Springs Friday night, met some friends, had a beer, slept for, oh, an hour, woke up at 3 am on Saturday and drove to surprise my mama in Pagosa Springs.

sunrise saturday

Successful surprise-session then driving through Silverton to get to Ouray where we camped Saturday night.

silverton, co

Sunday we woke up late (8am is late when you’re camping), enjoyed a leisurely morning and did a small hike before driving back to Lakewood.

ouray, co

Of course, knitting came with me on the trip and I did get a substantial amount done.

traveling stitches

You can see here my Malabrigo lace project for which the border was finished and the body stitches picked up.  In the background you can see the sweater project (and the knee bruise is one of many from Garden of the Gods last weekend).

What did you do for the holiday?

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

As many of you know, I graduated this past weekend from New Mexico Tech.  It’s been a crazy busy few weeks, especially the past few days.  Family in town (in state, rather, not in mytown) on Friday, Commencement Saturday, move 600 miles on Sunday and an interview later today.

fueling up on the way from new mexico to colorado

As such, I haven’t had much knitting time, but I do have a few projects in the works, and I hope to be able to do a proper WIP post tomorrow so I won’t say much about them, but I wanted to let you all know that I’m alive!

And now I’ll leave you with some shots from the weekend:

mardi gras citron

roses are red, and pink, and white, and yellow, and...

wine out of a tiki head :)

colors of the southwest