so many projects, so little time...

So thanks to my new nephew, who I would post pictures about although I think my sister would go NO!, I have about made it to my "12 in 2012" quota...  I need to finish the one glove for the pair, and I need to finish the socks...
I MADE HALF A SOCK!  It actually kind of fits too... unlike the last attempt like 4 years ago...  It fits like a slipper sock actually, but hey, better than the other one...  I need to finish the toe and then make the other one... so yea.

Sorry I haven't been posting, its not that I have been busy I just have had other things that needed to get done before posting on blog and I really didn't have anything to talk about besides my adorable and awesome nephew.  My sister apparently took pictures of him in the hat I made him so I am excited to see those.  My boyfriend was holding my nephew tonight and he totally went into baby mode with him, lol.  First he was like, "I may break him... so I don't want to hold him..." then about 5 minutes later was like, "ok... maybe I will..." so to make him feel better I had him hold the baby sitting down (My man is a TALL guy so he was afraid of dropping him...).  He then continued to make faces at baby bear and every sound baby bear made, my boyfriend would make, it was adorable, and Baby Bear was enjoying it... he was so entranced by my boyfriend.

Anyway.  My mother has encouraged him to begin making cute baby booties, So I am looking into this.  My brothers old high school has a craft fair every year and although I believe that i would not sell ANY baby booties at an all boys high school mothers guild or whatever it is craft fair... she seems to think I would... So will start crafting and build up actual stuff for next years craft fair, as I'm pretty sure its the end of October and I do not have enough time to make everything...

Lets see what else.... OH! my sister has a friend who is about to have her THIRD child, with a flower name, just like her two sisters.  I heard this and went, "I feel the need to make the girls all matching flower hats..." and have thus designed matching hats for these three little girls.   We'll see if they actually get made, lol.

Thats all for now.  I am off from work all week this week so I am contemplating beginning those "how to" videos I kept talking about before and TRIED but I didn't like the angles and it was just not working... so yea.  I need a video editing software I think.

Happy Knitting!!
taxikab

I think I can, I think I can....

I CAN knit a pair of socks!!! and will explain this later... lol

I'm sorry it has been so long since I last posted.  I was in the Poconos and my house has no internet or phone... so... unless I wanted to use the Blogger App, I couldn't post anything.  I use the app when I REALLY want to write a post, OR I just want to write, and I had nothing to really write ABOUT so...

I have been Pinterest crazy lately (If you don't follow me already... DO IT!  taxikab87 is the name) and finding the most adorable things for babies (I'm also baby crazy because my sisters baby is coming in less than 2 weeks!  I found this adorable hat

http://www.etsy.com/listing/99583897/ice-cream-sundae-vanilla-hat-newborn

Above is the link to that persons Etsy page.  I really am fascinated by the things people come up with... Kudos Modistebee you have a very adorable baby hat that I am going to try and make myself for my future offspring but will not make it as adorable as you...

This adorable hat was also found on pinterest.  Crocheted but still ADORABLE.  I can't make flowers like those with knitting needles... BUT I WILL TRY!  Or learn more about crocheting... its whatever... My mother has informed me I need to learn to crochet so that I can make all the adorable baby booties we keep finding on Pinterest.  I'm obsessed, its terrible...

ANYWHO!  The Socks.  I have been saying FOREVER that I am going to learn how to make socks!  I have bought books, I have googled, I have tried watching tutorials, and NEVER has I been able to figure it out.  I gave up.  I was on... wait for it... PINTEREST, seriously my obsession is horrible... anyway, I was on Pinterest and I found THIS!

SOCK TUTORIAL OF THE GODS!

This girl is amazing because she explained every detail to the simplest sock, and made it so easy for me... I haven't tried it yet but I am predicting amazing results and the possibility of me FINIALLY knitting my own socks...  I will be happy with making even ONE sock and when I do it, you will all get a picture of a very happy taxikab with a sock she knit herself.  All for now, will try to update more in time to come.  Almost done fingerless glove TWO of my gloves.... and by almost done I mean I started it...  lol.  I had it REALLY started and tried to change the size because the last one was too small, BUT I tried and then the stitches didn't line up for the cables... so... yea.  We'll see how it goes.  All for now.

Happy Knitting!

Taxikab

showers and cupcakes and bears, OH MY!

So I know it has been a bit since I last updated and I am truly sorry about that to all of you who actually read this on occasion...  Recently had my big sisters baby shower where she received a large amount of stuff.  She was thrilled and very grateful and we made her a ridiculous Shower Hat.  For some reason everyone kept asking, "are you going to make her a big bow?" and I continued to ask, "what bow are you people all talking about?" but no one would answer me!   So I finally asked a waitress if she had a paper plate of some kind and she came back with a take away container lid, lol.

My mother and I made cupcakes as favors for the shower.  As my mother describes it and to be specific... my mother MADE the cupcakes (the icing, the cupcake itself, etc) and I DECORATED the cupcakes.

and they were given out in these very cute little boxes that my aunt made.  My Dad helped my mom and me put them into the boxes the morning of the shower...

My mother showed me how to use the piping bags (not hard...no offense to bakers out there) and then she allowed me to play with extra icing she had, thus how we got little booties on some and flowers on others.  My mother piped all the flowers and I piped the booties and there's like 3 cupcakes with bears on them, lol.  My mother made the icing then went, "here, put that on all the cupcakes" lol as well as she made the cake part of the cupcakes themselves.  Such a talented mommy.  Now I can add "cupcake decorator" to my list of things I can do but am not an expert at! lol

I finished the christening blanket.  Here it is below.

When everything is done I am going to get the patterns written out for all of these.  Basically it was just a bunch of cables to make this blanket.

 This is how I wrapped my sisters stuff from me.  The blankets in there and then there's an outfit with a little hat with bears on it, the bib set has bears on it, and then the hat I made.  I made a point to tell her that there was nothing from Vera Bradley in the box when she opened it.  But it was very fitting for me to re-use an orange Vera Bradley gift box to give my big sister her gift.

Finally, because my sister is not a chocolate cake fan, and the cakes at her shower were chocolate cake... and cheesecake... my mom and I made her a Diaper Cake.

My mother refuses to take credit for any of this cake BUT SHE DID HELP.  I can not make bows to save my life... and so she made that big ol' boy in the very front.  I made the ones on the side and we just stuck ribbon and stuff around it.  I can't bake but I can apparently make diaper cakes with my mom!

So that's the update.  Sorry it took so long, been crazy busy.

HAPPY KNITTING

taxikab

theres a post coming...

I SWEAR!   I haven't been posting because I've been SO busy getting the blanket for my sister done, and then helping my mother with stuff for the shower...  I took TONS of pictures (well not tons...) of the stuff for the shower tonight and will post on Sunday because my big sister can not see any of it before tomorrow!   So excited for her.  Picture post on Sunday!

Yarn and Sand do not mix...

I went to the beach yesterday.  For the first time in FOREVER I did not

A. get horribly badly sunburned (this is a HUGE accomplishment for me...).  This is mainly because I barely was out from the shade of my little purple and pink beach umbrella... and i reapplied my sunscreen like the doctors tell you to.  Dylan was worried I would get sunburned on my ears ears as they were getting really red when we were swimming.

B. I did not hit ANY traffic driving to the beach...  I go to the Jersey Shore, from Philly, and it was a Saturday, and I APPARENTLY went on two major traffic roads and hit no traffic...   I'm kind of bragging here... lol.  Dylan and me were crazy fascinated by this because we have NEVER been fortunate enough to experience the lovely pleasure of driving down the shore, in daylight, in NO traffic.    It was crazy... to us anyway, some of you may be reading this going, "um... that's normal here..."  My dad even said that he heard on the radio there was almost no traffic going down the shore any other way too.  This is me, shocked.

OH! we also! Did NOT pay to park.  We ended up having the walk REALLY far up the boardwalk to get to civilization, BUT we didn't have to pay to park... and no one got mad at us for parking there...

SO! I told Dylan, "I'm blogging about this tomorrow..."  the whole fascination of traffic.  I had intended on bringing the Christening Blanket for my nephew with me to work on in the car, because Dylan was driving, BUT just like my beach cover... (which I was not happy at myself for this one...) I left it on my bed while putting things in the bag.  I told Dylan, "I'm gonna forget something, I just know it..." and I DID.

We met my Aunt and Uncle down there, they have this beautiful house with the beach literally across the street, there's just a row of houses on the other side of the street.  But we just crossed the street, walked up the path and there's the beach!  It was awesome.  I taught Dylan how to body board and how to use a boogie board.  I think he's too tall for boogie boards... I told him we're just going to have to buy him a long one.  The beach wasn't crowded, but apparently the number of people on the beach was crowded for that beach... who knew.

Surprisingly the water wasn't FREEZING.  It was at first, but then I got some guts and just dove in and after that it was like, "oh... this is warm..." WE COULD FEEL OUR FEET unlike other times where I've come out freezing and its like 90 degrees outside and I'm wrapped in a towel shivering...

Can't go to the Jersey Shore without getting Johnson's Popcorn.  And they'll refill your tub for you too

So I didn't get the knit on the way home, but Dylan and I went pregnant lady watching on the boardwalk after we saw about 4 of them in a row... and weren't even half way down the boardwalk.  Its CRAZY  Everyone I know is pregnant!  And majority of those pregnant people are due about the same time as my big sister... its nuts.

Went to Church today, I had to be slightly disrespectful and whip my phone out for this picture... 

it was the verses for the responsorial psalm at church.  I went, "God knits too... nice"  It also made the "WIP" pregnancy shirt on Ravelry seem even more awesome than it was before.

Should be working...

...But I'm not I'm on etsy and blogging lol.
Found these earrings and had to share because I'm an orange fan

http://www.etsy.com/listing/102379405/wedding-jewelryswarovski-baroque-yellow

I can't so a picture because the blog app doesn't let you do link photos. But they're PRETTY. I've posted them at the bottom because you also can't move stuff around on the blog app...


I hope everyone is enjoying the new layout. As I said in an orange fan so the new one is just more me... The black and purple was cool but I like his better.

happy knitting!
Taxikab

Earrings:

Happy Fathers Day!

Happy Fathers Day to all the Daddy's out there!  Rather than wake up and begin knitting, I helped my Daddy with the garden in the front yard.  What did you do?

Speaking of Fathers, for brother in law, who's soon to be a father himself, I show you a picture of Baby Bears Christening blanket.  Cables that intertwine.  I tried to take a decent picture but it was difficult.  I gave you one yesterday of it though.  Yes I am aware that there is less footage on this picture than the one yesterday, I took this picture a bit ago and had to go out and couldn't finish the post, so I'm using it now, because it was a pain to get the picture, lol

My mom keeps reminding me this baby is coming and the baby shower is soon and I need to knit faster, lol. She's even gotten into the habit of sewing only when I'm knitting, and if she's sewing I should be sitting in the room as well knitting, lol.  HOWEVER if she doesn't like what I have put onto the television, she goes in the other room an sews... and watches a different station... thanks mom...
             


Fixed the ears on baby bears hat!  The one is kind of square... but looks better in my eyes than the
pointy ears looked, lol.

There was a general consensus at work that this hat is more adorable than before, so yay!

So I have another post where I show you things that aren't "knit" but I find interesting...

I personally am not a big floral print person... BUT! I love giant sewn flowers and knit flowers, and love them as headbands, however, I work in a place where we need to be not so flashy with my head bands... so I make them and put them on my clients at work, and everyone ooo's and ahh's at how adorable the headbands are.  I'm satisfied with that.  My clients need to look adorable too!

Anyway!  So I'm always looking for crafty things for making flowers and such.  Heres one I found and was like, "LOVE IT!"

http://news.holidash.com//2010/04/23/mothers-day-corsage/

The website says that its a "Mothers Day Corsage" thus the babies picture on the back.  My mom would need one picture of all of us... or just her grandchildren (when Baby bear gets here!).

I truly am fascinated by the things people can come up with.  I mean seriously, how creative are some people that they can make all this stuff!   I think I'll quote my mother on this one 

"It's just how your mind works" - My Mommy

I tried explaining cables to her yesterday and how simple they are once you do them a few times, and its really just putting some stitches on a needle to hold, knitting the next ones not being held, and then knitting the ones being held.  She told me that's too complicated, and when I said it was easy she said it was just how my mind worked, that I can see that as simple and figure it out, where as she can't, and other people can't.  Frankly I think if you work hard and put your mind to it, you can do almost anything.  I've been knitting 7 years, so if I can't do cables by NOW I never will.   Now if I could only learn how to make socks!

Happy Knitting!

taxikab