Eating bonbons
It’s finally happened. After 8 years of being a stay at home mom, I’m officially a “housewife”. That is, all the kids are in school full time, so you know I’m sitting at home all day eating bonbons 
Actually, technically I’m job hunting but so far no bites. We have so many cool companies near us that I’m really hoping to find a job at an interesting company within our county. But in between the job hunting and thinking I really should be cleaning and organizing the house, I’ve been goofing off.
In all my rush I forgot to tell you that Jo-Ann had their “coupon commotion” sale last week. I had tons of coupons and was actually stretching to find stuff to buy. Then of course after the sale I remembered I had bought a nice watch face there and should have bought a few more. Last night I took the one I have that has a working mechanism and put a nice seed-beaded band on it.
I also bought a few more crochet hooks and some gifts for IM’s 3rd birthday party, coming up in a few weeks. But my most prized purchase was actually on clearance so I couldn’t get 40% off. It’s a felted bag kit that includes 4 skeins of 100% wool yarn (quite a feat at the house of acrylic, and this yarn actually looks scarily like Karaoke) and all the notions you need to make a felted bag, including a tapestry needle, a knitting needle and a crochet hook - all for $8! I’m tempted to go back and get a couple more. Even $8 for the 4 skeins of yarn is cheap, but add all those notions and it’s a steal! I don’t like felting so I won’t be making the bag in question, but I’ll make something else out of it soon.
Today I felt truly decadent as well - I actually spent the afternoon at the movies! I had planned on going last week but then I was inundated with work so I had to postpone. I went to see “Superbad” which was hilarious! I am a huge Judd Apatow fan and have seen all of his works. I wasn’t impressed with “Knocked Up”, but this one brought me back into the fold because it was just so funny! The only problem was that I was one of 4 people in the theater - another housewife like me and one older couple - and they didn’t laugh that much so I felt weird cracking up like I did! I did feel guilty going without BR (who was at work), but it was so good I would definitely go again, and not to mention his job offers him many opportunities to see movies at work, so I can’t feel too guilty
I’ve been crocheting up a storm as well. I’ve actually lost count how many scarves I’ve started for the Red Scarf Project but I have officially finished one (Red Scarf 2008), the one I mentioned a month ago! I decided to take my almost-finished one (Red Scarf 2008b) and add a 4 1/2 inch edging on both ends so it will end up at 60 inches. It’s not taking too long, I’m almost finished with one end.
I also started a couple of weeks ago with scraps (Red Scarf 2008d) but I got a bit distracted by another scarf idea I had that is knit and crocheted, so I started the prototype (Red Scarf 2008e) last weekend, expecting it would be done then (it’s made out of Lion Brand Homespun, a bulky yarn) but I’m still not quite done. Then when I was going to the movies I decided to start a second copy of that one (Red Scarf 2008f) in double stranded mystery acrylic from my mom’s friend because I could knit seed stitch at the movies but I can’t crochet in the dark. I worked on that one today. And finally, when I thought I was done with my second scarf and it’s Lion Brand Cotton Ease, I started another scarf with the ends (Red Scarf 2008g). I have been enjoying that one the most lately, and am almost halfway done. It will be a 1 inch strip of Lion Brand Cotton Ease, a 3 inch strip of mystery acrylic, and a 1 inch strip of Lion Brand Cotton Ease, crocheted.
lengthwise.
Yes, I am easily distracted. I shudder to think how many WIPs I have right now. I guess that’s why I enjoy WIP it Out so much, it gives me an opportunity to frog some projects I otherwise would just leave lying around.
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Mmmm… bonbons…