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February 14, 2005

Ta Da!

Well, I had quite a productive weekend.  The karate tournament went surprisingly well - I ended up second in the kata competition and I won the sparring!  Surprise, surprise.  I have bruises all over my body, but it was fun.

I finished the cami and am quite pleased with it.  I found a little mistake, but it was after I had washed it and I'm not ripping it out to fix it - hopefully no one will notice!  Here's a picture - disregard the ugly towel, it's still drying. So, I'm checking that off my list.  I also finished the super skinny scarf.  What a quick knit.  I didn't really feel like I spent that much time on it yesterday because I ended up reading my lovely romance novel and doing some errands (more on that later), but still finished it at about 10:00 last night.  The colors are darker than I wanted, but I couldn't find the pastels so I went with the purple, electric blue, and hot pink (although the colors don't come through in the photos).  I hope the recipient likes it.  I'm thinking that I need to make one for myself.  Hmmm, another project?  Now on to the pink and green fun scarf.  I'm thinking of doing it in a narrow version too.  Maybe not quite as skinny as this one (it's only 2 inches wide), but I'm liking the skinny rather than the wide version.  I'm going to play around with the yarn at lunch.  I'll let you know what I figure out.  I hope my legwarmer yarn comes this week (they sent me an e-mail telling me they shipped it on Friday) because I'm going to be ready to start by this weekend.  At this rate I might just get them finished while it is still cold and I need them.  Here's hopin'.

So, I had to go buy a Valentine's card for my hubby and a couple of cards for a baby shower and Ash's wedding shower.  So, the outdoor store is on the same block as the Hallmark.  Can you see where this is going?  I've been wanting a down jacket for awhile - I actually asked for one for Christmas, but didn't get one.  Anyway, I've looked on line and haven't found one that I absolutely loved, but I've been looking.  I went in yesterday and they had two that I really liked.  My plan was to look and find out what I like, look around and find out when this store was going to have a sale - comparison shop.  The guy in the store says that the down just went off sale, but he'd give me either jacket at the sale price.  I'm such a sucker I tell ya.  The Patagonia jacket was a great color and the arms were really long - sold.  I have absolutely no will power.  The justification to myself is that I really do need the jacket and I got it at a good price (I probably could have done better elsewhere on the exact same jacket, but I really try to buy things locally if possible - and when I have a yarn store I hope other people will shop with me rather than online whenever possible).  So, now I need a really great scarf to wear with my really pretty iris colored jacket (the good news is that this morning in a quick search I can't find it cheaper than what I paid - actually everywhere has been quite a bit more.  I'm feeling better and better!)

Have a great day!