Year End Report of Goals

I figure with the year winding down. I should see how well i accomplished my goals..
Here are my 2012 goals:.



1. Finish my MBA ( Finally). I will soon start my last class. This goal will be done by June 2012. I have offically finish in August 2012. 



2. Minimize the number of times I tell Jak ( my wonderful awesome husband) things. - still a work in progress



3. Spend more time relaxing ( i.e. Reading for Pleasure, Scrapbooking, knitting and hanging out with friends and family)  - This goals has been achieved.







Here are my crafting goals.



1. Finish and Send to Shar the sweater that I knit for her nephew. It just needs to seams and then i can send it. Target completion date 2/1/12 : As of Novmeber 26, 2012 Still not done. It still could finish it but I think her nephew may not fit it. I am not sure my little boy would fit it.



2, Knit 3 pairs of Sock in 2012. Pair #1 was a carryover from 2011. I started it in Nov 2011
As of November 26, I have knit 4 pairs of socks and two Shawls. I would say that  this is a success!!



3. Start Project Life 2012. To give myself more accountability. I am going to post pictures on this blog.
As of November 26, this is epic fail. I have not one page completed. I do have picture printed. I am need to rethink and figure out how I will finish this album. I have concluded that I do like to scrapbook traditional. I do like mix and matching differnt pages inside an album.



4. One little Word with Ali Edwards. My word is "Balance As of November 26, this is epic fail. I have not one page completed. I haven't watch many of th videos.

2012 Goals

New Year.. New purpose to my blog. I decide to expand the purpose of my blog. I am going to use this blog to document my life.

Rather than new year’s resolution, I decide to give myself new goals.
Here are my 2012 goals:.

1. Finish my MBA ( Finally). I will soon start my last class. This goal will be done by June 2012

2. Minimize the number of times I tell Jak ( my wonderful awesome husband) things.

3. Spend more time relaxing ( i.e. Reading for Pleasure, Scrapbooking, knitting and hanging out with friends and family)



Here are my crafting goals.

1. Finish and Send to Shar the sweater that I knit for her nephew. It just needs to seams and then i can send it. Target completion date 2/1/12

2, Knit 3 pairs of Sock in 2012. Pair #1 was a carryover from 2011. I started it in Nov 2011

3. Start Project Life 2012. To give myself more accountability. I am going to post pictures on this blog.

4. One little Word with Ali Edwards. My word is "Balance".

Vacation Knitting

Each year around July, Jak and I travel to Wisconsin to visit his family. This year it was Oliver's first trip.. Jak's parents own a dairy farm. Trips to the farm for me is a place where I can totally relax.  We travel to WI at least twice year. I also pack books to read and either scrapbooking or knitting project. For this trip, i packed 3 books ( It was a short trip!) and two knitting projects. I have read many blog post from the Yarnharlot where she shows the different places that she has knitted. She inspired me to take this picture of my shawl knit with Fiberstory Sock yarn. I really love the colorway. I call it my SWE Inspired yarn.

On the way to WI and Chicago, I spent most of trip when I wasn't napping. I worked on this shawl. While we were in WI, I worked on my sock yarn blanket. I didn't get as much knitting on the way home.

Knitting Podcast- so addicting

In the last few weeks  I have been getting addicted to video podcast. Most of all the them have involved knitting. They have a basic outline: Part One : Projects (WIP , FO , future Projects) Part Two : Stash enhancement ( new toys purchased or arrived since last post) Part 3 Shout out to the podcast they they watch.

This is a great idea.. As soon as my class get finish this term ( on Monday). I think that I might start doing that.

First Pair of Socks

At the end of January2010 , I decide to take advantage of my break and finally take a class to learn how to knit socks. I started the class on Feb 12, 2010. I had purchases the yarn and my first pair of dpns the previous week.  I arrived and met the other ladies in the class at ... Have you any Wool ? in Berkley, Mi . Overall the project took me about 2 months to complete the pair.  The first pait took my a month. I really don't like the kitchner stitch.

I resigned up for the another month of knitting to complete the second pair of sock. No Second sock syndrome for me. So here is the completed sock modeled by yours truly. Shortly after i finish these sock , I went back to work full time and found out I was expecting a baby.

Shower Invitation - Veronika

My sister in law Veronika's is getting married in April 2010. Below is the Bridal Shower Invitation that I design. Craig and Veronika helped me make the cards over Christmas Holiday .

 This Card was designed using a pattern from Wishes by Jeanette Lynton.  Using the color Smokey Plum and Olive , along with a B& T paper from My Reflections Kit Bella. I was able to create this card.

Flash your Stash 2010

I've been knitting for a little over a year now. I have collected a small collection of yarn.  Since so many fellow members of Ravely were posting their stash. I decided to pull out all my own stash. There are a few items missing from the picture. Approx 2 ball of Plymouth Yarn Bear Hugs , 1 ball of Berrocco Metalic Sox Yarn , and 6 balls of Debbie Bliss Eco Baby. They are in WIP.

This first picture is every thing laid out in the basement. I try to store all the yarn in a Ziploc Bag.



I am trying to organize my yarn into various bins by the type of yarn. Right now I have a total 8 bins of yarn, Some are full and some are half full.

Here is the yarn in the bins.