thank yous

Our family along with most of the United States celebrated Thanksgiving Day last Thursday and boy do we have a lot to be thankful for.  Our children are healthy and happy, one has bought her first home, one has just been accepted into Nursing School and the little one is in her first year of Middle School and is still talking to us (lol).  We are still happily married 9 years and counting.  Our families are all doing well and we have been able to see most of them in the last month.

Tempted is thankful for all of those who have been so instrumental in our success.  Dad, Del, Kaye, Wendy, LB, Keri, Jana, Lynne, Lynn, Elabeth, Shelley, Sheri, Tammy, Kate, Lisa, Michelle, Druanna, Karen, Amy, Robyn, Robin, Terrie and so many many more.   We know that we will forget someone but hope you will forgive us and know that  we are extremely grateful for all the support and encouragement so many of you have given us. 

I have been staying busy and can't even talk about some of it yet!  Although it is very cool to get to know something that others have to wait for *insert evil laughter* it is also real real hard.  I want to talk about it and show you all pictures.  Sorry no pics of the Super Secret Project.

I do however have a pic of the yarn that I made from the roving that I showed last post.

  This is a big pic but it's all I got today.  It will be a Noro like long color repeats I will make a nice pair of toe up plain socks with it.  Since I just finished a sweater for the nursing student and now need to knit on the SUPER SECRET PROJECT I won't get to start it for a little while longer.  Also Keri and I have a scarf planned to start around Christmas with the Dk BFL we dyed last month.  OK I am getting tired just thinking about it.  LOL

I have to set this up a little.  Something you probably don't know about me is that I am a HUGE Anne Rice fan.  I have been reading her books since I was in High School.  I love them so much that I have almost every book she has written, in hard back.  

This past Saturday I was very happy to be invited to the home of a fellow knitter and fiber connoisseur, Kate.  We had a wonderful time and I will tell you more later but shortly after I walked in Kate said she had a gift for me.  First I was shocked, we have chatted, talked about our knitting, and she built this wonderful website for me but it was the first time to get to meet her in person.  A gift for ME???  She disappeared for a minute and when she came back she had  this....Merrick....

SIGNED by Anne Rice herself!!!!!!!!  Seriously how cool is that.  I have several signed knitting books and am so proud of my collection and now I have a book by my favorite author SIGNED!!!   I can't tell you how amazing it was to recieve such an incredible gift.  Thank you again Kate.  I have a feeling I have found a great friend in you, amazing what knitting can do.  By the way we also recorded a podcast, Kate and Tammy have a wonderful podcast Knit Together.  This is actually the second time I have been privileged enough to be on this podcast.  We sat and knit for a while and I brought my spinning wheel so everyone took a turn spinning, and they all did very well.  I brought all kinds of fleece to fondle (BFL, Finn, SW Merino, Pygora, Angora, Corridale and something I forgot). I may have been a little zealous in my sharing, I get kinda giddy with the wool fumes.  We had a great time and I made some new knitting friends (soon to be spinning friends) and got to see Tammy again.  Good Times.

I got up Sunday morning feeling a little queasy, not a great way to start the day.  Every morning I get up and check e-mail and Ravelry of course, and this morning I got a message from Rori.  A really great message that made me feel better immediately, she said that a package had been mailed to me on Friday.  Since it had been sent from Tulsa I thought that it might have been delivered on Saturday, we didn't check the mail Saturday so I immediately sent my sweet, dear hubby to the mail box.  I could hardly wait for his return, it really only took a few minutes but I was so excited!!!!   He came back with a manila envelope with this in it!!!!  I am such a lucky girl!!  This is the Ice Queen from the Winter '07 Knitty, and Rori made it just for me.  For those of you who haven't had the opportunity to meet the incomparable Rori, you are really missing out

She is always the life of the party and such an amazingly kind person, no matter what she says she really is a kind woman.  She is generous and giving in so many ways, in fact I know that this isn't the first Ice Queen she has given away.  Rori you are amazing!!  I love the color, it is soooooo me and the beads are beautiful.  Thank you, you made a yucky day much much better.

Seriously I am an incredibly lucky woman to get to do something that I love and have made so many wonderful friends through a common passion.