a checklist of things to do...

okay, really only one thing is "need to do" which is this week's Defense Against the Dark Arts homework. I really want to do well this weeks seeing as I've become a bit of a nervous klutz around a certain professor...luckily I have the chocolate from my kit to keep me calm, will probably sneak a few bites in when the Professor's not looking.

other things..
finally finished Time Traveler's Wife...I cried, though I can't decide if I loved the book or want to slap a few of the characters...
Now onto reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman cause I noticed that I've been reading far too many Regency era books even for my obsessive love of them.

think I figured out the problem with my dream swatch head scarf(after reading other people's posts about it)I'm a tight knitting...like really tight.I'm always short on guge no matter what I do and this wrapping around the needle needs to be really loose, and my wraps just refuse to let go of the needle and when they do I let too much go and lose all the loops.
Will try again, and continue to try and find some kind of tutorial that will get me out of my "tigh knitting conundrum"

the PERFECT most AWESOMEST CentyB!!

So while I was sitting on my bed, struggling through my zillionth time re-casting on for the dream swatch head scarf, a lovely owl came tapping on my window!
What sis he have you may ask? Just the most amazing package that cheered me up and will continue to put a smile on my face for weeks to come!!
Picture time!!

Don't worry, I gave him some tasty cupcakes before sending him home!
The note that came with it

Everything laid out...

Silly me,I took a picture of the one package on the wrong side...this is what it said

This is gonna gets a lot of play time at the next Quidditch match! It's currently hanging in my dorm.

But what was in those wrapped packages?

Well...more pretty yarn! that's what! And the cutest sock pattern!(which I realize now is impossible to see in the picture)

And the other one? more wrapped gifts?!? And look at the cloth!


tapsetry needles, a measuring tape that looks like a sheep(CUTE!) jelly beans(LOVE!) and chocolate to combat boggarts!(EXTRA LOVE!)

One more pic accompanied by a happy dance? OKAY!

There's so much awesome, I had to lay it out on the floor and take a pic standing on my bed!

So in case you couldn't tell, CentyB is officially the coolest person at Hogwarts!

off to a "meh" start

So I cast on for the Dream Swatch earlier today and I remembered why I put this project on hold the first time I tried to make it...

"Row 6 (WS): *Slip 6 stitches with yarn in front
dropping all extra wraps, thus forming 6 long
stitches on the right-hand needle. Then, insert the
left-hand needle into the first 3 of these 6 stitches
and pass them over the second 3. Return all
stitches to the left-hand needle and purl the 6
stitches in the crossed order, the second 3 first,
and the original 3 next. Repeat from * on each
group of 6 stitches."



I've re-cast on several times(btw, I'm making it half as wide cause I have a small head) and each time I mess this part(the most important part) up.
yeah...it seems so simple, which is why I'm kinda frustrated that mine isn't coming out right. So if anyone can tell what I'm doing wrong,or knows another way to get the same results,please let me know.

Procrastipuff!!

so the KAL is starting tomorrow and like the procrastipuff I am(I just made up a new word,procrastinating hufflepuff! yeah, that will never catch on) but I can't decide between not two but five yarns to choose from! What?How is that possible? Well, I really love the feel of bamboo yarn and kinda collect it without actually having anything to use it for so it just sits around in my stash being pretty and touchable. Though two of the yarns I think are cotton and something else blend...
I know, no labels? yeah, i kinda paw my yarn and the label gets in the way sometimes and I always forget to stick it in the yarn so I know what it is, but they're all light weight and bamboo, except the two on the left, those are cotton.

I was thinking yellow(Puff pride and all) but green is my favorite color(it's not as dark as the picture looks, though I have nothing to wear to match it when I finish it) the one on the far right is actually a lot more turioise than it looks and I don't really have much blue in my wardrobe but I really love how those feel(except maybe the one on the far left...it's kinda an odd color combo..blue..ok..purple..goes with blue..green? why's that there?)
I'm gonna narrow it down within the next few hours,I promise...

p.s.OMG! does anyone watch Doctor Who? Please say yes,I've been in freak out CAPS LOCK mode ever since, well yesterday,GAH! this show is why I missed the common room chat yesterday...okay, sorry, gotta choose a yarn!

Now to find where all the owls went to...

I haven't had much of a chance to post because I've been finishing up on my spoilee's package! yay!
Hopefully I can get to a post office within the next few days seeing as most of the owls here are off delivering other people's packages.

Now to focus on revisions...oh wait I forgot,I joined the Hufflepuff KAL
yet another reason to push those schoolbooks aside...

Hufflepuff House Quiz #5

This week's house quiz is in Transfiguration. Transfigure the following quote from Order of the Phoenix back into English and post it to your blog by noon (est) on Tuesday, July 1st.

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'You know what?' Ron murmured, looking over at the bar with enthusiasm. 'We could order anything we liked in here. I bet that bloke would sell us anything, he wouldn't care. I've always wanted to try firewhisky -'

Oh Ron...this is why I love him...

excitement and a stuffy nose

So Hufflepuff won the second Quidditch match! Or did we? I hear there's talk of a second snitch release...is it like when Cedric wanted to replay the match cause Harry passed out from the Dementors? It is a separate match?
Sorry, I'm really slow today cause i have a lot of swap stuff to finish and I woke up with a sore throat and a stuffed nose. Where did it come from? It's not like I go out a lot, or play in the rain, or kiss boys with head colds(or any for that matter).

And now I have to figure out some instructions for making a journal...it's for another swap I have no idea how I got added to, but I'm in it and my partner's a guy so I'm at a complete failure over what to get him...it's one of those swaps where the only theme is books, and I have to get him "themed yarn" I'm worried my package for him will be too subjective to really understand the theme I'm going with...I chose "dream-world's since he likes Neil Gaiman, Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire and wants to read Alice in Wonderland. I got yarn that kinda reminds me of Mirror Mask, and found a sock pattern to go with the yarn called Magic Mirror socks, I made a vine bookmark, bought him Where's Neil Gaiman When You Need Him? CD and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and I wanted to make a journal with a quote from either A Midsummer Night's Dream(one of his favorites) or Sandman, but I've never attempted paper crafts.

But the good news is that my package for my spoilee for this swap is nearly done! I'm almost done with the bag, found a really awesome pattern and a few extra little things that I really hope she likes. Just waiting on the yarn to get here.

Maybe Madame Pomfrey has something I can take cause DayQuil is not working at all! I need to get better before Friday cause I'm planning a secret excursion off the castle grounds to see a former student and teacher perform at a library...