west palm! (and yarn!)

hand-made stitch markers!  in my favorite colors, too!

on sunday sarah's friend marce (who is awesome!) came over to knit and sarah hauled out her stash for us to ogle.  yikes, she has a lot of yarn!  and of course, i came home with some of it.
this is destined to be a charity sweater for a kid (a girl, i hope!)  who needs a sweater.  i need sarah to tell me what the name of the thing is again, but i think it was knit for kids.  since it's almost spring now, and i am a very slow knitter, this will probably wait until later to be cast-on.  the yarn highlight of the trip was this stuff:
we hit sarah's lys, great balls of yarn, the one she designs for a lot, and i went in search of the perfect yarn for this p idea that has been flitting about in my head for a while, and when i touched this stuff, i knew it was perfect.  it's silk and bamboo and feels unbelievably soft.  i came close to making complete strangers fondle it, it's so amazing.  just touching it makes me happy.  seriously, it's good.  by the way, it came in hanks, my seester wound it into those neat little center pull balls by hand.  in about five minutes.  she is in tune with yarn, ladies and gentlemen.  so i got it just in time to take it to sarah's knit night, the first knitting group i've ever been to.  it was so fun!  lots of knitting and laughing and passing around of the buttery soft yarn.  i may have to look into a local knitting group.  or, better yet, convert all of my friends to knitters and have them all over to my house once a week.  that would be awesome!  any volunteers?= )

so after my loverly weekend of rest and knitting, and not having to cook or clean or put anyone to bed, i headed home to finally be back with my husband who i missed so much it was terrible. (we haven't been apart for this long - 5 days - since we got married.)  my loverly in-laws fetched me from the airport and took me and the bubby (who stayed with them for the weekend except for the sfternoon he spent with his marmee) home where we promptly fell asleep, him because he's four and always naps, and me because i didn't sleep much since i seriously can't sleep without my man to snuggle with.  we woke up just in time for jonjon to get home with...
more surprises for me!  seriously, i've just had christmas again folks.  we live in a highrise apartment building with no outdoor space and i have a thing for grass, so he brought me grass:

i can't wait for it to grow!  i'm going to try really really hard to not kill it.  i have issues with plants.  and now, the thing that is going to make all other knitting wives jealous.  that's right, ladies, he brought me....

more yarn!

isn't it cute!  i lurve the take-out packaging.  and inside: everything i need to make a cute little felted zipper wallet with tiny sushis, or one big sushi, or fun stripes.  i think i'll make the tiny sushis.  these will likely agree with me better than my other sushi experience, which was horrible.  i'll post pics when i get going on it, it's going to be sooooo fun!  thank you, my wonderful man!

so now i'll leave you with my fabulous seester and her great hubby who made my weekend so special:
and a cautionary photo, what happens when you pack your son's surprise at the bottom of the bag and then tell him you have a surprise before you unpack:
= )