2012 Fantabulous Things: 1-50

The first sets are alphabetised, because I've stored them that way as I've collected them. They won't always be.

1) A Very Potter Musical

If you're a Harry Potter fan and you haven't already seen this, you must go to Youtube immediately and look at it.

2) American Horror Story

An interesting show that appeared this year.

3) Anita Blake novels

They're actually Laurell K. Hamilton novels about Anita Blake, but you know what I mean.

4) Being a Hogwarts student on Ravelry

5) Big Bang Theory

The TV show, not the event. Although I'm pretty sure the event was fantabulous too.

6) Bill Bailey



7) Blue Man Group

8) Bones

The TV show.

9) Buffy the Vampire Slayer

10) Captain Jack Harkness



11) Captain Jack Sparrow



12) Castle

The TV show with the amazing Nathan Fillion in.

13) Cayden

A very, VERY good friend who's been there for me when other "friends" haven't.

14) Chocolate caramel cookies

I was referring to the ones I made with Rolos and Pecans in a month or so ago. They were gooooood. Must make some more.

15) Christmas

16) Christmas trees

17) Clothes fresh out of the dryer in the winter

18) Cookies in general

19) Dancing in the rain

20) David Tennant



21) Desperate Housewives

22) Discworld



23) Dr Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog

24) Dr Who



25) (A Town Called) Eureka

26) Family Guy

27) Felt!



28) Finishing a project

29) Firefly

Why did they cancel it? Wwwwhhhyyyy???

30) Fresh clean pages of a new notebook

31) Fringe

32) Futurama

33) Generous strangers

34) Glee

35) Going on trips

36) Google

37) Grey's Anatomy

38) Harry Potter Fanfiction

39) Helena Bonham Carter



40) House



41) Jeffery Deaver books

42) Jennie

My likkle middle sister - aka Little Squish

43) Jensen Ackles



44) JK Rowling

45) Johnny Depp



46) Kitten cuddles

47) Kittens and toys

48) Kittens' faces when they singe their tail fur

49) Lee Evans




50) Leverage

The TV show. An American version of Hustle, basically.

My Christmas Post

So... are you ready for a nice picture-intensive post about my Christmas day? No? Tough :P

I started off the day with some delicious Sausage and Cheese muffins...



Then I put my prepared-on-Christmas-eve turkey in the oven and spent a few hours staring wistfully at my pile of presents.



Actually, I watched The Santa Clause and did some crochet, but I just wanted to show off how many presents I had :P

My turkey was a magnificent success!




The kitties enjoyed it too.



Lexie wasn't too happy with the hat from her cracker though. Hehehe



Then it was time for presents! And my god, I was spoiled. Aside from books and chocolate and teddy bears...



... and jewellery and socks and monkeys and candles and soaps and bubble bath... I got 34 balls of yarn! 34!!!



They varied from small balls of toy yarn, to huge expensive hanks of yarn that were specifically dyed for me. Look at them!






And I got this amazing little angel ornament that someone made for me.



And oh oh oh! One of the partners I got in a swap makes a living from handmaking colourful accessories and things. She made me this cute little Slytherin bag...



Check out the label she put in it.



Even the cats got presents. Quite a few actually. Here's one of their favourites.



And finally, just before the Doctor Who Christmas special, it was time for dessert. When we were little girls, Dad used to make Jennie and I a baked alaska for Christmas dessert, but once Tracy and the boys came along, it just wasn't possible. So this year I made my own.



That's chocolate cake, with mint choc chip ice cream on top, covered in meringue and stuck under the grill to brown. It was delicious, but took a bit of a strange effort to make.



Lol.

I hope you all had a lovely day :-)

Project 200 - 56/144

Here's another one. Despite the lack of blogs, I have been working on Project 200, I've just been doing some of the bigger pieces. Having said that, the Hogwarts roleplay thing I do on Ravelry is back, so there'll be a few more things linked to that, hopefully.



56 down
144 to go

Double Knitting

These pieces aren't part of Project 200, but they're a new knitting technique I've learnt. It's called Double Knitting, and you end up with the reverse looking the same as the front but in mirrored colours. Very cool.

My kit for Hogwarts

A vintage, and therefore very used and dented, silver cauldron. A crazy little kitty. A magic broomstick that gets bigger when I use the right charm, easy for carrying. And my wand - 9" purple willow with a dragon heartstring core.

My HSKS package arrived!

So, this morning a very very exhausted owl struggled through my window carrying a box at least three times it's size and more like ten times it's weight.

The delivery charge alone was extortionate!! And in it? Well, there was all this...


Two huge packs of Twizzlers, which aren't available on my side of the pond.

Three delicious soft skeins of an unidentified yarn.

A cool purple folder with three different patterns in it.

Two very large tubs of delicious Swedish fish.

Six skeins of yummy Orchid Red Heart Super Saver.

About a bajillion patches and pins for my collection.

Four balls of variagated Peaches and Cream.

A handy knitting case.

The wacky needles inside the handy knitting case.

Three yummy fat quarters.

Some very psychadelic desk stuff.

A handy bag made of cool US fabric.

Four balls of pretty blue Peaches and Cream.

A delicious range of fabrics.

Detail of the first of three yummy American-themed fabrics.

Detail of the second American-themed fabric.

Detail of the third American-themed fabric.

This package was amazing, and after a really bad couple of weeks, actually made me cry. In a good way. Mostly. I feel a little bit guilty, because the package I'm sending back to Dragonsinger isn't half this good. But there you go. Thank you Rowan, this was amazing!!