All You Need is Love(ll)

I love free concerts. Especially if the group(s) are in vein of my interests. Part of the reason I love the DC area, all the free stuff that goes on in and around a major metropolis city.

I recently had the pleasure of seeing The Lovell Sisters at a venue just outside of DC, free of charge (their MySpace page).

Quite frankly, I was highly impressed by their music and voices coming from 3 people so young! They play a blend of Folk Rock, Acoustic, and Country.

Here's a little YouTube.com video that shows how good these three girls are:

Ravelympics 2008.

Yes, yes, it's actually Ravelympics 2008. I've entered myself into the frenzy of the knitting scheme of knitting something, as sort of friendly competition, with the heavy dose of Olympic theme thrown in.

Here's a quote from Ravelry.com web page about it:

"The Ravelympics (not to be confused with the Knitting Olympics, which take place every four years, just like any other Olympic sport, and will be orchestrated by the Yarn Harlot) are open to any knitter or crocheter on Ravelry ready to take on the challenge of completing a project (or projects) within 17 days during the 2008 Summer Olympics."

It is most exciting, for me at least, to have a challenge like this, with a dead line. Otherwise, it will take me forever to finish something simple (I tend to have multiple projects going on at one time and tend to have a short attention span for any one project).

If it wasn't for the county fair, I probably wouldn't finish some things in less than a year.

Ok. Back to the Olympic based topic.

Some of the catagories include (oh screw it, I'm posting everything):

• Afghan Marathon
• Amigurumi-n-Toys Toss
• Baby Dressage
• Bag-n-Tote Backstroke
• Balance Beads
• Cable Steeplechase
• Colorwork Cross-Country
• Cowl Jump
• Designers Discus
• Fantasy DecKnitathalon
• Felted Freestyle
• Free-For-All Freestyle
• Fleece to Finished Fencing
• Glove Decathlon
• Gift Knits Pentathlon
• Hand-Dyed Hurdles
• Handspun Heptathalon
• Hat Dash
• Holiday Handbal
• Home-Stuff Hammerthrow
• Itsy Bitsy Bikini Breaststroke
• Laceweight Long Jump
• Mitten Medley
• Pets Pommel Horse
• Scarf Stroke
• Shawl Relay
• Sock Put
• Sweater Sprint
• Synchronized Flirty Skirts
• Vest Vault
• WIPs Wrestling

Personally, I've entered *starts counting on her fingers* 9 projects.

ALL hats.

I'm planning on showing the hats as I finish them (both here on my blog and on Ravelry). A couple of them I've done before:

Glove Hat



Cookie Monster Hat


Tychus Hat



And some were chosen b/c I thought them funny:
Bataclava


Brain Monster



Please note the pictures that dont showcase my lovely face, are from their respected pattern web pages. The names above the pictures should link you through to their respected web pages.

If not, here are the web addresses (I used TinyURL to condense the long web addresses):
Tychus: http://tinyurl.com/8bfgk
Bataclava: http://tinyurl.com/5nd548
Brain Monster: http://tinyurl.com/3cu446

I really like the different "event" names and their variance/combination. I'm itching to get started on any one of them. My strategy is doing the easiest first and getting them out of the way.

Win a Gift Package from Marmalade Pink - via Fashion Fling

A fun little give away. I think it's a value totaling $165 from 5 different websites. All worth checking out if you like fashion, jewelry, or body care.

Click the link below to find out more
Fashion Fling - Win a Gift Package from Marmalade Pink

Hrm. I got to thinking....

...which can, or might be, dangerous! (just kidding)

My good friend Heather just did a contest on her alter-ego (Heather, please correct me if I'm wrong) blog page. Got me thinking. What a fun thing to do. (Also, I got a couple of calls from a rep . at an electrolysis place near me, saying that my name was drawn for their third place prize via a website I am a member of - MyPoints. Thing is I dont remember entering a contest via MyPoints, but it's quite conceivable b/c I just click through the links I'm sent to earn points to get gift certificates to places like Starbucks and Barnes and Noble - it's all about the coffee and books).

I digress.

My thought was to make a little knit things to give out as prizes. It may be something along the lines of a coin purse or hot pad - when I'm trying out new stitches. Or it could end up being a nifty hat or something.

Get comments on something and randomly draw name(s).

Will wonders never cease.

Blog Awards of Sorts.

Probably not the best time to make a new post, let alone a coherent one. But here goes.

A good friend from college (Sankari) tapped my blog for a BFF, or Blog Friends Forever (Award).

So The Rules that come with this award are:

1. Only 5 people allowed.
2. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog
3. one has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
4. you must link back to whoever gave you the award.

I'm going to have to blur the lines of above stated rules, well, to put it one way, readership is low and I dont quite inspire feedback.

My list is:
1. Heather (aka Lyrical Venus - note two links to two different blogs) - good friend and blogs about good stuff).

2. Sankari - another good friend who blogs good things

3. Soma - edit: found her blog.

4. Christine Kane - good stuff. alot about empowerment, self-realization and power of thought

5. Neila - funny stuff

Well, that's my list.