Chrysanthemum Baby Headband (For Adults too!)

Tested this beautiful headband for someone on Ravelry.  I think it came out super cute!  Took the pics while moving, so not the greatest, so there's your warning.  At least the headband looks amazing!  I think it works great in variegated, but also in solids.  I chose to not use decorations, but it'd look super adorable with a flower or other decorative piece as she has it demonstrated on her page.

YES!  Another project completed!!  Now, to make some headway into this sweater I'm testing and this shawl I had hoped would be designed by now and ready for testing.  Hmmm... unpacking sure does eat into your time, doesn't it?  Well, better get back to it then!!  

Day 2

Day two started out a little later than we originally expected.  I guess we really should have expected to have been that tired, but it still surprised both of us.  Also, MAN those black out curtains with sound reduction they have at motels really work well, don't they??  I could not tell what time it was at all when we were rudely awoken by a phone alarm.  I guess if you don't check out by 9:30am, this place gives you a ring to make sure you're awake?  No one answered the phone when I groggily picked it up, so that's what I assume, at least.

 Call me weird, but I had never seen a real water tower until I moved to Georgia (about 8 months ago).  And then out here, they are apparently not only shaped differently, but have school mascots painted on them!!  I've seen more of them for different mascots all over!  I have asked B so many times what they are, and every time he looks, blinks, and says "a water tower..."  I guess I've asked a lot.

 Yay, the end is near!!!  Driving with a purpose is tiiiiring!!

 Yes, we have to go up steps to get to our place.  I don't mind now.  I did then.  >.<  Up and down the stairs with so many boxes.

Our front door!  Yay, Bomb, we're home!!  

First Day - Part 2!

Is that me driving?  Why yes it is!!!  I took command of the Freightliner just before the Mississippi/Louisiana border.  That sucker is a lot of fun to drive.  Which, if you know me at all, is a weird statement for me to say.  But it sure was zippy even carrying that whole load!

 More scenic swampy views.

 Aw, yeah!  Lousiana!!  Woot woot!!

 To prove that the last pic was us crossing into Louisiana, we had to take this pic too.  ;o)

 And, as promised.

 We crossed the Mississippi river while cutting through Louisiana!  River, river!!

 Just made it before the sun set.  :o)

 This was the distant view of an oil refinery just across the Texas border.  Unfortunately, it was dark by the time we reached the border, so none of our pics came out.

Didn't stop us from trying though!!  Entering Texas sign!  We drove until we reached the other side of Houston, then decided to crash for the night.  It was 2am, and we had about 2 more hours of driving left.  Exhaustion had set in, and a motel sounded way nicer than a cold wood floor with no blankets.  And, thus, ended the first day of our trip.

The First Day - Part 1

And we are back to the road.  We woke up at a decent hour (about 7am), and had some breakfast, then went to the tagging office so we could officially tag and register the van.  That came with some complications, such as having physical proof that we had insurance on the vehicle.  Well, of course, that had not come in the mail yet... >.<  So we had to call the insurance company and have them fax it over, which took awhile.  We didn't get back to say "Bye" to B's parent's until about 9am.  Seriously.  Then, of course, as we are heading out, I managed to lose my phone.  Somewhere.  Turns out, in B's mom's car.  Yeah, I'm that good.  Then, of course, B's best friend calls and asks if he wanted to swing by and grab something that B had left there.  Yeah.  We are leaving... seriously...

 See!  We are off!  

 Next thing we knew, we had already passed the Alabama state line!  It actually took about 2.5 hrs after leaving Athens to hit the state line, we were making pretty good time though!

 We stopped in a restaurant of sorts to have lunch since we had gotten such a late start.  John Wayne watched me eat the whole time.  The restaurant was pretty good, but definitely Southern style cooking.  Delicious but heavy.  Oof!

 Cool, small river!

 Oh man, a bridge is coming up!

 Almost there!

 And we're through to Mississippi!  The one thing of note here is that we crossed into Mississippi so far south in the state that the Mississippi river is actually in Louisiana!  

 I could NOT believe the gas price here!!  Regular was $2.89??  I ended up filling up my car even though we were towing it.  >.<  I couldn't resist!!!

 Well, there may not have been the actual Mississippi river, but there were tons of swamp lands around because of the delta throughout the area of Mississippi we drove through.  It was pretty fun to look at.

 I tried really hard to get B to exit here.  I wanted to know what wools they were selling!  We totally had more room in the van for wool!!!  But, alas, no Woolmarket for us.

Still have a ways to go.  We are almost through Mississippi, and into Louisiana.  But for this moment, I am going to leave here.  Next post will finish up the rest of the long day we had on the first part of the drive.  :o)

Cherries

I am a fruity type of person.  I eat fresh fruit throughout the year, and if I go a day or two without some, I start to go into withdrawal.  I know the general time of year when I'm going to find what sort of fruits on sale and actively go searching for those fruits.  I love almost all fruits, summer pitted fruits being one of the best times of the entire year... Which is going to bring me to my next point.

CHERRIES!  I love love love cherries.  When cherries are in season, I will eat pounds and pounds of cherries over the course of the month or so when cherries are ripe.  I love nectarines, peaches, plums, pluots, apricots, etc etc... but I cannot get enough cherries.  My favorite ice cream is Black Cherry, my new favorite yogurt is cherry Liberte... Which is oddly not found on their website, so I am hoping it's not just a seasonal flavor!!!

So, what about you?  Like or dislike cherries?  What are your favorite fruits?  :o)

The Road Trip - The Beginning!

Hi Everyone!  I'd like to introduce one of my road trip buddies!  This is Bomb Bonsai!  He loves to photo bomb my shots, so most of my road trip shots ended up having him in it.  Luckily, he's flipping adorable, so I don't really mind.  ;o)

This was the beginning of our adventure.  We packed up the house here in Athens, GA.  If you look really closely, you can see my other road trip companion standing just inside the door.  (That's, uh, kinda creepy...)

 It was hard to say "bye" to the old home, while we only lived there for 8 months, it had become a comfortable place to be.  It was nice living in a real house.  Especially one that was in walking distance to a super cool food co-op, a great yogurt shop, and our favorite restaurant in Athens!  

 Our "moving" van.  A Sprinter Freightliner!  We went out on a limb and decided to buy a used-but-in-great-condition work van and have it tow my car.  Welcome to the family Freightliner!  (Though, probably temporary.  While it has been great for us, got ALL of our stuff here AND has been indispensable in getting us cheap craigslist furniture... we really don't need this large a vehicle on a regular basis.)

 Like I said, it fit ALL of our stuff.  I cannot tell you how much B and I like this vehicle.  It even has a ridiculous turning radius and hauls as if it weighs nothing!  It accelerates faster than my Honda Civic Hybrid! It's been really hard to finalize this decision to sell it...  

Here we are!  My car loaded up in tow behind the van.  We're parked in front of B's parent's house.  We spent the night there prior to the long drive.  And this is where I will leave you for today.  Tomorrow I'll show you day 1 of the Road Trip!

New City!

Austin has welcomed us with... well, heat and thunderstorms!  But as I am unpacking and unwinding from the stress of the move, I have been browsing other blogs.  I promise to upload some pics I took on the drive here, and eventually, of our new home here and our surroundings... but until then, please look at this fantastically simple way of jazzing up an old pair of shorts!

Say Yes to Hoboken