Birthday gift......

....My wonderful husband got this Fricke S160 for me and it came with all of this loverly fiber!! He got it from http://www.artclub.etsy.com I love it and have spun up just a few skiens. I'd really like to get some more time on it, but I always seem to be working or just too tired. Luckily our knitting group has decided to dedicate Sundays to being spin day and are taking turns at hosting in our homes. I'm looking forward to hosting myself this fall......

Birthday guests.....

So, from left to right we have: my tattoed freak-of-a-brother, Charlie (love ya bro and i'm fairly tattooed and freaky myself!!), my georgeous cousin Heidi, and my beautiful daughter, Alex.... In the next pic is my Poppy, who is on oxygen due to COPD and is in 4th stage kidney failure. On the right of me is his girlfriend Yvonne and on Poppy's left is my Aunt Pat. I'm so glad that they were all able to share this day with me. We had dinner at the Fuji San on the Vestal Parkway. This is one of my favorite places to eat and I usually get to go there on my birthday.... I'm also so happy that my Pops was able to come..............

Did I tell ya???

....That I turned the big 40 this year???? That's me and the hubs and my birthday dinner back in May.... If we look ginormous, well that's because we are!!!! We've both put on some serious weight since our nuptuals 4 years ago...... I'm going to post more pics of the party and my one loverly birthday gift from the hubs.... although this will post last... bare with me!

new tattoo and a ride......

On Friday the hubs and I rode our motorcycles up to Troy, NY for tattoos! This one is mine. It's a Viking Wolfhead..... I found a pendent in a mag that we get and thought it would make a great tattoo. Since most of the hubs tats are viking type stuff, I thought it would be a good symbol instead of getting his name branded on my body!! When I asked him if he ever thought of getting a tattoo to symbolize me, guess what he said? "Nope". Shocker!!!! That's the hubs for ya! Anyways, it was a great ride. We left around 10am and got there around 1pm. It was my first serious highway ride and bigger city type riding.... lot's of heavy traffic. We didn't get home until 10:30pm and I was freezing, stiff, and sore! Also being kindof a baby too!! All and all the hubs says i'm doing great and is still gonna "let" me go on the "south" trip in October with him and the nephew... I feel so privileged!!!! We're also planning on a Social Distortion concert at Northern Lights in October also. Lot's 'O fun planned for the fall!!!!

Let's get ready to rumble........

....... the name is Twiggi Titti Twister and I'm entered in the Super-Heavyweight, Semi-Pro, Flying Clothesline event!!!! I'm going to try and finish SIL, Liz's sweater.... The event is for your team to finish as many WIP's (works in progress) as possible. I'll be lucky if I can finish this. Although I do have the back done and part of the front....
So it seems that the July sock for the "Knitting Purls Indie Sock Club" is somewhat succesfful. I've gotten two replys on the thread saying that they like the socks and are knitting them as we speak (read). We've also had some very good responses about the Summer Sock Club by Twiggi Knits and Stephanie...

Happy 4th O'July to ya!!! I'm off to a Drop Kick Murphy's concert in Canandaigua, NY this evening!!!!

Ravelry friends.....

Here are some of the Ravelers that showed up....some of them all the way from Ohio!!! There is SwordsandSpeers, dmcubed, and enigma (she's from New Hampshire). Some other ladys from the CNY group came also.

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