a definite loss & a baby fake isle

it's official, my computer, who was named Mr. Slate, is no more. all recovery efforts have been completely futile and he's been pronounced dead (and takes all my data with him). we are now rebuilding :(

out of the sadness of loss, comes creation... sounds poetic, right? well, it just means that since my computer died, i started knitting like mad, both as a stress-reliever and because, well, i had no computer. so out comes this completely unseasonable hat, which is wayyy too warm to wear in sunny california at this point. i hope it still fits her when winter comes! it looks much more complicated than it really is, and i love fair isle (i like to see it knit up); the pattern is a very clever one, using a striping yarn in what is really a two yarn hat, but looks a little like those complicated multi-color fair isle designs. and i have enough to make myself a hat too (or maybe some baby legwarmers) so those might also arise from my grief! either way it'll have to wait as i have already started another hat for mia, LOL!

and the cherry on top of all of it is... mia hates hats; i had to bribe her with some yarn to sit still for the first picture and then the second picture is the classic one of her ripping the hat off her head. sigh.

danger will robinson! danger!

so my hard drive crashed. it crashed in a fatal way, in which no professional drive saving companies could save it (we tried). it died and took with it my entire image bank, my grad school career and, oh well, everything. all i can do is sigh :(

so this is my excuse for the lateness of this pic! i actually finished this a few days ago but i didn't put it up 'cause i had no computer to really do it. i still don't, really. i'm borrowing the laptop i'm on... sigh.

it's the mary jane pithy hat with a brim. it's for a someone's birthday but she doesn't know it. i hope she does actually like it! more photos here. all i did was knit the mary jane pithy hat and then i added the stitch n' bitch newsboy brim. i think it cam out pretty good :)

sigh.

we won a photo contest :)

i love photo contests 'cause they challenge me to better and better pictures. Lemon Balm Essentials, an online retailer of baby carriers wanted shots of sleeping babies in wraps :) and here were my submissions!

we won a spot in the website's upcoming homepage (soon to be redesigned! keep an eye out!) and a little prize money toward a future wrap purchase :) (which was promptly credited toward an existing wrap order, LOL!) i'm so happy we took these shots 'cause i'll forever remember her sweet face sleeping against my chest and a time when all i needed to do was carry her to make everything alright.

porkshops & appleshauce

so yesterday we tried applesauce for the first time. let me say i don't like applesauce, so this is not wholly unexpected. ;) i don't think she likes it either.