Bloganniversary: CONTEST

Over the course of the last year I have had:

• 6726 visits - 5599 from the US.
  
• 9831 Page views from 56 countries/territories.
  
• The most unique place that hit my site was Burkina FasoA contest we must have to celebrate!

Here are the requirements: all you have to do is leave me a comment telling my what your favorite dessert it is - it can be anything, but you have to pick just one. Leaving me a comment will get you one entry, posting about it on your blog will get you another. Please let me know who sent you along as well.

There will be winners of course with some swag (to be determined).

Some inspirations from my culinary school days....









The contest will start today the 27th and go until the 7th of March.

Best of Luck!

Randomness, Contests, and Socks

I am a bad blogger. I received some lovely gifts from my good friend Chan and I have yet to share the goodies. Isn't that tape measure too cute? This yarn is so soft and the colors are gorgeous - it is called mystic lake which is the perfect name.

I also wanted to share 2 of my birthday gifts as they were pretty freakin cool. My sockapalooza pal who lives in Portland, Oregon, who I got to meet on my trip home, made me an awesome bag. The funny thing is I had been salivating over this very fabric even before our plans had been finalized. She is a great gal, a great friend and it is all thanks to knitting and socks that we met and got to know each other. The other killer gift was made by my very talented mom. She knows exactly what I like in a bag - lots of pockets and compartments to keep my stuff organized (or at least allowing the attempt to organize)


Now for some knitting content: I am officially in love with toe up socks and knitting them at the same time on 2 circulars. This method is by far and away the best I have done yet. Although I may be jumping the gun as I have not gotten to the heal and gusset yet, but I still think I will love this method. I am knitting Azure. It is a great pattern, well written and beautiful. I probably didn't choose the best yarn coloring for this pattern, because the whale patterns gets lost - but I still love it. These are socks for the husband - who seems to think that he will be known as the professor with the cool socks. What he doesn't understand is that I just don't knit fast enough - or perhaps it is just that I do a lot of reading too? Or maybe I just need more hours in the day.

It will be a year ago on the 1st of March that I started this knitting blogging venture. It has been quite a ride. It all started from my friend Michele who started her own blog and I thought that was pretty swell so I jumped on board. I have made many a friend through this wonderful knitting/blogging community. Although my posting has not been as much as I would like since the dreaded holiday season I do hope to get back to my regularly scheduled blogs. In anticipation of my bloganniversary I am holding a CONTEST! I will have all the details up on Wednesday. Come back and play along - I promise it will be an easy one.

Contests and an Almost Finished Item

Tea Time Ramblings is having a contest so if you like leaving comments, getting lovely hand knit dishcloths then you should head on over. I found the link through Anne and Chan and headed over to put in my comment.

On the knitting front it is very possible I will have a finished garment today so stay tuned - Isabella and I have become friends and I think she is finally ready to be taken off the needles. I will keep you posted. Just in case you forgot what she looked like as a mostly finished item... Here is the back in all of its glory.