Resistance is Futile

It's all Vera's fault! After all, she's the one who posted about these. Of course, I then had to go search out as much information as I could on them which I found here. And, as they say, the rest is history. My set of needles was ordered last night by my dear enabling husband.

When I started knitting some many moons ago (about 4 years now, I think it is), I was suckered in by Denise interchangeable needles. Putting it mildly, I hate them. They feel cheap and plasticy to me, but go figure. They are cheap (relatively speaking) and they are plastic. Next up as far as interchangeable needles go, I bought Plymouth bamboo. Love, love, love them!!! That was money well spent, and I think we now have 3 sets. I also bought the Boye set using a coupon at Michaels, because I like metal needles. The needles are nice enough, and the joins stay together as long as you connect them using the tools provided in the kit and follow the direction. Still...they are not Addis, and Addis are my favorite. I'm hopeful that the Knitpicks needle set will be more Addi like, because if they are, they may become my favorite interchangeable needle set.

I know this will come as a shock, but I've not knit one stitch in probably 2 weeks. I'm just off my knitting for some reason. I took Picovoli to the beach thinking I'd knit, but no....Well, you saw what became of our relaxing Saturday night in yesterday's post, so are you really surprised?

I've also not scrapbooked in a few days, but I did manage to purchase more scrapbook supplies. We found a neat little shop in HHI that had a small collection of materials--all great quality and nothing like I'm finding at home. We stocked up on some really neat looking beach type paper (some that looks like rippled sand, some that has sand dollars all over it in natural colors, and some that was specially made for HHI). We also found beach stickers. Believe it or not, we've been hard pressed to find beach stickers here at home that were not cartoonish. We live only about 2 1/2 hours from the beach, so I don't get that.

What have I been doing with my time? Besides the usual work and chorse, I've been reading. I finished Eragon last night. If you like fantasy/mythology/magical type books, I recommend this one! It was excellent, I think. I had no idea that it was written by a 15 year old boy! He was 15 at the time he wrote it, and I think he's in his early 20s now. I also didn't know that the book is being made into a movie due out in December!

Our garden is growing well. I have some photos here to post, but I need to get the USB port on the computer working properly before I can do that--maybe tomorrow. I also have a few photos from our weekend trip.