Steak-ing My Claim

Well, it sounds like a good title anyway!  It's a play on the word Steak and Staking.  On account of we just had dinner.  And it was steak.

It's # 26 this year, not a "big" anniversary but we celebrate them all.  We went with the default celebration meal:  steaks, baked potatoes & green beans.  We have ice cream, but nobody has any room for it at the moment.  (Relax Froggy - it's not Braum's!).

I am still de-stashing, but I have bought yarn lately.  I have a project in mind, I'm not quite ready to start on it but I'm getting there.  I'm not quite sure what it's going to be, either a shawl or a scarf but it's more of a spring-type garment.  I found the yarn on sale, so I went ahead and bought it.  It'll keep!  It's a teal blue and it's a smaller-gauge yarn, as well as a very soft yarn.  I went to a thrift store today and came home with more yarn, but again it's for a specific project.  I had been wanted to get a certain type of smaller gauge cotton yarn for a couple of specific items, and I found some today at a thrift.  In a bag with a whole bunch of other stuff, mostly yarn (OK, all yarn!) and for $3.98 (the cost of one cotton skein if I could find it on sale), I got 3 or 4 skeins of cotton, three skeins of a very fluffy & soft yarn (polyester? I can't remember) a bag with a bunch of ribbon yarn (neat stuff!) and the really fun part is the 7 or 8 skeins of very expensive french yarn that is almost as fine as a small gauge (jewelry) chain and very slippery.  Several of the french yarn skeins were tangled, Otter and I attacked it and got it all detangled.  Each skein is now in a seperate baggie.  No idea what I'm going to do with it, but it's not cheap yarn and I got it for nearly nothing.  I also bought a second $3.98 bag that did have yarn in it, but it had a bunch of stuff I thought Otter would want (which she absolutely does) so I got it as well.  The 2nd bag has some yarn, but it's a big tangled mess and I'll eventually take it apart.  It also had several pieces that are already made, and a whole bunch of sewing stuff for the kiddo.

Think I need to stay out of the thrift store for a while!  I was actually looking for components for a craft project I have in mind.  But yarn rules...

I have de-stashed.  I used a lot of spare yarn on Bill's blanket, and I've been finding things to make out of yarn that I've had for a while.  I've also donated a small amount.  Then I discovered something:  the alpaca yarn I bought a while back makes me itch!  It took a while, I held it for a longer time than I would have been able to hold wool, but my skin still reacted.  So, it went into the donate pile. :(

Speaking of yarn.  (Yeah, I know.)  I've decided to abandon the Dr. Who scarf.  I never really wanted to make one, Bill really wanted me to make one but Otter had no interest in wearing it.  While it would be a way to use up spare yarn, it would also use up quite a bit of time that I'd rather use on projects that are actually wanted or needed.  I thought about frogging it, but I decided to just tie off and leave it as it is.  Maybe someday I'll work on it again, but it can also be used in a different way than as a scarf.

Anyway, with that in mind:

(Otter, this one is just for you!)

Otter was home today.  She woke up with what was probably a migraine.  She had the headache all day, she had motrin, chicken soup and rest.  She's feeling better but they can be very debilitating.  She hasn't had a bad one in a while.

OK, I might have room for that ice cream now!