Chocolate . . . yummmm

Ask and ye shall receive!  Lester came through with this gorgeous little number for me.  It's easily half the size of my old Canon, and it's a delicious chocolate brown color that is not done justice in this photo.  With the additional 4 gigs (!) of memory, it will soon be getting lots of use.

In fact, I've already started.  Check out the updated images of my latest knitting project on Ravelry.  For those of you who don't feel like clicking, here is a photo of my favorite nook in our apartment.

Clearly, I'm not the best photographer in the world.  Lester, on the other hand, is not half bad.  Here's his photo of the color-lit ceiling at Yoshi's in San Francisco.

More photos will certainly be forthcoming, since baby Nora will be in town with her parents, and we'll bet at Lester's high school reunion in a couple of weeks, so check this space again soon!

The Lost Projects

Here is a list of projects I completed (I swear!) but didn't document, and where they are now:

1. chunky off-white mittens - in my grandfather's coat closet; he has much more high-tech things to keep him warm
2. chunky off-white wool hat - in some box somewhere (it's really not even worth a photo: the top is closed by pulling the yarn tail through the last row of stitching); it was meant for my grandfather to match the mittens, but it came out a wee bit too small
3. chunky off-white draw string backpack (what can I say, I was into the yarn for a while) - in my former roommate's closet; the best feature was the I-cord that went through eyelets in the top and turned into shoulder straps
4. green shoulder bag with cellphone and wallet pocket - in my former roommate's friend's closet, most likely.  I don't blame her, since the yarn was too wimpy to keep a proper shape and I have yet to try felting
5. umbilical cord hat and baby cardigan - in my former law school classmate's child's dresser drawer.  I was pretty proud of this little outfit, as I made the crochet border on the deep red cardigan in the same sun-yellow yarn as the hat (with yellow buttons, too), and then embroidered a little deep-red yarn leaf onto the hat.  
6. variegated green and blue baby blanket - being chewed and slobbered by baby Malcolm, along with the rabbit, which luckily I did not forget to photograph (check out my Ravelry entry)

Here's hoping that the list doesn't get any longer!  Maybe I would take more photos if I had a new camera . . . Oh, Lester, darling, I know it's not my birthday for another nine months, but . . .

New Beginnings . . . Again

This is my second attempt to start a blog.  Let's hope it goes better than the first, which died of neglect only a few short posts after it started.  Now that I have a new name (that's Mizz, not Mrs., to you!) and new inspiration (thanks to Ravelry and all the creative knitters and crafters sharing their creations with the world) I think I'm ready for a fresh start.  

So here goes!