adam knits!

I want to start this post by wishing an official Happy Birthday to my wonderful puppy Emma. Except I think she’s not a puppy anymore! Today is her official birthday, but we had a party at dog obedience on Monday night, and I gave her my present then also. Now, I’m sure you’re beginning to think that I’m completely psycho, and let me assure you, that yes, I am a little bit crazy ;)

But it’s a tradition at Acoma Training Center that when your dog has a birthday, you bring a cake from the Three Dog Bakery and have a small little celebration with all the dogs. It’s a lot of fun, and gives us people an excuse to buy our dogs things. The picture here is her cake, and the collar that I knitted for her. It’s knitted in some handpainted merino from Art Yarns that I bought at Village Wools. I just love the colors, because Emma looks great in any kind of red, it’s totally her color. I really love the way the collar came out, and it’s lined and has a snap and a ring for her tags. Very nice if I may say so myself!

And for your further viewing pleasure, photos of the birthday girl herself! Sorry that you can’t see her face very well, she’s very shy and doesn’t like to look at the camera.

So here’s to my wonderful dog, and many more years of her licking me with her ridiculously long tongue.

On another note, I haven’t done too much knitting these past few days because I just bought the new Tetris game for my Nintendo DS, and it is owning my life. I’ve been playing it so much, it’s crazy! I love it because you can play online against people around the world since the DS has wireless internet built into it. And Tetris is pretty much my favorite game of all time, so that has added up to keep me from knitting too much these past couple of days.

I’m hoping to get my brother’s other fuzzy foot done tonight, so that I can felt those for him soon. And then I think I’m going to make myself some bonafied socks. I really want to buy the Carbon Dating color from Blue Moon Fiber Arts, but I don’t really have the money right now, so I think I’ll have to go with some cheap sock yarn for now. But I’ll be starting at Sandia soon, and then I’ll have plenty of money to work on my yarn stash ;)