Word Association Week Three Assignment

This is word association week! All things Harry Potter or Fall related.

Easy enough right? Here’s our list:

1. Pumpkin Pie
2. Owl Hoot
3. Leaf Blowing
4. Weasley Arthur
5. Quaffle Quidditch
6. Hallow Deathly
7. Mad Eye Moody
8. Dragon Norbert
9. Crystal Geyser (oh what a fail)
10. Trees Womping Willow
11. Hermione Granger
12. Hogwarts Witchcraft
13. Burrow Weasley
14. Dobby House Elf
15. Horcrux Nagini
16. Ministry Of Magic
17. Magic Wand
18. Sirius Black
19. Apple Pie
20. Juice Apple
21. Candle stick
22. Ghost Dementor
23. Snake Nagini
24. Wand Elder
25. Invisibility Cloak
26. Tent Camping
27. Spell Book
28. Umbridge Dorothy
29. Dursely Duddems
30. Prophet Daily

The 5 Things

What five things would I bring if I were running away, going into hiding or camping.

If I had answered this a few days ago I would have said:

1) Kleenex

2) Medicine--cough meds, stuffy head meds, fever reducer meds, pain meds, throat lozenges

3) More kleenex

4) Warm blanket for when I was freezing cold, and that I could kick off when fever sweating

5) Pillow

Actually I feel as if I have been in hiding for the past week, and those are the items I had with me. I feel like I should get a prize for answering correctly. Ha!

If I was going away when not ill, then the answers would be different indeed. For going camping:

1) Husband

2) Dog

3) Sonic Screwdriver--I learned from the Doctor! (See below for info about the sonic screwdriver*)

4) Mary Poppins bottomless carpet bag--you can find EVERYTHING in there

5) Crafting survival kit (Kit includes: Crochet hook, knitting needles, tatting shuttles, yarn, thread, scissors and now newly improved with a drop spindle and roving!)

If I were going to run away just scratch out number 1 above....hmmm ok scratch out number 1 and 2! hahahahaha

*For all you Doctor Who fans, from the Doctor Dances:

Capt. Jack: This can work as a sonic blaster, a sonic canon, and a sonic disrupter. Doc what you got?

Doctor: I've got a sonic uh..well never mind.

Capt. Jack: What?

Doctor: It is sonic let's leave it at that.

Capt. Jack: Disrupter, canon what?

Doctor: It is sonic, totally sonic.

Capt. Jack: A sonic what?!

Doctor: Screwdriver.

Rose: Going down! Doctor are you ok?

Doctor: Could have used a warning.

Rose: There's no gratitude.

Capt. Jack: Who has a sonic screwdriver?

Doctor: I do.

Capt. Jack: Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, "ooo this could be a little more sonic."

Doctor: You've never been bored?

Rose: There's got to be lights.

Doctor: Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?

Patients: Mummy

Capt. Jack: Door. [Trying to open door with his sonic gadget] Dammit it is these special features they really drain the battery. I was going to send for another one, but somebody's got to blow up the factory! [Looks at the Doctor]

Rose: Oh, I know! The first day we met he blew my job up.

Doctor: Ok, that door should hold it for a bit.

Capt. Jack: The door? The wall didn't stop it.

Doctor: Well it has to find us first. Come on we're not done yet. Assets. Assets.

Capt. Jack: Well I have a banana, and in a pinch you could put up some shelves.

Week one assignment

• Someone with the same craft as you (either those listed above or another one).

Mystry Moonbleu aka Fuddles--we both like to Tat

She made a very beautiful neck wrap that could be used as a shawl.

• Someone who was born in the same month as you.

Angelina Frysia aka Pinkladyknitter--yay we are both April babies!

I love her Eleanor socks! Wish I could find time to finish my first pair of knitted socks.

• Someone from a different country.

Emma Gorodok aka Selena from Germany

I love her purple goth shawl!

• A new HSKS Family member.

Vevina McFey aka Mrsmama

I love Mrs. Figgs Friend. What an adorable kitty she created.

• Someone who has been in 3 or more HSKS swaps.

Perenelle Tejedora aka Sylvo

Sylvo has taught me loads about knitting. She even got me started on my first pair of socks.

• Someone who has a bigger stash than you! (And if your stash is the biggest, proudly say so!

Rowena Bladvak aka Ronni-licious

Rowena made a very beautiful sweater. I wish I could knit a sweater.

• Someone who both knits and crochets.

Andromeda Finch-Fletchley aka Girlywithatwist

She has a sonic screwdriver!

• Someone who has the same favorite color as you.

Hermione Bagnold aka Smileynetta (I have several fav colors but tonight I'm feeling blue)

She has made some adorable little baby booties!

• Someone who has the same favorite season/holiday as you.

Cassandra Grubbly-Plank aka Kristo--I love fall, it is when the heat breaks in Texas

Kristo has made some beautiful hats/beanies with Noro silk garden.

• Someone who has the same favorite fiber as you.

Caradoc Brocklehurst aka Cayden--Noro. I think Noro is beautiful too!

He has a very cute Stowamba!

Just signed up for the new term

Very excited. I signed up for HSKS 12 term. I'll learn all about Horcruxes this year.

I can't wait for the term to begin.

Ginger, the owl, flew up with my kit!

Yes it is finally here! My lovely Sirius Black kit from Megaera Black. Thank you so much for these lovely things! As you can see above, some of the items were sent through the Floo Network.

When I opened the box, it was so full of packages, I just couldn't count them all!

And here is all the loot unwrapped! What a haul! Here is a list of everything in the photo:

2 Balls of Nightfall Cotlin, 2 balls of Cedar Cotlin

2 Balls of Coto Canapone (Cotton/Hemp blend)

Sock Monkey

Book with photo of Sirius Black's motorcycle. Yes! The same bike that Hagrid borrowed to fly Harry Potter around.

Sirius Black Tumbler

2 Hand made cloths with paw prints on them

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's Knitting Rules

KnitPicks Crochet Hook Set

Pattern Book Magnets

Instant Honey Ginger drink--yummy!

Cute pen

The most wondeful smelling Oriental Citrus moisturizing cream

Pattern for an adorable Pete, the puppy boy. This came in a neat envelope that can be reused yay!

And last, I will mention that the 2 balls of Cedar Cotlin is really a magic ball of Cedar that contains lots of goodies!! I'll get to the list of all the surprises my magic ball contained in a moment. Now for more photos!

These are the handmade items: Sock Monkey, 2 paw print cloths, Sirius Black motorcycle book, and of course Sirius Black Tumbler! Can't go anywhere without that!

This is all my yarn! Oh I love this yarn!

And here is my magic yarn ball. Now what in the world could be in here??

There were two stitch markers: Hope, Believe; Mini-sock blocker; strawberry sundae lip balm; a man ready to parachute; Some pretty variegated yarn for perhaps amigurumi embellishments; more honey ginger drink; a row counting bracelet; decorated hair pins; a neat tool for stuffing amigurumi (I had never even seen one of these before, how neat!); eyes for my puppy amigurumi; Emergency floo powder (also looks like I can use what is in the floo powder jar as crochet stitch markers!); a pendant that says: Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus (part of the Hogwarts shield I believe--Don't tickle sleeping dragons! A good warning for Hogwart's students); a Ravelry Bob lapel pin; a cute button with a girl holding her hand out for a dove to land on.

Whew that was lots of items! A wonderful Sirius Black kit! Thank you so much! This has been a really wonderful, and fun swap.

Embroidering my own designs

I've been downloading different software to use to make my own embroidery designs. I finally settled on one. These are the first attempts I made using a photo to embroider and some of my husband's art to embroider. I know there are flaws, but that means I know what I need to learn. And sadly, my thread palette is really small at the moment. I hope to change that slowly over time.

This is a robot my husband drew. There is a slight problem with the mouth. After I stitched this up, I learned how to change the order in which it stitches things, and I'm pretty sure that will help on my next attempt.

This is my dog! She doesn't really have maroon ears of course, but I used that as part of the shadow colors since my thread palette is kind of limited right now.

I really really love my new embroidery/sewing machine! I'm going to make some patches of my parrots to sew on various things as well.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

Go go Gryffindor!!! We won the Quidditch match against Slytherin today. I was the Keeper for Gryffindor, but could not show up on time. I cast a Keeper Charm over the pitch and miraculously no goals were scored even though I was not there. The snitch was found before I arrived. I was a little sad that I missed the game, glad that we won, and happy that my Keeper Charm worked so well!

NEW sewing/embroidery machine!!!

OMG So excited. I got a Baby Lock Ellure Plus!

These are the first couple of designs I did. I cannot post the cute item I made today because it still has to go to Dragonsinger, but it is really cute!