Awesome of the Week - 02/07/11

Pet Shop Boys montage/mash up of Pet Shop Boys songs, preformed by...Pet Shop Boys.  With support from Lady Gaga.  This pleases me on every level.  From the 2009 BRIT Awards, this is ten minutes of pure awesome.

Everything is a Photo Opportunity #3

The only thing better than turkey dinner is turkey leftovers!

This week's photo is of an awesome turkey club sandwich with homemade french fries on the side (drenched in turkey gravy).  YUM.

Knitting Time With Grandma

I'm at my Mom's this week, and the awesome thing about Mom and Dad's apartment is that it is directly upstairs from my Grandparents apartment.  Lots of family fun in this building, that is for sure!

Grandma is knitting herself a sweater right now with a pattern she has from the '80s.  There is an amazing photo in the pattern booklet that is just too amazing not to share.

Taken from Patons All in the Family pattern booklet (#609) from 1988, this photo has it all.  The sweater design and colours, the leather skirt, the giant belt(!!), and especially the wicked walkman with those rocking headphones! (Note: this is definitely not the sweater Grandma is working on).

Being around Grandma when she's knitting is great because I'm always able to pick up something new from her.  Spending time with her yesterday, Grandma showed me how to test a pattern's gauge. Ensuring a proper gauge isn't something I've ever done before; partly because I knit simple patterns, and partly because I never learned how! I didn't realize that testing gauge was something you did before you started your project, I thought you incorporated into your project somehow. And because I haven't knit something where gauge really mattered, I never bothered to learn more about it.  But thanks to Grandma, now I know all about knitting a swatch before starting a project. Thanks, Grandma!  I also found an instructional video from Red Heart Yarn (featured below) in case you want to learn more about testing gauge too (I actually have the tool featured in the video, I've just never used it!)

Fridge Surprise!

I'm at my Mom's for a few days and look what's in the fridge!!!

It's a fricken Turkey!!!  Wahoo!!

Awesome of the Week - 01/31/11

It is my friend Bryan's birthday today, so I thought I would showcase his awesome, award winning, short film The Invisible Car.  If you want to see more fun videos, check out VideoYEAH.com.  Enjoy!!