A trip to the fiesta and another yarn order

Dad invited us to go to the St. Vincent de Paul's fiesta. While a good time was had by all, it was no where near as diverse as the Good Shepherd Octoberfest! The O'fest was like walking through an international food feast with its booths of Filipino panicit and lumpia, Vietnamese spring rolls, Korean BBQ, Mexican carne asada and taquitos, German brats...and of course, the hamburgers, hot dogs and corn on the cob. I'm not saying there wasn't any good eats at the d'Pauls fiesta- I grubbed my carne asada burrito like I hadn't had one in years (I actually had one when I went back to San Diego last month, so it wasn't that long ago.) There wasn't that big of a selection...I guess when you grow up with one thing, you get accustomed to it and expect it to always be like that. We did have a good time on the rides and of course, AJB and I had to go on the super slide! Best ride ever...Good food, good rides and a good opportunity for me to go on manual mode on my camera.

Here's a few shots from that night:

I was testing out the aperture and wanted to get that blurry spinning image.


The Zipper


The Wheel

I obviously still need to practice tons but I was happy with how the blurry light ones came out. Here is my flickr page for others.

On my other hobby, I started making my Christmas surprises. Here's the start of the Galaxy Scarf:

Hopefully, it won't take too long to finish. I have about 5 of them to make!

I also finished CMBs Michigan scarf:

It'll keep him warm and cozy when I can't.

Remember that yarn order I mentioned in my title? I bought two different shades of pinks and blues to make AJB her own Sheldon. I'm thinking of making a couple of love turtles- one girl and boy. I also bought Spring Green Heather Shadow to make Seascape for an aunt:

Yes, I know "seascape" should be a blue color but her fave color is green.
I bought Alpaca Cloud lace in Stream to make the Seascape for my mom.

I also purchased some Gloss lace in Port for another Clap.

There will be lots of scarving going on!

Its been a long time...

I finished Sheldon! Here he is, up close and personal. He's coming up to say hi- "Hello, Sheldon!"


Here he is, in a more natural pose:

Sheldon! Be nice, now!



Much better! Thank you, Sheldon...Unfortunately, Sheldon will not be staying with us for very much longer. He's going to go in a box and be mailed to CA. Shhh...don't tell him- he's a bit claustrophobic. He's going to be a surprise for one of my cousin's on her birthday. But she's not suppose to know either! Hopefully, she isn't reading this.

Anyway, yesterday I was in a baking mood. I was going to make my MILs world famous (my world) Toasted Oatmeal cookies but didn't have any baking soda. Since I was at the store, I ended up buying chocolate chip cookies too. I made the Best Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip cookies from allrecipes.com. I love allrecipes.com. I can find almost anything on that site and they almost always turn out tasty, but I digress. Here's a picture of the cookies:


And just for comparison in sizes, I placed a quarter next to the giganti-cookie:



I could only fit four of them on the cookie tray!


Goodness...that's going to be another 45 minutes on the elliptical machine!