Blood sugar rush

November 1st, 2005

Husband and brother have October birthdays. We hosted the big joint celebration last weekend with a house full of overnight guests. While both have a fondness for sweets, their tastes are distinctly different, so we had two separate birthday cakes. Husband prefers lemon-y, coconut-y desserts—a bit mystifying for my family of chocoholics, but they love him, and choose to overlook this eccentricity.

With house guests returned home, and no hope for late trick-or-treaters, we’ve got a house full of sweets:

  1. 2 bags of leftover Halloween candy. There was a big drop off in kiddie numbers this year.
  2. 3/4 of Chocolate Potato Cake (great, great grandmother’s cherished family recipe—it may sound gross to the uninitiated, but it is fabulous)
  3. One entire homemade coconut cream pie. We’ve already eaten the other one.

Someone, please, take the sugar away.

Feet of happy mom

I really have knit three pairs of socks this month—honest! Here’s the most recently finished, shown first, since they were the first gifted.

Happy mom feet

It was an experiment; one of Mom’s feet swells, so I wasn’t sure that I could make a sock that fit well. Super-stretchy sock yarn plus a pretty lace pattern equaled success.

Halloween accessory, or true identity revealed?

Younger, dreadlocked stepdaughter made it down from the redwoods for the weekend. Her Halloween costume has clarified something that I think we already knew. She picked up some ears for her costume yesterday, and hasn’t taken them off since… there’s something about them that’s just right somehow.

Normal California hippy, or actual woodland elf?

Woodland elf?

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15 Responses to “Blood sugar rush”

  1. Kira Says:
    November 1st, 2005 at 9:26 am

    Congratulations on 3 pairs of socks!! These pink ones are gorgeous!
    I love the ears too. They do seem right.

  2. sequinK Says:
    November 1st, 2005 at 10:15 am

    Nice socks! Your mom must be stoked.

    We noticed a big drop off in trick or treaters too, this year—I wonder what’s up? I’m trying to push all the leftover candy on my coworkers. They’ve been complaining, but not THAT much,... :)

    Your stepdaughter is cute. Is she up in Humboldt? That’s definitely the perfect place to be a woodland elf,...

  3. Bettsi McComb Says:
    November 1st, 2005 at 1:37 pm

    Goodness, your stepdaughter is the prettiest elf I’ve ever seen! Those ears certainly seem to suit her!

  4. blossom Says:
    November 2nd, 2005 at 8:22 am

    those ears are precious!! love it. she looks every bit of an elf from the middle earth.

    three pairs of socks… impressive. i’m still cliking away row by row for the second sock my husband has been waiting.

  5. amanda Says:
    November 4th, 2005 at 6:27 am

    Great socks! And wow! three whole pair knit? I’m impressed.

    And yes, stepdaughter looks like she is from middle earth—what a cutie with those ears! If I looked that good with ears like that I might never take them off either.

  6. MeBeth Says:
    November 4th, 2005 at 7:09 am

    Love the pink socks – I am definitely going to try that with the stretchy sock yarn lurking in my stash!

  7. debi Says:
    November 4th, 2005 at 6:58 pm

    Hi Sara-

    Thanks for commenting and your generous offer to send stuff to Pumpkin and I! It’s been really hard and the P-Man is really stressed, I’ve found him trying to sleep in his litter box a few times! And I’ve been too sick to knit! Imagine that??

    I’m sorry I’m posting this here but I couldn’t find your email addy…we will be ok and your generosity and kindness make this horrible situation a bit more bearable! Thank you, Sara.

    Debi

    PS - Great socks and great compilation of short row references, can’t wait to peruse them when I back on line without batteries!

  8. April Says:
    November 9th, 2005 at 7:44 pm

    Thanx for the advice about Magic Loop, I’ve used it for one sock before, but not yet, for 2 – that’ll be my next adventure.

  9. Lolly Says:
    November 10th, 2005 at 7:47 am

    The socks are fabulous ;)

  10. Madalyn Says:
    November 25th, 2005 at 8:55 am

    Love the pink socks!

  11. Amber Lee Says:
    November 28th, 2005 at 12:51 am

    Wow, I love those socks! Sara dude, you are a knitting queen. I was getting really proud of myself for finishing one glove in a weekend. :) I toted my AWESOME knitting bag around with me this holiday and got compliments everywhere, especially the yarn shop I stopped in at. Thanks again!

  12. MX Says:
    December 16th, 2005 at 2:17 pm

    Couldn’t find an email link on your site. zeneedle sent me a note that I had won a bag by you. By looking at your site, that’s pretty exciting news!

    I’m leaving for L.A. tomorrow afternoon and will be gone for 10 days. Maybe we can communicate after Christmas.

    I hope all is well with you and yours

  13. MeBeth Says:
    December 22nd, 2005 at 6:47 pm

    Hi Sara,
    Just stopping by to say hi – haven’t seen a post in a while and wanted to wish you a happy holiday!
    MeBeth

  14. Liz Says:
    May 4th, 2006 at 11:04 am

    Hi! Miss your updates. Hope all is well! :)

  15. Michael Says:
    May 7th, 2006 at 6:51 pm

    I was lf Elves on the internet and ended up here ~~ she looks JUST like an elf living amongst humans. She’s pretty o.o

    Nice blog! ~~ me x