Here's to a Sweet New Year!

So in old Jewish tradition, at Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) one dips slices of Apples in Honey to bring a sweet New Year. Though it's not Rosh Hashana right now (lately it's been around September or October) I still divulge in this sweet treat for the Christian Calendar New Year.

You may have noticed the name of my blog is "Apples n Honey", this is not done to show my Jewish half but is a pun on my relationship with the fiance. In German my last name means "Appletree" and my fiance's last name is "Honey". I'm not sure what happened cosmically to bring us together but it's pretty cool if you ask me! I've been toying with the idea of playing this up as a wedding theme, it would probably make my Dad happy since it would be the only "Jewish" part of our ceremony but still a pretty meaningful one. We would usher in a sweet life together with all of our friends and family PLUS it would be a pretty inexpensive dessert.

So, ya wanna knit, eh?

Well Bess, you threw me for a loop. I was going to write about how my fiance's bowl full of brown, beige, yellow & cream jelly beans make jelly beans actually unappetizing for once but now...

One of my New Year's resolutions (a practice I have never actually carried out or attempted ever before in my life) is to start up a monthly Stitch and Bitch group at my place. I will teach ALL of my girlfriends who constantly bitch and moan about how they can't knit and wish they could HOW TO KNIT. I always offer lessons but we never end up following through with it. I was brought up to share knowledge, no recipe is sacred, pass on skills. PLUS I can then show off all of my pretty knitting stuff.

Above is half of my collection of needles (note a pair of mahogany 12mm) *beam*, the rest are in a case my Boba gave me before she died last year. You can see her in that photo in the background with her best friend on the right.

Yes, this is a close-up of my pride and joy. Hand made Pyrex knitting needles. They even have their very own hard case, yay for American mail order!

So Bess (and Jill, Carla, Xixi, Willow, Fayza, Nathaniel) and anyone else who wants to learn or share knowledge or just sit around and bitch over cocktails (or tea), I will discuss with the "man" the best time for him and let you all know.

M'n F'n Scarves Yo

So here we go, a real blog.
I spent a lot of time this Fall leading up to Christmas knitting while my wonderful fiance cooked all of our dinners (he does this anyways but likes to point it out to the friends who got homemade gifts this year so he can say he contributed). Tonight we got together with Car and Em and we all modeled our scarves.



Such a plush, fuzzy pile of handspun & hand dyed kid wool from Uruguay, merino from New Zealand and fluffies from who knows where else.

They got me a bottle of Pear Sake, a bottle of Ume and some adorable Tokidoki dolls.


Yay for Christmas!

And so it begins

Well, I think it's time to try to start another blog, livejournal didn't go so well for me and neither did the myspace blog. Who knows, perhaps it's all about timing!
Well, when all else fails... try something else?