Blog Challenge Day 5: My favorite Movies I never get sick off

There are several movies I could watch over and over again and never get sick of them. They are, in no particular order:

Singing in the Rain
Dirty Dancing
Harry Potter (All of them)
Grease
Forrest Gump

Blog Challenge Day 4: My best childhood memory

The best memories I had as a child were all the years that I danced from age 8 to 19. I loved dancing ballet, jazz and lyrics so much. And performing on stage was the best feeling. I was so happy when I Ed chosen as one of the few girls at my dance to school to train in pointe. It was something I dreamed of for such a long time.

Blog Challenge Day 3: What make me happy.

Today the challenge is to post about something that makes me happy. This one is really easy. My daughter. No matter what goes on or how bad of a mood I'm in she can always cheer me up. She is sweet, funny, smart and adorable. I am so lucky to have her as a daughter.

Blog Challenge Day 2: favorite quotes.

This days challenge is perfect for me because I'm really into quotes. Below is a short list of some of my all time favorite quotes.

"There are too many mediocre things in life, love shouldn't be one of them."

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -Ghandi

"Love conquerors all." (I have this tattooed in Latin on my back.)

"I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." - Madonna

"There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice."

Blog Challenge: Day 1

Today's blog challenge is to post a self portrait and 5 random facts about myself.

1. I studied classical ballet for 12 years and I wanted to be in the New York City Ballet.

2. I am really good at cooking crepes.

3. I ran away from home my senior year of high school.

4. When I was in high school I dreamed opening my own animal rescue when I grew up.

5. I won a college scholarship my freshman year of college, I ended up with a .75 GPA at the end of freshmen year.

31 Day Blog Challenge

To help me to get into blogging I am going to do the 31 Day blog challenge I found on Pinterest. This should help me get back into the blogging flow.

Work in Progress Wednesday

Every Wednesday I am going to post about my current crafty (mostly knitting) works in progress. This week I am still working on the herbivore shawl in my lovely sparkley hand dyed sock yarn.

Reverse Seed Stitch Cowl Pattern Release

Last night I released a new knitting pattern that I designed last year. I designed a cowl to use hand spun yarn, but really any yarn can be used. There are directions for knitting the cowl in either fingering weight or DK weight yarn. This is only the second knitting pattern I have ever designed, but I am hoping to work on more designs this year. I am offering a free copy of the cowl pattern on Ravelry (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/reverse-seed-stitch-cowl) until April 2nd, using coupon code 'newspring'. I would love to see more people knitting this pattern and please share them with me in my Ravelry group here.
       

Qingming Festival Day

Today I celebrated Qingming with my family. It's an over 2,500 year old Chinese tradition, of paying your respects to your ancestors that have passed away. The Qingming Festival is an opportunity for celebrants to remember and honour their ancestors at grave sites. Young and old pray before the ancestors, sweep the tombs and offer food, tea, wine, chopsticks, joss paper accessories, and/or libations to the ancestors.  After the gravesweeping was done our grandfather made us some delicious homemade Chinese food.


                                              

Happy Pi Day!

In honor of Pi Day, we are doing a Pi Shawl Knit a long in Bohoknitterchic's Ravelry group. I am knitting the Doubloon Shawl. This will probably end up being the biggest thing I have ever knit once I am done, as it calls for 2000 yards of lace weight yarn. I am using a yummy alpaca, cashmere, silk blend yarn hand dyed by my friend Carrie. This is my first time knitting with lace weight yarn. Here is a shot of my progress so far.