Knitting and Misc

So I have started a new and fabulous project for me!!

It is the Whisper Cardigan from Interweave Spring 2009, and I am using Brown Sheep Cotton Fine in this beautiful blue color. I am totally in love with it. This is all that I have done so far.
It is coming along nicely, there are some mistakes but I'm just going to let it go for now I don't really care that much...I think. I am kind of a perfectionist when it comes to my knitting especially when I am knitting for myself but right now I'm just going to go with the flow on this one and see how it turns out.
In other news I was walking around St. Augustine the other day and happened on this lovely thing
An old Mail box!! I love it this town has so many cool little gems all over it!
Also my roommate and I decorated our door for Valentines Day, well really she did and I helped. It turned out adorable. Unfortunately we didn't win the contest but I think it's only because we won the last time. Well that's really it for now, I guess I'm back to the grind of endless school work!

What A Week

I feel like this week has been a blur. I didn't have to work at my internship on Monday so I basically had a day off, but since then I've just been running around busy. I am absolutely loving my internship! It is a ton of work but the work that I am doing is so amazing, I literally feel like I'm a part of history at my internship just with the changes that are happening there. I also found out that another amazing thing will be happening at school in the next few weeks but I will wait to post about that until after it has happened. Anyways I just can't believe that I am taking the classes that I am taking.
At the moment I am taking a class called Oral History and I will have the opportunity to interview people in the area who have been veterans. My goal is to interview women which should provide a very interesting paper that I am ecstatic about! I literally am giddy about a paper and it is so strange to me. However I am taking another history class called Southern Religious History and my paper topic for that is still very unclear and I am hoping that next week I can really nail down an idea which hopefully one of the people who works at my internship will be able to give me some ideas. Although I'm not swamped yet with school work (which is amazing!) I am still incredibly busy just with classes and my jobs. But so far this school year has been interesting just there have been some downs with some of my friends just being strange and stuff and I am hoping that they will just straighten out a little bit or just get over their issues a little bit. However I am determined to just have a good semester and knit because it makes me happy. I am working on a lovely Alpaca scarf and will soon be starting the Whisper Cardigan from Interweave Knitting Spring 2009. I am still waiting on my yarn to come in for that though. Sorry about the random post but this is just how my mind is working right now.

Knitting

I have finished a few projects lately that I have slowly been working on over the past semester and Christmas break.
This is the Maroma Shawl from NaturallyCaron.com I made it for my Aunt out of Patton Merino Wool in the Denim colorway. It came out really nice and I also crocheted the first border ever around any knitted item I am really glad at how it came out. Unfortunately the color is quite off but it is a really deep denim blue.

I also made this scarf as well as a Spring Beret out of the same yarn. The scarf is called the Scrunchable scarf and it was completly charming while I was knitting it. The yarn is Caron Simply soft in plum.

I made this scarf for my roommate from last year. I even knit on it while I was at the BarlowGirl concert in Tallahasse! I love this scarf I used the Feather and Fan stitch, but it was a beast to knit it just took so long! I made it out of about 1 1/2 hanks of KnitPicks Shadow Lace in Spring Green. She loves it and it looks so good on her too!At the Barlow Girl Concert!

New Year New Semester

Oh man it has been a long time since I've written. Many things have happened and much has stayed the same. The Fall Semester finally ended in a whirl wind that was not as successful as I would have liked it to be. My GPA dropped but I am confident that I can raise it back up to a more successful (in my view that is) number. I spent much of my break working at the craft store so that I could make some money for my Europe trip this summer, however I as always got spendy and spent a lot of it on Christmas Presents. However I came back this semester to school and have started my internship at the St. Augustine Historical Society Research Library. I am responsible for one main project involving a reorganization of biographical photographs and also assisting with the development of a tour about the house that the library is headquartered. There are also several other projects that I will have the opportunity to be involved in which will give me a ton of experience for my future career in public history. One of the most exciting things about this internship is that this experience will be amazing for my grad school applications because as my professors have told me is that many undergrads who apply for the public history degress in grad schools do not have this kind of experience to back up their interest. So basically I'm ahead of the game which makes me really excited. I am a bit nervous about my course load and am praying for all As! That would just make my year I feel like. Well this has been an incredibly random post and I also have plans to write about my experience at Passion 2010 which was probably one of the best experiences of my life, I loved Atlanta!

It's About That Time

There comes a point in every college students semester where they just get into a funk. I am at that point. Everything has piled up into the same week and well I'm just there. I need a vacation, but my school doesn't have vacations it's pretty much one of the only draw backs though. I can't explain this time right now I'm anxious and in a funk really that's all there is to it. I am trying to rely on God though and it helps but my mind tells me that it's not. However I just try to keep focusing on God and this particular verse has been helping me out for the past few days. Philippians 4:6-7 "do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hears and your minds in Christ Jesus."

BACK AT SCHOOL

I moved back into Flagler yesterday. I am so glad to be back! I moved into a different dorm entirely so it's been interesting getting used to the way things are over in this dorm. I have a fabulous roommate who is just awesome! We get along great and in a sense were practically roommates last year I spent so much time in her room last year. I am an orientation leader so I was able to move in 4 days early which was so nice since there was no where near the traffic and chaos there will be on Saturday when all the Freshman move in. Hopefully everything will go smoothly. It's a bit strange to be on a practically empty campus but I kinda like having it to myself, it's fun. Classes start in 6 days and I'm excited but not at the same time, after all it is class. Soon I will be finishing up a post about what I did this summer working at the Museum of Science and History. Which was a ton of fun and I have really cool pictures and stuff to share.

Summer 2009

So summer 2009 has ended...a long time ago but I haven't had a chance to post about my summer yet so here it goes. I hate summer it's way to long and I miss everyone at school also I just can't handle not being in class for 4 months it's way to boring. However one thing that has not been boring this summer was working at the MOSH. At the MOSH I interned with the history curator and was able to work not only in the collections room, but I also was able to create my own exhibits! It was so much fun and I learned a lot about museum work. This is now my official plan once I graduate from Flagler to immediately make my way to an institution with a graduate program in museum studies where I will most likely focus my history on American Studies and then learn all aspects of curatorship. So I though I would share some pictures of the work that I did at the MOSH because a blog post without pictures is well...boring.

This is some of the stuff we have in the collections room...I spent a lot of time in here organizing and cataloging stuff


This is one of the exhibits I helped create it's war bonds and ration cards with a couple posters as well.

This is the case on women. The dolls are probably my favorite. They are Madame Alexander WAC and WAVES dolls and they are just adorable.

This case has artifacts from NAS Jax during World War II. It's really cool.

This case is about is about the homefront, we put different stuff in here including a life magazine article about victory gardens, the little red and white flag with the blue star is an original flag that a family used to indicate that one of their family members was in the war. There are also gas masks an adult and a child in case of an attack.

This is an American Red Cross sock kit from the 1940s, I really wanted to make socks out of this yarn, I thought it would be so cute...but alas it's an artifact and such, but still really cool.

This is the 1950s house where I probably spent at least 2 weeks inventorying and rearranging. We put these manaquins down there this summer and I think they are really funny, they kind of freaked me out at first because we put them in about a month after I started so it was kinda weird with them being in there but I like them alot.
Well this is what I did this summer. It was a ton of fun and I can't wait to have more internships!

Lucky

Our beautiful dog Lucky died this past week. As you can see he lived on our front porch and I used to joke that this was our redneck dog because of that. We found him as a stray when we lived in Louisiana and had him for over 10 years. He was the best dog anyone could have. He loved people and was just so sweet. It was hard to watch him go, but he was definitely sick, I'm not sure with what, but we knew that something was wrong. I'll miss his perky little face when I drive up to the house, and the lovely way he kept door to door people from actually getting up to our door! But it was great to have him as a dog and I know that he is not in pain anymore. It's sad but we are moving on maybe one day we'll get another dog just as sweet, but for now we are once again petless.

Growing Up and Moving On

So I've noticed that what everyone has told me about life and friends has started to come true. I've noticed that some of my high school friends are drifting away and we don't have as much in common anymore and are not keeping in touch as much. I swore this would never happen, but it is as I'm becoming so close with many of my new college friends and love spending time with them. The funny thing about this whole process is that I don't really mind it as much as I thought I would. I'm okay with this process and I'm seeing it as part of growing up. Now don't get me wrong I'm a little sad about it, but I guess I've accepted it and am ready to move on and embrace my new life!

Lately

I have officially started my summer jobs. My first one and probably my favorite is that I am interning at the local history and science museum in the collections department going through and reorganizing the Pre-Colombian collection AKA Mayan pottery and other related things. I also am responsible for the care of one of the exhibits making sure that there aren't any lights out or signs aren't knocked over. Also in the care of the exhibit I also get to clean all of the snotty and fingerprinted glass which isn't the most fun thing but I will get to spend a lot of time in there and I like it in there so it's all good. I really thing that museum work is the field I'm interested in pursuing. However, I've only been there for a week so I'm not totally convinced yet but I like the work so maybe that is what I will do once I graduate from college. I also have started working again at the craft store I worked at last year and over Christmas break. This is good because my internship doesn't pay me anything and I need to make money so that I can pay for my Europe trip next summer, which I'm very excited about!! I can't even contain my excitement sometimes. So this is basically what I have been doing for the past week working at my two summer jobs and then making dinner if I'm home at night.

I have also started several new knitting projects. One is for me, my lace shawl I mentioned in my last post, a shawl I started on around Christmas time for my aunt which is coming along, and then a pretty lace scarf for a college friend (it's going to be a surprise ). Well that's about it I hope that you have a great weekend and hopefully I'll update again soon with pictures :)