Coming Soon...

Europe Update coming soon. The trip was amazing I learned a lot and had a lot of fun. I have been crazy busy since I got back working and life. I am still sorting through all my pictures which is proving to be a challenge. So hopefully a detailed post will be coming soon, probably in stages there is a lot to cover.

Europe!!

The day has finally come in a little over 14 hours I will be headed to London, England for my two week study abroad trip! I have been planning for this trip for over a year and worked hard to pay for it as a job I didn't really like. But the day has finally come. I'm looking forward to this WWII themed trip and can't wait to see all the places I have only read about. One of the things I'm most looking forward to is seeing the Eiffel tower I'm a little obsessed, but I also feel like I have a right to be since I have a completely french last name haha. So expect some awesome pictures and perhaps a blog while I'm over there. I will be updating twitter so anything exciting will be over there! Two weeks in England, France, and Germany I know there will be lots to talk about. I also have a knitting project that I will maybe complete (but probably not) while I'm over there. I'm making the Clapotis in a really nice cotton/wool yarn that I can't remember what it is at the moment. But hopefully I will be able to knit on the plane and such.

Surprise!!

For the past few days I was in a funk. I felt like I was in the depths of despair as Anne of Green Gables would say. But today that changed when one of my best college friends Jenny came for a surprise visit. Oh man it was wonderful. It's only been about 2 weeks but it's awful to go from seeing everyone everyday to nothing. Plus she is just such an encouragement for me that I've missed her greatly. But we had lunch, knitted, and visited for a bit and I can't wait for her longer visit in about a week and a half. Also my good friend from home Katie is hopefully going to visit me down here in St. Aug this week will be wonderful since I haven't seen her in months!!! Otherwise I'm working some at the Research Library and working on papers as well as unpacking my room which needs to happen before my roommate comes back from Israel!


PS I hope she doesn't kill me for this but this totally represents our friendship and personalities me standing there as Jenny is crazy and makes me laugh.

Picture Update

I feel like I've had nothing to write about lately because everything is the same day after day but I do have some random pictures from the past semester that I would like to share.


These are WASPs from WWII I've been wanting to see them for such a long time the only sad par was that I did not actually get to meet any of them but it was one of my dreams come true to get to see them and hear their stories!


This is one of my good friends who I never get to see, Hannah, at my B-day dinner.


This is also at my B-day dinner with my roomie Brooks.


Hillson United at the Pasion 2010. We were really close to the stage as you can see from the picture. But they were really cool to see in person. Even though I didn't really care that much at the time, they are really awesome worship leaders and song writers and really know what it is to glorify the Lord with their gifts rather than themselves.


And these girls were probably the highlight of Passion 2010 because they were good friends when I was younger and living in Louisiana. We haven't seen each other in 9 years and it was great to see them again even if it was for only a short time. I hope to see them again soon.

Summer

Summer has begun for me. I am done with my Spring semester at Flagler. So far I have 3 B's and I think one A but it hasn't all been confirmed quite yet. I didn't do as well as I was really hoping this semester but it's better.
I've really enjoyed by internship this semester and I'm currently waiting to find out if it will turn into a job for the rest of my time in St. Augustine. It would really be awesome and I'm really anxious to find out and praying that I will be hired!
I will also be moving into my first apartment sometime in May. I'm really excited to be living with the 3 other girls that are sharing the apartment. It should be fun!
I also am really looking forward to my Europe trip in June! I'm trying to plan things and hopefully will be buying some stuff for my trip. But that is all I'm sure I'll have much more to talk about soon.

Happy Easter

Easter is one of my favorite holidays everyone gets dressed in new clothes and heads to church to celebrate Christ's resurrection. I kinda realized today why we always get new clothes. Because it's a symbol of our newness in Christ and the spring season where things are new and fresh. Which may also be a reason why God chose this time of year to have Christ die to represent the new life that we can have through Jesus. Church was amazing this morning and I've missed my family so much and am glad to spend time with them. School is over in a few weeks and I have so much work to do so this is crunch time. I will be so glad when it's over! Happy Easter and I hope everyone remembers why we celebrate this wonderful holiday!

Knitting

I've finished 3 projects in 2 days that is every unusual for me. However, most of these projects had very little left to them to finish so I finally bit the bullet and finished them. The first was was a pair of socks for my sister.
The Basic Ribbed Socks in Red Heart Heart & Sole In Razzle Dazzle. I really loved this yarn just the pattern is adorable and made the seemingly monotonous part of knitting 3 x 1 rib go by really fast.

The second project was my Roomie's Scarf. It was supposed to be her Christmas Present but I ran out of yarn and had to wait till I went home to get more. I Cast on 17 stitches and just knit in seed stitch till it was long enough. I used Paton's Shetland Chunky In the Variegated Denim color way. It's really cute and matches the hat I made her last Christmas.

Finally I finished something for myself. I bought Bernat Alpaca Natural Blend yarn a while back and have been wanting to make somthing so I decided on the Kaya Cabled Scarf. It's really cute and was super easy! I guess I'll have to wait till it's really cold to really wear it but It'll be great.

On another note the Passion: Awakening Cd comes out on Tuesday and let me tell you it's amazing! I've been listening to it on Itunes and it is so great to relive that time at Passion 2010 through the music!

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!