Whew! Brace yourselves…
Craftlilly Jennifer has a nice list of KALs and contests for you to check out.
Keohinani is having a model your socks contest. Deadline is September 30, 12 pm, Hawaii Standard Time.
Celtic Kelly and her husband Moose will be Walking for the Cure on October 1. She’s awarding a prize (probably Fleece Artist) to a random sponsor for this good cause!
MrsPao is having a “What flavour crisps does James Bond eat?” contest to help her husband Pao make it to Google’s number one hit for that topic. A winner will be selected randomly after 9 pm GMT, October 31 – knitters can win some lovely Fyberspates sock yarn or non-knitters will receive other non-yarny goodies. (Hee hee, I just participated by posting that link! Woot woot.)
Teyani is having a “guess how many skeins of fiber she’s dyed since the beginning of the year” contest. The winner will get to pick a skein of Chasing Rainbows Superwash Sock Yarn; contest runs through September 24.
Andi is having a contest – she’s giving away a goodie bag to the first commenter to guess Baby K’s name.
Geraldine is having a caption contest and is giving away copies of her vegetarian cookbook. The deadline is September 30.
Check out Zimmermania – a knitalong that starts September 23 and features the patterns of Elizabeth Zimmermann.
Have I mentioned how impressed I am at the amazing breadth of contests and knitalongs y’all come up with?! Very cool. Keep on sending them in to chris at stumbli……
To finish off my crazy busy week last week (well, crazy busy for me at least), I went to see Greg Brown at the Fitzgerald Theater Friday night with my friend Wendy. Somehow Wendy scored amazing seats – 5th row, main floor center. Damn. I think the last time I saw Greg Brown at the Fitz, we were second balcony, obstructed (a genteel way to say the seats were behind a massive damn pillar!). This show was way heavier on the blues and less folksey than I’ve experienced at a Greg Brown show before. Good show, but I think both Wendy and I were ready for some more up tempo music that never arrived. Probably my favorite part was Greg’s second song of the evening, a no holds barred political song that had everyone laughing and cheering.
I spent the rest of the weekend lounging around, reading, not cleaning, drinking mochas, knitting up my pattern that will be in the December MagKnits (I need to finish tweaking and take a few pictures), and just generally recuperating from last week. I need to start getting things together for my Knitblogger’s Tour of the West – can’t believe I leave on the 30th already! Oh yeah, I stubbed the #$*^&!! out of my left pinkie toe on Saturday. I’ve never had a stubbed toe turn such amazing colors in such a short time…
Ok, ok, I know you’re all actually just here for the cute cat pictures! 😉
Mayhem is about as sweet and wispy as she can possibly be – to give you an idea, those little pokey hipbones there? About 1.25-1.5″ across! Awww…
She and Chaos had a pretty rough weekend… Although poor Chaos is on a diet – he snuck a pound or two on while I wasn’t looking these past few months!
May also practiced her posing – the pressure of being a knitblogger’s cat!
Poor Chaos! He’s in danger of being pushed off. And worse … a diet! Not fun at all.
Poor Chaos – we still love you big cat dude. Sorry about the little interloper there stealing your camera time…
Sounds like a great concert.
Darling photo of May – but I was really hoping for a picture of the bruised left pinky toe?
Awww…little Dudes! So cute.
Bummer about the toe! I did that to my big toe last summer, and I thought I was going to be sick. And very little you can do about it too. 🙁 Take care!
We still love you Chaos
Yes, May is cute but so are you!
Big kitties rule!
Your Aussie fans,
Pearl Phyllis and Miss Puss
Awww.. you just have to remind Chaos that the title of this blog is STILL “Stumbling over CHAOS” not “Mayhem”- he still has top billing. hee hee. I think this is all a ploy for us all to send “pity tuna” for Chaos.
Woo! Thanks for the link.
Heh seems that the tigers are having fun.
pao
As always, pictures of the two cats together are killing me with cuteness!
Thanks so much for spreading the word re: The Mitz/Veggie Cookbook contest over at my blog.
What a great looking blog you have, super idea for a post too, who doesn’t love contests?
The Mitz sends headbonks to all your kitties too!!!
Have a great day.
What a great picture of Mayhem!
Holy contests, batman!
I just started another ongoing KAL. FiberFlix. I need another hour in the day, but hey? It’ll be fun!
All those contests! Yowza.
May is so cute! Poor Chaos… Hee hee.
Boy, May sure has big paws! But, she is SO cute!!!!
sorry you bonked your toe.. ouch! Hope it doesn’t slow you down on your vacation. did you break it?
the kitties are so fab…. and Mom, what’s this about a diet???
thanks for the contest mention!
poor Chaos! a new little sister AND a diet? “WAAAHHHH… mommy doesn’t love me anymore!”
Sounds like the toe may be broken–though if it is, there’s not much to do ‘cept tape it to it’s buddy next door.
May is so cute, but Chaos is still King, I’m guessin’.
Congrats on the Magknits pattern – can’t wait to see it!
You tell May, she may be cuter but Chaos was here first. I still love dear Chaos.
OK, you are always doing such fun things. I feel so boring–old and boring. Now, we live in Austin, so other than $, we really have no excuse for not doing fun things other than being old and lazy. *sighs melodramatically* OK, $ is an issue, but surely there are things going on around here that we can be doing, even if just on campus.
I adore mayhem! Kittens are my downfall, LOL! *sigh*
Sorry about the toe 🙁
I was wondering about the Santa Fe trip…can you believe it’s almost time?!
As always, the pic’s of the kitties are SO DAMN ADORABLE. Congrat’s on your Magkntis – can’t wait to see it!
Poor Chaos – usurped by a youngster but she is gorgeous! Poor toe!
May is adorable! I’ve been out of town for a while so belated congratulations on the new kitty!! Two is definitely more fun than one.
Sounds like a wonderful weekend! Especially the not-cleaning part 😉 Yikes toes aren’t supposed to be other colours without nail polish! May looks very sweet there – she’s got that ‘Mom loves me’ look in her eyes there. Here’s hoping she’ll keep Chaos on his toes so he doesn’t need to use your workout machine while you’re gone.
Is Chaos worried he might be losing his spotlight? 😉
Owowow! Last time I did that, I broke the darn toe.
May is pulling no punches with that cuteness, is she?
hmmm… tape that toe to the next one — it will feel better, even if it’s not broken. Having a kitten to chase should take the extra pounds off of Chaos! (And is May reading the book in that picture?)
So many contests!! Great picutres of Chaos and Mayhem… May is sooo teeny and still at that awkward-looking stage a bit. Glad she and Chaos are getting used to each other.
Do we get a hint at your pattern to-be-published in MagKnits?
Willie (my boycat) is in love with May. It’s just love at first sight.
And I love Greg Brown. Never seen him live, though.
Poor toe! I was going to post a pic of my hideously blistered next-to-the-baby-toe but it squicked my brother out to take the picture. (He was a little quizzical at most of my pix. Yarn balls in the museum? Moll Shawl on the Metro? lol)
Chaos and Mayhem are both adorable. They set each other off nicely.
Wow, look at all of those contests! Ouch, sorry about your stubbed toe. I hate it when that happens. May is so cute! She’ll fill out soon enough.
I LOVE Greg Brown! He comes out to California for the Kate Wolf Festival every year. I’m on the staff and always catch his show and buy his CDs.
He was different this year out here, too. His only set was with an old folk singer, Rosalie Sorrels. I missed his funny tunes.
Oh, btw, I am having a Moving Day and Blog Anniversary contest on my new blog.
Looks like May has that pose down and she is so cute. Hope she and Chaos haven’t drawn blood yet. I know you are really looking forward to yor trip too.
May is so cute!!!!
Greg Brown? I’m jealous!
May is so cute!