Maylin is having two contests. For the first, suggest a use for a particular set of needles, and you could win those needles and other goodies. For the second, guess the total weight of yarn in her sock yarn basket and you could win something from that basket. Both contests at midnight (midnight in France) on Halloween.
Did you see these kitty Halloween costumes at Cute Overload? Chaos and Mayhem have nothing to complain about. 🙂
Reading Update
Singer of Souls by Adam Stemple. This book starts out only a few blocks from where I live! 🙂 This was a fabulous urban fantasy novel and I’m looking forward to reading more from Stemple (who has also been in the local bands Cats Laughing, Boiled in Lead, and the Tim Malloys).
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding, edited by P.N. Elrod. I got this primarily to read “A Hard Day’s Night-Searcher” by Sherrilyn Kenyon (yes, yes, a Dark-Hunter short story) and “Something Borrowed” by Jim Butcher (a Harry Dresden short story). There’s a good short story by Charlaine Harris, but it isn’t part of her Sookie stories.
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story by Leonie Swann. This was such a fun read! A flock of sheep discovers its beloved shepherd dead with a spade through his body. Led by Miss Maple (hee!) and black sheep Othello, the sheep work to discover the culprit.
Kiss of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Dark-Hunter. Moving right along…
Stroke of Midnight – “Winter Born” by Sherrilyn Kenyon. A Were-Hunter short story featuring Ash and the Simi. What’s not to like?
Talk Nerdy To Me by Vicki Lewis Thompson. I’ve maybe overdosed on the Nerd Series…
Knitting Update
I finished a second pair of Sockamania Elegance socks… This pair is for another holiday present and was knit from Socks That Rock in the Monsoon colorway on 2.25 mm needles, 60 stitches. This was a sock club color that I bartered Jeanne for. What looks like grey in the pictures is actually supposed to be a plum color (and thus look less like camo), but you can only discern the plumish tinge under very specific lighting conditions.
“A camo kitty bed? So no one’s going to be able to see me when I’m on it, right? Cool!” -Mayhem
“Finally, I’ll be able to have some privacy and take a good bath, since no one can see me.” -Mayhem
*mrmph* “Boy, that’s a tough snarl there between my toes…” -Mayhem
“Hey, wait a minute… you’re all staring at me… this camo kitty bed sucks! It doesn’t work! Hmph.” -Mayhem
I’m on the waiting list for Three Bags Full at the library. It looks really fun.
Aren’t those kitty costumes a scream!? I know what would happen if I tried that on my guys…
Please. Dressing Atticus up like candy corn would not be a good thing for me…
😀
You silly kitty! Plum is purple. It needs to be destroyed. Oh well, kitty spit is better than nothing 😉
Uh, May? Cats are not chameleons. Black kitties do not blend into camo socks. Sorry.
Kitty? I don’t see a kitty.
Gorgeous socks!
I must admit that I’m very tempted by Crazy Aunt Purl’s cat sweater contest. The cats would be very cranky in a handknit sweater, but oh so cute! I have determined that Kylie does not mind modeling handknit scarves, provided that they’re made of cashmere.
How could we all admire your beauty if you are hiding Mayhem?
I love that title, “My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding.” I just wrote a short story this weekend about a boy whose parents were aliens. Maybe I could do a sequel when he marries his alien bride. LOL.
Oh, and the socks ain’t too shabby either. 😉
I think you may need to make that candy corn hat. It’s awfully cute, and would look great with Chaos’s eyes…
Maybe mom will knit you a pair of black socks, May…then you will completely disappear before our eyes…except of course for your beautiful eyes. 😉
Chris- I see by reading the comments that we haven’t convinced Marina of the lovliness of the purple spectrum.
No accounting for taste!
Is there May and Chaos?
I really, really want to knit candy corn hats for my cats and kids too! I don’t think any of them would wear them without threat of bodily harm, but I have the urge to make them just the same.
Same pattern as the ones you knit before, right? They look so different in this yarn!!
You are so quick! The socks look great.
I thought about you when I saw those costumes. I think M & C need candy corn hats!
Love the socks!
Oops? I think the color you used is Monsoon? Lagoon wasn’t a club color. But anyway, they’re terrific socks! I saw this on my Ravelry feed earlier and was surprised to see you had knit another pair or Elegances. : )
These two books/series you pointed out look interesting… I want to read the sheep one!
Great socks! Do the Sockmania patterns ever become available to non-sockmania people?
I hope you showed Chaos and Mayhem the kitty costumes. A baby bib is so much more dignified than a candy corn hat! Although I am sure Chaos would be quite handsome wearing an orange bow around his neck (at least for the 5 nanoseconds before he managed to destroy it).
Camo kitty needs some instructions on what is acceptable camo, I think!
Your Monsoons look great. (So does Chaos, of course!) The d*g I was caring for lately always made sure to put her ball right on the spot that had my attention. This was quite interesting when I did pooper scooper duty. Ewwwww! (Fortunately, the ball came with a chucker to pick it up and throw it.)
I love the candy corn hat!
May, everyone looks at you b/c you’re just too beautiful, doncha know?
(((hugs)))
The sheep detective story sounds fun! Great socks, those sock blockers sure attract the kitties to know there is picture taking happening 🙂 It’s just that May is a ham for the camera, maybe even moreso than Chaos!
Hee hee…I would love to get the candy corn one on Remy – except I’d make two “horns” of it, lol…
I liked Three Bags Full, too. It was a highly amusing twist on a murder mystery. 🙂
Oooh.. yummy colors! I can’t wait to see the STR Raven series that is coming out in November. I hear that the STR Club folks got a sneak peek with this months colorway.
There are not enough treats. Anywhere. Ever. There would be no peace. Yarn, the mail and chewy-soled shoes-they would all be Tier One targets.
After a near miss yesterday at my local Target (it was a chicken costume. Like Gonzo’s white chicken)–JUST SAY NO.
non of those costumed kitties look the least bit amused
How come those furballs (sorry C and M but you sometimes look sleek … and fluffy) think socks are catbeds? I really don’t see the connections, but then again, I’m not a beautiful black cat.
Also wanted to say, that I’ve followed your blog with vigilance and am happy to see that you seem better!!! Take care of yourself!
the rice cripsy treat costume is awesome. i should make a big one for my golden retriever
Oh Mayhem, those socks match your eyes!
How do you read so many books at once? I have trouble with one! 🙂
That rice krispy outfit is too much! One year, when we lived in a ‘rough’ part of Syracuse (=mostly not white), a friend’s husband showed up as a giant candy corn, with a big white cone on his head…. I told him he had to take that off and now! May Miss May, I’d’ve thought she like’d showing off a bit of leg.
I love the candy corn outfit. Katie says she’ll pass on the costume though. Poor May. Camo doesn’t work well for black kitties.
Those kitties on cute overload look some pissed off!
Silly Mayhem 🙂
lovely socks.
I can’t believe that you are already doing holiday gifts… yipes.
Mayhem is so clever and cute
and
Her mom knits great socks!
Fab socks! Cool Mayhem 😉
I love the socks. Monsoon is such a great colorway.
The cats in those costumes looked progressively madder and more and more pissed off as I scrolled down one pic at a time…
The poor cat stuck as the rice crispie treat…eesh.
Where’s the humanity, I ask you! Where is the humanity?
And then poor mayhem living out her life in the limelight…as I do the same to my poor hapless isis…ah the shame, the shame I feel!
Then again, cats do love the attention, don’t they? even when they pretend that they don’t?