...I just don't have to energy to post the same thing to three blogs. I'm still keeping this to read and comment...and will probably blog when I feel like it. If you want to catch up with me, just go to my Main Blog. ;-)

     

Your Score: 4- the Individualist

     

Thanks for taking the test !

      

     

      you chose BY - your Enneagram type is FOUR (aka "The Romantic")

"I am unique"

Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

How to Get Along with Me

• Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.


• Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.


• Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.


• Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.


• Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!

What I Like About Being a FOUR

• my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level


• my ability to establish warm connections with people


• admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life


• my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor


• being unique and being seen as unique by others


• having aesthetic sensibilities


• being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me

What's Hard About Being a FOUR

• experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair


• feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved
  


• feeling guilty when I disappoint people


• feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me


• expecting too much from myself and life


• fearing being abandoned



• obsessing over resentments


• longing for what I don't have

FOURs as Children Often

• have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games


• are very sensitive


• feel that they don't fit in


• believe they are missing something that other people have



• attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.


• become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
  


• feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)

FOURs as Parents

• help their children become who they really are


• support their children's creativity and originality


• are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings



• are sometimes overly critical or overly protective


• are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed

Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele

The Enneagram Made Easy

Discover the 9 Types of People

Harper
SanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages

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Firestarter: Progress

Start: 23rd September 2007, frogged and restarted 03rd October 2007
Finish: WIP
Yarn: Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Sockenwolle, colourway "Bob"
Needle: 2.5 mm / 80 cm Addi Turbos
Pattern: Firestarter by Yarnissima via The Loopy Ewe
Modifications: I need to modify the stitches to make it fit my foot. 72 stitches instead of the 60 stitches from the pattern and one extra cable repeat before the gusset increase.

No, no, not my foot. That's definitely NOT a lollipop (well, with the exception of those with foot fetish *LOL* Besides, the colours of the sock isn't that far off either! XD )

Okay, seriously now. I don't know why I didn't post about this any earlier. I've been posting over at the Firestarter KAL page though...so I guess I just kind of forgot about it.

The Firestarter had been neglected for quite a bit because I was so hell-bent on finishing off the Swallowtail Shawl first (and BTW, thank you soooo much for all the nice comments about it!). Not that the Firestarter's going to get any faster because Swallowtail is finished, since I still have other stuff on the needles that I want to get off, too. Not to mention the Mystic Waters KAL which starts tomorrow..and then I also want to design something. ;-)

Anyhow, I like the way my Firestarter is looking. And hanging out with Bockstark Knits had rubbed off the tight-knit on me again....and I have to say that I really like how the fabric's feeling knitted so tight like this.

Now I'm just praying that I won't have problems with the heel turn because I modified the stitch count.

Well, that's all I have to tell for now.....and there's also a reason for the title of the post, too, but you'll just see it at the end. ;-)

Current Mood: Good
Food for the Ears: Lollipop - The Chordettes (yeah, the song's been running in my head for the whole day now, out of nowhere, really! And I really cannot stop listening to it!)

I know I really have neglected Vox...but you know, trying to keep up with everything isn't that easy. I'm not going to do any backlog. You know where to find the rest.

Anyhow....

Swallowtail Shawl

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Start: 15th September 2007
Finish: 17th October 2007
Yarn: Sheepaints MariSilk (70% silk, 30% seacell), "Elvegrass"
Needles: Addi Lace, 3.5 mm - 80 cm (US#4 - 32")
Pattern: Swallowtail Shawl by Evelyn A. Clark from Interweave Knits Fall 2006

The cocoon has hatched, and out came a beautiful Swallowtail.

I finished the shawl a couple of days ago, but couldn't get a good photo of it indoor...so I took the chance today and went out to do some outdoor shootings, unfortunately sans model.

With the exception of the p5tog for the nupps, I think that this is a good knit. It's interesting enough to keep the attention to it, not too hard to make and not too huge to make. It does take a while, but still, it's a lovely shawl to knit!

Current Mood: Good
Food for the ears:

La complainte de la butte

Patrick Bruel

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Okay, I have to admit that I can't stand Eros Ramazotti. But the fact that this has Ricky in it...well, I'll tolerate Eros.

Enjoy:

En español:

In italiano:

...and while I'm at it, I think I'll throw in "Te extraño, te olvido, te amo"....if you know why I like Ricky, then this is where it all started:

Travelling:

Yarn Stashing:

Knitting:

Firestarter Sock

Spinning:

Fibre Stashing:

Getting gifts:

Project bag

If you're wondering where I am....I'm still here and reading. Just not posting.

If you want to read and catch up with me, then go over to my main blog. I just don't have the energy to post multiple posts of the same content here at the moment...but rest assure, I won't be abandoning Vox.

This is long overdue. I've been updating my main blog, but not the others. I took the route of escapism last week and dived in to knit....to keep my sanity from all of my stress and my problems at the moment. It seems that things might relax a bit now, but I can't. I still have a lot to do....but anyway, let's talk about....KNITTING!

Handgefaerbt.com Sockenwolle: "Erdmagier"

I'm almost at a lost of where I should start at the moment. First, when we were recording episode #05 of the Knitters Uncensored, I ended up buying two hanks of yarn off from Bockstark Knits. It's the "Erdmagier" from Handgefaerbt.com and a blank Knit Picks yarn for me to dye.

Then I also won some sock yarns from Esoteric Knitter. I got two hanks of Interlacements Tiny Toes in the colourway "Canyon Lands". There was also a block of chocolate with blueberries in it...Absolutely yummy! I really don't know at the moment what I'm going to knit up with the yarns. We'll see. (The chocolate is, of course, already gone...what do you expect?!)

Moo Stickers!

Then I think that the next day, I received my Moo Stickers in the post. They're just soooooo cute! I haven't used them at all, because I don't know what to stick them on to. On the same evening, I went over to Bockstark Knits, because we finally got the care package sent to us Knitters Uncensored from ScoutJ. It was held at the customs and Bockstark had to go and retrieve it with a good strategy: Playing the totally stressed out American mum with her two running, screaming 2-year-old twin boys. The people at the customs just got soooo annoyed that they just wanted to get her and the boys out of there ASAP. Hehehehe....what a great strategy, eh?

Anyway, the care package has only the yarn that Scout dyed in the colourway created specially for the Knitters Uncensored. It's called "South Tyrolean Mankitten in Lederhosen". If you look at the yarn: The blue is supposed to represent the blue sky in South Tyrol, while the brown/gold represents the colours of the Lederhosen. Clever isn't it? The yarn is gorgeously soft and Scout must have washed them with one of her special soak, because it smells heavenly!

Not only did we get the yarn, but Bockstark Knits also got in a bit of surprise for us Knitters Uncensored, too. She got the Go Knit Pouch by KnowKnits for us! She put the yarn in the bag....along with the Moo Stickers she ordered specifically for the Knitters Uncensored!

As some of you may know, I'm extremely short on money right now...and some of my friends are trying to help me out. On particular friend thus commissioned two pairs of Jaywalkers from me....and I'll also be translating his company website for him. From my feeling though, I think that he would've just given me money anyway, but I actually really want to get a job...and so he's giving me a job. And I'm really grateful that he actually commissioned me to knit...because it's something I love. Apart from that, I love JayWalkers anyway, so it is a great way for me to earn some money. Although I still haven't talked to him about how much he should pay for the socks....but you know, he told me to knit one in his size and one in a size larger...which is actually my size. He then jokingly said to me that he could just keep that larger pair and then wrap it up and give it to me for Christmas. :-p

Hundertwasser JayWalker Progress: Heel-Flap completed

Started: 3rd August 2007
Finished: WIP
Yarn: Opal Hundertwasser: "Singender Dampfer in Ultramarin III" (75% virgin wool, 25% polyamide; 100 g / approx. 425 m)
Needle: 2.5 mm/ US #1 - 80 cm Addi Turbos circs
Pattern: JayWalker by Grumperina on MagKnits
Modification: I'm doing this using the toe-up version modified by Natalia Knits and I'm also using the Magic Cast-On instead of the provisional cast-on suggested

This is the smaller sized one. I've actually finished the first side already...and I'm just waiting for my friend to come around and try it on before proceeding to the twin. And so I'm working on the other pair for the moment.

Beetlejuice JayWalker taking shape

Started: 06th August 2007
Finished: WIP
Yarn: Regia 4-Ply Sierra Colour (75% virgin wool, 25% polyamide; 100 g / approx. 420 m); colour no. #5547 "Ethno"
Needle: 2.5 mm/ US #1 - 80 cm Addi Turbos circs
Pattern: JayWalker by Grumperina on MagKnits
Modification: I'm doing this using the toe-up version modified by Natalia Knits and I'm also using the Magic Cast-On instead of the provisional cast-on suggested

This is the bigger pair. For some reasons, the striping and the colours on this pair remind me of Beetlejuice, even though it's not black and white like Beetlejuice's suit. So, I ended up calling this "Beetlejuice JayWalkers"!

Start: 01st July 2007
Finish: Half way on 07th August 2007
Needles: 2.5 mm/ US #1.5 Addi Turbos (100 cm)
Yarn: Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Sockenwolle, colourway "Suzanne"
Pattern: Vinnland by Becca Compton via The AntiCraft, issue Beltane 2007
Modification: I made a heel flap with Eye of Partridge heel instead of the short-row in the pattern

I've also finished one side of my Vinnland! It's gorgeous and I'm loving it! The twin has already been cast on and I've started into the pattern already. However, it's put to the side for the moment, because I was busy with the commissioned JayWalkers.

Started: 30th July 2007
Finished: 11th August 2007
Yarn: Regia 4-ply, Hand-dyed by me (75% superwash virgin wool, 25% polyamid; 50 g / 210 m)
Needle: 2.5 mm/100 cm Lang Needles (comparable to Addi Turbos)
Pattern: Universal Toe-up Sock using Magic Cast-On

Then I also finished the footsies I made with my own "Sunset in Winter" kettle-dyed!!! I love them! I wear them around the house almost all the time now. I'm just really proud of how it turned out.

And lastly (almost), when we were recording episode #06 of Knitters Uncensored this last weekend, there was so much talk about the Montego Bay Scarf....so much that I can't resist casting on for one myself...

Monte Carlo Scarf

Start: 11th August 2007
Finish: WIP
Needles: Addi Lace 4.5 mm / 80 cm
Yarn: Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Sockenwolle, 100% Superwash Merino in "Raku Regenbogen"
Pattern: Montego Bay Scarf by Amy R. Singer in Interweave Knits Summer 2007

I cast-on 37 stitches plus 4 chain edge stitches. Really easy knit...and I'm LOVING the colourful look from the Raku-Regenbogen. It's such a contrast to the (semi-)solid SeaSilk I see out there. ;-) It has grown in the meantime....you might also noticed that I called mine "Monte Carlo Scarf"...just sounds more grand, I guess. :-p

Last bit of news is that I've picked up the Icarus Shawl again....and it's growing! :-)

Have a great week, everyone!

Current Mood: Okay
Food for the Ears:

Did you think

Adrina Thorpe

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