Birthdays & TNNA

It's my birthday, I'm 45 and I can't stop smiling.
Each year gets better and each year I'm happier.
I share my birthday with some cool cats - Maurice Sendak and Howlin' Wolf.
But this is my favorite birthday sharee and my favorite birthday present ever:

Yep, born on my birthday. She's 9 today. I'll take the birthday picture later, she'll be getting her ears pierced after school.

• TNNA was a bucket of love. It's a yarn slumber party. I forgot to bring my camera. The Harlot and Amy have photo recaps and more will be added to Flickr I'm sure. So I will recap some in bullet points:
• Amy lost her voice before the show started. I've been working with her for years on Knitty, but having to step in and do the big talking with her standing right there - terrifying.
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• More Big Girl Knits signing - we signed so many books that my pen ran out of ink. There was lots and lots of Big Girl love
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• Classic Elite and Curvy Knits - I have my second booklet of Curvy Knits patterns coming from Classic Elite this Fall. This is really where I am kicking myself about the camera. All the garments were there. There was a display with the garments, and blown up photos from the booklets. I nearly cried for two reasons: 1) my designs on the wall at Classic Elite - holy f*ck. 2) a gorgeous big, sexy, succulently sexy woman modeling knitwear on the wall- ON THE WALL UP FRONT in a major yarn company's booth. It made me swoon .
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• Did you feel the earth shake when Knitty & Ravelry met in person for the first time? Really, the earth shook, angels may have sang.
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• I told Cat Bordi I'm going to spin yarn for her sock class - now I really have to do it
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• The Stitch Co-op Girls - there was buzz and there were orders. I belong to a co-op of indi knitting and crochet designers organized by the medialicious Shannon Okey, that sells our patterns into yarn stores. We laughed a lot, also there were nuts, and Nathan Fillion in nut oil.
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• Miriam Felton - a new friend! We adopted Miriam and made her do wicked things. She makes me want to knit lace shawls.
  
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• Clara Parks has an awe-some high school hall smile & nearly made me pass Guinness through my nose.
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• Carol Sulcoski cusses as much and maybe even more than I do, we had an f-bomb fiesta.

• Franklin was there :-)

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• Sandi Wiseheart - we met, we hugged, our boobs shot sparks.
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• Julia and the Twist Collective. Have you seen the gorgeousness?
  
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• Abby was there and we fondled fiber.
  
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• It was Beth's first TNNA, wait til you see what it did to her shop
  
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• There was beer

• I've taken a crochet challenge

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• Jenni's ice cream - the Harlot says it best

TNNA is the best kind of reunion it leaves your body exhausted but your heart and your little gray cells full!