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I’m 31.5 years old today! I’ve been celebrating my half-birthday since I was 8.5. Others might remember that day as the day the space shuttle exploded. My memory of that day was something like:

*counting on fingers* “Hey! I’m eight and a half today!” *looks at tv* “is it supposed to do that?”

Obviously, I didn’t understand the gravity of the situation at the time (give me a break… I was only eight. And a half!).

Back to the point: I like to do something fun to commemorate the day. In the past I’ve had frosting for dessert (instead of a whole piece of cake). I’ve taken a half-day off of work. I’ve watched 15 minutes of one sitcom then changed channels and watched 15 minutes of another sitcom and pretended the were the same show (sometimes this make the shows funnier… sometimes it just shows you how similar sitcoms are…).

This year I’ve decided to take stock and show all of you my half-finished projects.

Baby blankets:

Red/Orange Crochet-on-the-Double using Bernat Satin:

Yellow/Green Crochet-on-the-Double using Bernat Satin:

Green blanket using Bernat Baby Coordinates:

The start of a strip for Blankets For Canada using Bernat Softee Chunky (which I seem to be allergic to… it’s ok, I wear gloves while working with this yarn now!) using a Knifty Knitter long loom:

Not baby blankets:

My Halloween costume not finished for 2008, maybe it’ll be ready for 2009? The costume was to be a Crazy Cat Lady. I was going to make (and buy) toy cats and sew them on my housecoat, then fill my pockets with these little kitties, which would then be thrown at people. Awesome, I know. I used Bernat Satin for these.

A green purse, using Bernat Satin, abandoned due to an inability to sew the two pieces together properly. They have the same number of stitches on a side, so I’m not sure where the problem was. I’ll try it again when I have time.

And finally, a yellow dishcloth, Tunisian stitch, using Bernat Handicrafter cotton.

This last picture reveals one of my favourite yarn crafting tips: Slurpee cups make excellent yarn barns. Put the yarn in the cup, pull an end through the hole in the dome, then put the dome on the cup. The best part of this system: you now have an excellent reason to get a large Slurpee!

My more observant friends will probably be thinking to themselves, “That can’t possibly be all of her half-finished projects”. Well, it’s true. There is the scarf (I haven’t worked more on that since you saw it last), the yellow and green baby blanket (OCD won, math geek blanket pattern planned for the next blanket), and the ripple baby blanket at my parents’ house. Dad’s Christmas blanket is in the planning stages, so I’m not sure if that counts or not. In a non-yarn vein, I have a couple dozen un-decorated magnets on my fridge that are waiting for pretty pictures and flat marbles to be glued to them

Annnnd…. I only glanced around the apartment for about five minutes to find the projects shown here. There very well may be many more projects hiding in boxes and bags and in closets. Let’s try not to think about those. ^_^