And the winner is.......

Well not so much a winner but a tie, yes a tie people!!!!

With 11% each of the voting totals the winnners of the poll are :

Hodr/Skadi, the norse god/goddess of winter

&

Rynkar, the norse god of time

As for the winner of the surprise for their comments...

vtknitboy from plurk is the winner!!! I will be sending you a congratulatory email through the night to get your contact information in order to send off your goody package (no not a euphimism).

I want to take a moment to thank you all for voting over the last few weeks and for posting your comments to enter the contest.

When will the designs be finalized and patterns available? Well I am in the sampling stages right now for a few ideas for the inspiration winners and will let you know in the next week what the designs will be. As for the patterns themselves, well I am hoping that sometime before Halloween for sure to have them ready for you all on Ravlery.

Once again thank you all and will chat soon!

-D

The final stretch...

Well it is almost time to end the contest poll, and I would like to take a moment to thank you all for your votes and entries into the contest.

It looks like it will be a close result as well and just want to let you all know to make that final push for your favourite!

I have started on some sampling this past weekend for the potential designs and I hope that they will work out well as final outcomes not just as samples.

Hopefully my first attempt at knitwear design turns out well, with friends like you all supporting this it needs to be!

-D

When your sausages explode...

Euphimise if you want to but may I just say ouch.

This past Saturday, August the 16th, was our annual family party(reunion of sorts). We always have a blast when we all get together and we finally smartened up a few years ago and decided to make it potluck.

This year I decided to take care of the bbq since I was able to get a good deal on spicy Italian sausage through our meat supplier at work. oh they are good sausage. Even if some of them did explode while on the bbq. How did this happen? No freaking idea.

All I know is I had the bbq on low as this is how I always do them, and just let them go for as long as they need to. I put them all on and closed the lid, and not even a minute later, BOOM!!!!.

I put down my margharita and run the five steps to the bbq. I grab the tongs and lift the lid. BOOM!!!!!!! Another one explodes. Let me just tell you that I am glad I was wearing my glasses and nto my contacts as sausage meat flying at you at top speed can be dangerous. I have the welt on my neck to prove it. Yes I did say welt. It hurt!

Thankfully only three sausage in total exploded, and no one was seriously injured.

I can hear the news headings now... "Sausage explodes in mans face". OY!