She Beat Me To It!

Hi, I'm Maddie. I'm the other half of Six Weeks of Break. I'm in charge of all the fashion. I plan on posting outfit pictures tomorrow. For now I will leave you with a resounding HELLO! And some pretty pictures of tights that I wish I owned and cool people looking cool.

(Pictures: The Cobra Snake and Taylor Swift Web)

Lookit, It's the First Post!

Well, here's a champagne bottle-hitting-the-side-of-the-internet initiation for Six Weeks of Break:

Bam. I scoured two Barnes & Noble branches looking for this little nugget of awesome, only to be denied in both locations. I reserved a copy at Borders, and then I didn't make it in there to pick it up. I'm still planning to buy my own copy, but in the meantime, I managed to stumble across it at my local library. Thank goodness for good old-fashioned browsing.

This book, published a bit before the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, contains a crazy number of self-designed, Harry Potter-inspired knitting projects. The projects range from three difficulty levels: First-Year (beginner), Ordinary Wizarding Level (O.W.L., intermediate), and Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test (N.E.W.T., advanced). I'm really only a beginning knitter, but I'm hoping to get into hats and socks over break, which requires the intermediate skill of knitting "in the round." Brace yourself for pictures.

Also found at the library was a book I'd gotten my hands on the week before I left for Knox:

As a chocolate lover and bake-centric foodie, I died a little (in the Shakespearian sense) when I started reading this book. I am going to attempt at least one recipe from it, given that I can pull it off without investing in specialty equipment, and that I can afford to buy a bunch of chocolate to fail with on my first few tries.

Now, who do I have to call to pick up all the glass from that champagne bottle?