Ombre, my Hombre!

Before I get down to today’s business, a poetic interlude:

Uh oh Spaghetti-O!
Filled me with your orangey seed
and now meatballs in nine!

Never say I back down from a challenge.

I am FINALLY getting around to picking finalists for the Ombre Contest! FINALLY! You’d given up on me hadn’t you? I’m so sorry it took me so long. It’s not over yet because Ann and Kay still have to pick a winner, but these are the finalists:

Oops, [H]ombre! by Kathy
Shattered eggshell, yolk yellow, and gritty floor gray….

Junk Yard Ombre by Dave
Rusty brown, moldy green, seagull poo white (why do seagulls go to junk yards?) and a smoldering ashy grey.

Candle Ombre by Meghan
dancing dark brown, melted cream, tarnishing beige, and glimmering gold make for a lovely Candle Ombre.

New Baby Girl Ombre by Nichole
baby pink, soft, bright blue (the color of her eyes), pale yellow (like her soft little tufts of hair), and some white (for the spit-up). I love being a mom!

Cucombre by Liz in Nowhere PA
Dark green skin, light green flesh, studded with white seeds.

A Very Brady Ombre (or “Groovy Ombre”) by PBnJ
Avocado Green, Burnt Orange, Harvest Gold, and “Paneling Brown.”

The Drunken Ombre by Kristina
A little black, a little blue, some puke pinkish/brown, and some green to represent the giant lizard that was staring at me when I passed out the last night on my Cancun Spring Break.

MOMBRE! by Anne Margaret
A hit of dried spinach (green), a heavy streak of milk (white), a sprinkling of Cheeto crumbs (orange), completed with a Kool Aid (red) overtone rinse. This is either the floor under our kitchen table or a new yarn color (with a nod to all moms out there cleaning up after their kids.)

“Goin’ My Way, Ombre?” by Heather
Is a seductive selections of scarlets, blushes, and bad-eyeshadow-blue.

And last but not least, in honor of today’s date:

Hurricane Ombre by Carol
Imagine every color there is outside blowing by at 150 mph.

Thank you all for participating! It was great fun going through all of them – you guys are WAY creative. The winner will be announced as soon as those MDK girls get back to me. Thanks all for your kind words about the car as well. And yeah – I’m catching lots of shit on the automatic purchase. Sure the manual’s faster, but DUDE! Faster is NOT what I need. Not to mention that I can’t drive a stick and that with G’s hip and knee problems it’s just not practical. Especially since a lot of our driving is stop and go in the city.

Yesterday was family day – I spoke to every member of my immediate family – which is kind of rare – and most of them I spoke to multiple times. I think my sister and I talked like fifty-seven times. At one point the phone was ringing every five minutes. I folded clothes for like two hours yesterday in preparation for my baby sister – today is her first day on the new job! YAY! It’s her first grown-up real world job and it’s perfect for her and I hope she loves it. She’s moving up near me so that will be nice but she hasn’t moved yet – so she stayed here last night and tonight. I drove her to the train this morning all first day of school like. She’s twelve years younger than I am so she’s still a baby to me.

No knitting. No spinning. No nothing. Hopefully tonight though.
Thanks so much!
L, C