January 03, 2007
More on Christmas...
Many of you were anxious to hear more on the topic of Christmas this year...so here goes!
Meet my Gnome. I've been wanting one for ages...and now I finally have one! Want to help me pick a name for him? He's carrying a lantern in one hand and a book in the other. I'll enter everyone who gives me a suggestion in the drawing...of which the prize will be something knitterly of course! Suggest away!
The big surprise gift this year was a new TV...a flat screen TV! I was so shocked and yet so excited! Thanks Mom and Dad! My Dad loves to get last minute gifts for us, so he picked up the TV's (one for each of us three kids) on Christmas Eve. You could tell that he was up to something, and hardly could keep it in!
My sister's family gave me a second Pandora bracelet, and my brother and his wife gave me a new glass bead. Have I mentioned lately how much I love this bracelet? Since my first bracelet was so full, I moved half of the charms to my new one.
All the snow made it a bit of a pain to get around over the holidays, but it sure was pretty. It made for a very white Christmas! New Year's Eve was here before I knew it and I spent it at the Denver Nuggets game with my parents and some friends. We sat in a box which was all fun and fancy. We even got a visit from Rocky, the Nuggets mascot.
*What a fuzzy picture...but you get the gist of it, right? Obviously I wasn't the one taking the picture:) *
All in all, I spent the break just the way that I wanted to...with family and friends. Relaxing, knitting...you know...it was perfect. I even managed to make some good progress on a number of projects. (i.e.my pink Malabrigo sweater, Mod on Mod afghan, and bloggers afghan) Hopefully I'll have some FO's to talk about soon. Cross your fingers everyone!
Posted by Stacey at January 3, 2007 08:23 AMThaddeus. Thaddeus Gnome.
Posted by: PuppyMomma at January 3, 2007 12:13 PMHamish. Don't know why - he just looks like a Hamish to me.
Posted by: Kirstie at January 3, 2007 12:24 PMOhhh you made out!!! I can't wait to have a Friday night knit again, I am going through knitting group withdrawls!!!
Posted by: Jeni at January 3, 2007 12:32 PMGary
Posted by: melisssa at January 3, 2007 12:36 PMFelix von Gnomelish. He's cute!
Posted by: Ann at January 3, 2007 12:38 PMhow about Beardie von Glim?
Posted by: eva at January 3, 2007 12:52 PMHow about Butterly. He looks like an inkeeper to me, holding the light out for the last of the people to straggle in. He has his book and he is ready to turn in...
Posted by: Lisa at January 3, 2007 12:56 PMhow bout Winklebottom, like the gnome in King of the Hill?
Posted by: Sara at January 3, 2007 01:00 PMHe needs a Scandinavian name - how about Tobias, Ole, or Rolf? I think he looks like a Tobias.
Posted by: rohankitter at January 3, 2007 01:04 PMYou've got to check this out Gnome Name Generator: http://nine.frenchboys.net/gnome.php
Too funny! Maybe a dungeons and dragons thing??
How about Toby?
Clyde? Leonard? or Dale of Norway?
Posted by: Erin B at January 3, 2007 01:43 PMHe looks like a Winchester to me. Don't ask me why.
Posted by: Leanne at January 3, 2007 01:50 PMOk, maybe Graham.
Posted by: Monica at January 3, 2007 01:57 PMWow, what a great gift. That was so sweet of your dad! Nice, we need to come over and watch some tv huh? j/k ;-0
Posted by: Wanda at January 3, 2007 02:20 PMI'm going for Leonard as a play on learned - re: the book he carries that lends itelf to enlightened re: the lantern he carries.
I love a play on things like that:-)
And also he looks like a Leonard to me.
I think Bartholomew would be a good "gnome de plume!" lol
Posted by: Tammy at January 3, 2007 02:55 PMRaphaël-- the name of Amelie's father in the movie (his gnome was very well-travelled...)
Posted by: Sandy at January 3, 2007 03:47 PMHe looks like a Norris to me.
Posted by: Roo at January 3, 2007 03:50 PMHow about Morey? Isn't that the name of Babbette's husband on Gilmore Girls, and don't they live in a house among gnomes?
Posted by: Julie at January 3, 2007 04:01 PMHumphrey?
Happy New Year!
Oh, forgot to say earlier...great quilt that the gnome is posed beneath.
Posted by: Julie at January 3, 2007 05:18 PMAlright. De-lurking.
Hi.
I read your blog. A lot.
Nice gnome. I suggest the name Norman. But with a really interesting spelling, like Gnormyn.
With a silent G.
Happy New Year!
Rockefeller. He is a noble gnome, honing up on his reading, running thru the classics in the dark of night.
Posted by: Krista M at January 3, 2007 05:50 PMCute gnome....how about kgnomey (short for knitting gnome-y) ;) Awesome tv, I bet you'll be enjoying that! Happy New Year
Posted by: Zonda at January 3, 2007 06:12 PMGlad to see you made it through the snow. I think he looks like a "Ramon". Good luck with the knitting!
Posted by: Rusty M. at January 3, 2007 06:25 PMMelvin the Gnome. Me-L(ikes)!
Posted by: Beth at January 3, 2007 06:35 PMJerry.
Posted by: shannon at January 3, 2007 06:41 PMHe looks like a simple sort of a fella so I would call him - Sam
I have fallen in love with your bracelets! and what a nice surprise gift! From reading your blog I can tell that your Dad (and your Mom) really enjoy surprises and they really seem to know how to make those special memories. Enjoy!
Posted by: emmy at January 3, 2007 08:20 PMHappy New Year!! I love your blogging site and I really think the gnome is great! Here are a few names to ponder: Hendrick - means "rules his household" in scandanavian. Or perhaps Sven that is really cute too. Or maybe Dawby, as he was the house elf from Harry Potter? Yet he does look a bit like "Doc" from the seven dwarfs minus the glasses! Good luck.
Well, I was gonna say Gerald, but I do quite like the previous suggestion of Gnormyn :P
Posted by: Julie at January 3, 2007 09:37 PMWhen I think of gnomes I think of the name Moe. Moe. Yes. Bring but appropriate. Moe.
You look SO pretty in the pic with your family!!!
Posted by: Wannabe at January 3, 2007 10:01 PMI like from the Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins. Another traveler, just like the Travelling Gnome.
Posted by: Carol at January 3, 2007 10:16 PMname him Greenly! he's really cute... i think a nice collection of gnomes would be awesome :D
Posted by: tammy at January 3, 2007 10:35 PMWhy "Harold" struck me, I have no clue! :)
Happy Holidays!
Jerome. Jerome the Gnome.
Posted by: Ruth at January 4, 2007 08:45 AMTimber (or Timbur)
He's super cute! What about Grimm (as in "The Brothers")?
Posted by: Becca at January 4, 2007 11:20 AMHe looks like a Hank to me :)
Great presents you got :)
Cheers Eva
Posted by: Eva at January 4, 2007 12:00 PMI'm not sure I am in the running for prizes. I haven't read the complete rules. ...But I like Hans.
Posted by: the brother-in-law at January 4, 2007 10:45 PM