Tasty Vegan inspired meal

In keeping with our new vegan-esque eating regiment, the husband cooked up an old staple!

I first had this surprisingly delicious meal while living in Alaska. One night Cam picked me up from work with this tasty treat waiting for me!

It's acorn squash with rice, but in this case there was the addition of mushrooms and chickpeas. 

You cook up the rice separately on the stove, while the squash has been cut and cleaned and cooks with a bit of butter- inside the oven in a brownie pan. 

When ready, scoop the rice medley into the squash and eat!

The little engine that could...

I made it to the front page of Etsy on Friday. And with every front page comes increased traffic and general knowledge of my shop! I really feel like the little engine that could. I almost gave up on my shop back in January, as sales were down and money for yarn was tight, but I stuck to it, saw it as an investment and was frankly too stubborn to quit before my first year was up. I'm glad I persevered and made new spring inventory, it's starting to pay off. My new twitter account has helped tremendously and probably more than I know at this point... Being one of the new kids on the block, especially on a block with a lot of established knitters, I realized how important it was/is to design and create pieces that will allow me to be my own knitter and to offer something unique to the community, to allow myself to stand out.... It's been a great week and a great month with 18 sales so far! Things are looking good!

New necklaces in the shop!

In a continuation of gearing up for spring, I updated Urban Knitfits with four new necklaces today. A few more are in the works... and will go up soon. IN the meantime check out my necklace section for the new springy colors!

Featured on the etsy blog- TWICE in one day!

I've begun making a few spring inspired pieces for the UrbanKnitfits shop. And today my spicy curry necklace made it into the etsy finds blog! And my Pixie pointed hat is feature on the news from the craft blogosphere blog! So excited!!!! I'll be making more necklaces and such and hope to list them tomorrow, stay tuned.

Nuts 4 Love, Now in Gray!

After my white Nuts 4 Love hat was on the front page at the beginning of February, I had a request to make the hat in reverse colors- white squirrels on a grey background! I sent it off to California today and now it's listed in the shop as a made to order hat!

this is what our lives have become...

This is lunch, no joke. After my mom sent us this book- all about eating better, less processed foods- essentially a vegan diet, we have really stuck to it, with the occasional pizza slip! But I assure you, it's good pizza- from Otto's in portland, me, so tasty and with veggie toppings galore, so it actually feels healthy.

I will say that we were always pretty good eaters, no junk food or soda, but our limited budget did keep us skipping meals and not eating a variety of fruits and fresh veg... the biggest areas of change have been with bread and let's face it weekend pancakes! So unlike most american's this new "diet- as in what you eat, not a fade to get thin" hasn't been a huge challenge, but more like an awakening to being more conscious about the specifics of what we eat.

Anyway, this was our lunch today we each had an enormous salad. We aren't just rabbits, we also eat more rice, quinoa, beans, etc. And to help all of these leafy greens go down we use a healthy ginger dressing. Eating so much veg and fruit really makes you feel more awake, and cleaner.... I'll include some recipes as we go along, but it's been a lot of fun, an adventure if you will!

Go Vote!

My Retro winter Olympics Ski hat is part of the Olympic Etsy voter! the top 5 winners get to be on the front page! Right now I am holding on to 5th place, but would love more votes to solidify my standings! so go vote here! Voting ends on the 25th at 12pm est.

Urban Knitfits- news & updates

New spring items are coming to the shop! like this hipster easter basket pastel explosion- hat!

A cute staple, is this lilac gray seed stitch hat, knit with acrylic yarn- perfect for spring transition!
And the same style hat, but in melon!

Another braided necklace, this one is Spicy curry!

In other news my Retro winter olympics hat is featured on yet another blog! ocweekly as well as being nominated for the winter olympics etsy voter. If u haven't already, here's the link where you can vote for my skier hat! As a result of all this new press, sales have really picked up and now I have quite a few custom orders to fulfill. My goal is to maintain variety with my blog, to share other fun links, items, etc other than urban knitfits all the time, but these days I'm swamped! Hopefully the spring will offer more time to blog about other things in and around portland maine, etc!