Knit the Rainbow!!

I'm currently in the midst of making one of the more boldly colored projects I have yet attempted, an shawl knit in Mini Mochi, in their rainbow yarn. ((color 101)).

it's not an established pattern, and I'm actually going in reverse of a lot of shawl patterns I've seen. ((Knitting from the broadest part down)) so I may have to rip the whole thing out and start over, but so far it seems to be ok. It's the brightest thing I've ever made, so I'm a little nervous. It's wicked soft though, I definitely have to give it that.

I'd love to get my hands on some of the solid Mini-Mochi, because there's some toy patterns from Ravelry that would probably be completely awesome in such a snuggly soft yarn.

Needle Jinx, and Squirrels

So I'm currently debating the merits of trying to find some kind of squirrel feeder, since there is a small red squirrel that has finally figured out how to get onto the tray of our bird feeder. Sort of amusing since he's also a very WET little squirrel. ((It's raining here today.))
But at the same time while I don't really have a problem with him being ingenuity enough to help himself, he realllllly wants to get more seed than the birds spill into the tray, and I realllllllly don't want him to chew the hole bigger. At all.

Also I've decided that I have a jinx on my yarn needles. I can never get past one project without my yarn needles vanishing. My husband and I have searched the -entire- kitchen and now we can't find them.