So much to say

I'm sorry I've been so neglectful, part of it was a business trip, part of it was work stuff and just. plain. tired. But... I have pictures!

Last weekend when we went for a visit with Rere at my Mom's place. Sean fell asleep in the hammock swing:










And has the markings to prove it!










It was a nice time and a nice visit, and of course I didn't get a picture actually OF Lorraine. Whoops!

My business trip was up to the Sawgrass Marriott near Jacksonville with 3 of my co-workers. On the trip up I worked on the sock:










Damarys and I shared a room:










We had lots of fun and I only lost at Scrabble by like 12 points. We had some noisy neighbors though..but they are cute:










It was a good trip, we went to the beach where the sun was RIGHT in my eyeballs:










Then to dinner which was on the inter coastal. Very pretty view and I was amused at the falling skier and this seagull who was perched on top of the 'Big Scary Plastic Owl'. I had thought that BSPOs were meant to scare away birds, but apparently no one told the seagull this.











On the way home we took the scenic route, laughing at funny business names and street signs. We stopped at a roadside yard art hut. For the low, low price of $2800 you can get either a 9 foot rooster or gleaming golden 7 foot Mary. I settled for 2 types of local honey:

















And finally, yesterday was Macy's big prop and display sale. Lesa (my co-worker) and I got there around 9 and things were going QUICK. I just wanted a foot, but I got a foot, display stand that is a post with arms on 2 sides that hold hangers(that I haven't photographed yet cause it's still in Lesa's trunk) plus some Christmas gift boxes which I love. I spent $26. Here's my foot. It's a little cracked up at the top so I think I will have Travis cut it down a little since I don't need the WHOLE leg, just where a sock covers ;):












That's it for pictures. An update on Jake though... Remember that he lost his first tooth last Thursday? He lost his second... on Friday! You should hear him say should and seven and Sean. Too funny. Yesterday was Travis and I's (or is it mine's or me & Travis'... whatever) 9 year anniversary. We went to Fat Willie's Fish Camp for supper, I had crab legs. Sean doesn't like crab apparently. Tonight the in-laws are keeping both kids and Travis and I are going to see a movie. I have no idea what is even out but I'll figure it out soon. Have a great weekend. Next Wed I leave for Lauderdale for 3 days so it will be a short blogging week again. But hooray overtime!

Sigh.

In order to properly piss off the pair of socks I was making Damarys, I started another pair. Did I tell you I got a new book that I love Love LOVE? Well! I started These (the first socks shown "Embossed Leaves"). I love them a lot. The cuff is weird and I had to learn a new cast on, and the toe is a Star. Yep, not a toe shaped toe, a star patterned toe. Too. Cool. Anyway, here's mine so far:










(Tofutsies in a black/grey/white color). That little tiny bit took up half of 5th Grader and all of CSI. They may become Christmas socks - I have a few pair to make (not including Damarys' socks which may or may not be in time out until 2017). I am making them on size 3's instead of 2's because my 2's are being otherwise occupied by another pair of socks I'm ignoring:












OK, enough socks. Wanna know why I feel like a 90 pound weight is off my shoulders? These past 2 weeks I've been doing this:











That's a lot of math and figuring and writing and erasing and making pretty this:










My co-workers are infinitely thankful the mailman took it off our hands before I vomited on the floor. No more proof this/print that/and this/and oh this/kill me now. They love me, but I think they are ready to sell me off for chocolate, or something equally quiet.

Sigh. Squee!!!

OK, so now I wait (quietly so as not to get evicted from the office). They laughed at me for wanting a yarn tattoo with my earnings (should I have earnings). Guess that is pretty funny, except that I'm serious. Oh well.

This weekend I am going to see my Mom and visit with my Aunt Rere, who is down from NY. You may remember her (the socks, not the skeins):










Its nice to see my favorite Aunties so quickly. AND, Sue left with yarn in her hands... wonder if Rere can be converted?

Enough from me for now, I really should get SOME work done. Have a great weekend.

Toothless Wonder, and a little frog

Last night Jake lost his first tooth. Finally. All the cool kids were doing it, guess it was finally Jake's turn. Travis pulled it, since it was just laying there - it wouldn't stand up at ALL. I had some cute video of my closed bathroom door - with Jake and Travis on the other side and it sounded like this:
J - But it's gonna hurt!
T - No, I'll just get a little piece of tissue and you wont feel it. You don't want to have it fall out when you're eating supper and swallow it do you?
J - But what if it hurts?
T - Let me try, and if it hurts I'll stop.
J - OK. (pause) But Dad,
T - All done.
J - Really? Let me see!

Unfortunately when I played the video back today I had to turn the speakers up REALLY loudly to hear them and it was still muffled. Oh well. It was too cute. Here's some pics.













I also wanted to show you Sean's mad basketball skilz...
















Oh, and I made myself a spindle and using some of the alpaca roving I got in August, I made "yarn". It is not easy, not very pretty, not intuitive to do and I generally suck at it. I don't know if I will do more, I just don't get it apparently. Like crocheting socks I suppose... lotsa people love it - I suck at it. Here's what I have:













And finally... Let us fondly remember Damarys' sock. Seeing as how I apparently lost touch with reality and the relationship of gauge to fit, I frogged the beautiful, too-small-to-fit sock. I will try it again on size 2s once I have regained some confidence...and a tape measure. Good thing I still have 8 months and 1 day til Christmas, eh?

[ETA - I LOVE the new "save as you go" feature of Blogger that helps morons that close out the innernets before publishing not have to retype their blog entries.]

Blah

I've been sick since Friday. I hate being sick! But, it is giving me marginal time to work on some crocheting. This morning I need to sit with the truck at the shop which should give me some sock knitting time. Hmm, sick + chart = ? Hopefully nothing bad. Anyway, that's it from me, maybe tomorrow I'll be back to work.

Just a quickie

Here are some pics from my weekend:

The view from my room at the Gaylord:










The rays and fish in one of the ponds inside the hotel:











And finally, Jake and Sean at my Mom's house:











I am making progress on the jacket, I've finished the back, one front and about 1/2 of the 2nd front. Today I should be able to stitch them up and start the sleeves. Tonight is the Doro concert - Everyone is pretty excited. I have almost no voice and am trying some hot tea. I am not a fan of hot tea. Oh well, hopefully it will work. That's it for now, more tomorrow.

LOVE my job

Hey there, I hope you had a nice Friday. I am staying here and it is SO beautiful. Travis and the boys will be coming later on but for now I am in a very nice suite all by myself. I am taking some cute pics that I will share on Monday too. I am making a little progress on the sock (I am on the 2nd half of the heel) and I think (sigh) it will fit. I am also most of the way done with the back of LetterBaby Jacket 2.0. I really should have spent the last 2 hours working on it... OK, 3... but I took a nap for 2 and piddled on here for a bit. Pretty soon I need to get dressed for dinner. Ok, I just noticed that someone has crocheted the lamp cords. Yep, I'll take a pic. How cute!

That's it for now, dinner in 40 minutes which = 30 minutes to crochet, 5 minutes to put on my skirt and 5 minutes to walk over. Have a gerat day!

Cliff update

Thank you for all of our good thoughts and prayers, it's much appreciated. Cliff's doing good, and this is about as good of a best-case senario as you can get. His tumor is spread from a spot on the back of his throat where his tonsils were. Surgery is set for 5/5 then some radiation and hopefully all will be well! I am thrilled and maybe now I can get some sleep.

Also, thank you for the congrats, I am so excited by this possibility, also humbled and scared. I am putting together my package for them and it should be in the mail next week. Yay!

I haven't been working on anything but that - I'm crocheting from my pattern in the larger size (you know, the one that required the math not the counting) so I have dropped the blanket for sale, Damarys's socks and mom's sweater. Nothing like a deadline to kick you into gear!

That's it for now. Tomorrow I have a site inspection at the Gaylord and I may take the sock for some pics, but I'm not sure. I will have a LOT of time on my hands to knit and crochet and I plan to use it all! Have a great weekend and I will share pics on Monday.

Good stuff

I got an email this afternoon from the magazine that I submitted the LetterBaby jacket to and they want me to send it to them for review! I am SO excited! I love love love it, but you know, that never really is a good gauge of how other people will like it. Anyway, hopefully I'll have good news on that front when they decide.

Cliffy had his scan today and goes to the doc tomorrow for results. I am very concerned but prayerful. It will be good to know what we're dealing with, you know? So, pray hard!

I managed to get a pic of Sean's new hair cut - but I couldn't manage to get him to look at me when I did it! Is it just me or does he kinda look like Caesar?











And finally, I started on the heel turn of Damarys' socks, and hopefully they will fit this time. More pics when I can put it on my foot! Good thing we wear the same size shoe, eh?

That's it for now, remember - pray hard!

Stuff to do, stuff to show and a headache

Hi everyone, I hope you had a great weekend. I made $170 at my yard sale, I was thrilled! And I STILL brought a whole truckload to Goodwill. All I keep thinking is what the heck did I sell? Well, the Beatles albums went (and for those that know me, they know that is BIG), lots of baby clothes, books, knick-knack stuff, drinks sold well too. All in all, a great day. I parlayed that money in to 2 bras from Fredrick's at the Mall (yep, I went to the mall and survived!), dinner at Red Lobster and groceries at Walmart (including a swim suit). I completely blew my WW points on Saturday - like WWWAAAYYYY blew my points. Whoops! I'm better today.

My desk is pretty full, which is no surprise since I feel like I've been doing nothing today except blog reading, picture updating, Ravelry playing, etc. So, right after this post, I will get to work! sigh.

I got to the heel turn on Damarys' sock, and I love it. However.












We have a problem, and apparently she is fond of her toes and won't let me lop them off (I asked). I don't know if it is my gauge (probably since have not learned this hard hard lesson) or what, but I need to rip back my perfect little short row heel VERY carefully and attempt to pick up the stitches at the exact moment I started the short row because I do NOT want to try to find my place in the chart if I screw it up. I honestly think it would be easier to frog the whole thing and have a mulligan, so wish me luck. Otherwise, it is beautiful - I love how perfect the "toe up" toe looks and I am really liking this heel, but I don't think I quite have that "wrap & turn" thing quite down. Well, maybe I'll get it right when I have to re-knit it.

I won a new book (love you eBay) - Favorite Socks. I have been wanting this book for awhile, but had not seen it on EBay and the shipping for Amazon is usually pretty high. I lucked out on this, and am thrilled. I've seen a few socks on Ravelry from this book that I really want to make. Now I just need to get back out to Uncommon Threads and get some more of this Comfort Sock!

OK, I need to get some work done and try not to let this headache get the best of me. Have a great day and I'll try to post pics of Sean's new haircut tomorrow. Oh, on Sat - I took him to get a haircut. SO cute!

I. Love. My. Job.

Over the course of the next 2 months I have 4 site inspections and a week-long trip to Ft Lauderdale. The up-side is that I get OT and stays in nice hotels. The down-side is that I wont be driving to the ones without Travis and will have no way to get to local yarn shops, and really, is there any other reason to travel?

I finished the button band/buttonhole band/collar of Mom's sweater, and moved the back I was working on to the Addi's instead of the plastic ones they were on. Love you Addis! It should go quicker now, but it is really hard getting used to the 3x3 rib for some reason.

I also am almost up to where my foot ends and ankle begins on Damarys' socks. I really love these socks, they look great but I HATE following a chart. NOT fun! Also, not portable, so that is my couch knitting.

Speaking of couch knitting, last night I started a new round ripple babyghan for an upcoming craft fair. They are such a big WOW with so little work! I'll need to get some yarn (shucky darn) but I do have quite a bit in stash to make it so I wont need much.

No updates on Cliffy yet, we should know more next week once he's had his PET scan and talks to the docs. Please continue to keep him in your prayers. My Aunt Sue is coming into town next week too, which will be cool (Hi Sue!)(she reads this...often!) We'll head over there next Sunday to hang out, probably at the beach. Not a fan of the beach, but I guess I can knit on a sock or something - not a place for Mom's sweater, or the sock-of-many-pages-of-directions. New sock??? Now there's an idea!

Um, weight loss progress - I've lost 6 lbs on ww since I started it, 6 weeks ago? I was doing really good at 2 lb a week, then nothing then 2 more lbs this past week. Fingers crossed I'll do OK this coming week.

That's it for now. Let me dig in to see if I have a pic to share:













This shows Sean during the "chocolate incident" and a pic in which I think he looks VERY much like me as a kid. (NTS: bring that pic to scan of me as a baby that looks like him).

Yard sale tomorrow at my place. 7am will be VERY early! Have a great weekend.

Everybody but my Mom

Go look here for a sneak peak at Mom's Sweater in progress. That is about 4 inches of back plus the button band that will go around the sides and neck. I made buttonholes. Can you see them, kinda? I'm terribly excited about them. Doesn't take much. That's it for now.

Happy April Fools to you too!

Good morning. It's such a blah day so far, and VERY hard not to grab a bag of chips to munch because i can, not because I'm hungry. Anyway, it was an OK evening, I've been gathering stuff up and cleaning stuff up for the yard sale on Saturday. I put an ad at the Flyer online. Hopefully I'll sell lots and be able to better utilize my new book! I also started to read my other new book. I love Stephanie and having the new book is like a blog post that I get to own!

Anyway, I did get a little done on the sock but its not going quickly because of the lace chart and that is making me put it down more and more. I still didn't remember to take a pic of Mom's sweater. I'll try to do that at lunch today. I've had to split them up, sock gets worked on at home because Damarys is at work, and the sweater gets worked on here because i cant work on the sock. Perfect sense, right!

The kids are doing OK, but I don't have pics to prove it. Sean woke up a couple times last night but other than that he was good. Travis got Sean's impetigo on his ear (!) apparently from when he held him on his shoulder and Sean's nose met Travis' ear. It's the funniest thing! So we put some of the antibiotic cream on it the doc gave us for Sean. It was $33, so I'm glad we can use it again!

That's it for now. I'll try to get on later to show everyone but Mom the sweater. Have a great day.

Good times!

This weekend was nice. My Dad and step-Mom came into town and we had a nice time.
Here's some pics: My Dad and Sean, Joanne and Jake and Sean enjoying a chocolate bunny for the first time.


























For more pics of Sean's bunny-fest, click here.

I also managed to get some work done on my Mom's sweater (which I didnt take a current pic of) and Damarys' sock. I have almost finished the collar/buttonband on the sweater, which is cool. Then it will be back to the other pieces, and I'll take a pic of it tonight. Here's the sock:

Done and begun

I finished my Dad's hat. Wanna see? Of course you do. Here's it on me!










Guess you really can't tell much from that - sorry. But it is really soft and pretty. And, I started Damarys' socks today at lunch. I was very worried since these are done toe up using the magic loop method. Never done that before, and although it did feel weird for the first round or two, it worked itself out nicely. My progress so far:









Yep, leaps and bounds I tell ya! You can see the whole sock here. I really like how these look, I just hope I can pull them off.

In other news, Cliffy will begin battling his cancer shortly. Please keep him and his doctors in your thoughts and prayers as they work through this challenge. And no, this wont get him his afghan any earlier!

I hate it when that happens

I dropped a stitch in my Dad's hat. When did I notice it? Today at lunch (3 inches after it happened). Whoops! I had to frog the whole thing. That's OK, I didn't much like the 4x4 rib and have re-started it as a 2x2 rib instead. It will fit better I think, since the alpaca doesn't have any stretch to it.

I did manage to take pics this morning.
Me and Jake, then Sean wondering why he wasn't in the picture!


















I also got 2 new books!!

Houseworks
and Things I Learned From Knitting (Weather I wanted to or not!). I got the Houseworks book in yesterdays mail and I haven't gotten very far but I like it. Lots of great tips and they are helpful!

Not much else to talk about. Hopefully I will have more tomorrow.

Happy Birthday to my Daddy!

And since he doesnt read this, I am perfectly comfortable telling you that I started knitting him a birthday hat this morning. Yep, this morning. He will be in Florida tomorrow and I will see him on Friday, so I think it is perfectly acceptable to delay his birthday gifting until then, thus allowing me time to finish the hat.

So far, I have kitted (in k4p4 rib) about 1.5-2 inches and a few rounds of knit on 10.5 16" bamboo circ. I'm using (drumroll please) the alpaca from my last trip up home. It's black and soft and georgous, with a bit of hay stuck in, although I am trying to pick that out as I go. I'll keep on knitting, eventually decreasing until it fits a human head. Easy peasy.

So, how was your Easter? Ours was ok, the kids had fun, and when Travis got home from work at 6:30, we had a nice dinner at his parents' house. Sean thouroughly enjoyed trailing after Jak while he picked up eggs. He understands what egg means and it sounds like he's saying bock bock bock (what a chicken says). He's saying baby, kitty, puppy and thank you. And yesterday I noticed something a little too advanced. My FIL was playing with Sean on the floor, going around the coffee table and letting Sean "chase" him. He got a little quicker and once he got more than half-way away Sean did an about face and went to fetch him going the other way. Normally they will follow, around and around, until they catch up. I was pretty impressed and gave my MIL the "Uh oh, we're in trouble" look.

Well, that's really about it for now. Hopefully more tomorrow, with pictures!

Updates. And pictures!

Sean is doing ok, he is responding well to the antibiotics and it seems to be looking less ugly and red. Thank you for the well wishes. Wanna see what impetigo looks like? Course I couldnt get a pic of him actually looking at me! Funny how he makes being sick look cute.









Also wanted to share the last pic of mom's sweater before it starts going behind a cut. Not a lot to look at at this point:









We also itroduced Sean to the guinea pig. After this pic and we put Buddy away (-ish, since we were cleaning the plastic bottom of the cage and the pig was inside the cagey part on the floor) Sean went directly over to him and tried to pick him up, and when that failed tried to get INTO the cage with him. I failed to get that pic but was adorable!









And finally, I wanted you to see Sean's new word. Thank you. Apparently the video thingie isnt working and it will need to be on a seperate post. Some day I'll figure it out.

That's it from me. Have a great Easter, and I will try to get Jake to take a nice picture.

What is it with this kid?

Sean is home sick. BIG surprise, right? I thought the problem was his breathing, which became labored last night and warranted a breathing treatment. Yes he had a thing on his nose (and by thing I mean what was once a hapless red dot is now a big-as-his-nose ugly sore) but I really took him to the doc about the breathing, all the while praying "Please don't send us to the hospital, please don't send us to the hospital". Yes they gave us a steroid for his breathing and the advice to keep up the breathing treatments, but they also gave us another diagnosis about his nose. Impetigo. Shocked! I have never seen such a thing and everyone I talked to (my MIL, an older co-worker) hadn't seen it in years! But that doesn't stop Sean at all!!
Anyway, No real post today, just that explanation as to why. Wordy, right? More tomorrow.

Quiet evening

I dont really have anything to talk about - shocking I know. Last night I made chicken burgers and I thought they were pretty good. I got my Mom's advice on them since it was at her house that I had them the first time. Her suggestion - add BBQ sauce to the mixture and some breadcrumbs. No need for an egg. Here's what I did:
1 lb ground chicken
1/3 c Italian bread crumbs
2 Tbsp BBQ sauce
1 Tbsp Italian seasoning
1 tbs garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1 Tbsp no-salt seasoning
1 tsp fresh ground pepper

Mix it all up and form it into 4 patties and on the George Foreman it went. Tasty yes, very burger-like especially when covered with a slice of cheese and ketsup and mustard. However, it got kinda burned on the bottom of the burgers but not the tops. I thought that was pretty odd and I have no explination. Thoughts?

I worked on Mom's sweater last night and during lunch today. I have about 2 inches done. Sweaters go REALLY slow in sock yarn. Just saying is all.

I am almost done getting my submission together for the seekrit jacket. I love it, and hopefully they will too. Wish me luck!

Travis got his schedule - Mon through Fri 9 - 5:30. That was his first choice. I am thrilled to pieces that we can be like a normal family again. Woo Hoo!!

I am planning on a yard sale Saturday 3/30. I already have a few boxes of stuff that I've been tucking away for this event, starting with Christmas. I've got Jake into the spirit by telling him that anything of his that he sells he gets to keep the money. Hopefully this will get him motivated to part with some of his 19 tons of stuff.

That's it for now, sorry I dont have more.

Finally some progress!

I guess it makes sense that if you knit/crochet on many different items that they never seem to get done. Well, this weekend I finished Mom's socks, finished the baby blanket and worked on Cliffy's afghan. Wanna see pics? Of course you do.

Mom's socks - they match even!!











Tami's baby blanket - sitting on my childhood rocking chair (which Jake promptly stole once I got it out for Sean even though it's been in Jake's room for EVER):














And Cliffy's blanket. It's currently about 2.5-3 ft square. I like how it's coming out, and even though it is very, uh, colorful, I think he will like it, for 2 reasons. First, he is at least partially to thank for th BIG bag of yarn that this is coming from and second I think he will be excited that I'm making something for him. He's funny like that.











And for those of you who are not here to see yarn:

New stuff!

I have been really busy this morning, but it all started really simply. I wanted to share my Monkey & Yak scarf pattern. Well!! Not as easy as I thought. I created the pdf - I've done that before and it's easy peasy. I wanted to add it to Ravelry, but thats where the problems started. I needed a link to the pdf - and in order to do that I created a new website of sorts. I'm calling it My Design Spot, and it's just a place where I can put the projects that I've designed. Some free, some not available since I'm trying to whore them out to magazines. Probably ought not say that, huh? Whoops. Anyway, I've done it and it works - 4 hours later. I've added the link to the side over there -->. Or you can go to this link.

Boy that felt like work! I am almost done with Tami's babyghan (more done that this pic from a couple days ago):









I also started Mom's Christmas sweater. Have I told you how much I love that yarn? It's pretty good to work with too, but since it's fingering weight and a SWEATER I think it will take forFREAKINever! Good thing I have 9 months, right? Here's what it looks like so far and a better look at the yarn itself:




















Well, that's it for me. More tomorrow hopefully.

Fine thanks, and how was your weekend?

Lets see, what have I gotten accomplished?

I did:
finish up the seekrit jacket (Thanks to Cliffy for help with the snaps)
start on Tami's baby blanket (the star one, in purples)
find some patterns to put on here as freebie .pdf's (NTS - figure out how to do that)
go to Mom's and the Grandparent's on Sunday
take some cute pics of Sean
see the gray hair in Jake's head that my MIL found

I did not:
work on Cliffy's afghan
work on either pair of socks
work on the brown sweater for me
start Mom's Christmas sweater (though did put the supplies in a bag for when I do)(NO, that doesn't count)
go to Disney
take cute pics of Jake, because he hides






















Anyway, Travis had a grand time in MS, but, unfortunately, didn't win a million dollars at the casino. Oh well, maybe next time.

Here's a new recipe for you to try out. We had it last night, and I think it was pretty good. I served it with green beans and chicken flavor Lipton noodles:

Saucy Chicken - Serves 6
Total baking time 30 minutes.

1.5 lbs chicken cutlets or breast cut up
1/4 cup olive oil
8 oz sliced mushrooms
1 onion sliced (I didn't add this cause we don't like onions, I added onion powder)
1.5 cups chicken stock (I was out so I used the bullion equivalent)
2 T lemon juice
2 T balsamic vinegar
4 T flour

Preheat oven to 450. In baking dish, combine olive oil, chicken, mushrooms and onions and mix to coat everything in oil. Bake 5 minutes. Turn chicken, stir around veggies, bake another 5 minutes. In separate bowl, whisk flour into chicken broth until dissolved. Add lemon juice and vinegar. Add broth mixture to chicken, cover with foil and bake 10 minutes. Remove foil, stir veggies, bake another 10 minutes.

This made a whole lot of gravy, which was tasty and I thought it would be nice over rice. Travis thought it was good but would be too sweet to put as gravy. Now I just need to see if I can either reduce or remove the olive oil. As it was, it was only 5 points a serving.

Well, that's it for now. Have a great night.

Progress.

Well, I've finished the seekrit jacket except for some snaps that I need to buy. Yay!!! It came out so cute, I really like it. Extreme closeup? Sure.











I also wanted to show you Mom's sweater as it is right now. The colors aren't really like that. I cant get my camera to capture it correctly.:












Travis is on his way back from a few days in MS with his Dad. I don't think he won a million dollars, but hey - you never know! Tomorrow we're going to Epcot (weather permitting), then Sunday I'll probably head to my Mom's - she's missed her time with the Dyson since I forgot it last weekend. Whoops! At some point I need to buy a size 6 24" circ and the snaps, as well as head to the grocery store. Busy busy.

I accidentally had a small falling down when it comes to sock yarn. I ordered 2 skeins from Yarn Discontinued one of these and one of these (only from the other place). I'm so excited. The turquoise ones are for Damarys for Christmas. That's her favorite color and I've decided to give her 1 more chance at owning hand-knits. The other skein will live in the stash for a while. I just couldn't pass it up since it was half of what I normally pay. Yay! Same with the Supersock, it's normally twice as much as it was there. AND they are giving away some samples of sock yarn for each purchase. How could I turn THAT down?


Thats it for now, have a great weekend.

Some quick pics

The new couch:










Mom's sweater yarn:










I've finished the seekrit jacket but I need to re-do the bottom because I dont like it. It really is as cute as it is in my head. Yay!

Thats it for now. Back to work.

The kids are cute.

This weekend was plenty o'fun. I'll start with video of the boys. To preface this, Sean was eating the little pasta pick-ups raviolis and was apparently done with them but still had one on his table. Also, he's recently learned to say Jakey.




Saturday went well, we bought a sofa set and I dyed Mom's Christmas sweater yarn. I forgot to take pics of both but I will tonight. Sunday we went to my Mom's, CLiff and Jake went to see Spiderwick while Mom helped me wind some yarn.

That's really it, more tomorrow.