Life

And this is why I love Yorkies!!!

I'm a woman of few words lately.  Been too tired.  Seems like hubby and I are tramping all around the country.  In the last 4 weeks we've been to Little Rock 3 times and Nashville twice.  Hubby had a big interview week before last in Gallatin.  He should find out next week if he got it or not.  I don't want to admit to how disappointed we will both be if he doesn't get it.  The prospects of moving and changing our daily life is very encouraging.  We could both use a change of pace.  Plus, it puts me close to my sis and mom.  That'd be really cool.  Of course, if we don't move it would be a lot less stressful.  How does one sell a house in this market??  ack!  

I've finally found a friend like me that doesn't work and needs company during the day.  I love her!  She's awesome.  I spent the day with her Tuesday and am going back over on Friday, plus I'll see her tonight at our weekly knitting group.  It's so great to have someone to be crafty with.  She lives very close to my hubby's work, so he just drops me off and picks me up after work.  It's a great arrangement especially since we only have one car.  Who needs two cars when only one of us works?  Made sense to me!  Well, I'm shutting up now.  

NAP TIME ;)

Happy Thoughts

I promised to post happy, bubbly thoughts today.  I know my ranting yesterday was kinda incoherent.  Funny how anger just never comes out well on paper.  My thought process was all over the place.  No migraine talk today.  

I've been working hard on things for my good friend.  She is a proud new mama of her baby girl, Daliah.  She's so tiny and cute.  I saw her at 3 weeks old.  She is the most beautiful baby I've ever seen.  Just perfect.  6lbs 8oz.  Very tiny.  My friend requested some baby legwarmers.  I'd never heard of  them before, but she brought me some pictures of some in a pregnancy magazine.  So cute, but also expensive.  I had some sock yarn hanging around that I wanted to play with.  It's Panda Cotton, part cotton, and part bamboo, with a dash of elastic.  They are so soft and cute.  Best thing: fast easy knitting!  

Aren't they cut?  I hope they look great on Daliah.  The colors did pool a bit, but I'm okay with that, couldn't help it anyway.  I decided on two baby blankets to make her.  This one has a knitted center section with crochet granny squares around the edges.  I used washing machine friendly yarn, because no new mom has time to wash and lay flat to dry.  I'm just not that cruel.  The pictures just don't show off the colors well.  The blanket is light lavender, with dark purple, bright but not obnoxious pink, and yellow on the edges. It turned out a bit wonky.  Not too bad for a first try.  Gotta remember how much I hate weaving in all those ends on the granny squares next time.  What granny ever came up with that?  She must have had a lot of patience and way too much time. 

This one is by far my favorite.  It's 36" across and so buttery soft.  I love the round shape, because it is so different.  I'm very proud of this one.  My friend loved it.  I think I'll have to do this one again sometime.  Fun.


These were my first attempt at baby legwarmers.  They're not as soft as the other pair.  Actually, the yarn is soft, it's just too thick to drape very well.  I want to try these on the baby and see if I need to redo them.  It's a self striping yarn.  Cool stuff.  Makes me look more talented than I actually am.

Well, that all my happy project thoughts for today.  At least you can tell I've accomplished quite a bit in the last few months despite the migraines.  My little victory :)

I made our first LOL!

I created my first LOL for I has a Hotdog! Here's a link to it if you want to vote for him:
http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=1170128 If you haven't already check out the LOL cats at www.icanhascheezburger.com or the dog version at www.ihasahotdog.com they are a riot.

Also, In case you didn't already know. Nemo is famous. He won a contest and is dog of the month at http://www.itsadogthang.com/ We couldn't be more proud!! He won us a free t-shirt. Cool! Check him out because he'll only be there until the end of May.

I've been pretty much out of commission lately from the migraines, but I have managed to make a few things. Here they are:

My first foray into needle felting. I made a needle holder. Pretty much you take raw unspun wool and poke it over and over and over again with barbed needles until you get the shape and design you want. Pretty fun! I want to do this more!!

Step one: take wool and lay it on the pad and start poking away with needles and......

Voila! A New Needle Holder. How cool is that??

My Great-nephew turned 2 and had a Car's themed party. I made the invites look like tickets to a race. Then, I got out the scrapbook supplies and made a custom envelope with Doc Hudson (which is his favorite from the movie) I added actual doll eyes to make him a little more dimensional. It turned out so well that some people thought they were store bought. I guess that's a very high compliment that they didn't look homemade. I'm very proud!

I'm working on my nephew's high school graduation present. It's an afghan with his future college logo on it. Boy, I hope he doesn't decide to go elsewhere. I'll have to kill him, or he'll just have a reminder of where he was gonna go to live with forever. What a nice reminder that would be?? I'm also reworking my first pair of socks for the thirtieth time. You'd think I'd measure my foot before starting again. I keep getting halfway finished and it always ends up too small. Must measure first! Oh, and swatch too!