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A Party, A Yarn Bomb, and Some Bright Colors!

Hello my friends! On Saturday we went to a bounce house for my niece’s fifth birthday party. It was actually just the three girls, Kyla, Vada, and my niece, Madison. They ran around the place for 2 hours, they had a blast! As with every bounce house we have been to lately, they had these bouncy horse things. Kyla just loves them. At one point, the girls decided that they had to have a race. Of course, it ended up … Read more

Swing, Swing, Swing

I am working on getting into the new swing of things around here. I have been much more busy, but very happy. It is a lot of fun working with yarn companies and publications! After taking the littles to school, I spend the school day in the basement, working on patterns and samples, and paperwork. OK, the paperwork is not tons of fun, but the rest is! Usually about twice a week I do have to go our for errands, such … Read more

Happy 40th Doug!

Before I go on with anything else, a little tease: I HAVE A FREE CROCHET PATTERN FOR YOU!!! I just have to finish my sample. I will be another day or two. It’s pretty. Today was (is for a few more minutes) Doug’s 40th birthday. It was quite the day. Yesterday after dinner the girls and I decorated for Halloween. I yarn bombed the railing on our front steps. Kyla helped with moral support. She is very good at that. … Read more

Cool goodies from the show, and catch up

My, I have been going like the Energizer Bunny since I got home! So much to do. This transition into professional publishing of my patterns is fun, and lots of work. I have more snaps for you. Some of the show, some of my loot from the show, and some family photos I keep forgetting to share! This lovely lady is Margaret. She is tons of fun, and very nice. I was so excited to see she had sent me … Read more

Stand back…

My head is going to explode, you may want to take a step back…

I have so much going on right now I can’t seem to keep it all straight, and I feel like my head may go kaplooy at any moment. Kaplooy? How do you spell ka-ploo-ie?

I have the top of the Katherine coat done, and am about 1/4 of the way done with the top part of the skirt. So I still need to do the rest of the top part of the skirt, the bottom of the skirt, the hood, the pockets, and the belt. I leave for the knit and crochet show two weeks from today. Oh dear.

Let’s not even get into the rest of the things I need to do before then.

Daisy chaos and camera news

Last night was our first Daisy meeting of the year. Upon turning in our room request schedule for the meetings at the school, we discovered that the policies had changed and we needed 40 days notice to request a room. Oops, we were a little late for the first meeting. We managed to get the cafeteria for all our other meetings, but we could not use the school at all for the first. So, I volunteered my house; after all, … Read more

Our trip to New England (a little late)

I had a lot of photos to share in this post, maybe a bit too many, so I turned most of them into collages. As always, you can click on a photo to see it a bit larger. At the beginning of the month we went to visit my family in New England. My mother is the oldest of 11 kids, and all 11 of them managed to make it back to Beverly, MA for our little reunion. OK, maybe … Read more

WiP Wednesday 8/21/13

This seems like a good Wednesday for a WiP update, so here you go! I have done most of the math for the Katherine coat re-write that I told you about the other day. I am ready to make a few videos for extra help with some of the more tricky parts. Then I will be ready to start making my coat. But first, I have to frog the first go. Lots of unraveling ahead for me! Yesterday was such … Read more

Rita

Just minutes ago, I was uploading and tagging photos to share with you. Some of my yarnie works in progress, and a few other goodies. I popped over to Facebook for a moment to check a message, and saw a status update that changed my plans. The crafty post will go up tomorrow. When I was pregnant with the twins, over 6 years ago, I joined a brand new site for moms, CafeMom. It was my first social media site … Read more

Visitors!

My parents are here visiting. Mom has been here for a little over a week, and Dad got here the other day. Doug has been away for nearly two weeks. He will be back tomorrow, and my folks will be off Monday afternoon. So, you see why I have been a bit scarce as of late. For the several days when it was Mom, the girls, and I, there was much crafting. The girls received several craft kits for their … Read more

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