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Here I am again an hour later.

I got the sweetest gift yesterday and I forgot to show it!  Out of sight, out of mind these days….it was in my Ravelry bag.  This is a friend that I will have fun when I get to wait for a grandbaby with her, too.  She has been gracious and fun waiting with me for mine.

The What if There Were No Grandma’s book is sooooo cute.  I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what kind of Grammy I will be and I hope to live up to some of the sweetest ideas of Grandma’s from children’s point of view.  We had a good time reading it together.  The Hugs for Grandma book is like all of those books are, wonderful and thought provoking.  Of course, anyone who knows me knows that chocolate is right in any circumstance….but I will really need it on the big day so I will see if I can keep it that long!

Thanks, Bunni!!!!

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The byob market bag is coming along very quickly…but when it came to the handle, I got the first one finished and held up the bag and it’s way out of place.  I don’t know how I didn’t notice it, but now it all has to come out.  I need to take a little break from it so I won’t start screaming.  I was so happy when I put in all the markers and there were the right number of stitches (always a nice feeling!) but I must have started from the wrong one.

It’s a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be but that’s nice when you consider it’s supposed to hold groceries.  I like the handles and I like the method the designer uses to attach them..it’s all short rows.

I’m, already considering what colors to do next.  My only complaint with the yarn is that every skein has had knots.  Some of them have fallen in good places, but some will be a pain to weave in.

Yesterday we had 2 events to attend…the chili feed fundraiser for the youth mission trip.  Son-in-law did a great job making the chili and everyone seemed to enjoy it.

Then we had a graduation party to attend.  We knew the kiddo before he was born so it was fun to see all his accomplishments…he’s a great kid from a great family.

Today I had an early birthday party.  A friend takes another friend and I to lunch every year for our birthdays, which are 5 days apart.  I think my birthday is still about a week and a half away but Mondays are the only day we could do it and next week I have therapy for little imp.

We went to an Italian restaurant that started serving lunches today.  It was really good!  I had a chicken salad with raspberry vinegarette, my favorite.  The garlic bread with it was one of the best I’ve ever had, super garlicky.  We also had strawberry, key lime, and raspberry tortes.  Yum!

Our waitress was a young girl I’ve known for a long time and she was great.  I think they got a lot of their first-day bugs worked out on us.

We got really fun gifts.

It was really hard to photograph it, but it’s a little stand with a cute plate on it. She thought cookies would be cute on it..but the waitress brought out a torte and put it on it and that was really cool.  The plate is easily lifted off for serving.  I thought it would look really, really cool with little yarn cakes stacked on it…they laughed when I said it.

I have work to do tonight, I wish I’d been doing it instead of the handles on my bag…maybe I wouldn’t have made the mistake. 

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Today was jam-packed.

We started the day with knitting in public to celebrate World-wide Knit in Public Day.  It was twice as fun as last year and that is because Shanda stepped in and organized it … she had prizes, drawings, buttons and did a great job of keeping it all moving along.  We met new people and even had one knitter born! 

It was pretty cold outside…this was before Bunni and I ran to the shop and got her pi shawl and a blanket to wrap her in.

Some people stayed inside, smart.

Pallas brought her naturally dyed yarns on a color wheel and they are to die for.  (tee hee)…truly, they are so beautiful.  It was great fun.

Then I had to leave this fun early because I had Bunni’s pinning to go to…she has completed the nursing program and is qualified to take the test now to be an RN.  I am so proud of her!

Here comes her hubby to pin her.

Pinned.

Happy it’s over, I think.

And get this.  The little imp actually wore his tux jacket with his jeans, it looks really cute…but we asked him to put his socks on in the car. It was not until we were seated that we noticed he must have gotten distracted.

Well, he’s always good for some kind of entertainment.

We went to a barbecue in Bunni’s honor and when we got home, I was dead tired.  I still have to put the finishing touches on a Father’s Day gift for the papa-to-be….I hope I remember to take a picture before I give it to him.

Hubby is going to sing a song at church tomorrow…probably everyone knows about it but me, but it is called Cinderella, about making sure you dance the dances with them while they are still little because one day they will go off with their Prince Charming.  Having married off 2 daughters in 10 months, I’m not sure how he can sing it without crying.  He assured me that if he sang it through enough times, he will be able to do it.  I heard it once and cried.  Father’s Day is always overly emotional for me.  I am so, so grateful that my children have the father they do….

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I spent most of my workday trying to get a bank statement to balance.  I do not get how you can click on each entry and still come out wrong…twice.  My computer went into super slow mode, it took about 5 minutes to load the reconciliation after I closed it so I could come back in and make sure I got the ending balance and service charges in correctly.  Ugh.  Tomorrow I will uncheck it all and go at it again.  ugh.

I had an appointment this morning that was 20 minutes late so look what I did.

The beginnings of a hoodie for Sweet Pea.  I found an adorable pattern.  I forget the name of it but will show you soon.  Isn’t it cool that it’s possible to relax when people are running late if you have something to do?  I thought the Yarn Harlot put it great in her new book, Things I Have Learned from Knitting….she said knitting alters the sensation of time when you knit while waiting for an appointment. But if your knitting is taken away, you go “raving out of your tree”.  True? 

I have 4 rows to go before I start stockinette and then 4 rows to begin the pattern on the front.  The pattern calls for knitting the front and back separately but I am going to take the lead of many of my friends and knit it in the round instead. 

As promised, I took pictures of my new Kureyon Sock yarn.

I have to say that I have enjoyed the gift of friendship from my friend and really am grateful for the yarn.

She didn’t need to, but she replaced the yarn I got on our week off after the wedding…the one I just couldn’t make work, so I gave it to her.  I will probably make the same pattern I started with the other yarn.  Go see what The Dip Lady is doing with the yarn I gave her.  She found a great pattern for it and it shows the colors well.

I got a gift card from #1 son for Mother’s Day and I got to spend it today!

A Whirly-Pop!  We borrowed one for making plain popcorn for the wedding and we all loved it.  I had to wait until they got more in, but it was worth the wait.  I even love the box it came in.  (I always drive hubby nuts saving boxes, but I’ll part with it)

We won’t get to try it out tonight.   It was just hubby and I home tonight, the little imp went with mama-to-be to Word Alive at church tonight.  We ate kind of a late dinner and hubby was really tired so I told him to go to bed early.  Sometimes that’s just fun…he’s probably watching tv before he falls asleep.  I’m just enjoying some alone time myself.

I’m hoping tomorrow night we can give the Whirly-Pop a whirl!

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For some reason, every now and then one of the keys on my keyboard stops working.  It has done it since I got it and it isn’t that something is in there…but today it is the K so excuse if I miss it.  I have to punch and punch it.

First of all, I would like to remember those who have given their lives for our country.  It’s good to stop and reflect.  I watched several old movies today about wartime (the old romantic kind) and some of them were poignant to say the least.

It’s funny, I forgot about much of our weekend until I loaded my pictures from my camera.  Gosh, that’s kinda scary.

Remember my daily pictures of the theater quite awhile back?  Well, for months and months all I could see was the big board fence that covered the whole front of the building.  (Remember when we had our big storm and the whole fence left? )  Well, this weekend we had our first weekly street market (that was a lot of Ks!)  and the guy who has promoted it and worked at bringing it all about is the guy who is restoring the theater.  So……..

This is while they were cleaning the area but it’s nice to be able to see.  It won’t be ready until the end of the summer but at least now the view is nice.

Friday night was date night and we were very pleased to get a call from mama and papa-to-be asking if we’d like to meet them for dinner at Red Robin.  Once again we split a burger and had great company.

Can you see the back of the boy’s head in the background?  That silly kid was putting the special salt in his milkshake! blech!!!  The boys at the table next to him were even worse.  They seemed to need attention.  One of them asked the waitress something to which she replied “go for it” and he went to an empty table that hadn’t been cleaned yet, took what looked like a grilled cheese sandwich, all eaten but the crust, and sat back down and ATE IT! gag gag gag!

Saturday was really nice…weather-wise and fun-wise.  I had 3 people who spent much of the day hanging out and knitting.  We walked down to the street market and got Costco Kraut dogs and ate them at the sidewalk table.  There were lots of people there and about 40 vendors.  I didn’t get to look too closely but it seemed to be a hit.  Of course, I left my camera in my purse so I didn’t get pictures.  Made a new friend while knitting, though, and had fun.

I did knit this weekend but no pictures yet.

When I got home Saturday we decided we needed to get some things accomplished at the house so we headed off to Home Depot.  We kind of forgot we were in the Jeep (altho the car would have been worse) and overbought.  I wanted flowers for the porch and hubby wanted to finally spend his gift cards he got for Christmas and his birthday last July.  Before we went there, we saw that they had a patio set for cheap and we ended up with that, too.  Hmmmmmm, how to get it all home….

I held the big flower pot and rose tree in my lap but the back of the jeep was rather full.

And there was one little boy surrounded in the back!  I kept asking him if he was till there because the box was behind me and I couldn’t see him at all.  He loved it.

Yep, he is sure he was a big helper.

Yesterday was kind of a rest day.  We just have to on Sunday or we feel like we never slow down.  The little imp and I did not make it to church and I am not happy about it.  He has been a bit of a trial to me this week and already ruined one day.  We were totally dressed yesterday to go and without warning he just quit cooperating.  I am not sure why it was too much to put on shoes and socks, especially when they were right there, but I did not have the desire to force the issue.  He loves church, loves Sunday school…but turned a deaf ear to getting on those shoes and socks.  So, we stayed home.  I next to never do that but he was out cold and we missed first service which we are used to attending.  He was cheerful when he got up but maybe he just wasn’t really in gear. I don’t know…but I did not care to spend another day bummed out so we stayed home.  He did see me crying and I think he felt bad, I didn’t make a big issue over it, I don’t think I needed to.

The rest of our day looked up though so enough said.

Late last night I started cleaning out my corner of yarn.  No small chore.  Every basket seemed to be connected because somehow those balls of yarn seem to jump from one place to another.  I was kind of intrigued while I untangled them all.  How in the world to they do it?  As i worked, I thought well, this must have passed this way before as I followed the maze.  I broke off very few of them but took time to save most of it.  It was kind of fun taking the challenge.  Hubby and I went to Walmart-Home Depot-Walmart to get something to put it all in.  Now when we get some extra room upstairs it is ready to go.  Finished.  woohoo! 

In the midst of it, we had the girls and hubbies over for a barbecue.  The little imp and I caught a glimpse of a visitor across the street.

I know the deer are pests when you have a beautiful yard, but they are so beautiful themselves.  We watched it watch us, then slowly cross the yard and continue eating. 

A dear friend knit baby a sweater and told me to give it to mama-to-be some day when she needed it.  We were all sitting around the new patio table, it was peaceful, and I just felt like it would be a fun time to give it to her.  She’s never met Nancy but in the short time I’ve known Nancy, I feel like she has become a real friend.  I cannot tell you how blessed I am that she would do this for my grandbaby! 

I didn’t get a picture of the pleased Daddy.  I will take a better picture of the sweater.  Hmmm, how can I do that? It went home with them.  Take my word for it, it is adorable!  If you are on Ravelry, check it out at memegreen’s page.  It’s her own design and she is going to get it out of her head and onto paper.  It has 3 buttons in the front and is just so cute.

Tonight hubby brought home strawberries and get a load out of how huge they are!

That is a regular size Fiestaware cereal bowl!  Mary had to remind me how to do the straw trick to get the centers out of the strawberries and it worked like a charm.

And now I am going to get a little imp off to bed and head there myself soon.  Hope you had a great weekend!

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Haven’t really been sleeping well so I’m not sure I can pull my thoughts together.  I’m not stressing at night about the wedding, but I think I am more keyed up than I realize.  We’re on the countdown now!

Yesterday, we had to have the little imp try on his tux so his auntie could do the alterations needed.  This all occurred while she was working and he refused an help getting everything on.  What do you think?

He won’t get away with no help on the big day. 

I have to say a big thank you to Susan!  I won her bloggyversary drawing and yesterday I got this in the mail!

Every knitter needs a little journal to stick in her knitting bag and I am due for a new one so that is where this will go.  I love, love, love journals so I will enjoy this one a lot.  Thanks so much, Susan!

Today I had an interesting experience.  I had to revisit a very painful part of my life.  Looking back, I can see some very good things coming out of it, but it was difficult at the moment.  You know what is good about having to go back and face something that is very hard to look at?  You can measure whether there has been healing in the time that has passed.  I was happy to see that I have indeed made a lot of progress in my emotions and I found some very good thoughts buried in the midst of the pain.  I have worked hard to get to this place, still haven’t “arrived” but am definitely on my way.  I don’t like circumstances to dictate my feelings, but they often do.  It’s nice to know I am at peace and to know, also, that I have good friends around me.  Tonight, I rest in the gratitude of that as I continue to sort through my thoughts and emotions so I can actually journal (somewhere else) what is going on inside me.  It’s like the thoughts are floating around in my head and I need to grab them and put them together in a way that I can make sense of it all.

To end on a happy note, I got to read the little program the bride and groom put together  for the wedding and it was so sweet.  Wow, it is really something to know that your little daughter will only be living in your home for a few more days and then will embark on a whole new life….leaving us to wonder how this all happened so fast.  It didn’t really help when she said to me the other night, “You know, when I pack to leave…I will never come back to live here again.”  Even she realizes that might not have been a wise thing to say to an already emotional mom. 

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It’s been an interesting week.

I already mentioned that I won Susan’s blog drawing.  Then I won another one!  This one led me to another fun thing but I am getting ahead of myself.  I belong to a group on Ravelry called “I love someone with Down Syndrome”.  I visited Melissa’s blog through that group.  From there, I jumped over to see Just RK and had fun reading a behind the scenes account of her trying out for Deal or No Deal!  I so enjoyed that that I visited again and saw she was having a contest to win some Baby Legs by leaving a comment.  I told her that we had just been to visit the doctor so the little imp could hear the baby’s heartbeat and if we won some, I would let him give them to the new baby.  Well, guess what!  We won some…not in her original drawing but she decided to be nice and give out 5 more pairs just because.  Soooo, he will definitely get to give them to the baby and I’m really excited!

Well, on another visit to her blog, she had a link to a new site she had found.  This happens to be a documentary being made by two brothers, one of whom happens to have Down Syndrome.  They have posted several videos of Dan Drinker and I have become a frequent visitor.  This special fellow is quite a bit older than our little guy, but oh my gosh, I cannot believe the similarities!  And you know what else?  I have seen the love of his family and how they have captured the every day situations that make life with him so special.  I have laughed and cried through every video.  Visit him if you get a chance.  His favorite songs are also High School Musical 1 and 2 and Hannah Montana….just what we hear all the time!  Like our little guy, he has also searched out videos on YouTube of his favorite songs.  He’s quite the dancer!

I am fighting off that cold and I don’t think it’s going to get really bad.  I’m good at staying down and resting because I hate to feel bad.  I didn’t go to work until late today (after they called me twice with customers having problems).  When I got there, my good friend came in early for knit night and we got to spend the whole afternoon quietly together.  She brought in my dinner when she came so we just had a very pleasant afternoon.

Then….people came for knit night and I got to spend a great time visiting with another dear friend.  And look what I was blessed with.

A DellaQ knitting bag and not only that, but her mom sent me some recipe cards from Debbie Macomber!  I just feel so blessed.  I am so grateful for what returning to knitting has brought into my life.  I’ve made so many new friends and I am so amazed at how good they are to me!  The bag is for when we get away for a few days (our big hope) after the wedding.  She wanted me to have something fun to put my projects into. 

I’m ready to close the toe on my sock and will probably finish it tomorrow depending on how I feel.  I’d be in bed already but it’s just the little imp and I home right now and I don’t trust him to stay out of trouble….you just never know.

Do you ever think about the good things that happen in your day that you may not notice if you weren’t looking for them?  I am trying to live with an attitude of gratitude every day.  There are so many good things every day but if I’m not looking for them, I would miss them.  When I sat down here tonight, I hadn’t put them all together until I started writing about them…and that, my friends, is why I have enjoyed learning to blog!

Have a great day and be blessed!

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We started our day earlier than usual because it was our Sunday to serve bulletins.  The little imp was a little off target today, he had to be constantly reminded to actually give them to people rather than stand there staring at anyone who stopped in front of him.  He was sleeping so soundly when we woke him up that he apparently never really arrived.  That’s ok, I have off days, too.  He did get to go help with the candy bags for new visitors again today and was more with it.  Dad told me to go look at the graduate clipboard, we’ll be honoring those soon who graduate…and guess who had put his name on the list. I don’t think anyone will believe he’s graduating from high school, though.

We had another shower for the bride today.  It was held at the groom’s apartment so we didn’t have to move things over there later.  Here’s the pre-shower prep.

I got sent to Walmart 30 minutes before the shower because they didn’t have a ladle, but otherwise these girls had it all together.

This is one side of the room…I didn’t get a good picture the other direction because I always manage to get someone really looking awful so I won’t show them. 

We had a game where they had the bride go in the other room and then everyone had to write down everything she was wearing.  This ended up bringing ridiculous laughter because the girl who won is a friend who all their growing up years, has been momentarily mistaken for our girl.  They have the same build and often the same hairstyle.  Well, look how she came dressed to the shower today!

Couldn’t have planned that one better!  And as an aside, these girls will be auntie to the same baby once the wedding takes place so they’re family by marriage.

Before opening gifts, our #1 daughter wanted to pray for her sister.  She started to thank everyone for coming to share in the joy of the upcoming marriage and to bless her sister.  She broke down crying and it was some time before she was able to go on.  Lots of tears wiped away all over the room.  As a mom, I cannot tell you how blessed I was.

Here was a particularly hysterical moment when the bride opened some knives and thought she heard the giver say they were really good ones.  She turned and said, “They’re really good knives?”  The giver said something on the order of she hoped so.  Bride said, “oh, I thought you said they were really good” and the whole room exploded in laughter.  She was so embarrassed, but she handled it well.

And then…as soon as the shower cleared out, several of us started making flowers for the wedding.  I’ll tell you more later about how we’re going to use them.

These were taken when we were still fresh. Below is my stuff before I got going.  I shared the table with the girl who was assembling all of the flowers and I was cutting leaves and gluing them to wire.  We made over 100 and they had 2-3 leaves on each one.  I am a little sick of green right now.  We had a lot of fun, though.

We took a little break for the girls to practice getting the bride into her dress..it’s a big deal.  We won’t talk about what I had to go through to get the dress to the apartment today. She neglected to ask me to get it from it’s current home when it could have been done easily.  But, we got it there and the girls managed to get it on her.  I don’t think the shrug looked quite right with it and am going to encourage her to just use it for something else…and I’m ok with it.

Then we must have worked on flowers for another hour when I decided we needed to eat.  The mama-to-be called the local pizza parlor to order delivery and somewhere along the way, we started falling apart and the poor girl could barely talk, she desperately wanted to tell the clerk on the phone that we weren’t all drunk because the lady had to keep waiting for her to pull herself together.  (I guess it was a day for falling apart all over the place!)  Here she is after the phone call:

and

This is the groom’s mom sharing the couch with her and she is never going to let this girl forget how silly she looked running into the room waving her hands through the air trying to get my attention as I was running from the room to the little girl’s room because it had all gotten so ridiculous. 

And then…the pizza order was wrong, instead of half and half, we got everything mixed together into one.  And I about fell over when the bill was $25 for one large pizza! (next time, we ask)  So, one of the girls called the pizza parlor and told them the order was wrong and they brought us another and let us keep the one we had.  Almost $30 for 2 pizzas felt a little bit better.

I am so exhausted and I’m sure I could have told the events much better if I’d waited until tomorrow but it’s going to be a VERY serious get- things- done day after we do the blogiversary drawing.  Depending on what’s going on, I’ll post as soon as I can.  I plan to sleep in and then we’ll see how much of the day we have to do what we need to do.  But for now, this tired mama is going to crawl up the stairs to bed…and I hope and pray I don’t wake up at 3 or 4 like I’ve been doing!

And thank you all who have participated in the contest!

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The next few months will probably be what today was….wedding prep.  We didn’t accomplish too terribly much today but sometimes even if it’s just looking for something and finding out it isn’t carried is necessary.  Ever try to find a little boy’s brown suit?

The little imp, the bride, and I went to Oly for almost the whole day…but before we left, I got a text message on my phone and you know what it was?  An ultrasound picture of my grandbaby.  I have to say, I went nuts.  What a fun, fun thing.  Then if that wasn’t good enough, they were on their way home from their appointment as we headed out of town so we stopped partway and got to watch the movie of the ultrasound.  To see that little sweet pea moving all around was nothing short of thrilling.  Baby is due in late August and she is 11 weeks, 4 days into it.  Gosh, I’m dying to get knitting.

I want to thank everyone for their kind comments on the horrific bombing in Baghdad.  That boy, as ornery as he is, is a treasure and right now I am feeling pretty emotional about him.  I’m glad he lives in a safe place and is surrounded by people who love him.  On our way out of town, I got him a Happy Meal and told him he needed to eat the nuggets before he could have fries.  He is horrible about foods and we have been trying to get him to eat more meat…even in this form.  Well, he told me he had finished but I knew by the tone of his voice that he was being sneaky.  Sure enough, I found the nuggets all sans breading and under a book on the console.  Sooo, I told him to finish them again..and after he said they were done, we were stopping to wait for big sis and her video camera so I got out and looked and guess where they were this time…in the door handle. grrrrrrrrr   I did win the battle but man I get tired of that one.  But how I love him.

Here he is at his best at church yesterday.  We were doing bulletins and he was asked to help with the candy for visitors.

I’ve never had the nerve to take a flash picture but there’s enough commotion going on right at that moment that I just did.  Sadly, there was no one for him to give a bag to this time but he had his day in the sun and that’s all that matters.

And I did manage to get one of the cuffs done more to my liking…but not sure how this could happen, i lost the pink so didn’t get the 2nd one started.  How does that happen anyway?

I am going to be glad to be done with these colors.  My mom likes them, though, so that’s all that matters.  I didn’t notice until I saw the picture that I left off a row! oh wellllllllll…………

We have a busy few weeks coming up.  We were going to therapy today but the therapist got sick so we go in 2 weeks.  We have a dress fitting next Monday.  Then we will be heading off for a fundraiser at Grandma and Grandpa’s in Oregon.  We probably won’t really stay, too much to do.  Then the next week we have therapy again (uh oh, I just this second realized no we won’t, that’s the 3 day weekend and I bet the OT didn’t even think of that!) and then we have a fitting for orthotics for the little imp.  I dread it.  Just being honest.

We did something we never, never do.  We went to a matinee this afternoon, too.  We saw 27 Dresses.  I wish they’d leave out the bad language, it added nothing to the movie but thankfully there wasn’t much of it.  What a cute movie otherwise! 

And now, off to bed.  Thanks again for your kind words.  Tonight I just needed to ramble on and it’s just because that pain is running through my mind and I just needed to get myself out of hiding.  I’m not sure how this works that friends out in the cyber world can make such a difference in my life but I’m thankful it happens.  Blessings to all and thanks for being there.

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I hope this evening finds you feeling expectant for the year to come.  I am really contemplating what I would like to see this next year look like.  I’d like to think that I will do a better job of prioritizing what is important to me:  people.  I’ve always been one who had time for people.  I know that part of my difficulty now is that I am trying to run a business and it cuts into my time, but even still, it’s too easy to get caught up in everything else and not have time for what’s important. 

Our sermon at church yesterday was about the 2 degree difference that can change our lives in order to reach the big goals we have.  One step at a time.  I instantly knew of a few things I wanted to apply that to.  What’s really funny is that I stopped at Starbucks on the way to church (a miracle, I had time!) and was talking to my friend who was working.   She asked me what my New Year’s Resolution was and I told her I have learned not to set myself up for failure so I wasn’t setting any this year.  This 2 degree change really spoke to me, though….I can make a little change at a time. 

On the knitting front, I got a super fast project finished and I love them.  Fuzzy Feet!

Don’t let the cuteness of this cat fool you,  She is a pill.  I can’t poke my feet out from under the covers or they get attacked.  She likes to stick her nose 1/2 inch from your nose, but don’t try to pet her, she’s mean.  She loves to be outside at night, even when she’s been injured by who knows what and has to wear a cast.  You just don’t tell her what to do.  lol  However, she’s sleeping respectfuly next to my fuzzy feet and she isn’t giving you the evil eye, she was just walking up when I rudely flashed my camera.  She didn’t bat an eye.

I did what  I saw others doing on Ravelry  and put them on before I set them to dry so they shaped to my feet.  I also closed the toe with a fun technique the Diplady told me about that was in Knitting Daily…it really works!  I don’t mind the kitchener stitch at all, but this technique accomplishes the very same thing using a knitting needle instead. 

Here they are before felting.

And last but not least.

The little imp is having fun tonight.

He got these bracelets literally 5 minutes ago.  A friend was taking these out to the church for the youth church to use for the party there and thought about the little imp on the way.  He loves these.

And here’s the last look at him this year…pizza face and all wishing you a very happy New Year!

God bless you.  I really look forward to the year ahead and getting to know you all better.

edited to add:  I really messed up my blog big time tonight. I decided to give myself a new look and in the process upgraded wordpress…I ended up with a bunch of mumbo jumbo at the top of the page.  The tech support person fixed it for me but then the whole blog was gone and only my parent directory showed.  He had to restore a back up file so I lost the later comments and have to repost this but since I had done it on ecto, I still had it.  ugh ,  Happy New Year, great start, eh?

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