Yarn Along::Calorimetry calamity and other hat failures

Joining Ginny in her Yarn Along again.  She has a giveaway this week too.  Talk about a hank of yarn making my hart pitter patter.

So I saw this pattern on Ravelry.  I thought to myself, "Wow, that girl is cool.  I'd love to have a headscarf thingy like that.  I DO have a problem always having to wear my hair down and then suffer through hat head the rest of the day..."

And my hands were itching to knit something.  Something fast and fun and something for me.

Well I have to say that I am not as cool as that girl.  Especially when my Calorimetry scarf looks like it belongs on Laura Ingalls.  For some reason it is way too wide for my head.  I checked my gauge and it was pretty much right. But alas... 

I've had this problem with sewing stuff for me too.  I can never get it to look like it does in the picture.  Humph!

I also made and almost finished a Thorpe.  I posted about that a while back.  BUT  after I was done with the double points I transferred it onto a size 10 needle and not a 9 like I was supposed to.  I was being cheap and not buying what I needed.  Well, I'm about to take it all out and try again.  All is well, I just need to get too it before all the snow melts.  (I don't have too much to worry about since we have almost 2 more month of it!)

Right now I am reading  "Expressions: Taking extraordinary photos for your scrapbooks and memory art."  I saw on Mt. Hope Chronicles this book but the library only had one that looked different.  When I click on the "look inside" the book on Amazon it takes me to the book I have.  So... maybe I do have the right book.  I like the one I'm reading none the less.  I still need to take a class on photography someday.  I just got to the chapter on lighting.  I'm hoping I'll have a few tricks to try tomorrow!

Once upon a time....

... there were two little girls.  They came to the first day of school quite nervous.  One because it was the fist day of a new class, the other because she was always such a nervous girl.  They both dressed their best because that is what you do on the first day of school, they both sat up straight and both listened very hard to what the teacher said.  It was an ok day.  This year might not be so bad.  Things looked bright and then something happened that made everything even brighter.

  One girl said to the other, "I like your dress."  

That was just the beginning.  Little would they know that in the many years to come there would be girl scouts and sleepovers and youth group retreats and summers at the beach and youth shows and lockers and yearbook and deaths and a divorce and boyfriends and prom and college....

(look at our grins!)

A little less then 30 years later, the two little girls aren't so little anymore.  They both have husbands and they both have children.  They both have had a lot of years apart.  They made some wrong turns along the way but have found each other again.   Is is really true?

I can't wait until we have a new picture:  Two grown up woman together again.




I'm so thankful for:

6.  A friend that bridged the gap
7.  A God whose plan is good
8.  Facebook (hee hee)
9.  Rachel

Hello? Are you out there? Wondering where I am?

So I was on a roll.  I think that I started posting about three times a week.  I was enjoying the fact that I was actually posting the things I was thinking about - and then it was Christmas.  That was ok to take a break, so many bloggers were just popping in to say hello and merry and all that.  But then I got sick.  Dun dun dunnnnnn.....  When I say sick I mean in bed kinda sick.  The kind where your head is so stuffy you can't even think.  I shuffled up to the computer a few times and had some ideas but a complete sentence was not going to come out of my brain.  I was going to post on resolutions and how we should just "try harder" because that will never work.  When I got better I found this.  Not quite what I was going to say (I could never write as flowery as Ann) but God is faithful to get out His truth and He doesn't need me to do it!

I also was going to post about knitting.  I had taken a break from all that yarn wrapping but have some things to share.  Like some messed up head gear!  Oh, and I just started my third "in threes".  

I planning on posting tomorrow and participating in the Homeschool Day in the Life Series.

Hope I can!  Today we are spending the day out of the house due to toxic fumes.  Bedrooms are being redone and I'm so excited to be able to show you some "before" and "after" shots!  I *heart* before and after!  I think that is why I end up watching "Biggest Loser".  Hee hee.

See you tomorrow!

Christmas Moment

The littlest fairy watching over her graham cracker creation.

For My Little Girl

A gift that we could all make together.  Not an original one but one that we had not done before.  A special gift for a special girl.  The big brother could take his time and peal off the wrappers.

 

We could make a mess.

And we could make some crayons.

Merry Christmas little girl.

So I've seen this idea all over the internet and when Ginny at Small Things posted about making them for her little girl I knew that we had to do it this year.  Armed with a bucket of old broken pieces that I've been wanting to recycle, we got to work on making them into something more useful.  We tried to make them glittery but I don't think that the glitter really worked.

Oh, and I got to make a little bag!

For Baby

I feel like I'm cheating a little here with the yarn along this week.  This is a project I finished a few weeks ago for a friend.  It is my second In Threes pattern.  I promised you two weeks ago that I would make three of these and this was my second.  A friend of mine gave me some dark purple yarn to make the third but that will have to be after Christmas. 

This is the before:

 

And this is the after:

  I quick took a picture at the end of the baby shower when I realized I hadn't taken a snapshot of the completed project.  I also made her a bib and some pretty burp clothes.  I almost want a sweater like that for myself!

  I might have to make this one.

The book that I will be reading is Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury.  It is waiting for me right now at the library.  I read it to the girls last year and I think that I will have to actually buy the book and make it a tradition.  It is full of virtue and sacrifice.  Maybe a little will rub off on us!

This Moment :: Husband

My husband singing with the kids and I for family worship.