A little preview…

Ok, I left my last post with a bit of a cliff hanger.  So I’ve been working on this new project and decided I would post a few pics…

 

The color is off (as usual here lately) and this is Knit Picks, Wool of the Andies in the colorway Heathered Cobblestone.  A nice dark heathery grey.  I’ve dreamed of someday knitting this pattern and wished the book was still in print.  So after a long crusade of searching for the book in libraries and on ebay and such.  A very sweet friend was able to get her hands on a copy of the book and share the wealth.  She is actually the one who started my love of knitting, we’ll call her my “enabler”.  She’s probably most proud of that title, as a friend, I know I would be.  So more or less as a knit a long, we are both making ourselves this same knit.  Except, she’s knitting hers as a sweater and I’m turning mine into a cardi.  I’ll get more wear out of it that way.  So have you figured out what it is yet?  It’s Ms. Starmore’s St. Brigid.

In other news, the school district I live in…their levy passed.  Which means my freshman will get to goto band camp next year and experience the TRUE marching band fun.  My girls are just so much fun to be with.  Here is a pic of Renae with her grandma at her annual ROTC inspection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aren’t they just the cutest?  Well,  I think so!  Ok, back to working on my St. Brigid.

C-ya!  Dreem

Life as usual…sigh (lol)

So, life has been typical. Busy as usual. Keeping up with my girls, working, working out, and squeezing a little knitting in here and there. I finally had a moment where it was beautiful outside and my camera wasn’t dead so I took a couple of pics of my Aeolian Shawl. The color is off in the pics. I tried my hardest to get it to come out true-er to what it really is…but that was obviously impossible. This is malabrigo lace weight in the colorway: Vaa. Words cannot describe how awesome this green is with its many shades greens and some blues in it. I have also added beads. I cannot wait to get this completed and blocked just to see how pretty it will be.

In Halloween tradition, my girls and I carved some pumpkins. They turned out great! I love all of them. I am very proud of my girls and the great job they did on their pumpkins. Here they are…

This is Renae’s….who’s peeking through YOUR blinds?

and here’s Elizabeth’s. I like how this one turned out.

And here are the 2 that I did. The neighbors got a kick out of all of them. Surprisingly, they didn’t get smashed or stolen. Especially since we weren’t home to pass out candy.

In other news, I just got the yarn to start another big project, for me! Stay tuned to find out what I have decided to make. (don’t you just love it when your left wondering what it is? I DO! )

Until next time….hopefully not to long this time. Bye!

Yep, still kickin’

I just can’t believe how fast life goes sometimes. You blink and *POOF* it’s October! So I’m starting to feel the knitting mojo again and have picked up my Aeolian Shawl and have been working on it. Because it has beads, it takes me about 45 mins per front row. So I try to squeeze a row in every lunch hour. So far so good I should have pics soon. I tried to take some earlier this week, but I was in a rush and they turned out crappy. Sooooo, retakes will commence soon.

I have decided that my mitered square blanket is going to be my life long project. I love it! But HOLY COW!!! it gets boring doing the same thing for 80 squares. So I pick it up from time to time and work on it. Once it’s done it will be gorgeous!!!

I have a few other projects I want to start but have put them aside for now. I want to finish my shawl first.

In other yarnie news…since I’ve learned to knit, I have acquired a yarn stash….I know….DUH!!!! And then working at Heavenly Creations for over a year I had access to alot of yarn at great prices. So my stash grew even bigger. Well…..on my Ravelry stash I have had this ball of Helen’s Lace in the Aslan colorway up for sale. Well, someone finally bought it, mailed me a check (that I’ll be putting in the bank today) and then I’ll ship it out once the check clears. So I knew the check would be coming and the time was nearing for me to ship this out. So last night I went to pull the ball of lace out. I couldn’t remember where I put it so I peaked at my Rav Stash notes and it says it’s in the tote. **thinks to self*** okay, I know where the tote is….pick up tote….dump it on my bed….dig through pile of sock yarn and lace… I CAN’T FIND IT!!! (GASP) So I put everything back in the tote and go get the 3 giant baskets of yarn in my room and procede to dump them one by one and go through them….NOTHING!!! I STILL CAN’T FIND IT!!! So I am now in my closet pulling bag upon bag of yarn out (gosh there’s alot) and then I dump them all out and still…NO HELEN’S LACE!!! (gulp)

So I sit on the floor (since the bed has been eaten by yarn) to think. Where on earth did this ball of yarn goto. By the end of the night (11:30 p.m.) I have completely cleaned my room, reorganized my yarn , and tidied up my closet. Surrendurring for the night after reclaiming my bed, I hop up to walk to the living room and stop. The thought hits me to look in the desk….the sewing desk. So as quiet as I can, here I am…opening and going through all of the drawers in the desk. There are 10 long, deep drawers on this bad boy. In drawer #8…there it is! The ball of Helen’s Lace I have searched alllllll night for. Whew! I wonder how it got there? Maybe Fred the ghost thought it would be funny to play a joke on me. I’m just glad I found it.

So now I have come to realize:
1. My room was out of control!
2. It only takes one ball of hidden yarn to get me to clean my disaster of a room
3. I have 6 bags (or more) of 6 different colors of yarn to make sweaters
4. I need a new organization method to store my yarn

So I’ve been busy….

SEWING!  Yep, I sew too.  That’s actually something I love to do, just haven’t in a while.  Especially since it’s summer and it’s not that transportable.  I’ve made many things.  Here are a few from back in the day….you know, before knitting.

I made this full blown Santa suit from red velvet.  What an experience.

When my girls were younger, we used to go all out for Halloween.  The scary music, strobe lights, fog machine, we would hook up a microphone that altered your voice through the speakers and this scary clown would come out and scare you.  We had a table with a huge bowl of candy….the good stuff, you know…chocolate!  And it was on a table with a table cloth on it and when you walked up to get candy from one of the people we had helping us, the leaf blower would blow the table cloth out and scare you too.  You definately earned your candy at our house.  LOL!  Great times!!!

And this is my sister.  She wanted to be wonder woman.  So in less than 2 hours behind the sewing machine (yes, I know…not much to the dang thing) this is what she got.

There are a few others I have made for my girls.  But I’ll have to dig those pics up and scan them in.  Little Red Riding Hood, Minnie Mouse, Poodle skirt…and probably a few others I just can’t recall at the moment.

But here is what I’ve been working on lately…

That’s right, project bags.  I might look into my own little etsy shop.  Just depends on how people like them.  Let me know what you think.  Here’s another one…

Perfect for the smaller, on the go projects.  See, Sheldon the turtle, his yarn, the pattern page and row counter all fit with plenty of room to spare.

Sorry for all the pics.  It’s been a while since I’ve had the camera out.  Well, I need to get to bed…I’m taking the girls school clothes shopping tomorrow.  YAY!

It’s been a while…

So here it is.  August already and I have yet again left over a month out of my blog life.  Well let me catch you up a bit.  Some may have already been stated and the rest may be boring to you.  But, it’s my blog and I owe myself this much at least.

Let’s see….where to begin.  I left my part time job at Heavenly Creations.  Life got busy and kids were busy so I needed time to be with them.  I am still gainfully employed at my full time job and am thankful everyday for that.  I still live in the same place and am still searching for a house.  The school levy didn’t pass, so I’ll be looking in other districts.  I am very sour about this topic and will save that one for another day….NUFF SAID!  I am still knitting and update my ravelry as much as I can.  On the needles now: Aeolian Shawl ( I call it the alien…lol) and my mitered square blanket.  I have come to accept the fact that the blanket is a life long project.  I knit a square here and there and for the first time ever, have more than one thing on the needles at one time.  That was very hard for me to do.  I’m a faithful, one project at a time knitter.  But I think I’ve broken that rule.

I still workout on a regular basis and have realized just how good it feels after you are done.  I never would have thought that going to the gym and working out would give you more energy, but it does.  I think once the time change happens this fall, I will start going in the morning before work.  I’ve went a few times in the morning and it’s nice.  Quiet, and not to busy.  Just the way I like it

Okay, now I have to get back to work.  I just wanted to update real quick.  I will have some pics of my shawl here soon.  It’s awesome!  Can’t wait to share it with you.

I promise to try to blog more often.  Just sometimes life gets in the way.

C-ya!  Dreem

MMMmmmm Malabrigo

Sock!  I have 4 YUMMY skeins of this AWESOME stuff thanks to a VERY, VERY DEAR FRIEND!!!  Girl, you rock!!!

So here they are in all of their glory…

Careful, don’t drool on your keyboard.

Today was a great day.  I had the day off and got to hang out with a few of my favorite people.  Thanks girls!  I had a blast!  Hangin out at Wonderknit was a blast.  Can’t wait to do it again sometime soon.

Found in a Ravelry Forum

Below is something I found while reading in a forum for my local area.  Am I seeing this right?  Did someone just accuse someone of theft?  And in a public forum?

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GASP!  Not in a Heavenly place!!!  (full sarcasm intended!!!!)  I AM PISSED!!!

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(steps down from soapbox and walks away)

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posted 1 day ago (Saturday, June 20) (Cap City Knitters forum under Heavenly Creations)

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This is Joyce I’d just like to say that Wendy left us by mutual agreement, we thought on good terms. She was not let go. Wendy did remove inventory without our permission, and without documentation. There are some sales tax issues with that event that are challenging us. If Wendy has any complaints, we would love to discuss them with her, we aren’t aware of anything. Please come in, we’re open and have great people with tons of experience, ready and eager to help you!

Yum!!!

Ok, I must live under a rock or something…because I’ve never had Jeni”s Ice Cream.  Until today that is!  I had a salty carmel ice cream sandwich.  And without a doubt will be going in search of another soon.  I am so glad I opted to leave the office for lunch today.  As luck would have it, I went to lunch with a co-worker and he was going to the North Market so I rode along.  Once we got inside and wondered around for a few, around the next corner was Jeni’s.  I have always heard good things about the ice cream and had to have some. 

So, if you’re like me and live under a rock…run, don’t walk to Jeni’s and sample all they have to offer.  YUM!

Almost…

Only counts in horse shoes and cigars….as my dad would always say.  But truely I am almost there!  Down two sizes in pants that is.  The “almost” means that I just need to lose a few more pounds to be completely comfortable in anything 2 sizes smaller than when I started working out in January.  I’m completely amazed!  Now if the styles at the stores would change, I would be even happier.  I’m not into all of the loud colors and slammed onto one piece of clothing and the horizontal stripes have got to go!  Guess I’ll keep looking around for casual clothing…sigh.

In knitting news…I have been slowly working on my mitered square blanket.  And also have been searching for another project to start on just to give my knitting some randomness.  Sad thing is…I just can’t figure out what I want to start on.  So here are a few things I’ve been tossing around for a while:

The Aeolian Shawl (free pattern)

The Balmoral (ravelry link) ( I have the book)

The B-Side Cardigan

The Bernhardt (already bought the pattern)

or the Uhura (already bought the pattern)

I’m pretty sure I have the yarn for almost all of the projects listed about.  Just might need to make sure for the Balmoral since it’s huge.

Oh, I almost forgot…I wanted to share with you a little bit of news.  I no longer work at Heavenly Creations.  With the not knowing of the shops future, and my girls busy schedules, I decided it was time to move on.  It was a blast while I was there.  Good luck little shop!

And this is for my friend Tonia…ITCHY WITCHY CATS A$$!!!  to whoever took her I-pod!!!

Let me know your vote about what my next project should be…

C-ya, Dreem

WOW! They grow up soooo fast!

Well, tonights the night.  I dropped Renae off at her 8th grade formal.  Here are a few pics I got before she disappeared with her friends into the crowd of 8th graders…

Renae at the house before the dance

Can you believe she’s only 14?

The 3 Musketeers

A closer shot of the 3 muskateers

I can remember it like it was yesterday.  Tiny and in pigtails…sigh!