Woman with Bouquet

This morning I pulled out one of my WIP that I started about 4 months ago.  I want to get this one finished by Christmas.

I'm working on page 7 of 14.

Swap Bot Cross Stitch Mini that I did

This went a to girl on swap bot.

Melissa’s Bracelet

Melissa was so happy in June when i took the time 10 minutes to make her a stretchy bracelet, she wore it for days until she broke it trying it on the dog

Another work in progress

Started this Afghan this week, a simple checkered pattern.

Cell Phone holder that I made

I made this cell phone holder for my friend she liked it just asked that the next one has a better strap, thicker or stronger.  Will be trying again then writing down the pattern.  May add some beads to the next one.

Made these potholders and hot pad for a swap

I made these  a couple of weeks ago for a swap.  I can’t wait to hear from my partner and see what she thinks of them.

 

Bookmarks

This summer I found a swapping site that i am really enjoying.  Swap-Bot is awesome I have made some new friends and participated in a few swaps.  before vacation I made the following 2 bookmarks for one swap.  I'm really looking forward to seeing what i get in return.

  unfortunately the pictures don’t show enough detail.  but i was in a hurry to get them out the door and into the mail before leaving.

Rainy Day In Edmonton

Another rainy day here 3rd in a row. Both Megan and Mac have missed ball. Megan has an indoor practice tonight and Mac is supposed to have an outdoor one but I can tell already that it will be cancelled. Which just means that the weekend and next week will be busier. Jamie hasn’t been able to work on the RV pad at all. too wet to be in the mud.

Melissa has been painting up a storm she got a Dora watercolour set from Michaels on Monday and has been painting ever since.

Not too bad imo. I love how she isn’t scared to go with different colours…

Myself I’ve been getting some things done around the house and spending a bit of time working on some of my WIPS.

I finished a few yesterday.

This was a KAL that I had been working on had almost finished but never got around to weaving the ends in. I don’t block my dishcloths as I use them.

This is this Months KAL I’m not happy with my choice of colour for it so I’m doing it again in a solid colour maybe that way your will be able to see the pattern better.

Sunny day

Yesterday was sunny. Melissa and i took a quick trip tot he park. For once there wasn’t many kids there but she did run off some energy.

I managed to get day 4 done on my KAL

Later today i will finish it up, day 5 instructions have been posted.

A little of this and that

This week I will continue to look for work. I hate this being laid off and not feeling like I can just stay home again with my kids. Jamie is much busier at work but I would still feel better if I was working.

Oh well, otherwise baseball has started. Mac had his first practice Sunday and has batting practice on Tuesday night. Megan starts next Saturday, looks like both kids will be playing the same nights at different fields, wish that would change but it won't.

My goals for this week are:

-drink my water

-clean master bedroom

-make meal plan

-take Melissa to the park for an hour with Franny

I managed to get a bit more knitting done on my KAL.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

I haven’t decided yet if i like it but will try later today to work on day 4 and 5… Guess only time will tell.

I’ve also been stitching a bit. This is one of the ornaments that I’m working on for gifts for next year.

Maybe today I will actually get the stitching done.

WIPS and Starts

Okay so yesterday I pulled out some of my long-time WIPs…. I really need to start finishing them up and getting the to the completed pile. I have decided that with the exception of my stitch-a-along I am not going to start any new projects until I have put a decent dent into my WIPs.

Here are some of the them…

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Of course today is the first day of a new dishcloth KAL. Here is today's bit done. I chose to use my Chocolate OMB, Bernat Handicrafter Cotton, and size 4.5 needles. The pattern can be found here.

I'm just teaching myself to crochet. I haven't done much yet. I have a few things on the go and find that my biggest problem seems to be tension. I think that practice and time will help with this.

This is the back and front of my first crochet dishcloth that I made for an exchange in the group At My House . The perfectionist in me would have liked to rip it out and redo it but I also know that I would never be completely pleased. I'm going to keep practicing until I get it better. I'm going to try some more of them when my other projects are finished.

I also made this potholder for the same exchange. A bit simpler but still needs work. Jamie was impressed.

I can't believe that I'm doing a second post today. Must be the cold weather we are having and that the kids are happily playing in the kitchen with the play dough that I made today.


I decided that I should post the pics of some of the knitting and crocheting that I've been doing. I haven't blocked any of it because I mostly don't bother with dishcloths.

First is my seed stitch heart cloth. I got the pattern from a Leisure Arts Love to Knit Dishcloths book.

This is my plain Jane dishcloth that I make when I have a little time but can't be bothered to pay too much attention to what I'm doing.

This is the first KAL in the Monthly_Dishcloths group that I belong too. I think that I might make a couple more in other colours.

Here is Jamie's Scarf to match his hat that I made him before Christmas.

I'm not happy at all with this cloth, I used the needles called for int he pattern but feel that I should have used smaller ones.

Just an extra cloth that I found in my yarn stash, must have done it a while ago and then forgot about it.

This is my pebble stitch finger towel.

This is my 2009 cloth.

Today is one of those day when all I want to do is curl up and watch tv. Unfortunately that isn't happening, maybe tonight. we are getting some bad wind, rain and a bit of snow. Just and icky day.

Mac has gone to a friends to play while the girls and I did some baking. We made a pan of brown sugar brownies and also started some molases oatmeal bread in the bread machine. I had to make a recipe up as I have never found one that we like.

Kira's Molases Oatmeal Bread

1-1/2 cups warm tap water
2 tablespoon margarine
2 tablespoons molases
3-1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 tablespoon instant nonfat dry milk powder
2 teaspoons salt
1 cup dry oatmeal
2 teaspoons active dry yeast

Dump everything in breadmachine press start.

I have been working on finishing up some WIP and getting them ready for use. Here is my Spider Web Scarf.

I also finished up 2 dishcloth kitchen towel sets.

WIP Finally Finished

I'm so happy with myself I have finally finished my multi coloured afghan that I started not 1 but 2 years ago this month. I came to hate the pattern but I made myself finish it.

Melissa has claimed it saying that it is very pretty. I have decided that she can use it but I do get to cuddle up with it while watching late night tv which is what I made it for.

Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving is this weekend. Our renovations are not yet complete, I really didn't think that they would be. Things are getting closer Jamie and Wayne are doing the baseboards up this morning/afternoon and Jamie is also working on getting the primmer in the half bath. yesterday we finished the floor, it looks great i will get some pictures later once the baseboards are in.

The weather has finally turned this week and it is cold in the morning. We have had frost the last two nights. I'm planning to do a craft with the kids on Sunday while waiting for the Turkey to cook. I found one that all 3 of my kids can do http://crafts.kaboose.com/construction-paper-turkey.html. Of course they will all be different and maybe even daddy will join in the fun.

Mackenzie is doing okay at the tryouts for the Journal Games. He seems to enjoy running. I hope that he makes the team but have told him that he needs to really push himself I don't think that he puts much effort into it. Hockey is really starting this weekend. We had a parents meeting Friday night and a practice on Saturday and a Game this morning. We lost 3 to 1 but the kids played hard nad worked together so it will only be time until they do better. From now on my weekends will be full of living at the rink again maybe I will get some work done on my afghan, I like to knit during practices can't do much during the games but practices are usually good for a bit of work.

Megan doesn't have swimming this weekend but she will have it again next week. Next week is also the big Cookie Blitz at Sparks I will be selling cookies like mad. She likes her swim instructor and seems to be in the right group.

Melissa my little fish loves her class but has to learn some fear or she is going to give everyone heart attacks.

I haven't been doing much crafting with the house is chaos and working on getting my AVON team in place I haven't had much time for anything else.

This and That

Today is Sunday the 17th of August. I stepped on the scales and found that I am back up to 163.2 pounds again. Not happy with myself at all. Jamie and I want to go away overnight for our anniversary at the end of the month, I know that I will never be the 105 pounds I was at our wedding but darn it I want to be slimmer then I am now. Thankfully we will not be going on the Labour Day long weekend as the kids have school that week and Mac has his hockey tryouts. I plan to start this week with a cleanse and then really get back into my workouts, hopefully it will cool off a bit so that I will feel more like getting hot. LOL it is going to be hard enough to get my butt up and moving.

I have the yarn all ready to start working on the blanket for my friend's baby I had started it yesterday but had to frog it all out as I decided about 15 rows in that I want to use 2 strands of the yarn and not just 1.

I'm also working on a dishcloth KAL that started yesterday. I will do both day 1 and 2 today.

Today I'm babysitting for my friend, she had my girls yesterday so today I will have hers. I think that i will be going and getting a new kiddy pool at Canadian Tire. That should entertain the kids today and mine the rest of the week.

It has been a long week. The kids and I have had the stomach flu. Thankfully we are finally getting over it. Jamie of course is now coming down with it. I have done very little crafting this week at all, but I did manage to finish my dishcloth KAL this afternoon. Here it is.

Today has been one of those long days. I managed to finished my bookmark KAL today. The picture I have is not that great, guess I just can't center things that well.

Jamie finally got the bath toy out of the toilet. What a job, he ended up taking the toilet completely off, of course one of the bolts broke but after a little bit of time the squirty fish was removed.

Now Mac is on his way to his second hockey game of the weekend. Here he is in his track suit with his brand new hair cut.

There were 4 of us that made it to craft and chat last night. We had a good time. I'm looking forward to the next one.

It's Saturday! where has the week gone. Jamie is at work and the kids are watching a little tv before they have to clean up.

I'm going to get ready for tonight's craft and chat then I plan on pulling out all my WIPS and taking there picture. I have too many on the go right now.

Last night I finished 2 dishcloths. i tried knitting them both at the same time and I like it. I think that from now on that is the way I will do my dishcloths.

I just finished shaving my sons head, he finally admitted that having long hair is not for him. Here he is before the big cut. Later after bath time I will take a new picture.