One Crazy Fiber Lady

I’m cautiously optimistic that I might just be able to finish Town & Country in time for Rhinebeck. ¬†As I quickly mentioned yesterday, this weekend has been one for cabling. ¬†I brought my knitting with me to the park and stitched while the monkeys played. ¬†I sat by the pool yesterday and did more of the same. ¬†I did go in the water for the last hurrah of the pool this summer. ¬†Dad is busy closing today. ¬†Sniff. ¬†Anyway, here’s T&C as she stands now (photo on ferry this morning):

I finished one more full repeat of the center pattern since yesterday’s picture. ¬†I did a quick measurement last night and am about 6″ short of finishing the back. ¬†For perspective, the ribbing at the bottom is 4″. ¬†You can see my cable needle tucked in the honeycomb section on the right of center. ¬†I’m cabling with it for just the honeycombs and without for the rest. ¬†I find that that is the perfect balance between speed and ease on hands. ¬†I tuck the needle in my watchband between uses while knitting and just stick it in like thing when not.

The princess socks, while not done, are awfully close now.  I worked on them a bit this morning while I was standing around waiting for the train, and then the ferry.  I have one more plain round and then I start the ribbing.

Well, I’m off to Duane Reed for some sinus drugs. ¬†I’ve now had a sinus headache since Friday. ¬†Ugh.

Craft on!

I apparently have a case of startitis. ¬†Tuesday it was the socks for the little miss. ¬†Yesterday it was a sweater. ¬†Though technically, I tried to start a sweater on Wednesday. ¬†The pattern and I just couldn’t get along regardless of how much I liked the actual sweater.

Here are the socks:

I finished the first one Wednesday night while watching the marathon 14 inning game and immediately cast on for the second.  When Tampa Bay finally won the thing, I had started the short row shaping for the heel.  I finished that up this morning on the ferry.

So last night at SnB, I pulled out my new favorite book, A Fine Fleece: Knitting with Handspun Yarns¬†(as a disclaimer, I am an Amazon affiliate). ¬†I don’t think there is a single item in this book that I wouldn’t knit. ¬†That totally blows my mind. ¬†I actually bought a couple of Lisa’s patterns (one of which is in this book) at MASW a few years back. ¬†Wednesday’s sweater attempt reminded me of a perfect yarn that was moldering in stash: the Elann Peruvian Highland that I bought in 2006 for the FLAK project. ¬†I discarded FLAK because knitting this yarn on US4 to get the specific gauge that was set, was far too painful for anything more than a few periodic rows. ¬†¬†

I swatched last night at SnB and cast on for the back of the cardigan version of Town & Country using US4’s. ¬†I’m two repeats into it now. ¬†Not much to photograph yet, but soon my friends.

I know I’m off my rocker but I’m calling this my Rhinebeck sweater. ¬†Stop laughing. ¬†Seriously. ¬†Cables move fast, right? ¬†Better than little tiny garter stitches at least

Craft on!

Kat had a minor freak out Monday morning because the socks I bought her over the weekend were too big.¬† Seems she has my feet.¬† Tiny.¬† Narrow.¬† Wigged out because the foot was too long and put the heel shaping up the back of her foot.¬† If I got it in place, wrinkles formed on the foot.¬† Showing her that commercial socks fit me the same way didn’t help.¬† Heck, the only way to get socks to really fit my feet is to knit them.¬† So…

What else would a knitting mother do?  Head to the sock yarn basket.  I had this skein of Koigu KPPPM in various pinks.  I traced her foot on a sheet of paper, making sure to put marks where the ankle bones are, and got knitting.  I took that photo on the way to work yesterday.  I turned the heel this morning and started the cuff on the way home.

Back to the instructions from my last posting.¬† All those who guessed IKEA guessed correctly!¬† Woot.¬† Yup.¬† It was time for the annual (or twice annual) trip to IKEA for a new chair for my bedroom.¬† I have a drop leaf table along one wall where my iMac lives.¬† When I work from home I sit there.¬† I’ve rotated through a couple of seats there, my Kromski spinning stool first, followed by a barstool I bought at Target.¬† Now, I have a chair with a back!

Sorry, tis the standard crappy lighting in my bedroom.  The yellow walls combining with the high hats and all the wood combine for this lovely coloring.  Sigh.

Gotta love this little girl.¬† She pulled out her knitting bag which is tucked next to mine and announced she was going to knit tonight.¬† By.¬† Herself.¬† “I know how!”

After popping on the Ott light, she settled into my knitting chair and tried knitting.

She’s not quite there yet, but did far better than she’s ever done.¬† She did wind up in my lap with my helping with the steps and needle control.¬† A regular repeat and I think she’ll be soloing in no time.¬† We decided the she’s making a doll blanket

Oh and some might notice the addition of the “Finished Items” in the sidebar.¬† The one thing I liked about Typepad was the photo albums there and how I used them to have a thumbnail view of all the projects I finished over the course of a year.¬† I didn’t want to use Flickr.¬† While it is nice, sometimes it goes down, sometimes there’s a delay as the files stream in from another network.. blah blah.¬† Whatever.¬† I wanted something here.¬† I couldn’t find a plugin for Wordpress.¬† So what does this geek do?¬† Write it herself.¬† I might not be a PHP/mySql wiz, but they’re not that much different from ASP/T-SQL, just a different dialect.¬† I added database tables, wrote the admin pages to add/edit the information and the album and project page.¬† Now it is just a matter of downloading all the photos from my Typepad album, move them here and paste in the text.¬† Cool.¬† I finished entering the stuff from 2004 and am on my way through 2005.¬† Who knew I was so prolific then?!¬† I’d love to know what you all think of it.

I’m off to watch the Sox and do a little knitting.

Craft on!

See I knew the regular updates would last forever.¬† Its been so crazy at the office that I haven’t (and won’t) be able to blog from there for a while.¬† I work for a company whose product is school centric and my job involves the automation involved in populating/assigning/etc students, teachers and classes.¬† With school starting up again, its been crazy.¬† I likened it to tax season for my accountant father.¬† Add in some tech problems that hit us out of left field and I was doing code debugging on Labor Day.¬† I just finished (9:20PM) cleaning up various user accounts in our assorted databases.¬† I’ll be happy when what we call Implementation Season is over.

I have, however, been knitting.¬† I started a new project even, well technically two, but ripping out one sock pattern for a different one doesn’t count.¬† That’s more of a restart.¬† I swapped the Cable Rib Socks for my old favorite Hedera.¬† Alas, I’m somewhat incapable of taking pictures of socks considering I actually did finish a pair during SOS’08 but they’ve never seen the camera.¬† Oh well.

The new project is also a knitty pattern, Helena. I’m using the yarn I finished at WOOL.

I took this picture this morning on the ferry.¬† I’ve since finished the second lace repeat with three more to go before the picot hem.¬† Odd shot I know with the collar at the bottom edge of the picture.¬† What can I tell you.¬† I’m loving this project.¬† The yarn is a dream to work with and the pattern is well written.¬† I started this Saturday morning while sitting with the kids.

Later Saturday I did a little shopping.  Anyone care to guess where?

That’s about all I have for now.¬† I’m exhausted.¬† Time for a little knitting and Project Runway before turning in early.

Craft on!

If Tuesday is for Twirling, Wednesday is for WIPs.. lets break em out.  

First up is Kat’s Amore. ¬†I’ve made some decent progress on the first sleeve. ¬†I haven’t exactly been a monogamous knitter with this, which explains why it isn’t finished yet. ¬†I’m guilty of reading on the train again. ¬†I’m still deep in my¬†Philippa Gregory obsession and am on the third of her books and as I’m coming towards the end of it, the less I knit on the train and the more I read. ¬†Never fret, I have two more of her books waiting in the wings ¬†Anyway, I should be getting back to this shortly.

Seeing as it was still WIP Wednesday and I’m trying to whittle them down before the SOL and SOS officially being on 6/21 and not actually start anything else (a big problem right about now), I pulled out some golden oldies. ¬†I had to transfer Orkney Pi to a longer cable so took the opportunity to get a better picture of at least part of this pi shawl. ¬†This morning on the train I neither read nor knitting on Amore, but worked 2 rounds on this. ¬†Yes, only two. ¬†Each is now 640 stitches. ¬†She’s going to be a big girl when she grows up as there is a 1280 stitch section after this one.

Not to be outdone, I spend some of my WIP Wednesday time Winding. ¬†I spent good quality time with my ball winder. ¬†Remember way back when I started the Kauni, I figured out that one of my four skeins was wound in the opposite direction. ¬†As I’m nearing the ends of the first skeins, it was time to do something about it. ¬†I rewound both of the remaining skeins so that they are going in the same color progression. ¬†This picture makes me smile. ¬†I’ve since broke off the remaining yarn and connected these two to the sleeve at the right points in the color progression. ¬†Fortunately I didn’t loose much in the way of yardage to accomplish this task. ¬†I have Kauni in the car in case I get motivated to work on her this evening at SnB. ¬†

I know I announced a few days ago that I was starting new socks with the Flat Feet yarn I bought a while back. ¬†Well I did. ¬†Except I can’t say as I enjoyed knitting with crinkly frogged yarn very much. ¬†It is pretty but not a pleasurable experience when paired with a lace sock. ¬†I’m not much in the mood to knit plain socks at the moment and definitely not in the mood to unravel the entire Flat, wash and wait, so back into stash it goes. ¬†I pulled out another new to me yarn, Lime & Violet’s Sasquatch Sock in Mahjong. ¬† I have the pattern for Ina’s SOS2007 design winner all printed out and ready to go. ¬†

You might think that that was all the time I spent with the ball winder, but you’d be wrong. ¬†I had some seriously quality and quantity time with it. ¬†My merino laceweight arrived and I was eager to get that wound. ¬†All 1750 yards of it. ¬†That would be the downside to lace! ¬†It was all I could do to not cast on for it last night. ¬†I did content myself to making a stitch marker for the center stitch. Yup, truly rediscovered the whole beading hobby

 

I figured that while I had the camera out, I should find the little bookworm bobbin lace project. ¬†I tracked down where my daughter hid it. ¬†isn’t it cute? ¬†I now am using it for its intended purpose. ¬†Why yes, as a bookmark! ¬†I loves it ¬†

Since I haven’t posted a picture of the popular and goofy cat in a while, here she is in all her glory. ¬†Even declawed she manages to get into odd spots. ¬†I snapped this this morning after I spotted her sitting on the top of the high back chair in the living room. ¬†Good old Sara.

Having now spent quality time with the posting tool, I’m off to spend some quality time with my .NET console program to extract users from Active Directory.

Craft on!

It is back to work day, but I had a glorious three days off. 

Saturday was devoted to running errands avec les monkeys.¬† There were stops at the jewelers to drop off my diamond studs to have the post fixed on one (I used it to tighten my knitpicks needle and managed to break it – totally stupid), AC Moore for perle 8 cotton for the bobbin lace, JaCques Penney for new underwear for the boy, and finally PetSmart as all the pets were out of foodstuffs.¬† I’m sure there were other stops, oh yeah, the Apple Store for a nifty new keyboard and Jessica’s house to feed Stitches while she’s away, not to mention the ever popular McD’s for lunch.¬† The downside to working in the city all week is that these little errand trips can only be done on weekends, and add in the county blue laws that limit them to Saturday alone.¬† Oh well.¬† Fact of life and one I’m used to even if I don’t like it.¬† I broke out the bobbin lace and did the first bookmark in the book.¬† Cool!¬† No pictures of that, I totally forgot and Kat ran off with the thing.

The rest of the weekend was spent on the boat enjoying the family and spending time with friends.¬† We’re really good friends with the people on the boat next to us.¬† The owners are about the same age as my folks who have three daughters as well.¬† Their oldest daughter is away and the grandfolks had their two granddaughters for the weekend:¬† 8 and 5.¬† The girls and the twins spent alot of time together.¬† The families had a bbq at the marina Saturday night and then birthday cake for the Mr (who also happens to be our dentist).¬†

The twins discovered for the first time that they can get on and off the boat by themselves. It can be a big step and we made sure that they were wearing their PFD’s anytime they moved above.¬† And yes, Miss K is wearing a dress.¬† She doesn’t like pants.¬† At all.¬† Boy did they make mom nervous with all their off and on’ing.¬†

With the kids playing with the girls next door, I got some nice quiet time to get some knitting done.¬† They were off on a dingy ride with the other grandpa when I took this picture out on the bow.¬† I nearly lost the thing overboard in a gust right after the bow picture.¬† I managed to grab the yarn right as the sweater went below the rail.¬† Doh.¬†The color is¬†acurate for a change.¬† I took¬†the picture in full sunshine with the white hull beneath.¬† I should save all my blog¬†photos¬†for blog weekends ¬†I’ve since finished the body and the tie/neck.¬† I replicated the tie/neck from Shaped V-Neck.¬† I put the stitches for the first sleeve on the needles this morning on the ferry.¬† I have to say, I love knitting for the monkeys.

I hope everyone who celebrated had a good memorial day.¬† I surely did.¬† Add in that the CSM has a new home and I’m doubly happy!¬† I’m back to only one.¬† A good thing.

Craft on!

the needles keep on knitting…

First up is a FINISHED OBJECT! Woot. My first pair of finished socks in an age and a half.

Pattern: Uzume by Monkey Toes

Yarn: Koigu KPPPM

Needles: US1 – 2 circs

Started: 5/8/2008

Finished: 5/22/2008

I knit these for the Sockdown for May. Sweet. I feel the mojo is back and next up in the sock queue is this yarn which is the seriously different Flat Feet by Conjoined Creations. Interesting concept. The yarn is knit flat, hand painted and then you knit from the flat. Call it sock yarn and I’m pretty much game to try anything I’m pairing it with the Climbing Lace Socks. Yup, definitely in a lace sock phase presently.

So as to further shock and amaze everyone, not only have I spun, plied and washed a pound of fiber since returning from MDSW, I’m actually also knitting it up. I cast on for Kat’s new sweater with the Pound of Love fiber. I started using the Incredible Custom-Fit Raglan, borrowed a bit from other patterns and got busy. I’m calling it Kat’s Amore! While it is small today, it is my train knitting.¬† Hopefully I can get a better picture of it shortly.¬† The colors are not quite there in this picture.¬† It is a tad pinker in real life.

I mentioned earlier in the week that I had ordered supplies for something else fiber related.¬† Well in an amazing feat for Jo-Ann’s, I actually received Monday’s order yesterday.¬† I KNOW!!¬† I didn’t even rush order it.¬† I nearly fell over when I got home to find the box waiting for me last night.¬† What was in it?¬† Oh yeah.¬† A beginner’s bobbin lace kit.¬† Yeah, I needed something else to do.¬†¬† Hey it was a hobby that involved thread and/or yarn that I haven’t tried yet.¬† Any guesses what I’ll be playing with over the long weekend?

Speaking of which, all those celebrating, have a very good Memorial Day Weekend!

Craft on!

Do I need to mention that I’ve been busy since the last post?¬† Nah, didn’t think so.¬† I’ve been slowly moving/editing to get photos from older posts in place.¬† I’m good up through Oct. 2006.¬† I think.¬† I also started working on the finished items gallery.¬† You’ll notice in the sidebar, a link to a single page, the gallery.¬† I took a lead from Wendy and opted for the single page containing links off to the actual FO’s.¬† I’m slowly slogging my way through the FO gallery on typepad and building those pages here.¬† You’ll see only a few as I work my way backwards.¬†¬† Time.

What else has been going on?¬† Well, Thursday I succumbed to the stomach virus that has been making its rounds through the family.¬† Alex started it.¬† It wasn’t pleasant.¬† I worked from home that day.¬† More surprising, I was able to get a great deal accomplished.¬†

Friday, the tummy was better, but I was home anyway.¬† I had a leftover vacation day from 2007 that I had arranged to pair with MLK and take an extended weekend.¬† It was no day of rest.¬† Nope.¬† I spent the day arranging and cleaning my bedroom closet, which I’d been meaning to do since I moved into this bedroom.¬† I had an amazing amount of yarn jammed in there, as well as spinning supplies and forgotten projects, and the normal closet things of clothes and shoes.¬† Lots of shoes.¬† An amazing supply of shoes when you consider the difficulty I have in buying shoes with my ridiculously sized feet.¬†¬† But I digress.¬† I spent the day organizing, rounding up needles and the like.¬† Closet is now workable and I have a better grip on what is in there.¬† I also have no business buying yarn.¬† Ever again.¬† Maybe this year will be the year of the successful yarn diet.

The rest of the weekend, today included, has been a mix of children, knitting, XBox and spinning. Oh and yes, I have a new neighbor!¬† Sunday, Kat and I helped (Alex showed up with Pop later) our new neighbor unload some of her stuff in her new abode.¬† Click on over and wish her the best in her new place!¬† I’m looking forward to the upcoming dye workshops in her super fabulous extra kitchen, not to mention a SnB buddy on the train.¬† Welcome Jessica.

Sorry, no pictures of the spinning.¬† I’ve been slowly, and regularly spinning having silently joined the SpinMoreJanuaryAlongThing.¬† I’ve been trying to get in a half hour every day at least.¬† Been pretty successful on the whole.¬† I’m making my way through the pounds of black corriedale roving that I had processed from the 2006 Rhinebeck fleece.¬† I’m working up all the singles, winding off bobbins into cakes and numbering in order¬†and then will ply them together when there is no more raw fiber.¬† I’ve lost count, but at some point, I figured out I get some 4 bobbins out of one cake of roving.¬† I’m into the second cake and have 3 more to do.¬†

Active knitting this week has been more work on the vest that I’m knitting for Alex.¬† I’m using an old Ann Norling basic pattern and some Rowan Tapestry that I got on eBay.¬† Good stuff that is!¬† I have the back done and have, after a week, finally cast on for the front.

I finally put in some more time on Kauni’s first sleeve.¬† I haven’t been schlepping her on the train (that’s Dacapo’s position right now) as trying to balance the chart holder is a pain, and well interferes with watching video on the iPod Touch (just put Live Free or Die Hard on it for this week’s commuting pleasure, along with the final disk of Black Donnelly’s).¬† That’s made Kauni home knitting for when I have most brain cells intact.¬† I’m about a 1/3 of the way through this sleeve now and honestly, I’m very glad that I got my brain in gear and decided that the pattern wasn’t too big for the sleeve.¬† I’m loving how it looks.

Well, time to go knit a bit before bed.¬† Tomorrow is a work day and I’m tired.¬† Mom and I stayed up too late playing on the Xbox last night.¬†¬† Should I mention that Alex has been playing Call of Duty 2?¬† He’s actually pretty good when he can manage both sticks.¬† Poor guy.¬† He’s a future gamer all right!¬† These apples didn’t fall very far from this tree

Craft on!

Wow, time really does fly when you’re not paying attention.  Days flow in their normal way.  Work, kids, sleep.  Rinse.  Repeat.  Oh yeah, knit on the train.  XBox at night.  I finally found the family timer on it and set it for 90 minutes a day.  I finally got some knitting time last night as I didn’t totally lose track of time and play Puzzle Quest until midnight.

I finished the first of the teacher scarves last week ( I think, lost track of the time and stopped noting when thing were started and finished.)  Here is scarf number two, also in Malabrigo worsted, colorway Amoroso (?).  I finished it last night while watching Project Runway.  See, the timer on the 360 is a good thing. 

Friday night/Saturday I was sort of pushed to finally get an item off the queue and onto the needles.  See, Friday night the twins got robes from my folks for Hanukkah.  Alex’s came with slippers.  Kat’s did not.  I’ve been unable to find her slippers.  Then I remembered Twinkletoes and that I had already had the Calmer in pink marinating in the stash.  So I knit the little miss a pair of the toddler size.  She’s got wee feet like me.

I’ve become the role model for avoiding SSS.  I giggle when I read others quoting my "immediately cast on for the second".  So what does this say about me?

All three are first socks.  I can’t remember the last time I had three single socks on the needles!  Left to right are:  Duet Skinny in Sailor Girl, Regia in the Kaffe stripey goodness and Jitterbug.  It has been a very long time, September to be exact, since I finished a sock!  The Duet was started on 9/11 believe it or not.   I haven’t a clue when the other two were started.  I’m not looking forward to all those second socks! 

The Jitterbug sock has presented additional difficulties and is now on its third set of needles.  The first set were the ebony Lantern Moons that I bought at Rhinebeck.  I managed to snap two of the needles.  WHILE KNITTING.  Not while taking out of purse, or just collateral damage in purse.  No.  I was actually knitting, on the train, and snapped first one, replaced it, and then a second one two days later.  Damn.  I  swapped in a set of rosewood needles over the weekend only to find that the 6" needles do nothing more than piss me off, jabbing me in the hands.  I’ve now gone to the third set, and apparently my favorite needles, Clover Takumi’s. Good.  Maybe now I’ll finish the damn thing.  I have to say, I’m sort of tired of these socks.

This is the first year we did the 8 nights of presents for the kids.  They really "got it" this year.  (As always click for bigger)

Thanks to the snow falling outside presently, no SnB for the second week in a row.  I’ll probably be leaving the office early to avoid having to dig my car out of a large snowdrift at the station with nothing more than a stupid brush.  Have I mentioned before my serious dislike of the white stuff?

Craft on!

Edited to add:  almost immediately after I hit the post button, the kids’ teacher called to tell me that Tutor Time was closing at 2:30 because of the weather.  I gotta leave in 25 minutes in order to get them.   

Trying something new that has been banging around inside my skull for a couple of days now as a post theme.  Really thinking about it, there are three big components of my life, ABC’s if you will.    I present them to you:

A is for Animals

There are a couple of critters (other than the bipeds) who live in this house.  They are all doing fine.  Here is the choice photo of the week..

Even though I’ve had cat(s) now for decades, I continue to be surprised by the way they contort themselves.  Note that Sara’s coat has FINALLY grown back in from that "grooming" last December.  Took a good long time for it to really achieve full puff.

B is for Babies (though not such babies)

The girl child continues to sleep in increasingly odd spots.  A few nights ago, I found her just inside my room sleeping on the hardwood floor.  Personally, I love how she wedged her Zoey doll into the door

She’s also taken a liking to sock yarn.  I find her quite frequently digging through the sock yarn basket in my room, picking out a few skeins.  I left her one morning, as I went to work, with this collection in the kitchen.  Not sure where this addiction comes from   She does have good taste in yarns though!

Boy is modeling a sweater that I knit years ago out of sock yarn.  I think it is an Ann Norling pattern, but I’d have to go digging in the old pattern notebook to confirm.  I made it for my sister’s oldest, who is turning 11 in December.  It came back as a hand-me-down a short time ago.  Alex found it in his closet and has taken a liking to it.  Fits him well too!  And yes, I have a pair of socks in the same yarn….and if memory serves correctly, probably one of my first pairs also from a Norling basic sock pattern.

C is for Crafts

I’ve been doing some serious crafting, thanks to the daily train ride.  First up the knitting:

I knit a Drive-Thru for Kat in just about a week (10/1 to 10/7 for the knitting and I did the buttons on 10/12).  I made the 4yo size.  The yarn was a combo of Cascade 220 (the fuscia which is the same as last year’s sweater) and Galway (black and white). 

The Galway is left over from Alex’s Drive-Thru:

They’ll probably be wearing these sweaters next Sunday at Rhinebeck.  I’ll be wearing this:

I finally made it through the sewing parts of Minimalist.  I do want to give it a good soaking, probably should do that today.  I do like this sweater very much.  I knit it from Jo Sharp Silkroad Aran in the Casket colorway.  It was a fast knit that took me longer to assemble.  I have no pictures of it, but Ribby is also assembled.  It is just waiting for a zipper.  I was on a bit of a finishing quick towards the end of last week.  I should probably sew it in tonight and have a finished shot soon.

Also in the works is my swatch sleeve for Autumn Rose.  I’m loving this project.   I hit gauge right off the bat with it, which makes me quite happy.  It doesn’t make for great train knitting (but that’s what things like socks and Clapotis are for) but I’ve made progress the last two nights while watching the Red Sox play   Sara graciously agreed to model…

I’ve caught the Fair Isle bug and rediscovered that I like colorwork.  The Ingeborg kit might actually bubble to the top of the queue sooner now, and I picked up some yummy yarns at MY last week to knit Eunny’s Argyle Vest.

There’s also been a bit of spinning around here.  Have to, must justify further purchases at Rhinebeck next week!!!! 

First, I finally finished that cashmere/silk blend that I bought at MASW this year from Foxfire Fibers in Greylock.  I’m leaving it as singles and will probably knit the Shetland Triangle with it.

I have two bobbins of the wool blend roving that I bought at GSSB  to knit Kat a sweater done.  I’ve been spinning this stuff a rather fluffy long draw.

I also plied a bunch of bobbins that have been sitting around for a while, but no pictures of those at present.  I still need to skein em up and wash em. 

So yeah, its been busy around here, but it always is.  Its better that way.

Next weekend is Rhinebeck.  Woot.  The monkeys and I (along with a mother’s helper) will be there on Sunday.  I’m a square again this year!

I think that covers most of what’s been going on.  I’m sure there’s something I’m forgetting though.  Oh yeah, including my third blogiversary which was this past thursday.  Happy Blogiversary to me   Whodathunk I’d still be at it three years later.  Surely not me!

Craft on!