WEEK 31

 

Hello my friends and welcome back.  Happy February!  We ended last month with my DIL, Stacie's, bday and started this month with my son, Josh's, bday!  So, celebrating over the past 3 days has been fun but, I am about celebrated out.  We have one more 'celebration' this coming week, when we get together with 3 of my cousins for a lunch date.  After that, life should return to normal which, I am looking forward to. 

I continue with Physical Therapy twice a week for the rest of this month.  After that, they will evaluate me to see where I am at and if I need more therapy or not.  I told them, if I can get up off the floor without help, than I will be happy.  So, that is their goal for me.

In knitting/crocheting news..............It was a grand week for finishes!

The Simnia Cardigan is 100% completed as is the Quick and Easy Baby Hat to go with it.

Excitement ran through me when I discovered I had buttons in my button jar to go with this little ensemble!  In fact, I have enough of these buttons to go on the next set which will be started today.  The above set will be sent to Seattle for my Nephew's first baby.  I do believe she is due this month.  The next set will stay here in town but, the baby is not due until June.  I just want to get the second set done so I can move on to my languishing WIP's that are sitting next to me in their project bags.

Granddaughter, Josie, is working the Renaissance Festival, which is in our area for the next 8 weeks.  She is required to wear 'period clothing' while working there.  She has had so much fun putting together outfits (garb is what she calls it) for each weekend she works.  The only thing she lacked was some type of outerwear.  So.............of course she immediately thinks of Mimi. (that's me)  I was lucky to have enough worsted weight yarn in my stash to be able to make her a half granny square shawl.

This is such a quick crochet project.  Only took 3 days to complete.  She was thrilled and said there were a lot of other shawls just like this one out at the festival.  This almost depleted the last of my full skeins of worsted weight yarn!  The stash is getting smaller and smaller.  YEA!

Josie and one of her friends came over on Friday and made Snickerdoodle cookies, for her to take to her coworkers at the festival.  She had never made cookies from scratch before and loved the process.  I sent my Kitchen Aid mixer home with her and she whipped up 3 more batches of cookies to take also.  She was amazed at how easy using a 'big' mixer made the process.  Now she is interested in learning how to make more items from scratch!  Maybe there is hope for that generation!

Normally on Sundays, Hubby and I just sit back and relax.  Not today though.  I have so much laundry to do.  I have been putting off washing our bedding for several weeks now.  But since I am down to my last set of sheets, I think it is time to do that.  (I hate folding sheets!) There is also other laundry needing to be done.  There is a loaf of bread and some potato salad needing to be made for our dinner tonight too.  So, if you need me, I will be in either the kitchen or the laundry room.

There were several funnies I found this week.  This was one of my favorites.

Hey, I have been known to sing along with the music but have not danced...................yet.

Until Next Time..............................Happy Crafting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!