Week 32

 

Hey there!  Are any of you watching the Olympics?  How about Super Bowl?  I have been trying to catch all the ice skating and a few of the other Olympic events.  We will be tuning into the Super Bowl this evening.  Love the commercials LOL.

I am proud to say, I have a couple of finishes this week.

The RCR are finally finished!  Phew!  It took me so long to make these.  I started them in November!  Daughter has another yarn picked out for a second pair.  I am thinking I will take a little break before casting the next pair on.

After that loooong knit, I felt I needed a palette cleanser.  Sooooooooooooo

Another dishcloth to put in the grab box.  Now that all the grands have moved into their own places, it seems dishcloths from Mimi are the best thing ever.  I am happy to comply.

The Lego blanket got a bit of love this week.  Ok, it was only 2 rows, but it was something.  The lap throw got 4 more rows done on it.  They are never ending projects!

This past week kind of got away from me.  We had something on the calendar everyday this week.  I was a chauffer for family members 4 days out of 7.  I met up with 2 cousins for lunch this week too.  Had such a good time with them.  I only see the one cousin once a year.  The other cousin lives here, so we see each often.  But, it is always nice to get together with family.

Now, I am going to brag a bit.  This past week I managed to cook 6 days out of 7!  This is unusual for us. I have been in a mood to be creative in the kitchen.  Hubby has been quite happy about all the homecooked meals.  

The other thing that I have been doing over the past 3 weeks............My grocery shopping is being done via online pick up.  This lady has not stepped into a grocery store in 3 weeks!  I am lucky that my Kroger store makes it so easy to order what I need online and then I just go and pick it up.  This has cut down on my grocery bill A LOT!  It saves me quite a bit of time too.  

Time for me to go and start watching some Olympic ice skating.  I woke up at 4 this morning and was thrilled.  Why?  Because, I was able to make a loaf of bread (in the bread machine), hard boil a dozen eggs (In the egg cooker), cook 2 pounds of bacon (on my Blackstone) and washed dishes (in the dishwasher).  Now I can kick back until it is time for me to cook lunch (TGIFriday's Potato Skins) and then dinner (smoked wings).  Hey........this is standard football cuisine!  Right? 

Yummy bacon for our BLT sandwiches tomorrow and then I am making a huge Cobb salad later in the week when the rest of the bacon will be used.  

The Lego blanket is sitting next to me asking me to work on it again.  I have a Lego build that needs to be completed too.  Maybe this week will be a bit calmer?  It could happen.  

I will leave you with a bit of chuckle...............

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

WEEK 31

 

Hello and welcome.  I hope everyone is staying warm and well.  We are having spring like weather at the moment and my plants can't decide if they should be putting on blossoms or shedding their leaves.  For the next week we are going to be in the 80's!  It is waaay to early for this to happen.   But, most of you are not here to hear about my weather.  Let's see what happened this week.

There was progress on a couple of projects.

DD's socks got a heel this week.  Only 89 more rows and I can do the toe.  I am so glad she is not in a hurry for these.

One skein of yarn has been completed on the lap throw.  I did decide to add a brighter color in the center of this to help break up all that BROWN!.

I thought this was a tan base until I started working with it last night and realized it has a lavender cast to it.  I still like it and am going to continue on with it.  There are brown specks in it so it goes quite well with the main color.  This throw takes 3 skeins of yarn to make it the length needed.  The person I got the pattern from (Josie's Grammie) said it is a quick and easy pattern.  NOPE!  I disagree.  This has been on my needles since November.  I need to be very careful at the start of each row to make sure I am doing the correct stitch to create this pattern.  Yes, it is good for TV watching once I start each right side row, but..........still not a quick project.  At least, not for me.

There was a little bit of shopping this week.  I just happened to stumble into my LYS on Thursday.  They had totally rearranged the entire set up of the store.  I went in to find out if they had any open knit/crochet sessions to just sit and knit/crochet.  Yes, they do!  They have open sessions from open to close 3 days a week.  I am so happy to hear that.  The deserts of Arizona are not exactly hot spots for people working with yarn all the time.  I really wanted to meet people, like me, who wake each morning looking forward to picking up their projects and giving them some love.

Excuse me, I digress.  I was going to tell you about my shopping.  I walked around the store, touching and caressing many skeins of yarn.  There was some nonwool yarn there that was so soft and lofty, I was dreaming of projects for it.  But, no, I did not purchase any of it.  I have way too much yarn in my stash now.  Once it gets down to a respectable size I will grab some of that lush and plush yarn.  So, I continued walking around the shop, admiring all the accessories they had.  I was about to walk out of the store, empty handed, when I spied this gem.............

OH MY STARS!!!!!!!  A gnome project bag from Twice Sheared Sheep!  I had seen this on her website but told myself there were plenty of project bags in my craft area now.  Yet, when I saw this in person, I knew I needed to buy it.  This is the medium size bag and is now the home of the brown lap throw.  This would easily hold a sweater project. I wish she had a gnome bag in her new mini size.  It is sock project size and if she had one I would grab it in a heart beat.  Hmmm, maybe I need to send her a little love note!

BTW, Can anyone tell me what a respectable size for a yarn stash is?  Asking for a friend.

I did finish one item this past week.

The Japanese Maple Bonsai Lego tree.  The colors on this make me smile.  I did start another Lego after this but have run into some difficulty with it holding together.  I have built it twice now and it still falls apart half way through. I got so disgusted with it, I actually tossed it across my craft table and there is sits now..........pieces strewn all over the table and I am not the least bit interested in picking them up and trying again............at this time.

There were 2 presents for me in the mail this week.

The 5th book in the series I have been reading.  I have had this on hold in my Libby account for several months and it was going to be several more months before I would receive it.  So, I went to my Thriftbooks account and found it for a really nice price.  After this one, there are 8 more in the series.  I will get them through my Kindle app when the time comes.

The other present I received was my new passport!  Good for another 10 years.  Hubby is still waiting for his to arrive.  There are no plans, at the moment to go someplace where I will need it.  It is just nice to have in case the opportunity would show up.

Hubby and I had a little fun night out on Friday.

We took Stacie to Bingo that night, to celebrate her big 5 0 birthday!  She and hubby both won a game.  I was just there to add humor to the night.

That covers all the excitement here.  I do have a little humor for you to carry you through the week.

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