White stuff falling from the sky

Hubby is sooo funny.....all he keeps saying is that he wanted a white Christmas. We did have a white Christmas we has snow on the 23rd that fell and we went over by Mom & Dad's again to remove the snow. Well guess who was hurting by the "white"???? Yeah, dear ole hubby....might have something to do with the fact we did not use the snow blower and just used the shovels. For those of you who do not know much about snow...there are different types of snow. There is the powderery type (when shoveling this stuff gets caught in the air and comes back in your face). There is heavy wet snow a real b%&^* to shovel......I remember my Dad saying take this type of snow in layers. I also remember thinking to myself doing it this way I will be out here fooooorrrrreeeeevvvveeeerrrrrrr!!!!!! The last type of snow I can think of right now is the snow that packs in shelves and is hard to remove from the sidewalks.......oh speaking of sidewalks why is it that in the summer when you are walking on them side by side with friends they are very slim and someone always ends up walking partily on the grass, but in the winter when you have to shovel them they seem like they are a mile wide???????

BAck to the part about hubby hurting himslef it might have something to do with the fact I went into the house to get a glass of water.............and to warm up a wee bit.

Yesterday it was 50 degrees and there went all of the snow that was outside. Guess who is looking for more snow?????????

At it again

Well have you missed me yet?

Here is something I have been working on.......now mind you that is not all I have been working on. I have been knitting hats, crocheting mittens, crocheting scarfs. crocheting Round Ripple baby afghans and making hat, mitten and scarf sets. So see I have been busy.

But for the longest time I have wanted to make a scrap ghan but did not really have a special pattern in place. But someone over at Crochetville shared a star granny pattern and I choose this pattern to use.

Let me know what you think........just not 100% sure where it is going to. If you have any suggestions, I'll give it some thought

Baby Afghans for St Charles

Today the Baby Afghans are going to Mom's Church St Charles

They do a drive for the "un-wed Mothers" such an old fashion word for the PC world we live in

Anyway I wanted some babies to feel love and secure when they come home

I was able to take advantage of the nice weather we are having (it was very chilly for awhile there) and hung them on the line to take the pictures. The RR's looked goofy haning on the line so I took those indoors. ]

I love the look of the self striping yarn from Bernet, especially the melon one. I might have to go back and get some more. However now that Walmart has discontinued much of their yarn they carry I might not be able to get my hands on some. They took about two skeins each

I believe the other RR was made with yarn I picked up on clearance. The teal one is Simply soft when Walmart carried it in 12 oz skeins. I think I picked that up on clearace also. Man I love those sale yarns :)

Thanks for looking

Oct Square Challenge complete

If you recall I was going to make squares for October for FA Awareness over at Crochetville?



Well I just posted the fact that I made 52 total squares.....I wish I had done better but I did have a few other things that needed my attention this month........Man if I could just get out of work more often, hire a maid to take care of the household and well I am sure you can guess the rest, many crafters wish for the same thing ........MORE TIME!!!!!



Here are the squares, I hope you enjoy them. I used the book 200 blocks by Jan Eaton (given to me by my spring secret pal.....love the book thanks Joyce!!)









And then I fell back on ole' reliable friend the granny squares :)





I love them all and as you can see the circle in the square was one of my fav's
Thanks for looking

A visit by a Fairy God Mother

I came home from work last Thursday ....... needless to say it was a horrible day, I can not wait for the new catalog to be wrapped up and off to the printer.

Back to having a Fairy God mother, came home from work and on my couch is a box addressed to me. Right away DH says "are you getting squares again????" No I quickly reply, next question is are you in another swap? He likes when I am in those I tend to go hog wild and load up the house with "oh I think my swap partner will like this" again off track...............

I opened the box and here is what I received, a hand carved Bacote Rosewood Sz N Crochet hook, it is beautiful. A bag of dark chocolate Hershey kisses, a box of spice plum tea, and a Autumn themed bear. I feel soo blessed to have been on the mind of someone in Davenport Indiana

Posted my thank you on Crochetville......

I can not wait to use the hook for wonderful works of love

Thank you again FG

New square challenge

For the month of October the challenge is to make 8" squares for the FA Awareness run at Crochetville.org. FA Awarenewss is near and dear to Jimbos heart. The group is run by the famous Angelfire, the same wonderful person who is collecting squares for a cure for cancer. You can see the squares I made with the Jimbo hook below.

Now I want to let you know that I really like making squares and I really like changelles so when I get to combine these two I excited. I have defintely have enough yarn (you can check with Mr Yarn Aholic), have the hooks and the scissors are sharp.
I have no idea how many I will be working on but I am ready

Here is the start after two days I have 8 - 8" squares.

Family Vacation

Hubby staring out over the lake Michigan

Here is a picture of where we stayed

Had a wonderful weekend and came home well rested :)