We’ve had an active few weeks around here.  We bought a house, planned/attended my grandfather’s funeral, put a roof on the house, have progressively slowed down due to my expanding girth and - in general - have just been enjoying our life.  How about a listy list?

1.  My mother arrived, eventually, and we drove back and forth to Tallahassee in one day in order to attend my grandfather’s funeral.  She had her original flights canceled due to the snowstorm that hit western NC so, she was only here for a day or so.

2. We closed on the house and probably had one of the most bizarre closing experiences that we have ever had with any house we’ve ever owned.  That story is a  post all  on its own.  But… at the end of the day we were just standing around laughing ourselves silly over all the ridiculous maneuvering and thankful that God had provided us with a home…. a home we never thought we’d be able to afford and never thought would be priced within a range where it was actually within our grasp.  Happy happy joy joy

3.  Anna Grace informed my mother that “Lily went to live with Jesus and Chloe went to live with Jesus.  And Great Grandma also went to live with Jesus because she likes cats.  But Rover didn’t go live with Jesus.  My mother banished him to the backyard.”  Where… WHERE… does this kid come up with this stuff!!!!!

4. We enjoyed spending time at the Mount Dora Art Festival.  We had a really nice day and… BONUS… there were funnel cakes.  Woot!!!

Anna Grace getting her face painted.

Dana and Anna Grace checking out the antique train

We enjoyed the music and the displays and…. did I mention that they had funnel cakes????  Yes… I know I’m in the middle of another one of my diabetes testing trials but seriously… you don’t get in between me and a funnel cake.  You especially don’t get in between a pregnant me and a funnel cake.  Seriously!!

5.  Dana got a remote control airplane for Christmas and we took it out for another spin.  Why is it always freezing when we try to fly this thing????  He flew it once, it dived and had a minor injury.  All was well and he tried again.

Dana and his plane

Dana chasing his plane

Lets just say that after this picture was taken an incident occurred and super glue surgical procedures will now be required.

6.  My baby girl…. my BABY…. lost her first tooth.

Anna Grace…shy of one tooth

I guess she isn’t a baby anymore.

She was very excited this morning to see the results of her monetary transactions with the Tooth Fairy.  Very, very excited!!

7.  I finished the Citron shawl.  It is now on the blocking board.

Citron: Pre-blocking

So, for those of you keeping track of the 10 in 2010 KAL…. one down, nine to go.

8.  The other day Dana read the portion of the January newsletter where I said I may have been a little delusional to commit to knit 10 shawls in 2010.  His response?  “Delusional? Delusional?  More like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest!”

I can’t exactly argue with that.

9.  I started knitting Bitterroot and really like the pattern.

Bitterroot

I am using Miss Babs Yummy Sock in the color Forest Afternoon.

10.  This past week was our 3 year anniversary at Sonny & Shear.  To celebrate we are having sales all through the month of February.  New sales will be posted here on the blog and on the Ravelry group on Fridays.  This week’s sale is 25% off of all roving when you use the code TwirlySheep at the time of checkout.  Coupon expires on Wednesday.

Well….that’s all that is going on around here.  What’s happenin’ at your place???

It’s Here!!!

Even the fail blog has the samed warped mind as I do.  Check out their version of the iPad.… complete with wings!!

Am I the only one that finds it odd that Apple’s newest gadget sounds like a feminine protection product?  Hellooooooo… marketing department????

My friend Amy started a photography business and an associated blog.  This week she posted a picture of Anna Grace that she had taken at church.  The picture was taken during childrens worship but, as you can tell, Anna Grace isn’t all that “in” to the experience!  *sigh*  I love the picture….even if it is evidence of my child doing not exactly what she was supposed to be doing. 

In another corner of the blogosphere, my friend Melissa wrote a post that included some of Anna Grace’s adventures while we were out of town at the pastor’s conference.  Anna Grace had a blast staying with Melissa and had so many cool experiences.  Melissa and her husband are caretakers at a camp for those with physical disabilities.  So there are tons of wide open spaces, a farm, rabbits and chickens, gardens, etc.  Anna Grace had a blast!!!

I went to my first Distaff Day celebration and had a great time.  I met up with some of my friends from the West Orange Knitters.

Knitting Buddies

While at Distaff Day… I finished the pair of Nutkins that I made for myself and I lovelovelove them.  I heart them soooo much.

Nutkins

Yarn: Hazel Knits

Color: Olympic Rainforest

Needle size: US 2.5

Modifications… I did a different version of a short row heel and short row toe.

Earlier in the week I had finished another project…. Dana’s Christmas socks that were supposed to be a stocking stuffer.  (Instead I wrapped them up in progress…needles and all).  I finished them a whopping 13 days late.  Such is life.

Dana’s Toe Up Socks for Freakishly Wide Feet …and uber skinny legs

(DTUSFWF for short)

Yarn: Dream in Color Smooshy

Color: Grey Tabby

Needle size: US 3

Dana says…I over compensated for the  width of his foot but he really likes them.

While at Distaff Day I cast on for my first shawl in the 10 in 2010.  I decided to start off easy and lite and soooo… I am knitting Citron.  I’m using Malabrigo Cuarzo which is a kettle dyed laceweight, 100% merino.

Citron…the early stages

Yes… for a pattern called Citron I probably should have used something citrus-y in color but… I had this in the stash and I didn’t have any citrus looking laceweight.  So there  ya have it.

Other than that… we have been enjoying sleet, snow (nope…not kidding) and temps in the 20’s.  We are having fun trying to not slip on ice patches and things such as that.  One day this week I actually noticed that our former home in Enumclaw, WA was actually 15 degrees warmer than our current home in FLORIDA!!!  Go figure!  While I am quite chilly, it is fun to have something so different.  Supposedly it will be 70 degrees by this Thursday.  This, I think, is proof that this winter can be summed up in one word: Weird.

Toodles,  y’all!!  Hope you have a great week!!!!

I gave up on the whole resolution thing a while ago.  But, not long after I started knitting, I started making knitting related resolutions.  They were mainly new skills I wanted to learn like learning cables, learning to spin, etc.

For 2009, I didn’t even attempt to make my usual knitting resolutions but I thought I’d get back in the swing of things for 2010.

So here they are….

1.  Since, in a moment of delusional thinking, I signed up for 10 in 2010… where I agreed to knit 10 lace shawls in 2010…. I resolve to do my best to knit 10 shawls in 2010 (y’all stop laughing!!!!).

2.  I want to knit one pattern designed by Ysolda Teague.

3.  I want to knit 1 - 2 baby sweaters and such.

4.  I want to try to do colorwork.  I am thinking I’d also like to try to make my first pair of mittens so… I would like to knit a pair of colorwork mittens.

5.  I resolve to keep working on my short row heels and figure out why I’m the only person on the planet who cannot seem to knit short row heels without at least a few holes.  Must. Figure. This. Out.

So that’s it.  That is my list of my knitting new years resolutions.  Hope y’all have a fabulous new year and that our lives are healthy, blessed, content and filled with fiber.

Toodles, Y’all!!

Happy Birthday!!

We love you!

I got so behind in responding to comments this month that I was buried.  I was trying to go back and respond and realized… OH MY WORD… some of these are a month old.  I punted.  So… starting fresh.  Sorry about the lapse.  I’ll do better now.

Hope y’all had a great Christmas.  We spent Christmas Eve with Dana’s folks and then came home and prepared for the guy in the red suit.

Anna Grace’s Letter to Santa

I am proud to say that I actually had some cookies (although, in the interest of full disclosure, I wouldn’t have had any if the neighbor hadn’t brought some over!) so Santa was spared another year of us leaving him some Vienna sausages.  (I know… Classy!)

We spent Christmas morning together, just the three of us and then spent the rest of the day at Hammy and Hampy’s house.  Nice, relaxing day with friends that are just like family.

Earlier I told you that I knit a pair of socks as a Christmas gift.  Well, the socks were for my dad’s fiance and I made another pair of Nutkins.

Nutkins 

Nutkins, View #2

I was taking these pictures late in the evening and having a hard time getting a photo.  Photo one shows an accurate representation of the color but… you lose all the detail in the sock.  Photo 2 shows the detail of the Nutkin pattern.

The yarn is Zen Yarn Garden Sea Sock in the color Anna Grace.  I made these with size 2.5 dpns since I think the ones I’m making with size 2.0 are still a bit snug.  Other changes… I did a stockinette rolled top cuff instead of the folded cuff.

Still love the Nutkin pattern.  I have to finish the pair that I am making for myself and then, no more Nutkins.  I have to face this addiction head on and walk away!!!!

Currently on the needles:  a basic pair of stockinette socks for Dana.   They are one of his Christmas presents but by late on the 24th I hadn’t gotten much past the toes.  Why?  Well…. my husband has freakishly wide feet so when knitting toe up…. there was a whole lot of increasin’ goin’ on!!!  I ended up just wrapping the socks up, needles and all, and shoving them in his stocking.   Hope to finish them soon.

That’s all that is going on around here.  What’s happening with y’all????