Holy Crow! I just found a WordPress template with a whole bunch of Hello Kitty stuff on it. Now I have no problem (basically) with Hello Kitty. But y’all need to promise me something. Promise me if I ever get so fluffy in the head that I have a Hello Kitty template on my blog […]
Continue reading →I think about moving away from Typepad usually around the spring of the year. You know…. right when my Typepad account is up for renewal. Well this year I actually started thinking about it early. This is probably because my BFF started her own blog (I’ll link to her one day but I don’t think […]
Continue reading →I apparently was overthinking the whole pattern thing. I never considered that sock designers didn’t design the first sock etc. So it is official. I will write down the instructions for the prairie skirt. Now I have to find out what the standard sizes are for toddlers/preschoolers. I can’t use AG’s clothes as an example […]
Continue reading →It was 98 degrees here today. We have no air conditioning except for a little portable thing that you can roll from room to room. It helps a bit but it can’t cool all that much. Now, I should be used to such temps except let me clarify one thing… .in Florida…. you pay your […]
Continue reading →Anna Grace put on her skirt this evening and announced that she had a "pretty skirt". She seems to like it okay. I used Butterfly Mercerized Cotton. I worried about the yarn being hard to work with, splitty, etc. I had zero problems with it. Maybe I’ll knit with cotton a little more often. I […]
Continue reading →I finished the skirt. You’ll note a little detour from the original plan. That little multicolored, garter stitch border… yep… I planned that all along. It had nothing to do with the fact that I ran out of purple yarn. Nothing at all. The color on this photo is off quite a bit. I’m going […]
Continue reading →Can I just say when I was in Nicaragua in the summer time it wasn’t 97 degrees. Yes, Florida is hot as well. But there’s a little 2 word thing that Florida has that we Washingtonians to not have….AIR CONDITIONING! Tomorrow it will be hotter. So when you come to this blog tomorrow… expect whining. […]
Continue reading →Many of you may have noticed my little blue fingered mishap while I tinkered around with some Easter Egg dyes and yarn. Well, I learned a few things. 1. If you don’t want to go through life with the Blue Fingered Plague, wear gloves. Who cares if it’s not toxic! You look like a goofball….wear […]
Continue reading →Me? I got nominated by Debi for this….. and suffice it to say I about fell out of my chair. Thanks Debi. I think I’m supposed to nominate 5 others. So my five nominations are….. Leona of Uncle Leona’s Day Camp : If you are not reading this blog you are missing out. It is […]
Continue reading →The titles get better and better….. Dana has this little thing that looks like a tractor and it pulls itself along a hose and waters the yard. Anna Grace thinks this is the coolest thing ever. So pretty much every night she is outside dancing through the sprinkler. This night I actually did get a […]
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