It's not that I don't like blogging, but there are so many things that have happened, it feels overwhelming to try to put them all down. Then I remember that it's my blog and I can put down or keep out whatever I feel like. :-)
To start with: my birthday was in October. It was a perfect day. I took Daisy dog for a long walk, then I worked with hubby and son in the garage putting up sheet rock. There were a few close calls (sheet rock falling very near son) but we all made it out alive. That's always a good thing. We also went shopping that day - kickin' back at Caribou Coffee. Then at 2 I had my first sock class. Very fun. It was at a local yarn shop. There were only 3 students total and I did really well. We only got to the 'divide for heel' part by the end of that day. (Two day class)
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| The product of day 1 - worsted wt sock class |
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| Here we are about to order: Me? I always get the veggie stir fry with the spicy Thai peanut sauce. |
When I got home, son, hubby and I went to pick up daughter and grandson and we went out to dinner at Big Bowl in Rosedale. Going there for my birthday is becoming a tradition. Great atmosphere and food and as a bonus I get to use chopsticks. :-) I got some awesome presents. Eric bought me a book I'd been wanting: Killing Lincoln. Very cool. And then Curt, who always thinks he has to outspend himself every year bought me an i-pod Touch along with a dock to play it on. I haven't uploaded any songs yet, but have a blast being able to go online without needing a laptop everywhere I go. Hey! Be sure to check out grandson's cool new shoes...lol They were so funny/cute looking on him.
Ahhh, let's see, what else has been happening? Well I finished the socks and wear them quite a bit. They're a tad large, but they stay on and they're very warm. I wear them out with sandals so I a) look like an old retired man in Miami and b) can show them off. See? There's a method to my madness. Seriously though, I had it stuck in my head that I couldn't do socks. That they were just for those really advanced knitters so it's been exciting that I can do it. They're really quite easy to knit. I get giddy thinking about it sometimes. Here are some other socks I've made or are making:
The baby blue baby booties were actually the first pair I finished. After that first class I was so psyched to keep going and not wait for the second class that I decided to try to make a quick pair instead of messing with my actual class socks. I ended up with the baby booties. I did the Kitchener stitch and all! Very fun. Only problem is that since they were just a practice pair, I used Red Heart Super Saver. It's a rough textured yarn/plastic. I'd like to make J some nicer ones. The red shoe looking things are from a book I've got. They're so cute and the pattern's genius but they looked so funny on J that I couldn't quit laughing. Very girlish. The striped middle pair I'm still working on. It's really quite fun working with toothpick sized needles. I like the way the sock folds up on the needles when I want to put it away. I can see why everyone loves sock knitting. |
| Isn't my grandson beautiful (in a manly way of course)? He's wearing his aviator hat here. |
I also knitted J an Aviatrix Baby Hat (see above) It uses all short rows, ya don't even join in the round. I'm astonished (no hyperbole) at people who come up with these patterns. I really think they're geniuses.
In other news, son finished his autumn soccer season. They won the championships and had an almost flawless record of all wins but one tie. I think it was 11-1-0! Nice going guys and gals. I'm so happy for him. He's been thrown on some seriously shite teams in the past. It's cool to watch how success breeds more success. Our belief systems are so tied to what we've learned in the past...for obvious reasons, but it's kinda scary. Luckily, we humans are also quite resilient. I digress...I'm very happy for E. Here's a scrapbook page I did about it. Nothing fancy but gets the point across.
Son had birthday. He's a teenager now! His party's going to be at a local community center with an awesome tropical indoor pool. I'm so glad we've got his party planned. That's been the worst part of being a parent for me. lol--not kidding. Of course hubby's on call that weekend! Oh man. This could head south fast! We'll persevere.
We bought son an acoustic guitar for his b-day. It sounds so beautiful. I've always loved the acoustic guitar. That along with the violin and piano are the most beautiful musical sounds there are IMO. I should have him teach me some more of the guitar.
We're getting ready for Thanksgiving. We're having daughter, son-in-law Zach, and his mother, Linda, over. I'm looking forward to it. The Saturday after Tday, Linda, dd, and I are going scrapping so I've been trying to get prepared for it. So often I've spent 5 hours 'scrapping' but only have 1 or 2 pages to show for it. This time I'm making a list of the pages I want to accomplish, a rough idea of the papers and extras I want to use and have all the pics printed off before hand. I actually did that soccer page while I was organizing my ideas. (I love simple pages.)
Better get going for now. That way I can more quickly remember what I forgot to post about. ha ha
SEE? It worked! Only ten minutes after I posted this, I remembered our winter themed puzzles we've been doing. Only two so far, but they're so dang cute I'm going to share them with ya'll.
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| This is the fourth puzzle - a surprise find one day last week. :-) |
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