Quick and Easy Xmas gifts !

ok.. making yet another one.. well.. 4 more in total actually.. to get the lil xmas gifts done and out of the wayHubby would cringe at all my photos.. as he's the photographer/video man! and I mean for a profession.. Shhh... don't tell... ...Sadly, color is not really showing nicely.. It's a very pretty charcoal/pewter shine to it...I almost returned it... b/c I just didnt' like it knitted up any which way.. then tried doubling and changing to 10.5s... NOW I love it!.

lil neckwarmer

Well.. Here was a quick accomplishment.. cute neckwarmer by Kim, so that the MQW didn't drive me mad! Made w/ Malabrigo.. I love this yarn....! not so much the chin!

MQW - part 1b

I'm trying.. I mean really really trying.... My personal goal is to get a square done every 1-2 days.. So... I tried to explain my team (at work) how I can't cover for teammate's on-call responsibilieies...Now, normally I would just take it ( just b/c I'm amicable, the phone rarely does ring).. but after looking at my schedule for this weekend... I wanted to cry... When am I going to be able to work on MY personal goals...

Fri - 7pm football game
Sat -11:30am soccer game, 4pm soccer game, 7pm - party I wasnt able to think of something fast enough to get out of...
Sun - 7:30 mass, 11am football, 1pm soccer, 4pm soccer - y'all tired yet) where I won't be able to leave... easily.. Supposedly, there's this law where you can't leave your kids for hours alone at the local parks... oh well.. not to mention... I won the prize of working the concession stand sometime in there on Sunday - WOOHOO.. bring on the 'fryolator!'... BLECH!....
Mon - calling in Dead! flop my @$$ on the couch and knit all day!

Folk Style - part 1a

This is taking OMG..like for-evah!.... I need a quick knitting accomplishment... feels as if there's just no end in sight...

the tale of Nicky and Pete

Setting: Bright, sunny Monday morning... I've had my breakfast, drinking coffee, working.. sent the twins off to school... Woke C up to get dressed and ready...



As I'm standing at the kitchen sink, I peek at Dakota (100lb golden retreiver) as he is blocking the path to the sliding glass doors... of which Nicky is trying to get in... I yell at Dakota to knock it off... Nicky is an indoor cat, but he likes to just go and sit on the deck and/or hop down to the pool area and roll around on the concrete.. I don't ask.. I just acccept...
Anyhow, I hear hear the vertical blinds slamming around.. and yell at Dakota again... I then out of the corner of my eye, see Nicky, run under the kitchen table and into the dining room with "SOMETHING really big"??? With Dakota bounding right behind him!...Let's see if I can get this in the correct order of events...



I scream, then drop the VERY LARGE heavy pan in the sink(water is still running)... somewhat skittishly follow Nick, to see what he has...C is running around "It's a RAT! It's a RAT!" I start yelling at the damn cat which what does he do??? Nick drops the thing and the damn thing is now LOOSE!!!!! Now, it's dark in my dining room.. and I am trying to figure out what this thing is from AFAR... Because, I don't dare step into the dining room, to turn on the light.. HELL NO! That's a wild animal in there... Nick chases it to the corner.. and under the chair.... I go screaming up the stair to wake my husband(well.. he really didn't need waking .. what ... with all the yelling coming from downstairs).. so I start yelling at him....b/c "RABIES... OMG!!! RABIES!"... So. hubby comes downstairs, and in the mean time... Nicky gets the animal again.. and I yell, dammit if that cat didn't let him go again... which then the BIG VARMINT, ran across into the living room.. which hubby then slowed him down w/ a laundry basket...(note to self - who the hell left an empty laundry basket in my living room?) .. which the critter apparently can morph itself, b/c it then squeezed through the handle and ran into another corner.. Fortunately, the animal is NOT smart.. and wherein the light..able to see that the hell it was... a lil bunny.. which now lives happily back in the woods... I have to go change my pants now...

Folk Style

So, I started the Modern Quilt Wrap a few weeks or so ago.. and it's SLOW going... I didn't think it was going to move THIS slow... at this pace, I'll probably finish this oh.. say february...

So this AM, I went and checked on J&M, to make sure they were awake and getting dressed for middle school... i peeked in on C, and got a little nervous, bed's empty

til I looked here...





Hmmm.

Mom: "C, were you outside with only your socks on?"
C: "No, Mommy."
Mom: "hmmm, you sure?"
C: "Yes, Mommy, you tell me to always wear my sneakers when I go outside"..
Mom: "ah-huh, so how is it that your socks are so dirty?"
C: "Um... maybe my sneakers are dirty or maybe from walking in the garage? "
Mom: "or maybe from walking out back to the basketball court and playing ball in your socks?"
C: (smiles)

Progress!

Well, I did pop the beads out of the scarf.. and lo and behold, they did keep their shape... It's hanging in the LYS. Being a relatively new knitter, I was SOO jazzed about Judy wanting to show it!

Hubby's Log Cabin socks are finally completed as well!

J was kind enough to model them for me.. (he and dad have the same size foot :) - look at that 11yrs old's hairy leg!...