Monday, April 08, 2013
Birthday gift this last year
I am telling you , this is one of the best gifts yet, its an eye glass holder my hubby had my grandson Levi a silversmith here in Alaska design and make for me. They put their heads together knew what i was looking for and came up with this its awesome use it all the time , never miss place my glasses anymore.
Two sweaters going
One unfortunately won't get done right away. Sadly i was working on one for my grand daughter Mandy, ran out of yarn went back to get what I needed to finish it by Christmas and the yarn shop went out of business . The other one goes into hibernation in the winter for lack of customers. Go figure. You would think in a cold climate more people would knit. But once the store re opens here soon i am sure i can get her to order me more. Yep could get it off line. I do slot of shopping on line. But this one yarn shop is like awesome so anything i can do to keep her going is fine with me, she's located in an old airline building. Up on stilts right next to the water on the wharf here step out side sit on a bench in the summer and soak in the sunshine. Watch the people walk by. And knit your heart out.
The other sweater is for me. And while knitting it i thought. You know, i always buy the best yarn for the gift socks or sweaters but when it comes time for mine i buy the make do this is ok yarn. I am thinking this summer when the yarn store opens up its time i treated myself to a yummy sweater.
Hubby bought me the addi click knitting needles a couple Christmases ago. I love those things. And during the same time i was busy making hats for My son iras first baby, none of us knew what it would be but i was hoping for a girl. Sure enough miss Zia was born the most watched baby in our family on face book .
I bought a book on just baby hats , its the last book hard cover that i did buy over 2 yrs. ago while step was still pregnant. It's called "itty- bitty hats" by Susan b Anderson i got the basic hat down then went off on my own , and knit up a bunch of baby hats in anything but baby blue or pink.
Turned out miss Zia is a bit of a fashion queen a real frilly girl. Lol
She likes her hats and i even did a few scrap book pages with her as the hat lady showing off hats the family wore
All in all my grand daughters Zia , Mandy, may and Delilah, are the ones i knit for the most .
The other sweater is for me. And while knitting it i thought. You know, i always buy the best yarn for the gift socks or sweaters but when it comes time for mine i buy the make do this is ok yarn. I am thinking this summer when the yarn store opens up its time i treated myself to a yummy sweater.
Hubby bought me the addi click knitting needles a couple Christmases ago. I love those things. And during the same time i was busy making hats for My son iras first baby, none of us knew what it would be but i was hoping for a girl. Sure enough miss Zia was born the most watched baby in our family on face book .
I bought a book on just baby hats , its the last book hard cover that i did buy over 2 yrs. ago while step was still pregnant. It's called "itty- bitty hats" by Susan b Anderson i got the basic hat down then went off on my own , and knit up a bunch of baby hats in anything but baby blue or pink.
Turned out miss Zia is a bit of a fashion queen a real frilly girl. Lol
She likes her hats and i even did a few scrap book pages with her as the hat lady showing off hats the family wore
All in all my grand daughters Zia , Mandy, may and Delilah, are the ones i knit for the most .
Sunday, April 07, 2013
Boy it's been along time
Ran off to play wow 7 years ago. But that certainly isn't all i did. By the way i play on exodar server , now since mop a lvl 90 dwarf priest.
Oh let's see i haven't stopped knitting or playing wow. 3 yrs ago hubby got me a kindle for valentines day. Which came in the nick of time . Because the winter i dropped off the face of blogger found me fighting a huge field mice invasion . Took me 3 months to get rid of them. Never would have happened had our mice killing kitty been alive. I lost alot of fabric, yarn and a ton of books in that one. The whole thing began a 4 year long clean house deal on my part
Which began with the attic. Handed my grandson and hubby trash bags and said if its pictures or valuable and can be saved hand it down . If not toss it because no one has seen it in years.
Months went buy. And finally hubby got the clear it out bug. I tossed books out during that time. Because you couldn't be sure . Tossed out all the old kids games and a ton more. So yea getting the kindle fire was a blessing because now if its not on kindle its not coming into my home. Be it book or magazine.
I bought a lot of snap tubs to ,determined i would never go through this again. So now all my fabric and knitting supplies are stored in see through snap tubs.
Last year hubby went for surgery in jan , it was minor, but once he got on his feet. He retired both of us officially. We both have our social security coming in now.
Then once on his feet he went out to the yard. And began to redo the whole thing. All that do to the city coming through and redoing the side walks. They used our yard for everything. Didn't actually harm it as the old patio in the 7 yrs. i been gone from blogger got done in by heavy snow and the old fence went with it that year. Well the city was nice for use of the yard they built us a good fence that went around most of the yard. And left us several loads of top soil. Hubby built the rest of the fence, painted it, put in roses, strawberries, tore down the old ugly barn. Put in a new one and built us a smaller patio.
We then went to the basement were we hadn't actually begun the clean up yet and tore into that two weeks later with the help of his brother hauling it all away we took out 10 truck loads of garbage. After 4 years of going through and going through we are as close to done as you can be with the getting rid of everything that was trash or ya just didn't need.
We redid the craft corner , spent that winter redoing the front-room to what hubby likes . It now looks like a hunting lodge. Moose horns on shelves, deer horns up fishing items carefully places and our recent installment is a pellet stove.
I have actually found time now to knit again. Since during this major home cleaning and clearing of 30 some yrs of stuff . Doing much was next to impossible. I did manage to knit a few sweaters. And one yr for Christmas i got the full snap knitting needle set . Was able to clear out at that time a ton of knitting needles i didn't use or want with that addition.
And this last winter i got out a tiny quilt i had begun the yr before when i had bought some or most of the fabric for it and tried . But put it down. The house was still way to cluttered for me to do much in that line yet. But this last winter i was able to bring it out work on it feeling relaxed and in an area that was clean and organized. And finish it . Last christmas i finally got it in the mail for my youngest grand daughter. It's pictured here
The design is all in native design and all fabrics are flannel with a wool batting.
So here i sit in the frontroom on this yrs christmas gift my ipad mini .i found this app for it and thought that looks like the blogger i used to use. Omg it is. And I love it. Now i can get back i to blogging which i love too . But life got in the way lol. Ok have a good day
Oh let's see i haven't stopped knitting or playing wow. 3 yrs ago hubby got me a kindle for valentines day. Which came in the nick of time . Because the winter i dropped off the face of blogger found me fighting a huge field mice invasion . Took me 3 months to get rid of them. Never would have happened had our mice killing kitty been alive. I lost alot of fabric, yarn and a ton of books in that one. The whole thing began a 4 year long clean house deal on my part
Which began with the attic. Handed my grandson and hubby trash bags and said if its pictures or valuable and can be saved hand it down . If not toss it because no one has seen it in years.
Months went buy. And finally hubby got the clear it out bug. I tossed books out during that time. Because you couldn't be sure . Tossed out all the old kids games and a ton more. So yea getting the kindle fire was a blessing because now if its not on kindle its not coming into my home. Be it book or magazine.
I bought a lot of snap tubs to ,determined i would never go through this again. So now all my fabric and knitting supplies are stored in see through snap tubs.
Last year hubby went for surgery in jan , it was minor, but once he got on his feet. He retired both of us officially. We both have our social security coming in now.
Then once on his feet he went out to the yard. And began to redo the whole thing. All that do to the city coming through and redoing the side walks. They used our yard for everything. Didn't actually harm it as the old patio in the 7 yrs. i been gone from blogger got done in by heavy snow and the old fence went with it that year. Well the city was nice for use of the yard they built us a good fence that went around most of the yard. And left us several loads of top soil. Hubby built the rest of the fence, painted it, put in roses, strawberries, tore down the old ugly barn. Put in a new one and built us a smaller patio.
We then went to the basement were we hadn't actually begun the clean up yet and tore into that two weeks later with the help of his brother hauling it all away we took out 10 truck loads of garbage. After 4 years of going through and going through we are as close to done as you can be with the getting rid of everything that was trash or ya just didn't need.
We redid the craft corner , spent that winter redoing the front-room to what hubby likes . It now looks like a hunting lodge. Moose horns on shelves, deer horns up fishing items carefully places and our recent installment is a pellet stove.
I have actually found time now to knit again. Since during this major home cleaning and clearing of 30 some yrs of stuff . Doing much was next to impossible. I did manage to knit a few sweaters. And one yr for Christmas i got the full snap knitting needle set . Was able to clear out at that time a ton of knitting needles i didn't use or want with that addition.
And this last winter i got out a tiny quilt i had begun the yr before when i had bought some or most of the fabric for it and tried . But put it down. The house was still way to cluttered for me to do much in that line yet. But this last winter i was able to bring it out work on it feeling relaxed and in an area that was clean and organized. And finish it . Last christmas i finally got it in the mail for my youngest grand daughter. It's pictured here
The design is all in native design and all fabrics are flannel with a wool batting.
So here i sit in the frontroom on this yrs christmas gift my ipad mini .i found this app for it and thought that looks like the blogger i used to use. Omg it is. And I love it. Now i can get back i to blogging which i love too . But life got in the way lol. Ok have a good day
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