everydayness

A Saturday bagel morning.


Adam and Randy digging potatoes from Pop's garden.


Celebrating Lolo. I'll never speak it aloud, shhh, but I thinking she maybe the favorite.


The weather is changing so automatically I think of knitting/crocheting. This time it was little booties for little baby Lewis.


Tess' first game ever. I was so impressed by how she played.


Did not take Megan long to get back in the swing of the game. Both good games, both girls won.


She's never loved to read, but over the summer she found a fondness for it. Love seeing her like this.

recent projects

Whenever I had a spare moment during the last two weeks I've either been knitting or crocheting. It was enjoyable to get my needles out again, and like I've said before, ever time I go back to it I always wondering why I don't do it all the time. It's very calming and such a great activity while listening to a book or watching TV.

Here are the two gifts I made for my expecting friends that I mention a couple weeks ago on my blog.


[purchase this pattern here]


[find this pattern here]

Since I had the chance to both knit and crochet simultaneously I decided I prefer the way the needles flows when I crochet (i "throw" the yarn when I knit), but knitting comes much easier. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I've been knitting for longer, but I ended up crocheting two extra booties to make sure I was doing it correctly. It's what I like to call "perfecting my skill"--there was a lot of undoing and restitching on the first two booties. I suppose that's what you get when you teach yourself from a book. Now I am crocheting slippers for myself to up my learning curve, hopefully it's working. I'll share when I am finished.

Do you have any projects in the works?

Have a great Monday!

four for friday

We are Christmasy around here and have been since Sunday evening. We pulled out all the decorations from the attic, fixed some lights that I knew had died on the tree last year, and search one by one through the boxes for Christmas treasures. It's always so enjoyable discovering what it is we have and seeing which decoration the kids are draw to and have memories about from the previous year. Always make for good story telling during the decorating.



Last night I went with Hannah, Shelley, and Jenica to the Beehive Bazaar. I have never been before and unless Hannah encouraged me to go out last night I probably still wouldn't. It was a lot like a boutique, everything hand crafted, but on a larger scale. I was hoping there would be a lot more variety, but it seemed like there were tons of hair accessories. Of course there were companies like Isabell's Umbrella whose simplicity and cleanness I couldn't help be drawn to. I was also really fond of candacejean.com art, particularly this one. I also was fond of these.


[ps meg took this]

I started the crochet hat pattern I bought last night and finished it up this morning. After knitting for so many years I'm always amazed at how much faster crocheting is for me. Of course it doesn't hurt that I was using a size K hook and a worsted weight yarn. Anyway, i think the pattern is cute and easy to follow, but the size 3-8 years old, which I made, as you can see fits me not Megan. It was way too big, but I knew it would be after the 5th round. I'm going to try the smaller size to see if I have any more luck with it.

If you can tell from the photo above of me that I've been battling cold sores since last Saturday. I woke up with about 5 or 6 on both my top and bottom lip and after a few days it went inside my mouth. It was pretty bad and since I wasn't home, out of town for thanksgiving, I didn't have my medication so I had a dentist friend call some in and it cost me $130 for ointment and pills. I was bummed, but you know when you're in a lot of pain and you don't really care you just want the relief...that's how I was feeling. I cried a few days after that thinking of all the gifts I could have bought with that money.

spt (self portrait tuesday) - resolve

tuesday, january 6 i resolve to take more self-portraits
tuesday, january 13 i resolve to take more self-portraits with people i love
tuesday, january 20 i resolve to take more self-portraits while trying new things
tuesday, january 27 i resolve to take more self-portraits doing things i enjoy



Although sometimes I do get discouraged and frustrated by trying new things, I actually really enjoy the challenge. I love to look at something and think, I could do that. It doesn't always work out like I want it to, but sometimes it does. I guess I've gotten to the point that I would rather try and fail than never to have tried at all. So this year one of my goals is to try new things. I would love to be able to combine last weeks spt and this weeks and try new things with those I love...there's nothing like learning with your favorite people. I guess that means I need to start planning some creative overnighters.