Happy Holidays everyone, hope you all have a safe and festive one. I finished my sweater, can't find my camera to take a pic, but it fits great and I love it.. can only wear it for like 5 mins cuz it so warm! I start school on wed, I am really excited. Eryka was named student of the quarter, and got honor roll.. I am so proud of her and its her first year of middle school!! She is learning that hard work does pay off lol

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

I love Halloween, It is one of the only days that you can dress like this and get away with it.. especially if your not a size 2 LOL... and of course I had to inlist my husband to draw a tatoo on my chest! I only had one guy with enough balls to comment on the tat... since in order to do that you had to make it known you were looking at my chest lol which of course you cant miss lol...

anyways we had a ball, we took the kids to the mall..(note to self, dont do that again) that was a zoo and a half, then we went to the neighbors house and said trick or treat and congrats since they got married at midnight. Trysten was a pirate (and insisted i be one also) Jayda was a flower in the morning, then a bee at night, Bryce was a pumpkin, wyatt put on the flower head band from Jayda's earlier costume lol, Eryka was with her dad, she told me she was going to be a dead cheerleader (wonder how that went lol)

on the knitting front.. I have the front and back of cable sweater done, working on the sleaves. So my goal of having it done for thanksgiving looks good. I have orientation for college in a couple of weeks, I am getting really excited

well that's all my news, hope everyone had a Happy and Safe Halloween!

love it!

so I got my other socks done, but forgot to take a pic of them (yep i'm losing my mind)
I saw this sweater in the interweave magazine on page 39... it just cried out"MAKE ME" its one of those "you will live in it" comfy sweaters just for the cold weather....
So I decide I will hurry up with all the socks and then make it lol well, I couldn't wait so I started it last week I think... and OMG im in heaven!! the camera didn't take a great pic.. the color of the yarn is coal, so its much darker than it appears here, but isn't it fun????

on another note.. I am going back to school! I will hopefully start on Dec 3rd, just have to do the finacial aid thingy.. I took the timed entrance test and I did.. and this is a quote from the test giver, "exeptionally well" and she looked shocked lol so I feel great about it :)

oh and I started on my husbands socks.. hes quite boring so its just 2x2 rib.. so much for his artistic creativity lol guess he won't wear creative but has no problem doing creative

another one down

another pair down, 4 to go lol.. i got this yarn on sat when I went to knitting group.. I had a ball!! I don't make it down there much since we moved out to boonyville, I miss everyone in the group, I bought some tofutsie yarn, I just love it love it love it. the next pair is in knit picks essential multi colored with teal, blue and purple, got about five rows on it so far.

I am now the vice president of the parent group for Eryka's middle school, like I need some more things to do lol(but i love it and like being involved in all the school stuff so i know whats going on), I am also doing the box tops for Trysten and Eryka's schools, its a little hectic with two in school, I just keep telling myself how much more fun it will be when all 4 are in lol

two down two to go

so I quit my job, and we went camping two weekends in a row.. kids had a ball, the first night Jayda (3) says she wants to go home, Trysten (5) wants to go home and watch a movie then come back lol. then we went on labor day weekend.. got home monday, did laundry all day..
Eryka had her first day of middle school, she loves it. Trysten had his first day of kindergarten!!! Isn't he big!! he LOVES the bus and his teacher.. so all is good at the moment

and another

here are the socks that I made for my moms boyfriend. My husband had to try them on about ten times so I could make sure they would fit lol... such big feet! He called me to tell me "I'm never taking them off.. I feel like i have nothing on " lmao.. guess he likes em.. he even paid me for making them!

one pair down

I finished the interlac socks I was working on, I gave them to my daughters step mom for her birthday, she was admiring them while she was in labor with her son, so I felt it fitting to give them to her :)

busy weekend

OK so needless to say it was a long weekend, we had grandmothers parties.. yep there were three, two on Saturday and one on Sunday which just happened to be my anniversary.. on Friday.. after being induced Thursday afternoon.. Heather, my oldest daughter's (eryka)step mom had a c-section and had her baby around 8:30am..
He is 11 lbs 10 oz 22inches long... sooo cute! CONGRATS HEATHER AND KYLE!!

now accepting orders lol

so I went to my grandmothers 80th birthday party on saturday.. it was like a family reunion... there were 98 people for lunch at anthonys homeport in edmonds, I knew about 30 of them.. and about 80 of them knew me.. isnt that fun? lol my mother told everyone about the socks i made and i had this one with me.. now I have 5 orders for the socks lol.. see, I quit my job, now I have a new one lol knitting socks!

sooo FUN

I just finished the socks! LOVE THEM .. don't much like the colors, but thats alright cuz I'm giving them to my mom on sat.

now THIS is Fun!!

this is the Entrelac socks by Eunny Jang in the interweave knits spring 2007, im using gossamer from knitpicks.. in blue jeans and some pink one lol can't remember the name.. but I am loving these!!

boy wonder

boy wonder has learned the "NO FEAR" attitude.. had to get hat on camera lol

happy birthday to two kids :)

So baby Bryce has turned 1 and Eryka has turned 11 both on July 3rd, It went better than I thought it would since Eryka is not impressed about the "sharing the same birthday"

Koolaid anyone?

I learned how to dye yarn with koolaid, I used "blue raspberry lemonade" and "cherry"

update

so I know this is a bad phrase in the summer, but I have started my "xmas presents" since I will not have time to finish them this fall. I made really long socks with a skull lace pattern on them and the foot does a "Flip Flop" shoe thing.. going between the big toe..my twin is just going to LOVE them!!!

The next step

OK... so what would YOU do if your daughter was on her last year of elementary school??? But of course you would embarrass her LOL the fun part is, her step mom will be dropping her off at school, so the kids on the bus will see it before she will so she will be clueless all day

Tag I'm it

I have been tagged by my mother in law Annie, so I guess I have to put 7 radom things about me :)

#1 I love mickey mouse! I even spray painted him on my wall in my new house.

#2 I have a twin sister, in which most of my wierd knitted things are for her lol.

#3 I hate to dress up, I have worn a skirt one day this year, my three year old called it my "pretty dance" and told me to "go in circle" lol (so that it would flare out when you twirl)

#4 My husband and my children are the best gifts in the world

#5 I always have to get my husbands artistic input on my knitting, life just isn't right until I have his opinion.

#6 I'm afraid of the water (lakes, rivers...)

#7 I feel old because my oldest is starting middle school in september lol.

hope thats good enough, I will figure out who to tag later.. gotta feed the zoo!

diaper cake

 

hi

hi all , so I made a diaper cake for Eryka's step mom , her baby shower is on sat.. I think it turned out pretty good :) I have a few projects going, shawl for mom, socks for Jami, sweater for nikki (but looks like it will fit jami) I will post more pics later

THANK GOD

I'm DONE!!! whoo hooo.. Notes to self...
1. Don't assume pattern is correct
2. Don't work on intracet cables with kids around
3. Buy atleast 3 more balls of yarn then they say

SO done So done So done

Been awhile

so its been awhile, here's an update.. Jayda turned 3, wyatt turned 31, Trysten will be 5 at the end of the month, then its my turn to turn 31 LOL..I knitted a sweater for my twin, but can't show it until after our birthday so mid march I will post a pic. I am almost done with my kimono sweater, I was almost done then tried it on.. The cable on the waist was too snug it showed off my "curvy" stomach lol so I ripped it out and am doing it again.. Here is a pic of where I am at now