Hugsssssss

Guess what got in the mail today? Its my HUGe Christmas Exchange!!!!!

The Richest Man in Town

Every Christmas Season one of the Networks plays the movie "Its a Wonderful Life". I love this movie. My brother Michael and I would recite the lines together while watching it every time it was on TV. My mom to this day can't watch this movie without hearing our voices in the background. So when a parcel (my friend Kate who is from England gets parcels from her Nana and I love the sound of getting a parcel. Its soooo much more fun sounding than getting a package) arrived on my doorstep with a wonderful blanket inside, I felt like the "richest man in town".

A bunch of great women and friends over at the chat site got together when they found out I was pregnant and knitted me this.


Each person knitted up a square in a cuddly soft, machine washable cotton. Then they all sent their squares to Betsy in Texas, who then sent them all to Bri in Florida. Bri sewed each and every one of those squares together. And if that wasn't enough of an undertaking in and of itself, the girl THEN knitted up a seed stitch border and sewed that in place. Did I mention that she is a full time student working on her PhD AND she teaches? AMAZING!


This blanket is truly an international project as some people are from Canada, USA, and I think one was in Germany at the time. She has since moved back to the United States and its great to have her home!

I have no idea who did what square but a huge THANK YOU goes out to:

Theresa: Who has 2 rambunctious boys, and teaches full time, found time to knit a square.

Benne: aka, the Duck Whisperer, who has had a trying year, found time to knit a square.


Grace: Who is dealing with and conquering major health issues found time to knit 2 squares.

Betsy: Who runs and operates a famous coffee shop located in East Cupcake Texas, found time to collect all the squares and knit one as well.

Bri: who is going to school full time as a PhD student AND teaches found time to knit a square, knit up the border, AND sew it all together.


Daryl: Who not only is a mom to 2 great ballerinas and accomplished knitters, she is also a baby doctor for the state of Pennsylvania, found time to knit a square.

Jean: Who was in Germany at the time, managed to find time to knit a square even though she has 2 rambunctious boys and was in the middle of moving back to the US.

Les (who also did 2 squares): Who is a travelling health professional and who's husband is a postmaster, found time to knit a square.


Jayne: Of the very famous "See Jayne Knit" hand dyed yarns found on her Etsy shop, found time to knit a square.

Trish: Who recently started working and is the mom of 2 great boys that are constantly keeping her busy, found time to knit a square.

Barbara: Who is knitting up all kinds of scarves, hats and sweaters AND doing an inventory of her stash for Ravelry (yep she got in) found time to knit a square.

Sandra: Who is busy with 2 teenage boys found time to knit a square.


Donna: Who manages her family's famous pizza place and has a ballerina of her own, found time to knit a square.

Shui Kuen: Yep the famous SK who is stirring the knitting community with her fabulous shawls found time to knit a square.

Thank you everyone for making me the Richest Man in Town!

Thanks

First off thanks for letting me bitch yesterday. I really needed it.

Item the first: ordered more needles. I got more US7s and the Harmony set. Of course I'll share pics so stop asking already!

Item the second: Still up a half a pound. So I'm committing to driking all my water today and then some... PLUS treadmilling.

Item the third: Contacted Ebay and Paypal. Tomorrow I'm gonna call the police where the scamer lives.

Sure does feel good to take action.

How good? Well I started another project.


Its a boob in case you are wondering. Yep you read that correctly, I'm knitting a boob. Friends don't let friends go boobless. Of course I'm not all that crazy about how this pattern is written so I made a few adjustments. I'll post the pattern in the side bar as soon as I'm done.

Gettin' Screwed

It all started yesterday afternoon when I couldn't find my knitting needle. You know, my #7 Options needle? The one that DH got me for my birthday last year? The one that I need to do the FI portion of my moms sweater (which is looking good btw). Yep that's the one..... gone. Poof.

Not in the 3 KIP bags or the knitting basket or the other knitting basket or the knitting bag. Believe me, I checked and re-checked while holding a screaming kid. I COULD break down and use my Addi #7 but that would be drastic. Lets not bring drama into this OK?

This morning I stepped on the scale. Up 1/2 a pound. Figures. I should mention that I'm doing WW again. I mean, really doing it, counting points and everything. Drinking water. Eating ALL my fruits and veggies. Even got on the treadmill yesterday.

So when I went to check my email, after I stepped on the scale, it should have come as no surprise that the laptop I thought was a legit auction turns out to be a scam. I contacted Ebay as well as Paypal. Tomorrow I'm contacting the police dept from where the scamers live.

Now I can usually handle things like this. I can handle a lost needle. It happens and they eventually turn up. And I can handle a half a pound. Obviously. And I can handle getting scammed out of $700. OK EVENTUALLY I can. But handle all 3 AT THE SAME TIME?!?!?!?!

Tomorrow had better be good that's all I gotta say and thanks for letting me vent.

Michigan Wine!

For the weekend, Ray and I decided that it was time we had ourselves a little outing. So off to the Michigan Wineries we went!

The first stop of the day was at Cherry Creek Winery. We had never heard of them before and decided to give them a try.


There was a bit of something for everyone.





We picked up a couple of bottles here and then headed off to the next place.



There was some great wines here! Free taste testing here as well! Can you even stand it? I had no idea that they gave out the wine here at these places. If I had known this sooner, we would have been here a long time ago! I did have to feel sorry for the people there because we were THOSE parents again. Sydney decided to cry the entire time while Karolyn wanted to run around the store. So the girls and I went outside, ran around, saw the grapes.



Can you guess what it is? I'll give you a hint. Christmas is just around the corner!

The Big Yellow Bus

Tuesday was the first day of pre-preschool.


We got all dressed, put on her backpack (please notice the home made Elmo sticker on the back). OK I'll tell you the story. Teacher said that we needed a backpack and being out of the loop on the back to school shopping, we didn't get one back in June like everyone else that is in the loop.


This being the case, we missed out on the Elmo backpacks. In fact, there really wasn't much of a selection by the time we went backpack shopping. Now would be a good time to mention the fact that I promised to produce an Elmo backpack. This is the last time that I promise something before I know if I can deliver.


All hell broke loose of course and I sent DH to the store to no avail. He had a great idea of making our own Elmo backpack. He looked up an Elmo picture, printed it out on sticker paper, cut it to size and stuck it on the backpack!



Teacher told me it took them 45 minutes to get the backpack off of her. She had a great day and loves going to school!