My lovely assistant

Here is an example of the kind of help i get at home. The cute but not-so-helpful type. I tried putting one of the shelving units we got for Christmas together in d's room and he climbs through it ... like a little monkey.

2 days later i have no idea when i will actually finish building this thing ha.

WIP Wednesday

is it really already wednesday again.

time is going faster than I like again.

How does that happen?

anyways, i did accomplish something knitting this week - I made a headband for my ears because it's cold here and I don't have any accessories for keeping my ears warm. I never wear hats. ever. they look silly on me (as i showed a few weeks ago - maybe last week?). plus i'm always always always wearing a ponytail or some variation of one. hats don't do well with that either. but headbands do. especially when they button at the back. no i don't have pictures and no the button is not on yet. :) it's made of the same yarn as the last hat I made. blue/blended colors. it's done. i'm just bad at finishing - as I might have mentioned before.

also, i started a new scarf for my motherinlaw. we went to the store & picked out yarn together so it would match her coat, which looks similar to that, but also has white on it. It is the coastal color.

so anyways. i had free reign on design so, I found a stitch I liked (and never knew about) - rice stitch - and just went to town. I wish I'd have taken a picture of the back because, personally, i think the pattern on the back is equally pretty.

it's going to be mainly white (cream that matches her gloves lol) with the teal at the ends. no stripes, just blocks. not even halfway done yet. I told rob that I wish I had picked something just a little more interesting to stitch, but I think it'll be a pretty scarf regardless. It is much more 'mindless' than the socks, which haven't been touched all week. :) My mind needed to relax.

Happy wednesday! Friday is only two days away.

New song

I'm shamelessly admitting that I love this song!

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I wish today was better, but having only a half hour left of work is helping make it better for sure.

A few weeks ago - I shut off my alarm for Friday since I had two fridays in a row off (Christmas Eve & NYE). And the dork that I am, forgot to turn it back on. So - I texted my boss at 7:50 to tell her I just woke up & I'll be late.

Then I get here and some entries and deposits are all mixed up on our accounting software (quickbooks) and it seems as though the gremlins had their hand in 'helping' sooooo six hours (and several phone calls) later... problem solved. *yawn*

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This weekend we get to go to a birthday party! For a 3 year old. Those are probably the most fun kind, idk for sure though because it's been a long time since I've been to a 3yo b-day party.

That's ^ the b-day boy. :) Dev & him are 13 months apart and pretty good pals. This is what they did to me earlier this week while his mommy went to see the new baby in the NICU. Colored my legs with markers. Very nice and Rob now thinks I have the sexiest legs on the planet (and I know you do too). And the baby came home last night!! I was supposed to go watch him again last night so they could go see her, but she's home now, just in time for her big brother's birthday!

and here's a photo for my readers who are jealous of our snow (you are nuts). from our livingroom window -photo of our vehicle.

sorry this post is sorta scatterbrained - that's how my day has been :)

My kid...

..loves to play with his balls.

Thanks to his auntie Chrissy.

His bedroom is filled with a tent with no more and no less than 50 balls in it.

there's basically no room for anything else in there, but that's ok. He likes to play with his balls.

He also got a stuffed Christmas Winnie the Pooh & Tigger. He makes the mistake (which I'm sure is common) of calling him 'Poop' : and evidently he has ripped 'poop's' hat off and is wearing it himself.

Thanks to Rob for texting me pictures at work. :)

And I am so, so proud right now.

Other things I am:

Hungry

ready to go home

getting off work at 1.15 today

going to spend the afternoon with my boys.

a little tired.

WIP Wednesday

Whoohoo, it's already the middle of the week! The first week of the year. I'm still weirded out by that.

Lets see, this week not a whole lot of knitting has happened, but definitely not none.

The socks. Oh the socks. Going swell & going slowly. The yarn is so tiny & so are the needles. This project is going to take some patience for sure. Also, the part I'm on right now is all lace and it looks like nothing for now but I hear it looks better when it's done. I'm just crossing my fingers that it will.

And here's the other thing, it's super hard to get a photo of tiny lace knitting but I'll show you anyway.

See? hard to see. The 2nd photo shows just how tiny it all is (or maybe that I have giant man hands...). I'm not used to tiny.
Maybe I forgot to mention this is the sock kit I won?

Otherwise, I'm not sure I'd be brave enough to attempt socks just yet. If it weren't free, I mean. LOL
I like free.

And, I can only work on this in peace & quiet. It takes alot of concentration to knit lace. yikes.

Ok & the hat I made from my Christmas yarn from my brother:

my makeup is smeared. ignore that.

It's fake-out cables. but the yarn is textured so they're hard to see. It doesn't look so great on me, and Rob wants it now. Ok by me. At least it will be used.

And I also did a few tiny side projects, coaster/mug rug thingies. they turned out cute. here's my fav (which needs ends woven in - anybody noticing a trend with my knitting?)

 It's pretty bunchy so I probably need to work on tension with changing colors. Meh, it was my first attempt at anything other than plain stripes. I really like the design though - i made it up. :)

Happy Humpday!

{TUSAL} & a totally useless picture

I believe this is how this goes. New moon and I post a picture of my {empty for now} totally useless stitch along container.
I present you with...

...a picture of a vase that i've already presented you with.

I already have a project (my hat) completed on which the ends need to be woven in (boooo) and will soon be in my vase! 

As promised, a useless picture:

Hello Kitty Macaroons. Aren't they cute?!

what is a macaroon anyway?

I love hello kitty!