Looking outside looks so inviting a little sun, but on venturing out you find it is still plenty cold, but i needed a new back drop for the aphgan i finished. Featured in the last Lion Brand catalog, this was fun and easy, and relatively fast. It also looks great in my family room and is the perfect size for warming the legs and knees while we try to decide if we will have spring or winter this week.
close-up of cables and borders.
This is spring in Utah looking out my front door. It it wasn’t cold enough to freeze icicles i would sit out and watch the colors fade into darkness. Alas i ran out snapped photos and ran back into the house to admire the gorgeous colors that we are priviliged to enjoy.
On the lighter side i have been organizing the stash and have found several projects that along with the lost needles that claimed to be in my inventory list. So now make copious notes about the needles used and the pattern location etc, file project with an estimated due done date or just rip the #@#* things out and put the yarn back in the stash and the needles back into inventory. All nice and neat with no headache because i have forgotten how many times i knitted and unknitted and RIPed and tried again. Ah a cup of tea and another skein of yarn back in the drawer to gaze at another day. Bliss!!
Then we have this little number who was evil from the beginning, after undoing the project over 15 times ( i probably shouldn’t admit that) and making the yarn a nice shade of dirty white (from my hands becoming sweaty with agitation during construction.) I slamed it into a basket and covered it with another basket and filled that basket with yarn. Today when i uncovered it i looked gleefully at it said take this, pulled the needles out of the live little evil stitches and pulled and pulled and pulled. I feel so much better. I also have another ball of slightly used yarn back in the drawer waiting to be chosen for another project. Humbled and compliant to the wishes on the Queen. This is a warning you yarn projects don’t cross the queen. Thank you that will be all for tonight.
I have had to think about how special family is the last couple of weeks. On the 5th of March i got a call from my sister-in-law saying my brother had a stroke. He is 54 has high blood pressure and some other health issues like we all do about this time in our life. I sat dumbfounded and scared staring off into space. I was pictureing my Dad after his stroke and thinking how devastating it was for all of us. Not only had his life changed forever, but it changed our lives also. He had become vulnerable to mortality, he only regained partial mobility and had some personality changes. Gone forever was the active mobile father we knew and we were presented with someone who needed our support physically and mentally. This is what ran threw my mind as i dialed my Mom to tell her and then my CA brother. Next a call into the kids, it was a time to come together in prayer, faith and love. I do believe in answered prayers and miracles. On Tuesday after a tormented and restless night we were to find out that the stroke was a seizure that may have been caused by several different problems that will have to be monitored for the next year. Brothers look bad in the hospital so at the end of the week when brother was back to work not to much worse for wear he was a beautiful sight for tearful eyes. Thankful that we have family and faith.
doc1.docYou have been so industrious lately and the fiber turned out so beautifully I thought you would enjoy some light reading on the subject of Lincoln Sheep. Although I haven’t been spinning ( I’m not stuck just in holding pattern) you will be happy to know i have a new best friend DIY network. They get so much done in 30 minutes that i have been forging ahead in the basement of horrors, mostly making more messes but atleast moving forward. So far i haven’t gotten depressed due to the fact that it takes me all day to clear one shelf while my friends remodel, paint, redecorate and build furniture in 30 min. We have remained inspired……duetodadue……carrry on. We will conquer!!!!
We celebrated the Princesses birthday and i forgot to take the picture of the cake. Where do i leave my brain some days. The whole idea was to immortalize the cake, because i frosted the said cake and it looked really good. This is a giant plus, because although i have made and frosted over a 100 angel food birthday cakes i still am challenged by applying the frosting. It may be a mental block of some kind, or dizlexia or mothers challenge, or left brain day. Who knows. Anyway i forgot to take the picture. So you get to see Grandpa the King giving horsey rides, and my new grandson who i couldn’t find when i picked him up at school. He has no hair, its a good thing he recognized his grandma or we would have been calling out the lost kid patrol. Prince B gave him a little haircut over the week-end. Anyway enjoy the picks we enjoyed the cake. Delious….
Two elementary age girls took an idea and ran with it and what an idea. It has turned into a marvelous scholarship and help for the troops serving our country. If you haven’t heard of ThanksUSA.org. take a gander over there and look at the idea behind this treasure hunt. But to bring us back to this post, my brother designer extrodinare designed the cover of the treasure hunt book and they were (the girls and book) on the Today Show Feb 28th. Congratulations to the Bro and his good work.
Picture available on the site thanksusa.org
Sorry my limited skills are showing today.
oh getting on the right site always helps do the work.
