Hello Everyone,
So since Tuesday I have been working like a mad women on scrapbooking. I have done twelve pages. Some are not as fancy as I would like but I had a lot of pictures to get in a couple pages. I think they are nicely presented. I have also picked up a 195 piece art set. It has some great things to work with. I haven't used pastels and water colors since I was a child it will be nice to use them again and they will be able to enhance my scrapbooking in an artsy way. Some of the pictures I have been putting off doing because of the emotional attachment to the pictures I finally got around to scrapbooking this week. I have had my little cry and got those pages done. I will be looking for new patterns to knit and crochet. I have been helping my hubby with our business on the side. I haven't had a lot of time since early this week to work on as much of my things as I would have liked, but it is fine. I will slowly pick away at my stuff. Well this is it for now. I will talk to you all soon
Friday 24 February 2012
Tuesday 21 February 2012
The Scarf
Sorry this post is a couple days late. I wasn't really near my computer this weekend. I had the time to be but I just didn't seem to realize I should do my blog. When I woke up today and realized it was Tuesday and that I never told the world about my scarf and my week last week I was shocked. I took some pictures and prepared for my day. Now it's 2:30 and I am finally sitting down to blog. I kept getting distracted and doing other things and forgot to take the two minutes to write this. Sorry I have been not so diligent these past couple weeks. Chris and I won a trip to Florida so we are trying to get everything sorted out with that. Yes the control freak that I am, I have already started packing. With the trip slowly approaching and us feeling like there is still so much to do. It is starting to get overwhelming. However, my sister is law flew in from New Zealand yesterday so that is awesome. I finished the scarf on Sunday. I will likely not do a colour changing one again for quite some time. Seeing it takes forever and a day to do the first row of the colour because you are weaving in the ends. Yes I know I can wait till it is all done and weave them in after the fact but I thought I would attempt to do it this way. I have enclosed a photo of me wearing the scarf and a photo of the scarf and the hat together. I guess all I have to do now is find a mitten pattern and start crocheting. I am going to tackle some scrapbooking this afternoon and evening. I will not be doing the class in March as I would have to miss the third week class and possibly the fourth week pending on when we fly back in so here is hoping they are offering it in April. I am also planning on making a bunch of wine in April. Not this past Christmas the Christmas prior I got the supplies to be able to make my own wine at home I just have to buy the $60 kits from my wonderful wine lady and then 4 weeks later I have 30 bottles of wine and it works out to be about $2 a bottle instead of 6-12 dollars a bottle. I hoping to fill up all my wine bottles as I have one bottle left from when I did my last batch. I will have lots of projects on the go in early spring but I will need to keep myself busy as I get bored very easy. I am slowly seeing results on my weight lost challenge that I am doing with my hubby and one of our friends. I am down 6 pounds since I started just over a month ago. Last week was the biggest weight lost week for me with a lose of 2.2lbs. If I keep this up I might be at a decent weight for when I go away. Well I want to apologize that this post is a little all over the place but I had so much that I wanted to tell you. I will do likely 3 post this weeks so looking forward to talking to you later. Bye for now
Friday 10 February 2012
This Week
Hello Everyone,
This week has not been productive at all. I have started a scarf but I might have to redo it as I dropped a stitch on the 3rd color change. Needless to say I was not impressed. I have not been feeling my best this week so I have been spending some quality time with my bed. Sorry this post is not more eventful but there is not much to say this week. Hopefully the crafting bug bites me this weekend and I get some scrapbooking or some crocheting done. I will keep you all posted. Have a wonderful weekend.
This week has not been productive at all. I have started a scarf but I might have to redo it as I dropped a stitch on the 3rd color change. Needless to say I was not impressed. I have not been feeling my best this week so I have been spending some quality time with my bed. Sorry this post is not more eventful but there is not much to say this week. Hopefully the crafting bug bites me this weekend and I get some scrapbooking or some crocheting done. I will keep you all posted. Have a wonderful weekend.
Thursday 2 February 2012
The Hat From Hell
Hello All,
As you all know I had my course at Michael's on Monday to learn a new stitch. While let me tell you that was an ordeal. I was there for 5:45pm so that I am on time. There were two of us scheduled to take the class plus the instructor. The Michael's staff didn't come to the room till 5:55pm and advised me that the instructor is running a bit late. The instructor didn't show up till 6:20pm and then we started. I learnt how to double crochet. We figured as we only had a two hours to work on this project together she would teach me to make a hat. She felt that if we started a scarf or pillow I wouldn't have enough done in the two hours to feel confident to finish it at home. While we started the hat. I went home on row for of a 15 row pattern. I worked on it that night and I was concerned because my hat was more of a Dollie then a hat. But I had faith. I got to row eight that night. I phone the instructor the next morning and voiced my concerns and she said that it should become more hat like by row 13, so I continued on. I got to row 13 and still Dollie like. I researched on the internet and found out that I might still be adding a stitch and that could be causing the problem of why it is not curving into a hat. I took out rows 13-7 and started them over. While it started to curve a bit but not as much as it should. I called the instructor again on Wednesday morning and asked if I could come in and show her what was happening and see if there was anything we could do to fix it. I got to Michael's at a little after 10 in the morning. She said I did something wrong in the first four rows so I would have to start over. We then pulled out the whole thing and started over. Yes this time it turned into a hat but still it was discouraging to not be able to get a hat on my first try. The hat is finally done. I may start a scarf next and use the toast yarn color and add some rows of the off white so that I can wear the hat and scarf together. Oh and good news they are running the spotted canary course in March. I will be registering on Friday. I will keep you posted on that. Enclosed with this post are the picture of the demon hat and me wearing it. There are still some flaws in it but hey it is done and I won't be doing a hat for a bit. Till next time
As you all know I had my course at Michael's on Monday to learn a new stitch. While let me tell you that was an ordeal. I was there for 5:45pm so that I am on time. There were two of us scheduled to take the class plus the instructor. The Michael's staff didn't come to the room till 5:55pm and advised me that the instructor is running a bit late. The instructor didn't show up till 6:20pm and then we started. I learnt how to double crochet. We figured as we only had a two hours to work on this project together she would teach me to make a hat. She felt that if we started a scarf or pillow I wouldn't have enough done in the two hours to feel confident to finish it at home. While we started the hat. I went home on row for of a 15 row pattern. I worked on it that night and I was concerned because my hat was more of a Dollie then a hat. But I had faith. I got to row eight that night. I phone the instructor the next morning and voiced my concerns and she said that it should become more hat like by row 13, so I continued on. I got to row 13 and still Dollie like. I researched on the internet and found out that I might still be adding a stitch and that could be causing the problem of why it is not curving into a hat. I took out rows 13-7 and started them over. While it started to curve a bit but not as much as it should. I called the instructor again on Wednesday morning and asked if I could come in and show her what was happening and see if there was anything we could do to fix it. I got to Michael's at a little after 10 in the morning. She said I did something wrong in the first four rows so I would have to start over. We then pulled out the whole thing and started over. Yes this time it turned into a hat but still it was discouraging to not be able to get a hat on my first try. The hat is finally done. I may start a scarf next and use the toast yarn color and add some rows of the off white so that I can wear the hat and scarf together. Oh and good news they are running the spotted canary course in March. I will be registering on Friday. I will keep you posted on that. Enclosed with this post are the picture of the demon hat and me wearing it. There are still some flaws in it but hey it is done and I won't be doing a hat for a bit. Till next time
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