I Dont Know Why Ive Been Gone So Long?

I dont know why I havent posted in a long time. Its not like I havent thought about it many times. The mood just wasnt there I guess. I apologize to anyone who kept checking in here and kept finding the same old stuff. I hate when that happens. I probably lost a few readers out of it as well. Oh well what can you do.

I posted a picture of the crocheted market bags that I gave to some people at Mops. I just finished one just like the blue/green/white one that you see in the photo to sell at Ryders Cup. I have also made a couple of dishcloths to sell there as well. I just missed handing them in today so that will have to be next week.


Here is a picture of the bunny pyjama bag that is now listed in my Etsy shop. One day I will have to do another dinosaur. He turned out so cute. When I think about making one of those it always stops with the thought of what yarn to use and what are two good dinosaur colours that would work. Thats as far as I get without coming up with a solution.


I thought I would throw in this picture of Victoria that I took when we were playing outside last week. Dont you just love her shirt. I know she does hehe. She is obsessed with everything rainbow. She got it from her big sister. She just happens to like all the stuff that Megan does. Isnt that the little sister way to be. Of course she is in complete denial about that hehe. A funny little story about Victoria that happened today. She likes to watch a channel called Noggin and in between the shows that have little snippets about a little cartoon town full of animals. In this show they have Garbage Bear. He comes to collect all their garbage. Since seeing this Victoria has always been excited when we go out to the bus on Friday morning and Garbage Bear has been to collect our garbage. Today the garbage man was collecting our garbage while we were waiting for the bus. Victoria got big eyes and a big smile watching this and squeal its Garbage Bear. She then says to me that he must love his job. I said who, the garbage man, why? She says because it just looks like so much fun hehe. I guess I just never thought of it that way. She is so silly.

This is my Meggy at her Track event. Apparently she is in between events here hehe. She finished up the track team about a week ago. I think she had fun. I think she just loves to be part of a team and challenging herself. She also just loves to be busy. Thats why we never see her. We have actually got to spend some time together since track ended because she's been home at the regular time. It made me realize how much I have missed just hanging out with her. Yep, I admit it, I enjoy hanging out with my teenager hehe. We have fun just doing anything and have the same whackiness about us.

I have been working on an Heirloom type knitted bear for the past few weeks on and off. Its actually suppose to be kind of a big bear but I am knitting her with 100% Superfine Alpaca yarn on size 1 needles which I think will make her about 8-10 inches when she is all sewn up. Aaahhh the seaming. This is why she isnt finished yet. I finished sewing all her peices, mind you there are a whopping 19 altogether. I hope I dont lose any. I block them last weekend and Im now contemplating all the seaming to finish her. I think my desire to see how she will look when she is all finished will make me sit down and slowly start piecing her together. I like to take my time with the seaming and make sure I get it right. I also only seam in the day time when there is better light. So maybe this weekend she will start coming together. One can only hope hehe.

I Had To Share This Straight Away

I just got a message on Etsy that my monster is featured in a blog. How exciting! He blends in really well with her blog as well.
Check it out!

http://jillianspencer.blogspot.com/

I know, I know, I promised to blog more and I didnt. This stupid weather we have been having played havoc with my sinuses and I havent been doing much of anything. I finally adjusted to the constant switching back and forth from hot and cold and will blog more this week. I really really will.

Phew! Its Been A Long Time

I guess its been a while since I blogged about anything. This is just a quick note to say that I am still alive and have been knitting up a storm. The girls had holidays and I wasnt really online too much while that was happening.
I promise this week I will write an update with lots of pictures. Lots of new yarn purchased with the closing of the Falconer Yarn Loft :( and a cable baby blanket almost complete. I also got in the mood to crochet a market bag so stay tuned for something to look at.

A Monster Who's Not So Scary

This is Maddox. He's just a little guy and wouldnt hurt a fly. You see he's on 5 1/2 inches tall. He could only reach your ankle anyway.


This is the latest edition to my Etsy shop. I bought the pattern on Etsy a few weeks ago from Danger Crafts. The designer is Rebecca Danger and she makes lots of other cute guys as well. I think she just added a bunny recently. In the examples of monsters in the pattern they are all knit with fairly chunky yarn. This one is knit with Sugar n Cream cotton yarn on size 3 needles so he only came out small. I think I would like to knit one with some Lion Brand Homespun yarn and see what he would look like. Alot different I think.



With the release of the new movie Monsters vs Aliens coming soon I thought it quite fitting to make a monster. Monsters just might be everywhere soon.

Sad Knitting News For Me :(

We went to get our hair cuts done on Saturday. Our hair salon just happens to be right near my favourite knitting shop so of course we had to go and visit. Walking up the stairs a notice was posted on the way that the shop is closing. Yep you read it right its closing. I had to read it a few times to believe it. The lady that owns it has decided to move to California near the beach. She gave me all the little critters and stitch markers that I had made for the shop. I realized when I got home that I forgot one and will have to call her on Tuesday to check if its still there.

I will definitely be going back before its final closing date which is April 18th. She is marking down everything with the last 2 weeks being 40% off. That could be a great bonus for me but still I would rather the shop still being around than getting a bunch of sales.

Last week we went and checked if another craft shop I had visited before was still there because we hadnt visited in quite a while. Nope, thats not there either. What is happening around here? The only one left locally is in Bemus Point about 30 minutes from here. If that goes, there will be no more local cool yarn shops left for me to drool over. Although there is still one I have left to try. It better not be gone before I can get there.

I guess a silver lining in getting my items back from the yarn shop is I now have a bunch of new stuff to add to my shop. I will have lots of photos I have to take now to be able to add them. There is quite alot. It may help generate some sales. I think I will do one a day type thing. It should be interesting.

A Couple Of Finished Things And Prettiness

Yep its another monkey. These are the items that I made for the lady at MOPS who is having a baby. The monkey is for her two year old son. I figure you cant go wrong with a monkey. I like the colours of this one. They turned out really cute. Before I started him I went back and forth on brown with blue accents or blue with brown accents. I think I like him being mostly blue.


Monkey butt shot. As you know each monkey I make turns out different from the last. This one is no exception. His tail isnt very curly this time. Go figure on the monkey thing.

Dont ask me why this photo is sideways when all the other ones showed up the right way. I have no idea hehe. I will just count it as a little quirk in this post. This is the baby hat that I made. I made the booties first which are suppose to look like mary jane's. I just thought I would make the hat match. I went back and forth on the ribbon colour. I thought red would pop but then thought maybe black on black might be nice as well. So I just stuck with the original plan of red. I hope she likes it.



These are the little mary janes. Arent they cute. It may be hard to see in the photos the details with them being in black. I think you can see it a bit better in the next photo. I used the very soft washable wool for this project. I have been able to use that yarn for alot of projects and still have some left over.

Here is the set together. Now you may be thinking there is something wrong with this picture. There is, and I will tell you what that is in case you havent figured it out. Usually with booties there are two of them, right? Well I was right at the end of getting this ready the day before just tying on the ribbon when I realized I had made two left booties. It doesnt usually matter with booties but with them buttoning at the side it kind of mattered. So the night before I wanted to give them I had to whip up another one for the right side. I decided to take these photos with just the one bootie because when the other one was done they had to be wrapped up. Wouldnt you know it, the lady who was to receive these didnt end up making it to the meeting because her son was sick. Oh well, they are wrapped and ready to give at the next meeting.



I mentioned before that St Patricks Day was our 8 year wedding anniversary. Well on that day my husband came home with a dozen pink roses. I just love roses and they filled the kitchen with their beautiful aroma. I just had to take photos of them. I still have them but Im afraid they are going to have to get thrown out today because they no longer look so great. Its always sad to throw a bouquet of flowers out.



We did end up having our fancy dinner for our anniversary. Megan and Victoria went to a friends house where they each had someone to play with. Victoria was so excited she was calling it Maggie Day. Joe and I had a fabulous time at our fancy restaurant. I dont think we will be back there too often because it was very expensive but it was definitely a nice treat. I actually went a little crazy with all I ordered because I figured I wouldnt be back there any time soon and wanted to try all that I could. I had my first ever martini. Im not really a drinker but this was a yummy Cappucino Martini and I was up for trying new things. I had these very scrumptious scallops wrapped in bacon with Teriyaki sauce. So yummy I can taste it just thinking about it. I had a coconut chicken with mango stuffing and a raspberry meringue for dessert. We were so full by the end. It was well worth it. We gave the lady babysitting the children a dozen doughnuts from Dunkin Donuts as a thank you. We always bring a Thank You gift when someone watches the children for us.

Well better go and catch up with the husband, he just got home.

Is It The Real Pippo?

Here is the Pippo that I made for Victoria. She has fallen in love with him which is just great. I had visions of me giving him to her and her saying "This isnt Pippo, I dont want it." When I gave him to her he didnt have the belly circle. For some reason I was having trouble with that so I gave him to her to see if she liked him better without it. The Pippo in the story doesnt have one, she just wanted him to have one. As soon as she got him I knew what the answer was because she looked at his belly and said "He doesnt have his belly circle." I knew how important it was after that hehe. So I sat down and figured it out. She says it looks just like she wanted it too. Thats all I wanted hehe.


These were taken last weekend when Victoria and I went on our walk. It was Pippo's first tour of Sinclairville. She says he liked it. He has been everywhere since he was finished. I still have to make his overalls. He has to have his red and white striped overalls. We found the right material, now I just have to sit down and try and figure that one out.


Here is Pippo getting a rare moment to himself.


You've gotta have the butt shot.


I figured if I could get the face right then the rest would look like him. The face was the most important part so I took my time on that one.


Here is the real Pippo. We have read all his books many times over. They are so cute. Do you think our Pippo looks like the real one?


This is the real Pippo just hanging out.

I am so excited for tomorrow. Joe and I are going on our annual date. We are going to a restaurant called Ye Hare 'n Hounds Inn. This is their website. http://www.harenhounds.com/
We've never been there before but heard good things about it. The menu online looks good to me especially the desserts. I am keeping my fingers crossed that we will get to go because Victoria has been sick for the past week on and off. There is something going around and it reached her. I thought she was over it last Thursday but she got sick again on f Wednesday night. After that I realized that I dont think she had been over it all week from last week because she wasnt eating like she usually does. I hope yesterday was the last of it. We cant send her off to get babysat if she isnt feeling well. I did manage to find someone to babysit. Megan is happy because its her friends mum. Meg is friends with Maya and Victoria is friends with her sister Maggie so if they do get to go they will have a great time. Victoria says at least once an hour that she cant wait to play with Maggie so I hope we dont have to tell her its cancelled. We shall see, there is still time.

Well I better end this post so I can get to the post office. I am still waiting of four things that I bought on Etsy and I am hoping that at least something will be there today.