IT CAME, IT CAME!!!

I don't think I could have been any more excited about getting a package in the mail if someone had told me to expect a block of gold. This package was just like that anyway, to me!
My shoulders are about shot after winding hundreds of yards of yarn over the last few months.

The wooden swift and yarn baller are a dream come true for me. How easy is this going to be to wind the yarn into "cakes" and have them stacked and just waiting to be utilized.
I had these precious items up and moving within minutes of getting it all set up. Its so easy and SO worth the price.

I love it!

Going Ons...

This is the beginning. What you see from (L) to (R) is the border paper before annihilation. Next is the top of the border removed. Followed by what was under the border paper. The entire process only took a few hours to remove all the border. Some scraping, some water spraying, etc. and off it came.


Our storm headed in yesterday afternoon. If you pull up this photo you can see the small hail.



The clouds were so low that it wasn't long before you couldn't see Cheyene Mountain.


Our biggest concern was getting to Cole and Carri's house before the snow REALLY started.


We arrived with Chinese food in hand before the snow and had a great time visiting with Anika, Carri and Cole. Miss Anika is the spitting image of her daddy just with red hair. She is just precious!


We made it home in plenty of time for me to finish the walls in the new guest room.

All ready for a guest(s)...

Easter

I spent Easter Sunday rearranging a room and moving Hunter in with Parker. I finally figured out that no matter how I tried to keep these two apart in the early mornings they were going to find a sneaky way to play with each other. So why not just move the two together. With David digging in his heels and telling me all the reasons to not put them together, I went ahead and made the move a reality. So now they are playing quietly at 6 a.m. without waking us up.

Hunter and Parker now have a true bunkbed. They will be taking turns with who gets to sleep on top. Hunter's going first. I ended up deciding that they had more room for play if we had them in the front room (without a closet) so they now have a great view of Black Forest out of their window. Also this room stays a bit darker in the a.m.
With this move, Parker into Hunter's room, it has opened up Hunter's room to be a guest room. Pictures will follow in a few weeks after I get the border paper down and do a bit of painting. I was able to coordinate the moving of a king size bed up to our new guest room along with getting Kristina to put together the bedframe for that bed. Then with everyone's help we decorated and finished the transitions.



Dad and Parker finishing up on the decorating. Last picture to hang.

EGAD! She got her license

This is what a new licensed driver looks like. Scary isn't it.

Happy Easter!

Knitting and Woofy Bear?

Now I'm sure by the heading of this post that your thinking that all I've done all week is knit, knit, knit. Well you'd be wrong, kind-of. When ever I've had a chance between folding clothes, cooking, homework, cleaning, playing, doing fish tanks.....yes! I've knitted. I've accomplished so much this past week and I still have lots more to do. Both in the cleaning department and the knitting. Today I'm concentrating on getting my last fish tank cleaned up to MY satisfaction and doing lots of hand washing and blocking. Blocking is what you see at the side and is done after you hand wash an item.

This scarf pattern is called, "Shifting Sands". I hope you can see by the picture the reason for the name. I absolutely fell in love with it when I first saw it (done in a sandy gold wool yarn) but decided that for my use it would be better in this color scheme. I love the way the pattern appears to move and the yarns color produces a natural crossing. 2 skeins later the scarf is complete and I learned how to produce a partial cable without a cable needle.

Here is the cashmere scarf still in progress. I absolutely love the feel of this material. Wow! What your seeing is a bit over half of a completed scarf. To give you an idea of stitch count there are approximately 3000 stitches per "Northern Star" block. The scarf pattern calls for 9 stars on the scarf. I opted to do only 5 stars and let the cashmere fill in the other missing stars so that one can enjoy the feel of the cashmere as a fabric.

With any luck the individual that I have this intended for will actually get it. It will be hard to let this one go.

Woofy Bear! My new addition and the last addition to my aggressive tank is this little one. Who eventually will be 15 inches in length and probably will attempt to eat every other inhabitant in the tank. But that's a long way off. Woofy Bear is a "Dog Faced Puffer". We got him last night and he just came right in and made himself at home. Everyone else just moved out of the way. Today finds everyone more relaxed and just doing what they all do best..... allowing me to relax... watching them glide effortlessly along as they watch me.

Peaceful...

Sunday of Snow and fun

Snow, snow and more snow. I thought today was supposed to be snow free, but I was wrong. The boys, in their quest to fill the day, decided to invite all of us to a party in Hunter's room. We started with snacks that they had put around their put-together table and drinks soon followed as we ordered what we wanted and they served us. They had also set up an itinerary of events that we pretty much followed. First there was the act goofy while munching which quickly escalated to dressing up in costumes and then the dancing started. Enjoy!

Snow and more snow

What better way to spend a cold snowy evening than reading a good book. Jolie was particularly excited about getting this book from the school library. She has already fininshed reading 3 chapters.

Olivia couldn't pass up the opportunity to make sure everyone knew that she also is an avid reader. Yesterday was supposed to be the first get-together for the LandSharks running group after school but our snow situation has messed up the scheduling. Olivia was really looking forward to doing her laps around the field.

Here's my next "in progress" piece. I love the colors. Its so vibrant and the texture is great. So soft!

UPDATE: Just got back from driving Kristina and Josh to the bus stop and poor Josh fell down twice getting to my car. Kristina and I just watched in hushed awe as he slid his way to the car without lifting a foot to walk and then passed the car at a fair rate of speed. Eventually he made it into the car and we were on our way.

The roads are horribly icy. I'm thinking today should have been cancelled all together instead of the 2 hour delay they decided on for the schools. Thankfully it should be melted off by this afternoon. Then we get to do it all over again, tomorrow, when the next storm hits.