Ok..then

It’s all about moving forward and appreciating the life you have, right? So that’s what we tell ourselves anyway to make days go by faster and easier and all that bullshit.

Because it’s a new year, we make those resolutions to you know, lose weight, save money, give more, take less.. blahblahblah. Well no resolutions for me this year, well maybe one – to find a job. I haven’t worked for anyone else besides my kids in SO long, I hope I remember how. I do love to be out and social and meeting people..so I hope to find something here in this small town that lets me do all that and that and get paid for it. So..send good job vibes my way.

In the meantime .. I have been knitting! So here’s a few pics of what I’ve done in past 6 months or so..

First and this is by far my most favorite of projects.. I knit this for one of my nearest and dearest and her husband for their wedding gift. The Umaro Blanket by Jared Flood. It turned out So amazing.. pictures do not do it justice. The happy couple were SO touched and by dumb luck..it matched their house perfectly! Love those two to pieces! The wedding was amazing, I was lucky enough to stand up for her as her maid of honor and I had the best 5 days in Atlanta.

Then the girls and I did our annual swap. We nixed mittens this year because they are bad luck. Something bad has happened within our group every year since we did it.. so we stopped those damn things! I’d like to give you details, but .. that’s for my life story one day.

It’s all a super secret swap, and I got Heather this year.. and I was SO excited, since she knit me some amazing mittens last year!
So I made Gyre for her!

All the girls cowls turned out lovely and Kristin knitted this one for me…

I skyped with the girls as they had their party in MA and me in CO.. we all opened our stuff and thank god for webcams because it’s the next best thing to being in the room wtih them! THEN they sent me a HUGE box with all the cookies they made for the cookie exchange and a few extra goodies for me and the kids. How lucky can I get? Seriously!?

Then lastly.. I whipped these up for our family white elephant/yankeeswap whatever the hell you wanna call it. These were a lot of fun to knit, but I needed them to be perfect so I had to redo the left one a few times..but by the 4th or 5th frog, I got it!
and the recipient my 21 year old cousin got them & loved them!!!

I am missing my knitting group something fierce..but thankfully I have a couple of new knitters that I’ve been showing the way of the needles to and they caught on right away!

It’s good to be back to the old blog.. hope to be writing a lot more and knitting more too!