A Sweater and a Sleepover

I finished this baby sweater about a week ago, but just now got to sewing on the buttons and blocking it.  The parents chose to let baby reveal it’s gender at birth, I think it’ll work for either a boy or a girl.  I really like how this sweater turned out.  I made one for Leah and it’s adorable, however, it didn’t fit her until she was a year or so old.  I went down a needle size for this sweater, so hopefully it’ll fit a bit sooner.

Grace had her first official sleepover-that-is-not-with-family sleepover.  One of her classmates had her birthday.  It sounds like they stayed up until midnight, painted each other fingernails, decorated some butterfly cutouts with glitter and had a bunch of fun.  She got home around 11:30 the next day and slept most of the afternoon away!

Scarf

I finished my scarf last week.  It could be a tad longer, but it looks neat-o!

And I had my little model show it off for me.  I asked her to smile and got the cute pose.  J
I already have the next idea in my head.  I also finished the baby sweater, but I still need to get buttons and give it a bath.    

Happy Birthday....to Me!

Yesterday was my 29th, a-hem, birthday.  It turned into a day filled with a few surprises.  My husband was working nights and sent me a text message at 12:55 AM saying "Happy Birthday."  Grace and Anna each gave me a birthday card and sang "Happy Birthday" to me in the morning.  My friend, Heidi, made rice crispy treats with peanut butter and chocolate chips...which turned into the breakfast of champions!  Then a bouquet of flowers from Jeremy was delivered to my work.  The day finished with some Snickers ice cream cake.

 On an unrelated note, I finished my weaving this morning, and it is off the loom.  I'm just finishing the ends...look for a post about my new scarf soon!

My First Loom Project

I got my loom last week and am nearly done with my first project.  I picked some sock yarn I have plenty of and got to work on a simple scarf.  After I got the hang of the edges, I think it's looking pretty good, if I do say so myself.  J

I think for my next project I wanna try a plaid...or maybe something in a not so subtle colorway.  It's fun and it's fast and now I need to get a stand for it, because I really have no place to keep it and the kitchen table ain't gonna work forever!

Right now

Right now I am....

...pleased with my health fair results.  The last time they were taken was right before I went gluten free about a year and several months ago.  My total cholesterol and “bad” cholesterol went down and are now within a nice, normal range!  Yeah!

...a bit stressed out, work seems crazy busy and I can’t seem to catch up.

….excited to get my rigid heddle loom.  I didn’t know I “needed” one until I saw the Yarn Harlot blog about it.  I got myself one for my birthday, it has yet to arrive.

…glad the subzero temps have moved out...for now anyways.


...waiting for the no bake cookies to set up, yum yum!

...in awe watching my nearly 17 month old color; it's very serious business!

Gluten Free Goodies

 Being gluten free and, for the most part, dairy and grain free, means when you get a hankering for something, you gotta find a way to substitute.  My friend is always finding new recipes to try and turned me on to this pudding recipe. It’s for chocolate pudding, but the only similarity to real chocolate pudding is the chocolate.

It was very tasty, but not so much like chocolate pudding.  Anna wasn’t fooled for a minute and didn’t eat her whole bowl.  Grace and I thought it was pretty tasty. The ingredients are chocolate, frozen blueberries, an avocado, a banana and honey.

I have also found a gluten free flour replacement that works very well and is easy to use.  There’s a recipe on the bag for this pumpkin bread that has a brown sugar/nut topping that makes it heavenly.  I made the loaf on Saturday, it was gone this morning and that was just between us girls.

Sweater in Progress

Here's just a little something I'm working on.  I made one for Leah awhile back and thought it was so cute.  I like the knit 1, purl 1 row when there's a color change.

Jeremy's off to places north to go ice fishing.  He's only been one time this year and itching for a big excursion where there's copious quantities of ice.  It's been so warm here this winter, there's not much ice.  So I'm a "single" parent for a few days.