Archive for August, 2009
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All that and I didn’t even get one picture?
We are on a road trip. And with our family that ALWAYS means there will be stories to tell.. It was simple.
Drive down to West Virginia, camp out at Seneca Rocks over night, head to North Carolina and go to the showing of Looking for Miss Locklear by Rhett and Link!
We started out late. So we got down in WV late.. It was about 11:30 when we pulled over to check our directions.
The berm looked nice.. a wide area to pull over..
Nice flat grass…
WE all know looks can be deceiving..
Brian pulled over just a little bit more.. you know to be off the road and..
SLUMP! Right into a ditch we went! AAAHH!
WE WERE STUCK!
In the middle of West Virginia in the middle of the night!
Fortunately the ditch we landed in was right across the street from THE NICEST FAMILY IN WEST VIRGINIA!
They took us in after we had to literally climb out of the van (yes it was tipping over that far) and they called their friend who had a tow truck. After a bit along he came and pulled us out!! Which was complete with lifting the back end of the van two feet off the ground and shifting it around!
Thanks all around, a hug from the cute little Chelsea, and off we went to the car wash to get the mud off!
That’s good, got a hotel room and crashed!
Don’t worry.. there’s more later…
TO BE CONTINUED!
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Blog? What blog?
Just where have I been?
Let’s see:
- Attending the local
candy festfestival parade. - Setting up and having a garage sale.
- Prepping for my parents visit.
- Having them visit.
- Making birthday cake!
- Going to the science museum.
- Having a behind the scenes tour of the zoo (thanks Kayleen and Keith!)
- Meetings meetings meetings at church.
- Being off my feet again a bit because of my stoopid leg.
- Starting up school a week early, because they moved it up a week.
- Planning for a road trip to North Carolina this weekend.
- Getting lots of nice knitting books to review! WATCH OUT!
- Keeping the tooth fairy on task..
- Trying to get time to edit patterns for the Fall/Winter issue of LKC.
- Playing with yarn.. a bit.. well a teeny bit..
- Attending the local
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My Virtual Garage Sale
So, I have been prepping for a garage sale all week, and put everything out today. And made a grand total of….
$3!!!!
Yes my friends. I made $3! Sigh. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a better day!
So I am going to have a virtual garage sale for you all to enjoy!
First up:
A vintage Knit Wit flower loom. This comes with the pom pom maker, and instructions for both, and a booklet with project ideas!This will go for $7.00, which will include parcel post shipping in the U.S.
Next in my virtual garage sale:
A vintage Bloom Loom. This bloom loom comes in it’s original sealed packaging. The needle is in there as well. It’s in mint condition! The instructions are on the back of the package.
This will also go for $7 which will include parcel post shipping in the U.S.
Last up in my virtual garage sale is:
A Hanaami Flower Loom set. This thing is so fun, but I just don’t have the time to play with it! You can make all kinds of shapes of flowers with this set! The looms are all there, but the needle is missing.
This will go for $25, which will include Priority Shipping in the U.S.
(BTW there are alot of cool instructional and project books for this loom set on Ebay right now! If you have a set and want books, or buy this one!! Just a heads up!)
Ok! Help perk up my day! Email me at Denise@knitchat.com if you want any or all of these!
PS if anyone wants a Serenity Knitting Loom, or a vintage Kenner Knitting Machine that is fiddly, but certainly good for parts.. let me know too!
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Bookish Thursday: Kanzashi is Blooming all Over my House!
First let me say, I ‘know’ the author of the book today.. Diane Gilleland, fondly known as Sister Diane. At least we have had an ongoing online friendship since she interviewed Isela and I a couple years ago for her podcast! (what fun!)
Since then I have definitely followed her blog and chatted it up with her here and there on Twitter and etc!
So I am especially excited to have a copy of her new book!! (since she has finally caught up with me ya know..)
Kanzashi in Bloom: 20 Simple Fold-and-Sew Projects to Wear and Give
is a stunningly beautiful book!!
These flowers look so beautiful and intricate! They look difficult to make, but that is totally not the case!
A few folds, a few snips, and a few stitches throw in a little hot glue action and you have yourself a beautiful flower!
See:
Diane includes some very clear written directions for making the flowers and projects. Along with the written directions are terrific photos of each step, reminiscent of the Japanese craft book style!
All in all this is one book that I would highly recommend! It is certainly staying on my shelf! Sorry!! There are only two improvements I would make.. Make this craft less addicting!! Grr, can’t do it. Make the book spiral bound.. hmm.. I might be able to do that.. (they do that at Kinkos right?)
I did make a special flower to give away.
The stray Pinewood Derby wheel was in my button box! And being the mother of boys, naturally I had a little bit of checkered flag fabric hanging about.. so.. that is how this pin came to be.
If you would like to win it, for yourself, or for someone else, leave me a comment on this post telling what color flowers you would make !! I will draw a winner on Monday after noon!
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Wordless Wednesday: What we saw on the way Home Yesterday!
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As if I needed more excitement this week!
Lets’ see. This week I am trying to finish up the summer painting project, Preparing for a knitting guild picnic tomorrow night, preparing for a learn to knit class on Thursday, tonight Brian has a church board meeting that should be interesting.. next week school starts for us (they moved it up a week) and my birth parents are coming to visit! (YEAH!!!) and I am getting ready to have a garage sale Friday and Saturday… A nice quiet week right?
I think it’s too quiet.. don’t you? We need to throw in some excitement!
Some of you know that my husband is VERY allergic to bees. We carry a sting kit with us wherever we go. His Mom is highly allergic too it turns out, but it came on later for her. The older two kids have been stung and have not had very adverse reactions. The younger two had not.. well till today!
While I was out scrubbing big yard toys to get ready for the sale, Caleb, our youngest, was out playing. A BIG bee decided his lip was a good landing place.. I don’t know what it was thinking, by the time I got to the screaming jumping crying panicking boy the bee seemed to be trying to crawl up his nose and didn’t want to get off!!
It stung him, right on the upper lip… see:
WOW! 3 Benadryl and a call to the doc later, and we were headed to Stat Care. Several ice packs, some steroids and a popsicle later it was about 1/3 this size! He is feeling much better now. 24 hours of Benadryl and 3 days of steroids are up next!
Seems I need to add doing battle with some bees to my list of things to do this week! Cause you know I am CERTAINLY not going to let Brian do it! I’ve had enough excitement this week, don’t ya think?
Paying the bills…
Coming April 13th
