Dyeing Yarn

 This is Fiesta Boomerang. Crazy price! Ok, I admit, it's $33.00 per each skein. I bought it a while ago. I wanted to change the color. This is BEFORE dyeing.

 So I finally decided to dye the yarn. I dyed a color blue. I wanted red turns into purple, and yellow turns into green.

 I boiled it. I added the food color blue and Kool-Aid blue. Let it sits in pot for an hour in really warmest to mild hot water. Waited for the yarn to absorbed the color. The water became clear. Awesome to watched it!

 Of course, I was so carefully to not felted the yarn together. I was stirred in gentle.

 You can see the water blue. I used a big pot with plastic spoon. I used potato masher to get the color into yarn. I drained the water into drain bowl. I rinsed it again with a mild soap. This is AFTER dyeing.

 I am so HAPPY with the result. I like the color. No more red and yellow. I like the color blue-made it more blue.

I straight it out the skein into nicely flat than curly. Yarn laying down on a dry rug so the fan can dry it more quickly than just air to dry. I am planning to knit this yarn for scarf-shawl for myself. Do you think that is pretty color??? Yes?? I used flashed camera so you can see the good picture of the color.

Activity For The Kids

 Yup, they are drilling and hammering onto ice cube. I made this. I put the toys and food color blue into a plastic box and filled the water then I put it into freezer for 24 hours. Ta-Da! It took them about an hour to break down. Good for hot day.

 Yum! I love this Jell-O in the oranges. It's cherry with lemonade Jell-O. Fun to eat them. Kids wanted more of those. I only ate one.

 I crocheted a bath sponge.

 Jell-O fruit snacks. It is blue raspberry flavor. Yum. We ate them all yesterday. Seem like we are Jell-O people. Ha ha.

 I finished this yesterday. It is Lily Chin's square. "Arrowhead Woven"

Oh goodness! This is so delicious pancake ever! They are zucchini bread pancake. The kids ate more than I expected. Mmmmmm!

Knit

 I finished last night this a second beanie hat. This is for Aaron. I like the color. I want to make another one for us.

 Denise interchangeable crochet kit. I always wanted this for a long time and finally got it.

Ah, yes I knit in van. Parked! Not driving, ha ha. I was at Schreiber, Derek's work for dinner together. He was working double shifts. I knit a second socks.

Holiday Inn Express With Water Park

 Ha ha. Wyatt slept on sofa bed. Emma, of course, still sleep in a play pen. They got build in bear from Gateway Mall... Wyatt got Ice Age. Emma got Minnie Mouse bear. They were just excited to be in hotel room.

 I was laughing so hard when I realized that Emma is laying on a table and watched DVD Signing Time. I was in awe feel. She was so cute.

 Wyatt loved his bed on sofa. We like to have a room that included sofa bed.

 Frontrunner

 Trax, We left our minivan at our hotel. We took a trax to save our gas. We had fun time in trax. We went to gateway mall, and city creek. I told Derek that I felt like I am in New York. NY has subway. Ha ha. Salt Lake City becoming like New York City now. I am so glad that I am now living in farm country in Cache Valley. I like quiet town. City is stress for me.

 Poor Derek, he is sick with colds. He gave me his colds on Monday the 23rd of July.

Water park in our hotel. Fun! I love it. So much better than normal basic pool. We wanted to stay this hotel for a while and finally we decided it's time. We wanted to go to Disneyland but Derek is little nervous about it so we decided to go and stayed in West Valley City--Holiday Inn Express with water park hotel. We went to Disney store in city creek count as our "disneyland". I really love this store. I wish this store were here when I was young, oh well. We sure had fun time.

Roll Up Jell-O

Yep, that is Jell-O. Watermelon flavor. I added marshmallow in it, so it makes look like a candy roll up. Wyatt LOVE it. He kept asked for it. Seem I will make it more often than normal Jell-O. I like jiggle better. Also it's fun to making them. Super easy. Yummy.

Homemade

 I made this. I used melted candy vanilla color red covered on the marshmallows.

 I found out that this oil can help with my KP (chicken skin-looks like acne). Also its smell so good. I will smell like a cookie everyday or coconut smoothie.

This is for my sink garbage dispose. I made them with lemon and vinegar then I freeze them then put them into an ziploc bag. Wayyyy cheaper than store bought and more safe for the kids. I always fear to bought it from the store because it's looking like a lemon hard candy. The kids will think that its candy and harm them.  I used a lot of vinegar in my house.

Beanie

I finished it last night. It's pretty fit me as a woman's size. I need to test it on Derek's head for man's size. I need to knit a second beanie for Aaron and his fiancee--wedding gift. I like the colors. I used Red Heart Collage and Red Heart Soft, color: dust rose and gray. It's surprising warm hat. I want to make one for myself. It's not too thick hat. Just perfect weight hat. I love the texture of a hat. Really easy project for me. This project is supposing to be intermediate rate. But it's so piece of a cake.

Aaron's Wedding Gift

 I am knitting two beanies hats for Aaron and his fiancee for their wedding gift. I am hoping they will love hats. This is for Stephanie, Aaron's fiancee.

First motif--I am making king afghan for us. It's 12" by 12". I will crochet more motifs. I will post more pictures when I am done with them. This is Lotus Blossom motif by Robyn Chachula.

Pool And My Feet

 Ta-Da. Previous blog: Pool with water balloons. They were so dirty from homemade paint. I decided to set up a pool instead bath.

 I painted my toes nail. Hot pink with half silver. Feel like a princess. I painted them while I was watching the kids. My weeds are so annoying. They are keeping grow everywhere.

Whoo! I ordered Keen shoes yesterday on Amazon. They arrived here this morning. I love this shoes. :)

Good Moments

 Owwie, her first sunburn. I thought that yesterday will be bad day but I was surprised that yesterday was went well. She doesn't complain about pain. Today, this morning, she was little bit whining but she was okay after got out her bed. Last Tuesday, we had balloon pool with water balloons in it. They have fun time. Wyatt, Emma, and our neighbor Natalie played together. I forgot to put her on a sunscreen. I need to buy spray bottle sunblock.

 She doesn't even wear any clothes yesterday. I put a lot of aloe cool on her. She likes to be pretend to wear dress from kitchen's hand towel. She's funny and precious.

Love it! I remember it when I was young. I loved tent on my bed. The kids had blast fun time. Peek-A-Boo, kids! Ha ha. Good moments.

Light Jacket

I am so satisfied with my project. I like the color. I am just simple happy. Yarn: KnitPicks Tonel Sock. Color: Springtime green. I like sleeves short than long sleeves.