"To Keep Your Wife Happy"

Yes, you got that right! We have our very first gas fireplace stove. I love the old-fashion styles. It fits perfect for my family room. Our family room is always freezing. I had always dream to have a fireplace for my home and I accomplished my goal. 

Now next is my master bathroom new tub. 

I'm happy wife now. 

Reeses

Happy anniversary that we have you for a year and we are looking forward all of these future years to have you as our baby piggy. You are so silly little girl with a such of personally. We love to cuddle with you. Thank you for being a such of cuteness! Sometimes you bits us. Tsk tsk tsk... I do love to take you for a bath. You are seeming that you do hate to take a bath, well you need to be clean. You are always pooping during bath time. You are supposed to be a good swimmer. I love to see you when you are jumping excited about hay. You are so calming down when I hold you. We love you, Reeses. 

Butin Necklace by Laura Nelkin

I wanted to buy this pattern for $5.00 in Ravelry. But I don't want to waste my money for this little necklace. So I have been thinking a lot lately and figured it out how to knit it to makes look alike hers. So I went to my basement and grabbed the stuffs for this little project.

I used fingering weight yarn such as sock yarn. I placed the 51 beads onto the pre strung yarn. I "read" very carefully at the patter of Laura Nelkin's butin necklace. Then I got an idea. I deceased the stitches in between center of beads. It's work! So I was still, my demand, to finished this to see what it'll be like. And turned it out it's exactly the same! And I'm not trying to steal it. I was just playing around with it. I was surprised about it. So this is her designed necklace. It's fun to knit it. And it's quickly project too. 

Sighs.....

I hate when the frames are not facing straight, they were faced in zigzag way. It's annoying to me. So I went to Michael's store and bought some of scrapbook papers. They are only 56 cent each. So I taped the paper on the back of each frame. I used kid's wood small blocks with super glue from gorilla for standing. The standing for frame is so expensive. Sorry kids, ahem. I'm happy how it was turned out. I like them on top of wall than mount on the wall. Oh, btw in case if you hearing people are wondering why my lamp is there, it's for my doorbell ring light flash. It's helpful. 

Last night, I was grumpy about this. Wyatt broke the coat closet door. Also, it was in the way between the door to garage. They are always bumping and fighting to each other so the closet door is lost the game and felling down, RIGHT, on me while I was cleaning DVD cabinet! Yes, I was yelled and scared. And hurt too. So I wanted a nice curtain so I went to the store and bought these.. I used a bath rod. I wanted colour is yellow/gray. But this is good too. It's blue/gray. I used black ring clasps to hold the curtain than slip them onto a rod and make it difficult to slides open the curtain when we are using it. I didn't want a tall curtain to touch the floor. This is perfect. I need to get used to it. I'm used to the door. 

Pioneer Cuff

I just couldn't resist to knit the cuff with beads while I'm crocheting a dress for Emma. It took me an hour to start to end this project. 

I asked the designer, Laura Nelkin, about the beads. I'm member of Craftsy.com. I asked her about the regular beads from Walmart. She suggested me to buy Toho, the Japanese seed beads. It's the best quality beads than any regular beads. It made from Japan. (I'm hoping I'm right). Not from China. So I returned the beads to Walmart. My local Michael's store is carrying Toho Japanese seed beads. I was thrilled about it. 

The Japanese seed beads has very smoothly on the inside and outside of bead. It's best for the yarn. I once worked with another project with the regular beads. It DOES different between from regular and Japanese beads. I slid the beads on the thread of yarn very smoothly than rough and hard to move the amount of regular beads. I kept played with it. I'm definitely buying Japanese seed beads only. The beads look so yummy!  

I'm using Toho glass beads clear and dark green in size 8 and 6. The clasps from my stash box, it's good thing about stash, ahem. 

The pattern is came from the designer named, Laura Nelkin. She's crazy abt the beads on knitting. She influenced on me about it. The yarn is cascade heritage yarn. It's fingering weight for this project. You really do want to knit in fingering weight or lace weight. Sport, DK, and worsted are too bulky for cuff. I pre strung the 60 beads on the working yarn. I placed the 4 size 6 dark green with dental floss. I'm just playing around if I like to use floss. I prefer to use a steel crochet for place a bead. But the floss is good for the traveling so you won't spill the beads that I once did spilled the beads on my bed, Derek was like groaning and said "not again!", ahem.

It's fun and quickly project to knit. 

Psst, I went to Michael's to bought even more Toho beads. If you buy 3 or more, it'll be $2.56 from $2.99. Eh...