Beginning Of Summertime

Logan canyon, such so beautiful nature. My favorite is pine tree. 

Derek is so tired. He had been working overtime at his work for last 2 weeks. He is working over 160 hours. I feel that I had a longgggg week without him around with us. Miss him. He held Emma's doll. How cute?! He's very loud snores, it's annoying me. Hello, I can feel his snore. ZzZzZzZzZzZz. I sometimes push him off of our bed because he's so loud snoring, but somehow I end up slept on a couch. 

It's our week while Derek's at work. Library and parks are good for the kids to playing without bother/annoy me at home while I'm knitting. I love my Reeses. She's cute while she's eating and looks like she's talking to me. 

Lake, Lake, More Lake!

Oh how much we love to swim in the lake! Yesterday, we went to hyrum beach lake... So much closer to our home. Actually it's my first time since living here for 8 years. We will definitely go to beach often. Bear lake is too far from our home. The nature lake is so beautiful, right? I'm blessing to have the lake. The beach of ocean is very very far from Utah. Lake is good enough for us. I'm looking forward to touch more lakes in this west states. I love national park. I'm looking forward for Zion national park this September. The kids love to dig the sand. They need to dig something than my backyard, there are so much holes dug in my backyard.... 

Knitting Postcard

When I was cleaning my bedroom, my side where all of my magazines are in a box for queue to knit. Anyway, I found this in interweave crochet magazine that I had been planning to make this dress for Emma. I realized that Emma will be 5 years old in September. I wanted to make clothes for her before she becomes teenager. Teenager isn't easy and she probably refuses to wear crochet/knit clothes. I'm hoping she will accepts to wear a pretty shawl as a cowl. Anyway, in the next day, I went to a yarn shop and bought the yarns and right away to started this dress. This is size 8. Currently, it's big for her that which is good news so she could wear until she probably ten years old and stopping wear my handmade. I'm not looking forward when it happens. 

I wanted colour is purple with dark purple for edge. But the yarn shop is running out so instead for salmon pink and dark gray. I used cascade yarns DK weight. 

When I was spinning my own yarn in merino roving in mocha colour. I wanted to knit in garter stitch. So I found this pattern stitch that I wanted from my Ravelry. I bought an online class video--Craftsy.com, I love it. The class is "design your own cowl" with Laura Nelkin the designer. This class is helpful so much. So I can design really easy and doing a math... I suck at math, I couldn't do it without her class on Craftsy.com. I'm happy how it turns out. 

Currently, I'm knitting a baby cardigan for Kelli's baby boy. After this I want to knit a baby blanket for my cousin, Sarah. I just want to knit a baby blanket but I don't know who I can give it to so I decided it's for Sarah. I'll give her when she's having a baby shower. And no, she's not pregnant just yet. I want to be prepare. I want this baby blanket to be an unique and antique blanket in our family to feel special with newborn baby. Like if you're quilter and wants to make a quilt blanket, same thing as a knit blanket. When I knitted an antique baby blanket for Derek's cousin, Amy, she LOVES it so much. It said that she feels so special with old-fashioned blanket for her baby. So I'll knit like this picture above in white colour and of course, too soft merino wool yarn. I'm looking forward to knit this. 

All I can say is, happy knitting!

Belate Welcome Spring, Welcome To Summer Season....

Nice tongue stick out, Wyatt. He's silly. The kids are half naked, I don't want they dye caught on their clothes. 

I love the spring colors to welcome spring and summer. We did this on Easter Day... I postponed to post on my blog, I was busy.

Stephanie aka yarnharlot, she's my biggest fan knitter, she's NOT religious. She dyed her eggs to welcome the spring season. I agreed with her. 

The kids wanted the Easter toys. Here they are. 

We went to nail salon and got our gel nail polish. I like gel better than regular polish. I wanted teal colour. Emma, of course, favorites are pink and purple with glitter. 

A few days ago, we had thunderstorm. I love raining in spring and summer.. We have seen a few of lightning. We all said ooooh! Also I love the smell of rain. It's freshly. 

I have been gardening, unfortunately the peas are dead so I replaced it to summer squashes. 

That's all I have to say. I'm so tired now. 

I Love Handmade

I have always wanted to have handmade buttons for my knitted clothes. I looked up at esty.com, ppfftt, they are too expensive. So I decided to made ones. This is kalypoly clay. I have mixed some of colors. These are my first attempted. They are baked clay to cured and harden. So I don't have to use kiln fire. To me, kiln fire is little scary. They are turned out so great! I'll definitely make them more. I want to make different colors, shapes.... The kids made some of their own too. 

Today, we went to the park, it's good time to finished up the buttons while the kids were playing around at the playground. I sat under shelter with table. We went to lundstorm(?) park with only few kids so I can be off guard. 

Currently my projects are: cross stitches, spinning, and just started knitting a cardigan for Kelli. I need to finishing cross stitches and spinning. But I will finish them. 

Psst, I'm thinking about to make homemade candles.