Amy's Baby Blanket

 Done! It took me 2 1/2 months to finish this a baby blanket. It is for Amy's first baby girl in July. I like to knitting a baby blanket than an adult blanket. I love the lace. I wish I have it for my son when he was a newborn. Oh well. I am hoping that I could knit a baby blanket for my brothers' babies in the future.

 I knit a center square in garter stitches. Then I knit a eyelet border. I didn't want to separate the lace from a blanket. I wanted to knit in the same time for border. I don't want to spread a center square out and measure then back it on the needles. Save my pain butt and my sore hands. So I knit, pick up the border's stitches, decease the two stitches from the border to get back normal number stitches, finally then, do it again in next 2 rows. Just do it again after again repeats. The corners: I knit a short rows.

 Yarn: A Pound of Love-- Lion Brand. Color: soft cream. I like soft cream better than a bright white that burns my eyes, ha ha.

 Phew! Honestly, I am so happy that blanket is done. My hands are killing me. I had to wore the hands braces. I recently bought Bengay cream for my sore hands. It's heavy and big blanket. My hands were not used to knit a big project.

---I love knitting. I think I've probably mentioned that at some point on this blog. I really love knitting. I like all sorts of things about it. I like how ridiculously cool it is to use such incredibly simple tools to make such incredibly complex things. I love how you can make 3D objects.  I'm head over heels for how bizarre it is that every stitch pattern is driven out of the idea of one stitch, made so it faces the front or the back. I can't get over how great it is that knitting uses yarn (I love yarn) and that there's so many kinds of yarn. I love that it's an act of creation, when you knit you're literally making something that was not there before, and how cool is that?  I even love (most days) that knitting is sort of slow.  

Knitting is a time container. You knit something, and it's this huge investment of your time, and when you're done you can look at it and be all proud that you did it, and it took so long and there's like-a hundred of the hours of your life jammed into that thing, and you did it all. If society had proper built in respect for knitting, or we lived in a culture where every time you finished a project and showed them to your friends, they all said: "Amazing! Look at that! Those took 30 hours to make. Can you even believe that? 30 hours. This is art man. You're a crafts person".  - If we lived in that culture, you wouldn't mind how long it took to make the projects. You really wouldn't. (Well, maybe you would around Christmas, but that's a delusion I can't help you with.) 


All I'm saying is that usually, I don't mind how long knitting takes, and in fact, I mostly like it.  When I finish something, I say all that great stuff to myself, and I know exactly what I made is worth, and I feel totally proud that I stuck with it, and that I'm the sort of person who is happy to put a hundred hours in something and bring something that valuable into being. Every phase of a project brings something new into focus, and holds me in its thrall.

I totally think that. I think it all the time, and it's something I love about knitting.---                                  
                                              -Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Amy's Baby Blanket

The blanket called a grandma lace blanket. I  love lace. I started this blanket last March and have been working ever since. I have one side left to go then I am OFFICIALLY done! It's for Derek's cousin Amy. It's her first baby girl. Its due in July. I like to knit/crochet a baby blanket than an adult blanket. I am hoping that Amy would love this blanket. I choose color white because I want unisex blanket so she can use it for a girl and a boy.

Silly Kids

When I was opening my kitchen's closet and I saw this. How cute! It is so precious moments time together. I rushed and grabbed the camera and took a shot of it. They were watching a TV or something on iPod in his precious truck toy. They like to be inside dark. Aww, They are so little kids, they fit in there. Not me nor Derek. I love to see the special moments of the kids daily. My babies are growing up so fast! Whoa, slow down Mr. Time.

Oh Yes... Again Cupcakes!

This is from Temptation Cupcake on 1000 north main street in Logan. I am so freak, crazy, and die for this cupcake!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

 Look at the buttercream frosting. So creamy. Not so sweet and bitter.

 Look at the texture on top of a cupcake. It is dry and little hard on top of a cupcake, not likely another normal cupcakes.

 Oooh! What a beautiful purple pearl candy! I usually give the candy to my kids. This is raspberry orange cupcake.

 This is cream cheese frosting. It was okay frosting. I like buttercream frost better. This is orange cream cupcake

 We had orange cream, raspberry orange, and vanilla cupcakes.

 Ohh MM! the frosting is so thick texture. A big circle frosting. Mmm!

 Oh, you can see the texture of a frost that is not too shiny or dull. Perfect.

 You can see more closer at the cupcake. I like the look top of a cupcake.

 I opened the liner to see inside.

 I love dense and light moist of the cupcake. I love the bubbles. I HATE so fluffy cake.

 It was pretty heavy cake. Not too light like the store's cake. Once upon a time that I was bought 1 dozen of cupcakes, it was more heavier.

 No cake crumbs. I like it.

 I looked at the bottom of cake, I was happy to see that they use cool rack. Notice that the frosting doesn't slippery off from a cake.

Homemade Cupcakes

 I made homemade cupcakes that are almost similar to temptation cakes but two problems are: one- too dry and two- different flavor. I am experiment the cake for a month and a half. I am this closer to find right one.

 They are heavy too. They have the same texture of top of the cupcakes.

 Buttercream. Why not to dye them in to green color.

 It's almost the same texture cake when I opened the liner.

It also have a few bubbles too.

Whew!

And Again Cupcakes

 Malt cupcake with raspberry buttercream and raspberry candy.

 Dr. Pepper cupcakes with cherry buttercream with cola candy.

We got more of the dance solar flower and bugs. The lady bug is for Emma, a butterfly is for Wyatt. They picked them by themselves. I like a bee, I think that it's cute and fit it to a flower next to it. I want them on kitchen counter so the kids won't break them. I hate when the kids break the toys. I noticed I threw away their toys because they are broke and it could harm them. Also reduced a huge pile of the toys, we used to have 2 big baskets. Now it is one basket. It is almost 1/2 full. Yay.

We went to Derek's parents' house for a mother's day. The kids were have fun time to play with their cousin and they went in a hot tub with their daddy and uncle. It's was nice to have a break from them.

Emma's Summer Crocheted Top

 Ha ha, she has a funny face. She was whine. I don't remember why she was whine.  This top is 4 size. It's almost perfect fit. Wyatt was playing Wii game. Wii motion.

Wyatt was modeling it for me while Emma was napping. Yes, she still takes her nap time. This top is perfect fit him. Of course he is 4. I like the way Wyatt's hands point out like a model on running table. He loves to do that when I need his model for the kids' clothes.

Cupcakes

 Red Velvet

 Cinnamon Swirl

Classic Vanilla




I was experimenting for 2 weeks. I am trying (am still trying) to find the perfect flavor cake for us. I don't like the store's cake. I don't like standard cake. I like many different kind of flavors. I added my bookmark of 'your cup of cupcake' It is www.yourcupofcake.com. I addicted her. I will make the cake from her time to time. :) Temptation Cupcake on 1000 north on main street is freaky delicious. I couldn't stop it.