Leaf Towel Holder

I wanted to test with my handspun yarn. So I knit this. It's just pop up in my head about this. So it's good for my towel holder in my kitchen. 

 Soft Merino yarn.

I took a photo of her. I love how her hair looks. She looks like a Minnie Mouse because of two "ear" hairs. Very curly. I had her hair wrap around then next day, I took thingy off of her hair and causes this.

Splash Park

(FYI: the wrong date on the camera.) We went to Splash park in North Logan. I love it. Woods Cross has one. I am so freak exciting that we have not one but TWO splash parks. It will be in Millville that is closer to my house. 

The kids had fun time today. 

 I am not sad. Just sun reflect to my eyes. I want to be involve the pictures. I didn't get wet because I don't want to. Today was pretty breeze outside. I love it.

Derek got all wet. Good for him.

Hope you will have fun time at the splash park if you are in the area.

Awful Week & My Knitting

Know that I posted above "Awful Week" don't judgement quickly. I mean that-- it's awful week for Oklahoma. Moore was hit badly last week. Today, Oklahoma City having an awful bad hair weather day. They are expecting a bad tornado that are about going to be hit. So far, I heard a woman and her baby were confirmed dead. 

We have been watching Storm Chasers on our iPads. I looked up on www.news9.com that Oklahoma's weather news. They have enough already. Spring season is never good for them. God bless them. 

Ok here goes about our life:

I got this flower on early Mother's Day. It's lily something flower. See that how huge flowers are. So pretty. I wanted a flower in my house to cheer us up with spring season here. This month, May, was little weird for me because it's been raining a lot than in April. I am not looking forward for the summer season. I am looking forward for Fall season to come. I hate the heat. I am hoping that we will stay cool during the summer time. 

I am gardening my little sweet delicious lettuce. At starter, I planted soil and seed in a pop soda bottle then I of course watered it. I love that the easy way. I found it on Pinterest. I just transfered it into a big pot to growing more. I wanted to garden my vegetables and fruits but we don't have money. So hopefully we will have our own garden in someday. But I am thankful for my family, Derek's family and our neighbor, for their giveaway veggies to us.

Ok, here goes my knitting: I haven't finished my cable and lace jacket (knitting) yet. I started last August 2012. I know that's not normal for me to take that long. I tend to finish my knitting in about two weeks. Also I haven't finished my linked-chain jacket (crochet) too. I started last late winter season. I really desperately want to knitting a new project. So here my socks knitting that I just started last weekend. I wanted to knitting two socks at the same time. So far it's good.

The yarns I am using right now are: Lion Brand collection 100% super wash merino wool. I ordered this yarns from New York City last year. So soft yarn. Color is spring leaf green. The pattern is: knitting in the cable. Top  cuff down socks. The pattern comes from Lion Brand.com and Ravelry.com.  

The kids and Derek are going great. Just same routine daily life. None new life. 

PS. We changed mind that we are not going to sell our house because our mortgage company just called us that they are willing to help us with refinance. I am hoping that this will helps us much better. We thank our Heavenly Father for help us and you too. 

Our Weekend

 I was shocked to see this beautiful rainbow when I was talking with my husband in the kitchen. I yelled for the kids to come and see it. There was double rainbows. I love that cloud sky. It makes me feel more cooler and calm than sunny-hot and energy.

 My parents visited us for Derek's belate birthday. We went to Chuck-a-Rama restaurant. My mom wanted to take the pictures of me while I am spinning.

 I love to see Emma's legs, they are stink cute legs. Ha ha. She went to her dad in the kitchen.

 Noticed that Wyatt is behind the garbage cans, because he was time out for some reasons. It's unusually place for him in his time-out.

My second skein of handspun. It mixes with wool and merino wool.

The last few days ago, my kids were sick with strep throat. Yesterday was so nice day for me because the kids were the most of time sleeping all day and lazy. I like it. More quiet. More myself time. Today the kids are back normal wild geese. "Help me" Derek is out golfing. *sighs*

I want to knitting so bad. I still have to clean the house.

PS. The 2013 is still bad year since it beginnings. I found out that Derek's work is cut off for overtime work. So he will have a normal 40 hours shift work that which is killing our budget. We finally decided that we will sell our house to find another better and cheaper house. We don't want to be end up in foreclosure.

Spinning & Spun

 Is she beauty? Soft merino woolen batch from yarn.com. My mom bought it for me last Christmas present.

 I keep going on and on spinning since last Monday. Because it was so hot for last two days. My house was 88F degree without A/C on. So I decided to turned on A/C for a short time. Whew. I had fun time with my dear spinning.

 Full of bobbin, Yes, I fell in love with it. I like the color. I am planning to coat my spinning wheel to seal and protect, it will be a gloss dark red color, match my kitchen's color. My house is red color.

 Lazy Kale. I don't have a real lazy kale just yet. So this basket with the holes are working perfect with my knitting needles to hold the bobbin while I am plying the yarns together. I created two plies yarn.

 Two plies yarn. So perfect as I expected. At the first, when I started to learned how to spinning, it was so hard. YouTube made it looks so easy than really actually to do it by yourself. I keeping a sentence in my mind "Practice make Perfect". So I have been practicing since I bought it last year. Now I am doing perfect better than before when I started. I am planning to knitting a scarf or an motif, I haven't decide yet.

I need to weight it. I need to do a math for yard. I just washed and lying on my kitchen's counter to air dry. I can't stop looking at it. I was so exciting about it. It's my first handspun yarn. I am definitely to do it again for rest of my life.

Does she looks pretty, eh?

Deaf Culture

Yep, it's deaf world. I love 'That Deaf Guy' comedy book like you like Hobbies and Calvin book.

Being deaf isn't really that hard, just that we cannot hear. Quote-- "My Eye is my Ear. My Hand is my Mouth."-- Christopher Makin..

One Thing

There are a lot of things I love about knitting. The list is long and complicated and you all know most of them, or you wouldn't knit the way you do- which I'm assuming is rather a lot. I suppose I hope it's rather a lot, so I'm not so odd.  I've been making a list of ways that I love knitting, ways that it keeps my life straight and gives me gifts that I'm grateful for.

Today I can tell you that my life is full of unfinished things.  My pet cages? Unfinished. The laundry? Unfinished. My kids? Unfinished. (Can you finish that one? Does it ever happen?) The house? Unfinished. My chores? Unfinished. My bills? Unfinished. My church callings? Unfinished.

The housework, my budget goals, my fitness level, eating only whole foods... Unfinished.  I'm working on all of it, but there's no way I'll ever be a finished person, or have a life that needs no work.

That said, these knitting socks, sweaters, and you name it? FINISHED. Completely DONE. They are something I started and ended and they are whole, and they don't need anything more from me. That's one thing I love about knitting.You can be finished.  My projects are finished.

Do you agree? I like a quote: "Keep Knitting and Ignore Cleaning".

PS, some of these phases are from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's blog. I agreed with her. So I like to put her story about unfinished on my blog. You know that I love her. 

The Kids

 Wyatt is watching Blue Clue. I tried to call out on him but he focused on TV. Oh well.

We are playing around with our iPad camera. I love her tongue. So little mouth. She has very BLUE eyes. Yes, she is naked, except underwear. She finally potty trained now. Yay.

Quotes

 I started watch TV show 24. Kiefer is knitting the pink gun.

 True.

 I like that quote.

 This is happening to me right now. Why?

 My list to do today.

 Ha ha.

 I hate to do chores. I rather to be knitting than cleaning.

ANYTHING but the yarns! I love that. It's cheer up for me.

 Facts about deaf vs hearing.

Ha ha, that's funny.

Smitten

   On Friday afternoon I gathered my yarn and needles and started a little smitten in winter color.
I started with my swatches to checked up my gauge. I used a lot of ruler and tape measures. I wanted to make sure I got the right gauge swatch. Sometimes the rulers trick to me. I knitted in the round swatch. I used flat-in-round method. If you know what's that mean if you are knitter. I like that way than knitting a whole around swatch. I just cut the threads in the back, I just knitted them in the double-point needles and just slide it another point of the needles. It will be easy if I show you or you can check up on YouTube. 

 I knit and knit- I cast on 32 stitches for the cuffs. I then add the cuffs to become one mitten then I decreased until shape of top of mitten to finishing. 

Voila! A little smitten, made from one ball of I Love This Yarn Hobby Lobby, color Navy Blue, done in less than a weekend.  I wove in all my ends.  Easy, quick and winterlike. So much fun, I almost made another one. It's looking like a heart mitten. That's good name for love couples. 

PS, I am hoping that Justin and Keisha will love it. I am hoping that they will enjoying wear them while they are holding their hands in this smitten in the winter season. 

PSS, on facebook, I post the picture of it and asked "what do you think about this?" a few people said they love it. so that's when I decided to knit the smitten. At the first, I think that is silly mitten until I asked a few people about it. So it's good to know that some of the people like it. 

PSSS, this is for Justin and Keisha, their wedding gift.