Crafts Pumpkin

Their grandparents Thorup came and visited at my house. They were made the pumpkin foams craft. It was fun. I was thinking, why not to decorated the house from their handmade pumpkins. I don't know if it has thanksgiving foams craft. But I know it has Christmas so we will make them when we see it in the store. 

Aren't they cute? Wyatt's smile is funny. 

We bought an electric fireplace for my family room. I love this style of fireplace. Like feel old-fashion, farm, country home. I don't want a fancy ones. 

It saves our money from buying woods, I hate gas fireplace, so an electric is the best option for us. It has adjust the tempareture for our comfortable. I was surprisely that it calms us. We are enjoying to watch it without TV on. Quiet time, read time, comfort time, and bed time.

Hello November

Well well surprisely for us to see the snow outside. I shrieked to the kids and showed them outside. They were so so excited to go out and played. They grabbed their snow pants. I love snow so much. 

I took Reeses, piggy, outside and let her have an experienced for her first snow. She also ate the grass.

Unfortunately, the snow don't last that long. I'm hoping we will have a white Christmas. But right now, I'm very enjoying the autumn. We went to the Logan river trail, I love the leaves falling, walked on them, and smell of the fall season. The kids had blast time too. It was the best place to visit the fall trees and forget everything(life,work,stress) outside from the full of trees surround us inside the trail. It was nice. 

When I went in the very first Local Yarn Shop on 1000 west, now it's no longer there anymore, I saw this quote on the wall and loved it. It's true. 

Psst, my Local Yarn Shop is on the Main Street now. They were combined from the two LYS stores into one store. 

Pssst, I'm still working the fingerless mittens for Callista's kids for Christmas. 6 more to go. I'm hoping that there will be enough yarns remain for headbands. If not, I'll talk to her. I'll be use the knitting machine for headbands. 

Done, Done, And Done

I've finally finished all the finishing projects. One more to go-Cable and lace cardigan. 

I love the feeling of finished projects.

Blocked to smooth the texture out so I can easily cut steek after I blocked them. It was awesome. 

I crochet the front opening. Not only crochet, I also sew machine to double seal the knitting from being damage.

Inside of jacket after I sew machine and crochet. Look at those fair isle beauty. Block do their magic.

Only neckband was to go. I was demanding to finish it last night. I accomplished!

She is very happy to have her warm soft wool jacket. The dress is too big for her. I used Cascades yarn socks weight, 80% merino wool and 20% nylon. Colors are yellow, green. dark pink, lavender, pink, and white. I used clear pink shade of buttons.

I also finished linked-chain crochet cardigan. It fits me pretty perfect. I thought it will be too small because I started it last winter. I added the button for decor. It's ease wool from LionBrand yarn. Color is cranberry. 70% acrylic and 25% wool. It's heavy weight than sport weight. I used SusanBates crochet hook US 10.

Ha ha, she is such as a princess.

Thursday

A second of sleeve is this close almost done. 

Lately, this week we become sick. Emma had a fever last night. Today, her fever is low now. Whew. 

I was surprised to see this happy smile little boy. I thought he will probably do silly when he's taking a picture. He's very happy boy. We are blessing to have him in our family life. 

Sardine canyon is always pretty during fall season. I love the colors. 

Today we are going to see our dentist for cleaning teeth. Wish me luck with the kids. The kids hate it. 

Can't Blogging

Must.Stay.Focus! Can't talk right now. Winter is coming, I'm gonna beat it before it comes. Bye-bye. Aren't you leaving yet? Shoo...(peeking at you)...shoo! Are you trying to stop me? Now shoo.

Random Wednesday

I'm only 8 rounds to go then it'll be done. I'll soon start on a second of sleeve. Knit the sleeves are easy, mindless, and faster. I had has a notebook for track on the sleeves includes math too. I was knitting while I was watching Fringe tv show in my bedroom last night. Yes, I can knitting and watching tv in the same time. I feel it's wasting my time to just watch tv show without my knitting. Also depend on what kind of project I'm working on. 

New Style Life

I knew in our life of marriage won't be the same, because we are aging. Derek can't stay at his age of 26. So do I as mine at 19. Everybody is changing and aging. I love him as he was 26 because he was so young and handsome. Now we are fat, old and our faces are changing. So I knew that Derek will have a pair of glasses in someday. Now it's time to have glasses for him. I just can't imagine that we will become old couple. I'm still thinking that I still and feel like am 19. Time went like whoosh. I remember when I was 13 and couldn't wait to get my drive license when I became 16. Now I'm closer to 30's. Oh my. Would you tell the time to slow down and take easy? Guess not. 

So we went to our eyes doctor office and took the exams together. We ordered for our new glasses from zenni.com. I love it! I wanted a pair of red glasses. But my Rx is too strong so I have dark pink glasses. Good enough. Derek got just a simple glasses for now for him to adjusting. 

The kids wanted to have their own glasses. We laughed. So they wore the sunglasses to be pretended that they have "glasses". 

Of course, Derek is still handsome to me. We still in love so much together. 

Psst, I haven't been knitting for almost 4 days due to Fringe show on my netflix. Fringe is so interesting show! Better than X-File show. 

Too Small

   I started to knitting a sleeve last two nights ago. Yesterday, after I finished a part of flower as calls in a pattern for. I realized that’s too tight fair isle sleeve. It’s looking like a 12 months size than a 5 years old size. So I ripped off and started over again without a fair isle. It’s also hard to knitting fair isle in the double point needles. 

   It was not looking so good with so tight fair isle and couldn’t to stretch it out. The stitches was pulled it in. So I’ll “cross stitches” the flower after its done. I don’t want to knit in intarsia--too many small balls in the double point needles. In case you were wondering: I don’t do magic loop with a long circular needles. I also did tried to use a 12" circular needle, it's not fitting--so few stitches on a circular, so I only had a chance is to using the double point needles. (Sorry no picture, I already ripped out before I had a chance to take a picture, but too late. Oh well.)

   I don't want a second of sleeve looks different than a first sleeve, so I decided to started over to get a better and nice look on sleeves.

   Yesterday, I wanted to start a new project. I knew that I can't. I have 3 WIP(work in process) projects that need to get finish first. I Must.Stay.Focus! (Help me)


Psst, Derek's older brother, Graden cannot fix it for us. So we filled a claim with our State Farm insurance. We only paid for $250. Our insurance paid for $850. I am so thankful for an insurance! I can't imagine live without auto insurance, health insurance, eyes insurance, and dentist insurance. Of course mortgage insurance. Can you imagine to live without it?

So we rented a car- Chevy Cruze 2013, color silver. It was speed and awesome car. But sadly, it's too smaller for Derek. He is too big and tall guy. He kept bumped his head and knees into a driver's door. I was laughing. It was perfect for me, I am tiny and short gal. We enjoyed drove around with car. We had it for a week. When I picked up my van from Preston Watt in Smithfield, I felt so big. I had to go so slowly when I turned. 

   I am so glad that our van is back because I can see better with high and big van than too small and can't see everything. The kids in the back seats are also small, they kicked on our seats in cruze. In our van, the kids can't kick the back of our seats, ah heavenly. 

A Part Is Finished!

Yay, this part of cardigan is finished. I finished it last night. All I have to do is to weave the ends in. Then I will start working on the sleeves. I am little happy to work on the sleeves, because it will be only one color is white all the way. More faster knitting than fair isle. A black background is my kitchen table, in case if you are wondering about it. 

Inside of fair isle cardigan. There are so many of the threads to weave in.

Outside of fair isle. I marked the two markers for armholes steek. A hole on top of the neck is for to steek. I knit about 6 more rounds to reach 14 inches. Then I knit about 10 more rounds for front neck shaping. I used the double point needles because my circular needle is 24". Too big circular with so few stitches= hard to knit.

I noticed the weather is dropping temperature...I better hurry up. :-/ Last night I used a fan on my bedroom's window. I love the feeling of cold air come in my room with my ceiling fan on. Ahh, heavenly. I hate the heat. I love the feeling of cold on my skin. Derek was like WOW when he was came in. I was like WOW when I was out of my room. Out of my bedroom is so warm. Inside my room is so cold. Love it.

I caught them in the right moment to make a memory. They sat in the diaper box to be pretending they are rowing a boat on the kitchen floor. So cute. They are fit in the box. Wow. Not me. I am too big. Precious brother/sister bond time.




Psst, I forgot to add two more pictures of my last weekend vacation.

This is the first state Capitol house. It was used to be school, dance, hid the place, jail and now it's museum.

We went to Gun Barrel restaurant in St. George. I look so weird standing there and looked at the camera. Ha ha. I dressed up nicely for the Mary Poppins perform.

Birthdays

More yarns!! Yay. 

Scarecrow! I have Halloween, Christmas, summer, and monkeys.

Pink cowboy boots for Emma. Wyatt has a pair of cowboy boots. I'm gonna keeping this boots even if they are small for her when she growing more.

Minnie Mouse necklace! How cute! She got them from her grandma Godfrey. 

A birthday cake. It's chocolate cake. 

Psst, Sheri Godfrey gave me a birthday money. So I bought a skirt and a pair of jeans. Wyatt is next.