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. 

I Don't Know What To Say....

I don't know what to say on theme part. I am going to talk about our life now....

1. I can't believe this that May is almost gone. I remembered I called our mortgage to paid our mortgage bill and June is coming. I hate to paying our mortgage. Oh well.

2. I noticed that our house is getting hotter inside. I turned on my AC on. Only 80 degrees. Without our AC on, our house is 95 degree in spring time. We don't have any vent to outdoor from our house. We did opened our windows in the house, even our front door too. I am not looking forward for summer. I am looking forward for autumn to come.

3. I can't believe the school is almost over. What will I do during in the summer with wild kids? Like I said before, I do looking forward for autumn to come.

4. The kids are out of controlling now. The playground is only helping them to burn their energy.

5. Our house is huge trashed. I am telling you, it's HUGE trashed. I am still waiting for Tom the plumber to come and fix our tub. The tub is still in processing in the order and shipping. I am looking forward for a bath so bad!

6. I had hard time to decide what to do during the day: knitting, spinning, clean up the house, work backyard(we have garden), watching Craftsy with closed captions with my new laptop, or being lazy. I chose being lazy for the day. Bad mother.

7. I am looking for a pet dog. One tiny wee problem is we don't have stuffs for dog. Aka, food/water bowls, bedding, toys, leash, and vet money to save. This is getting hard, harder and hardest.

8. Derek is working A LOT of overtime. I miss him.

9. I looking forward to watch TV shows on Netflix from 2013. I don't have time for TV, only on Netflix.

10. Derek broke his newly green glasses. He was popped his head out of our van window in passanger seat and spits gross out then pop, his glasses was smashed from another car. I said, great!

11. I ordered Plexus, more yarn, a book from Stephanie Pearl McPhee, carbon monoxide alarm with light strobe for hear impaired, and new glasses.

12. I bought a new laptop with touch screen. Finally. I couldn't afford to buy a MacPro laptop so I have to wait, due to paying the bills.

13. I am addicted to candy crush game.

14. I finally done crocheted a dress for Emma. Now I am knitting a cowl that is almost done.

15. I have been biking around the neighborhoods.

16. I have been drinking coffee. I love it. Iced tea too.

17. I bought more essential oils from Natural Grocer on main street, just opened new grand store.

18. We went to farmer market in Willow Park. It's been fun. It has an awesome coffee from café ibis on federal ave in Logan. I drank two of coffees. So good!

19. Jake, my youngest brother, visited us at my house a few times while he was hunting. It's nice to see him.

20. We went to second dam in Logan canyon. I LOVE it! Logan river trail is no longer has a privacy. The trees were knocked down. We could see the city from there. I need a place with NO city to be seen. Second dam is PERFECT! It has picnic, trail, fishing, etc. I love to see the mountain with the pine trees so closer to my eyes. A LOT of privacy. Enjoy the nature that our God has created for us.

21. Emma and I went to the salon to get our nails done with gel polish. I love them. It's not chipped the polish, so shiny, last more than two weeks, and so pretty paint on without not shiny due to not enough of air dry.

22. As I mentioned about knitting above, I am knitting slowly than usually. These days I have been so exhausted.

23. I am obsessed with Laura Nelkin, and Stephanie Pearl McPhee, the knitters.

There you go, our journal life in May. I am tired, as always. Good night.

Tons Of Pictures To Say

Lie! I tried this and my nail polish were melt away. Cause my polish to bubble out. If this works out for you, congrats. Oy, we live in world of lies. 

I'm knitting a cowl with my own spun yarn. I'm still crocheting a dress for Emma. My life is just caught up in chaos by now. 

Show off! Ha ha. 

Ohh! So pretty! We were on our way to home from bountiful last weekend. This is my favorite kind of weather in spring time.

Finally! His front teeth are bad. I'm hoping his permanent teeth will be better. Wyatt, brush more, love mom.

Our first attempt garden. We are gardening peas, green beans, corns, and pumpkin. The flower in a green pot is helping to prevent bird nor insects. I hope. I have planted egg shell to kill the snail and grasshoppers. Oh I hate grasshoppers! I hope this will be successful. 

Oh I love you tazo tea. This is passion tango tea. Yummy. I love iced tea with lemon for summer. 

Roar! Tiger

Giggle, butterfly. We went to farmer market in willow park. It's my first time to see farmer market. I think I'm loving it. 

New glasses. I look terrible but when I dressed up, the glasses was good look on me. I was exhausted that day. 

Ta-Da!

"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...

Lo and Behold........

Lo and behold the sweater is FINISHED! It's been two years. 

Wyatt gave himself of his selfie.

We went to Hyrum McDonald's. The kids wanted two slides. South logan McDonald's has small playground. So Hyrum is better for now. 

It's not normal for the horses to laying down together, TOGTHER! So cute! 3 horses.

Homemade oatmeal/lavender soap. Fun. 

I have been spinning for a week. I want to make the shawl or baby sweater with garter stitches. I'm still working on that. 

That's our week. 

What Are We Doing Lately....

I have been sewing stay-in-place kitchen towels lately. It's quickly project and also it's fun to sew. The leftover fabrics are good idea for this small project. I hate when they are always fell down, lie down on the floor, and no one picking it up. I want to sew a few of theses. It keeps me to stay sane and busy while the kids are coloring time. Right now, I like the chicken/farmhouse style.

I decided to try again to make homemade butter from whipped cream. Last time, the butter wasn't good. The last time I didn't know it does separated from buttermilk and butter. So I mixed it together. Now this time I separated. It's much better and delicious. I like this way than store bought butter: it has vegatable oils. I wanted a pure butter. We shakes the butter in a mason jar. It's fun and good arm workout. I am happy with the result. I'm thinking to do this often. Next time I need to buy cheesecloth to squeeze some buttermilk out. I like the feeling of a mini farmer. 

I wanted to knit the fingerless mittens. I wanted in summer colors: green as a grass, and yellow as a sun to remind me to cheer up during the grey time in winter season. We definitely want to have some of bright colors in winter. This mittens had multi-surgeries. Thumb was too tight= cold, numb thumb. Not good, nope. Wrist was too tight that I forgot to stretch long-tail cast on. I made sure the top fingerless ribbing is loose while I bind-off them so I can spread, moveable, comfty my fingers. I did wanted to gave in this project but I am keep telling myself, nope, keep going on and finished this. I'm glad I did finished. I told Derek, oopies I have the wrong colors: Green Bay football colors, not in Denver broncos colors. I grinned a big smile to him and act innocent. He forgave me. He's a good husband.  

I knit in cascade yarn: wool/nylon. Leftover yarns from Emma's heart and flower cardigan that I knitted a few months ago. I knit stripe every turn colour round: round 1- yellow, next round green and do it again over and over. I wanted thumbs green than all of yellow. I washed and blocked them. After I washed them, it's good shape like you are ironing your wrinkle clothes. 

We went to the DI store today. The toys is brand new unopened box so I was like why not.

And bought this too. I like the colour. Mini farmhouse style in my kitchen. 

And bought this "new" old tv because my another tv plug is loose and it'll be fell off from the tv anytime. ATV plug or something like that. The kids are always changing the plugs: DVD player plug, roku plug, and wii plug. So now we have three tv. One each plug and stop play around with it. It's good tv. All we need is ATV plug and it works. I love to shopping at the DI store. DI store is like an antique store to me. 

Psst, I also bought DVD storage, a microwave plate. Microwave plate, itself is cost $99 if you need to order a new ones. Right now, we can't afford it so I looked it at the DI store and found it. It's fits inside of my microwave. All is good. Also plastic rug for my computer desk wheel chair. Carpet is getting worn out by wheel chair. 

There you go, it's our week moment.