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. 

Yes, February Is A Few Hours Expired.....

Yes, spring month is only a few days to come...

So today, I decided to keep myself busy and the kids were coloring papers while i was sewing a short pants for Wyatt. I'm happy how it turns out well. I went to Hobby Lobby today and bought more fabrics. Also today it was felt good outside, only 51 degree. I wish this degree for summer. I hate 80 degree and above. 

A Quite Busy....

We are quite busy this month.... I'm glad this month is shortest month. I'm looking forward for spring to come. I need some colors. 

So here when I was going to downstairs to my basement, I found them in the blue box and read together in a quiet moment. So I ran and grabbed my iPad and took the pictures of them. 

They were eating the sandwich together. It's good moment to remember. They want to use a crib mattress. Sometimes they sled down the stairs with it. Also jump on it too. I like to keep a mattress: camp bed for kids, sleep on floor in my bedroom, family sleepover, etc. 

I wanted a quickly project than knitting. So I sew Wyatt's p.j.s pants. It was fun to sew it. I only like simple and basic sew. 

He is finally happy because I had been sew Emma's skirt. 

I wanted more fabrics to sew. So I went to JoAnn and bought these fabrics. It reminds me of mamasoule.com. I want country fabrics than heroes, princess, Disney, etc.. I love cotton tree greenish and yellow fabric so much. I want to sew a curtain with it but I'm planning to sew it for Wyatt's pants. Maybe a short pants. And the bird, and lady bug are for Emma's dress. 

I asked my old neighbor, Diana to ask her husband to make me a blanket display in farmhouse style. So he did and made it for me. It made out with old, rustic wood. I absolutely fell in love with it. I have her a huge thanks for this. Aaron is handy man. My dad was going to but I didn't want to wait. Also when I went to JoAnn for the fabrics. I peeked and saw then I sudden grabbed the farmhouse faucet for decor. I bought 3 of them. Yellow/blue, pink/tan, orange/green. I am crazy for farmhouse styles. I love country decors. (See the below of above ladder). 

We finally decided to hired a realtor to set up sell our house last week. My house is now on MLS listing.  I'm hoping it will be sold soon so we can move to Clarkston to a permanent home. We have to wait and see. I'm hoping The Lord wants us to do that. I'm hoping things will be work out smoothly. I'll let you know when it happens. I want Christmas to come because that's my future so I can "tell" myself that we did or didn't sold our house back to February like back to the future. Oh well, it never will happens. I prayed to The Lord for the strength and keep going and endure to the end. Right now, I am trying to enjoy my house while it lasts. I tell to myself that this is my home until its sold.

A Moment To Remember.

Beaded Shawlette

Ta-Da! All woven in and blocked. Looks good on my dress stand. Before I block it, it was rough and wrinkle. After blocked it, it's a lot better. Just like you iron your clothes. 

Yesterday and today, I have been cleaning my house. Sort out all the kids clothes that are no longer fit them. I need to shopping clothes for the kids. They never cease growing. I was thinking about to use those clothes to crochet a farmhouse rug. I love farm rug. 

Finished

1. I'm so full from dinner. We had late dinner.

2. I'm still grateful for sunny day today. 

3. I finished spun the merino wool.

4. Does it look lovely? 

5. I still don't know what to make.

6. I finished knit beaded shawlette. 

7. I'll show you my shawlette soon. All I need to do is to weave the ends in. 

8. That's all I have to say...

2-Days of Spinning

I have been spinning my wheel for 2 days to keep me to staying sane from being insane. I needed something to focus on something than daydream knitting. Today, I'm going to ply it. This ones is best spun than another. Practice makes perfect. 

Hoot

I wanted to make thing for Taylor and Jordyn.

So I texted to Kelli. She told me to look up for monkey beanies. I looked at my Ravelry. I told her that pattern is not free pattern. I told her how about owl. I showed her the pictures of it. She loves it. It's free pattern. 

So I went to JoAnn and bought these yarns. It's new yarns. Sheep(ish) by Vicki Howell. It's 70% acrylic and 30% wool. It is a single ply yarn. Purple is for Taylor and pink is for Jordyn. 

I got them finished in 2 days. 

Emma wants one. So I made one more for her. 

Aren't they cute? They are fast crochet. I used my new hook- tulip crochet hook. Love that hook. Feel like I'm professional. JoAnn has colour rose pink/silver but I don't want pink. So I ordered gray/gold. I got a set of hooks today. My feel is never getting old. Always feel like Christmas present every time I order. 

I'm hoping they are fit onTaylor and Jordyn. RR-Cross my fingers-RR.

Something Poison Me...

I'm sure you are wondering about this word 'poison'.....

My dearest comfortable pink recliner sofa is poisoning me by so sleepy once I sit down. It curses me to sleep spell. I can't knitting while I'm sleeping. Emma is always sitting on side by me- more cuddle and comfort to feel her love. 

So I'm sitting on my brown couch to avoid sleep spell. And Emma is still sitting by me on brown couch.  She's gluing to me. 

I don't know about new brown recliner just yet. 

Also knitting in my basement, my yarn office desk help me to stays awake because it's hard chair and bitter cold down there. (Yes, I do use my heater). 

Yesterday, I had my shawl in for surgery. It had an error on two rows below. All is fixed now. It's happening sometimes due to my sleepy spell pink recliner. Sometimes I forgot to yarn over. I'm not always perfect. I'm human like you. Every knitters have the mistake on their knitting project, I'm not only one.

Today's weather is cloudy. It's little tired for me. I have been up since 8 AM. I had always up since 11 AM. I want to change my sleep routine. But at least, it's daylight now. Yesterday while I was in my bathtub, I was grateful for my bathroom is yellow color with sun shine thru my bathroom's window. It helps.