Beginning Of Summertime

Logan canyon, such so beautiful nature. My favorite is pine tree. 

Derek is so tired. He had been working overtime at his work for last 2 weeks. He is working over 160 hours. I feel that I had a longgggg week without him around with us. Miss him. He held Emma's doll. How cute?! He's very loud snores, it's annoying me. Hello, I can feel his snore. ZzZzZzZzZzZz. I sometimes push him off of our bed because he's so loud snoring, but somehow I end up slept on a couch. 

It's our week while Derek's at work. Library and parks are good for the kids to playing without bother/annoy me at home while I'm knitting. I love my Reeses. She's cute while she's eating and looks like she's talking to me. 

Lake, Lake, More Lake!

Oh how much we love to swim in the lake! Yesterday, we went to hyrum beach lake... So much closer to our home. Actually it's my first time since living here for 8 years. We will definitely go to beach often. Bear lake is too far from our home. The nature lake is so beautiful, right? I'm blessing to have the lake. The beach of ocean is very very far from Utah. Lake is good enough for us. I'm looking forward to touch more lakes in this west states. I love national park. I'm looking forward for Zion national park this September. The kids love to dig the sand. They need to dig something than my backyard, there are so much holes dug in my backyard.... 

Knitting Postcard

When I was cleaning my bedroom, my side where all of my magazines are in a box for queue to knit. Anyway, I found this in interweave crochet magazine that I had been planning to make this dress for Emma. I realized that Emma will be 5 years old in September. I wanted to make clothes for her before she becomes teenager. Teenager isn't easy and she probably refuses to wear crochet/knit clothes. I'm hoping she will accepts to wear a pretty shawl as a cowl. Anyway, in the next day, I went to a yarn shop and bought the yarns and right away to started this dress. This is size 8. Currently, it's big for her that which is good news so she could wear until she probably ten years old and stopping wear my handmade. I'm not looking forward when it happens. 

I wanted colour is purple with dark purple for edge. But the yarn shop is running out so instead for salmon pink and dark gray. I used cascade yarns DK weight. 

When I was spinning my own yarn in merino roving in mocha colour. I wanted to knit in garter stitch. So I found this pattern stitch that I wanted from my Ravelry. I bought an online class video--Craftsy.com, I love it. The class is "design your own cowl" with Laura Nelkin the designer. This class is helpful so much. So I can design really easy and doing a math... I suck at math, I couldn't do it without her class on Craftsy.com. I'm happy how it turns out. 

Currently, I'm knitting a baby cardigan for Kelli's baby boy. After this I want to knit a baby blanket for my cousin, Sarah. I just want to knit a baby blanket but I don't know who I can give it to so I decided it's for Sarah. I'll give her when she's having a baby shower. And no, she's not pregnant just yet. I want to be prepare. I want this baby blanket to be an unique and antique blanket in our family to feel special with newborn baby. Like if you're quilter and wants to make a quilt blanket, same thing as a knit blanket. When I knitted an antique baby blanket for Derek's cousin, Amy, she LOVES it so much. It said that she feels so special with old-fashioned blanket for her baby. So I'll knit like this picture above in white colour and of course, too soft merino wool yarn. I'm looking forward to knit this. 

All I can say is, happy knitting!

Belate Welcome Spring, Welcome To Summer Season....

Nice tongue stick out, Wyatt. He's silly. The kids are half naked, I don't want they dye caught on their clothes. 

I love the spring colors to welcome spring and summer. We did this on Easter Day... I postponed to post on my blog, I was busy.

Stephanie aka yarnharlot, she's my biggest fan knitter, she's NOT religious. She dyed her eggs to welcome the spring season. I agreed with her. 

The kids wanted the Easter toys. Here they are. 

We went to nail salon and got our gel nail polish. I like gel better than regular polish. I wanted teal colour. Emma, of course, favorites are pink and purple with glitter. 

A few days ago, we had thunderstorm. I love raining in spring and summer.. We have seen a few of lightning. We all said ooooh! Also I love the smell of rain. It's freshly. 

I have been gardening, unfortunately the peas are dead so I replaced it to summer squashes. 

That's all I have to say. I'm so tired now. 

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.