Pay It Forward

I recently agreed to take part in a Pay it Forward exchange. It's a pretty neat idea: you can receive a personal, handmade gift from a talented crafter, and all you have to do is "pay it forward" by agreeing to do the same for three people.

If you would like to receive a handmade gift from me, and are willing to make and send a handmade gift along to three of your blog readers, please let me know in my comments. Once you accept, you will receive something from me within 365 days. In turn, you will have 365 days to fulfill your end of the bargain.

Fun stuff - giving and receiving!

Barbie and knitting

I've decided to knit my niece Mary some Barbie clothes for Christmas. So far I've done one poncho and 2 purses. Barbie needs more of a wardrobe than that! :)

I've got clothes patterns in my craft room. And have a couple of sites bookmarked. But am wondering if anyone who reads this might have a favorite site for free online Barbie clothes patterns. If you do, please put a link in my comments for me.

And,if you have nothing else to to do, and you want to knit some to do in her box ... I'll let you.

Another Update

Pro-Show is done, and went very well. We were home mid-afternoon on Sunday - not too bad. But did it ever rain hard Sunday morning!!!

Katie got 2nd place with a leather belt she made, 1st place on some tatting, 2 place in junior poultry judging (we aren't sure how she did that well yet LOL), and 8th place in poultry showmanship. I'm proud of how well she did, considering this is the first time she's had anyone to compete against.

Our whole 4-H club did very well! We had 1 girl go onto the grand championship of judging competition, another go onto the grand championship of showmanship competition, and one of our horse kids got grand champion in 2 events. Unfortunately we weren't in the top 10 clubs point wise ... but we had FUN!

Katie has her team for the Curl for Cancer event on the 7th. Herself, 2 other girls, and my sister. Calling themselves The Fabulous Four, wearing purple tops and pink fuzzy scarves. Now the donation collection for that begins.

I'm knitting on thrummed mittens still. Have the thumb left to do on my second pair. Two craft sales coming up to get ready for.

Also trying to gather up things to put in a Fall Gift Box that the 4-H kids are selling tickets on on the 25th. There's a cruise ship coming in, and there's a whole bunch of stuff being planned for our water front area. Anyway, was looking for a box or basket to put all the goodies in ... when I had the bright idea to ask the prop guy from Moby Dick for a box. So we have a box from that set :)

Busy busy busy ... that's my life in a nutshell!

time for another update

Not much going on.

Nova Scotia provincial 4-H show (4-H Pro-Show) starts Friday night. I'll be in Bridgewater for the weekend. Should be fun. Katie has to take Chester the chicken with us, she has to do showmanship with her. Plus she has to judge chickens, and judge crafts.

I've been knitting on thrummed mittens, and pink fuzzy scarves. Got a bag of 10 balls of yarn for $5 at WalMart a bit ago. One ball makes one scarf. Was going to give them to the high school to put in their "doing it right" store, but Katie has other plans for 4 of them.

She is hoping to put together a girls team for a local Curl for Cancer event in Nov. There are 3 girls she knows who curl, and she's supposed to be asking them today if they want to form a team. $10 per team member to register, plus they raise donations. Hopefully they'll want to join her. She's asked my sister to be coach/back-up player.

Today

Katie turned 13 today.

She woke up to a wall of balloons and streamers in her bedroom door. Outside were 13 metalic fishies, more streamers and balloons. In the horses feed bin were some helium balloons.

Her friend had a sign to put on her locker. Her brother had a card to give her at lunchtime. It was announced on the CKBW birthday list this morning. Hope she had a good day at school.

After supper (pancakes, her request) we are having some friends up for cake.

Then we have to go see my brother, cause it's his birthday too. And then we have to go see my BIL, cause, yup ... his birthday too!

I'm knitting thrummed mittens.

Terry Fox Run

Katie is taking part in a Terry Fox Run at the high school next Friday. If you'd like to sponsor her you can at this site Thank you!!!

Busy busy busy that's my life lately. Tell you about it later.

Have a good one!!

Things that make you go "huh??"

I'm sure that if our neighbour was to look at my clothesline right now she'd swear I was crazy!
I'll have to post the picture later, cause I'm not sure how to get it off the camera - but I have a washed sheep fleece hung on the line to dry. Looks pretty funny!
The guy I got it from had a llama fleece for sale, not sure if he still has it or not. If you'd like to find out, let me know, and I'll give you his name and number.

My peacock feather shawl got first place in our local exhibition, in the category of "any other article, knit". I was hoping it would get best knit article in the show, but an afghan got it. :(

I had some other knitting entered as well, as did Katie. I must get pictures of stuff!!

Baby Budgie

This is the oldest of the two baby budgies our pair hatched. Hatched July 8th. Getting noisy and busy!!
(think I might take some knitting pictures next LOL)




I'm trying to get some things knit to put in the exhibition here this summer. Have about 5 things to enter so far. I knit 2 yards of a narrow edging ... what fun that was!! I've made a pair of kids mittens, and am working on ladies mittens now.

Have a good one!!

Flowers

Thought I should post something. And since my flowers are oh so pretty right now, they are being shared.
My Super Dorothy rose bush. B-day present from 2 of my friends a couple of years ago. Absolutely beautiful!!


















These are pictures of my lillies. Not sure what type they are ... but what a lovely sea of yellow in the garden! See that branch, it's just at the height of the top of my head, to give you a bit of a sense of how tall they are.







And final shot - hungry fishes :)

Just a short one today

This is my hubbys site, thought I'd share it with you ... since I think he is doing an amazing job on it!!
Canoe Shelburne