RIP Boys In Red

The tragic accident in Bathurst on the weekend has been on my hubbys mind. He graduated from BHS. He knew lady who was killed. One of his cousins was the first officer on the scene.
Tomorrow the kids and staff at the local schools are encouraged to wear red and black to school; he dug out his high school jacket, and DS will be wearing it to school for the day.

My friend, Jane (also my sock knitting student) has agreed to have the WWKIP day event at her house, on her lovely lawn ... and she hopes her flowers will be blooming. Now to confirm when the date is, then planning can start.

Yesterday when Jane and her daughter came for their lesson they brought me presents :) A skein of the Austerman Step yarn, and a set of bamboo needles. I'm such a lucky lady!! Oh, and some wool for thrumms.

Today I went to Memory Lane in Liverpool and picked up a "muffin" of roving for thrummed mittens, and a skein of wool to do a pair of mittens for me. Still haven't met Lexa there. We made a flying trip; there and back in 2 hours!! Had no time for looking around, I had to be back for my volunteer library duty ... which it's a good thing I was back for, because the other volunteer couldn't come.

While in the Library I got an order for 2 pair of wool socks. Now to figure out a price. Anyone knit socks to sell? What do you charge??

Have a good one!

Edited to add a picture of the four pairs of thrummed mittens. The grey one on top is thrummed with combed wool, the blue one on the bottom is thrummed with roving. I prefer the roving.

WWKIP

I'm thinking that the date for this in 2008 will be June 14, the second Saturday in June. Anyone know if that is correct?
2008 is Shelburne's "big year" and I'm thinking that a knit-in on the waterfront might be fun to have this year. I'll have to see if I can get the use of Guild Hall for the day (scroll down for the picture). If not, there's always that nice little park by the tourist bureau, or I've got a friend who lives on the other side of the tourist bureau, and I'm sure she'd let us use her lawn ... which is soo nice.
Anyway, when I find out the correct date I'll look into booking a place. If you are reading this blog, and are with-in driving distance of Shelburne, please watch for plans ... and book the day off work.
In an ideal world I'd be able to get yarn and such donated for give-aways, but we'll probably have to settle for tea, coffee, cold drinks and food :)
In other news, I'm still working on thrummed mittens. Have knit 3 pair so far, one more pair to go for the order. Have also knit a pair of fingerless mittens for my niece, and a pair for my daughter, six finger puppets, the leg of a sock for me, and part of the leg of a sock for hubby. Wonder if I have some form of knitters ADD??
Tuesday (weather permitting) I'm heading to Liverpool to pick up a muffin of roving to use for thrummed mittens. Was hoping to go yesterday, but the truck had to go in for its safety inspection (got off cheap this year!!). Missed meeting Lexa - but my brother may have met her, he was apparently going there yesterday.
Have a good one!

yarn on kijiji

While looking around the local Kijiji site this morning I saw an ad for yarn for sale. Discovered a new yarn shop in Nova Scotia :) Basket of Yarn
And hubby tells me he just saw an ad on BT for someone who makes buffalo yarn.
Have a good day!
Oh yes, you ladies who had the road trip on Saturday - I'm jealous! But I hope you had lots of fun!

2008

Here we go, a new year :) What's it going to bring for us?? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to tell the future and find out in advance?

One thing I'd like to see in 2008 is the IWK flooded with finger puppets. See my little blurb over on the side there?? Let's get that number up really high.

I've been working at trying to get things a little bit organized around here. Not sure if it's working or not. Trying to set up some sort of a control journal. Check out the FlyLady site for info on that.

TTFN

Just found out that I am going to be teaching a lady that we know, and her daughter, how to knit. They have yarn for socks and mittens and various projects. Not sure what they have, but they shopped at The Tangled Skein. I'm sure I'll be drooling :) Never thought to ask if they know how to do the basic stitches or not ... will prepare to teach them incase they don't. I'm looking forward to this :)

Let's try this again

This is my third attempt at an update on my blog. Getting just a little bit frustrated!!! Had a nice, newsy update typed, lost it all. Had a shorter, but still newsy update typed, lost it. GRRR
Now the short, to the point typing ... bet it'll let me publish this!!

The birds are loving our bird feeders. Imagine a picture of a log suet feeder with a woodpecker and a chickadee on it, that's what you'd see if I wasn't so discouraged. We've got woodepeckers, chickadees, junco's, 2 types of nuthatches, bluejays and a morning dove that come to the feeders.

All my Christmas knitting is done :) Now I'm working on a pair of thrummed mittens that a lady ordered. They are blue heather in color with the white wool. Aren't they pretty??

Merry Christmas

Pay It Forward

Found this on Barbara's Blog - Country Acres Are My Home over there on the right. So, thought I'd take the idea and have some fun. :)

Here's the deal: I will send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment on my blog requesting to join this PIF exchange. I don’t know what that gift will be yet and you may not receive it tomorrow or next week, but you will receive it within 365 days. That is my promise. The only thing you have to do in return is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog.


I've been busy trying to get some Christmas presents made. Saturday our local library is having a silent auction/bake sale, so I'm trying to get some things made for them as well. Busy, busy, busy!!

ACK!!!

Do you know that it's just over a month till Christmas?? Where did November go?? Yesterday it was about Nov 4th I'm sure!!

On the positive side, I have a craft sale to sell at on Saturday. Today I finished off 24 ornaments to take to hopefully sell at it. If they don't sell they'll become Christmas presents :)

I've gotten some orders for ornaments that need to be made; I'll start on the patterns for those later today.

I've also got a few presents made and/or bought, so I've got a start on the list. Really need to get busy and get more things made.

Today is quiet ... for now.

Both kids only have a half day of school. It's report card day. Both had good reports. Troy is settling into the high school quite nicely, taking part in class and doing as he is required to do. He has done a few projects even :) Katie is doing nicely, she needs to work on her reading, spelling and book report doing.

When she comes home today she'll have a friend with her. I'll take the two girls to curling at 3:00. Come home, grab some supper, and then go to the firehall for 6:00. We're getting together tonight to set up the tables for the craft sale, decorate the hall and make the soup to serve on Saturday. (we make the *best* turkey soup!). We're also going to be making sandwiches, sweets and nibbly type food for a funeral reception tomorrow - a fireman's grandmother passed away. (The day after his daughter was born)

Tomorrow evening is set up stuff to be sold on Saturday. Saturday is the sale. There are actually two craft sales in town tomorrow, and a parade at 2:00 .... so it's a good day to come to Shelburne :)

I've been knitting pelts. Have some for the sale. Made a blue one for Katie to give to a friend for her b-day present tomorrow. Have to make a green one for another friends b-day gift ... green fun fur is not available in town. She may need to settle for another color.

I'm also working on a pair of socks for someone for her Christmas present - no names because she reads my blog. I hope she'll like them. Want to knit a bunch of pocketbook slippers for SIL and her hubby for their gift - they have a new house, would be nice for their guests to have slippers to put on.

Well, enough babbling. Have a good one!

It's getting chilly outside

which means I want to do more knitting. Right now I'm working on socks for Christmas presents. Nothing too exciting. Just plain ol' socks.

Have knit some animal pelts. That was the "pattern of the day" for Sat/Sun in my knitting calendar. I'd post pictures, but they aren't in the computer yet. I've done a purple pelt, and a multi-colored pelt (that one went to school with Katie today). This blog has a picture of a pelt on it that she knit http://simpleknits.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-lace-book.html ... so go there and get an idea of what I'm creating. Little bits of cuteness :)

I've got a Pampered Chef party here on Saturday. We're looking at all kinds of neat baking/cooking gadgets. Then the demonstrator lady will make us a cinnamon Christmas tree to eat, and we'll make some pretzel wreaths. I'm also going to make up a meat tray. We'll have brunch. 11:00 if you are reading this and want to come.

We had our first snow on the weekend. Our fish pond has been having a thin layer of ice on it in the mornings. It's kind of neat to look at the fish through the ice. We've been told we can just leave the fish in the pond all winter, and next spring they'll still be alive. I hope everyone who told us that is right!

Tomorrow I get to work as a Library Assistant for the day. Ours school LA has to go for an appt, and I've been hired to fill in for her :) YIPPEE for me! I've been volunteering in the library for many years now, and know how to do all the things that I'll need to do. I hope it's a good day. I'll have 2 classes coming to check out books, 2 classes coming to do research, and 1 a few kids from another class coming down to work on powerpoint stuff. I'll take my knitting with me.

Have a good day!

Happy Halloween

Hope every one has a happy and safe Halloween night.

Troy and I are handing out the treats here at home tonight, hubby has to work. We're going to build a fire in the firepit and hang out there for the evening. Hope we have fun. Last year we had 12 kids, wonder how many we'll have this year?

I accidently got hit in the face with a soccer ball at work today. Now I'm sitting here debating if I want to go the the hospital or not. I'll probably wait, and try to see my own doctor tomorrow. My face is sore, and it hurts if I take a deep breath in through my nose. And it's a little swollen. I suspect I'll have a nice shiner.

Picked up some yummy apples for myself today at Sobeys. Honeycrisp. Friends of ours gave me on the other day, and I totally enjoyed it. Was at Sobeys today and a girl asked me if I wanted to try a sample of apple. Tried it, and it was the same kind ... so off to the produce dept I went. They are a big apple, I eat half of one at a time. A sweet, but yet a little tart, taste. Go buy some!

Working on a pair of red and yellow socks for a friends daughter for Christmas. Using some acryllic yarn that I got at our local "dollar store"; sort of Harry Potter colors, but not really ... close enough to do.

Have a big pot of chicken soup on the stove, and it smells nice!

Have a good one!!

BOO!!

humm ... can't think of a title

OK, so here is a picture of Katie holding her whirligig. Not the best picture, but a picture. I'll get a better one of it sometime.

Last weekend was 4-H Provincial Show in Windsor. Katie had a felted purse and a jean leg wind sock that were both entered in competitions. The purse got 5th place, and the windsock got 7th. She was pleased with the results. What a nice weekend it was. Over 2000 4-H kids there. Along with sheep, goats, rabbits, cows, light horses, work horses, turkeys, chickens, geese and dogs. It was kind of like organized mass chaos :) Since Katie didn't have any competitions to do we got to watch a little bit of everything. And if you ever have a chance to go watch a 4-H tug-of-war .. DO IT! It's amazing to watch. They have 5 minutes, and everytime we watched it the middle of the rope hardly moved at all in the first couple of minutes.

I'm up to 18 pairs of socks done. Gave one pair to Mary for her birthday on Sunday (she turned one). Pair 14 has also been given away. I'll have to get pictures of 15, 16 & 17 before they go away. 18/52 for the year, guess I'm not going to meet the goal of 52 for the year ... oh well.

Troy will be home soon. When Katie gets home we have to rush her off to a dentist appt. Then I think we'll stop at the local "variety store" and do some browsing .. he has been getting some craft stuff in.

Have a good one!

Updated to add that a kitten is coming here this evening to be fostered. A black long haired little thing is all we know. If it's a boy it may have a home waiting for it. Or it may stay here a bit. Who knows. All I know is I'm getting a baby to cuddle with as I read the latest Harry Potter book (got it from the school library today ... just came in yesterday .. first one to borrow it!)