Big Ol' Thick Scarf

For my birthday, my mom gave me the needed supplies and pattern to knit myself a scarf. That was ten months ago. I'm happy I finally made some time to make this for myself.

It was fun! It's warm. And I like that it has pockets. Thanks, Mom!

Heck Yeah!

I got a message in my Ravlery account requesting permission to use my photo on the Ravlery page. Great stuff!

I Have Been Knitting A Bit

I wish to be knitting much more. Time just gets wrapped up in other things. Somewhere, I read a phrase that said, "I knit so that I don't kill you." (Paraphrased of course.) I absolutely love that and seem to find some truth in that. I long to knit more and more...

Pants to Skirt - My New Favorite Thing!

I have always had a problem with pants. My legs are too short, the pants come too long. The bottoms end up always getting so ratty from dragging on the ground...and while that's "cool" for a while, it ends up creating raggedy high-waters I can't stand wearing. But the jeans are still good. So, I'm back to one of my new favorite things. Changing my pants into skirts.

My first graders were totally excited about it, because it was a skirt AND jeans! (I have 10 girls and 4 boys...therefore lots of girl power...these boys have become extremely tolerable to girls and a great gain of respect for women...at least they lead me to believe that.) A mom commented that it was cute.

I really like wearing it.

SUCCESS!!!

Thanksgiving and Grandparents' Day

At the school where I teach they last day of school before the 5-day Thanksgving break is Grandparents' Day. We serve and each a Thanksgiving meal with our students and their grandparents (lots of other fun involved, too...like a chapel service, talent show, room visits, book fair...). We made our grandparents some gifts. A felt tic-tac-toe board and a candy filled turkey. Exciting!

Home-sewn Costumes Rock!

Another successful year with the boy's Halloween costume! Last year -- a vampire. This year, I have myself a Batman. And he looks mighty fine! I also made a costume for myself.

I'm hoping to submit entries into Joann's Costume Contest to win me a prize!

Happy Halloween, everybody!

Much Be-Lated Birthday Gift Thank Yous

Uh...yep, it's been quite some time since I've been on here. So long that my little pirate doesn't quite seem to be a pirate any longer, but a superhero. His birthday party was in May. We got around to making the thank you cards earlier in September...and well...I'm still carrying them around in my purse waiting for a moment to relax enough to get them in envelopes, addressed, stamped and mailed. It's October now. What is wrong with me? 

 For starters I found this cute car stamp (since it was a Cars birthday).

I sliced and diced the "Just Married" part off of the license plate.

My little superhero did the stamping. A great job, indeed!

I wrote "Thank you!" And he colored away.

He loves coloring. See his concentration...tongue action!