Week { ONE }.......

Well it has been ONE WHOLE WEEK since David has left... some ridiculous amount of weeks left to go..I haven't counted how many, I should. Here is a scarf I finished, it is an Entrelac pattern. I got the pattern from KNITTY. I love that site, they have great free patterns. One of these days I'm actually going to knit a sweater for me to wear or for the babies maybe. I have been working on opening my Etsy store again, my table is just covered in crafts. I have made some tags for knitting projects along with some flower embellishments again. Maybe by next week it will be up.

These are slippers from the Interweave Knits Holiday Gifts 2008 magazine I bought it just for this slipper pattern :)

And finally I had to bling Olives collar. This isn't a very good picture because the stones are way more sparkly in person. and she doesn't sit still long enough to get good pictures either.

day 1

OK, I managed to get through day # 1.... Although I did not get dressed until 2:30 right before Trevor got home... I watched 3 movies, had 2 cups of coffee, 1 cup of tea, snacked, knitted , watched Martha... then took Katie for a walk on the beach. She did not behave very well whatsoever! I made rice for dinner, it was just Barret and I because Trevor was at work... I did get to talk to David 3 times today while he had layovers at the airport. And of course I cried all 3 times, can't say goodbye.. I chatted with Aunt Judi for a long while on Yahoo and that made me feel better. And I added some more stuff to my blog to the right. David's time and date is over there and we are expecting sometime around November for his homecoming. I will try to be productive tomorrow. There is certainly plenty to do around here! Well, until something exciting happens...

Happy Belated Valentines Day

This Brownie Chocolate Swirl cheesecake is from Juniors cheesecake recipe book..
I am not happy with the crust, not sure what went wrong, maybe my water bath was the problem. It is very rich though. I will have to freeze the rest of it since David is leaving. I don't want this sitting around. It is diet day the day that David leaves!

I put the lace socks down, I wasn't happy with the weight of the yarn I was using and so I started this alpaca cabled beret. Like I will have any use for this in Hawaii :) It's pretty though.


It's from Debbie Bliss's new magazine ( LOVE ) and I knew one of the lines was off and now that I found the link to the magazine, I see there is an errata in the pattern :( bummer. I knew something was wrong. Oh well , I guess it will be mine and I'll save it for my next winter in Minnesota :)




Olive has a new hang out spot !

She likes David more than me :( Whatever ! I ordered her name tag online and should be here this week, she has to wear 3 tags, name, rabies and base registration #. We will have to take her in to the kitty chiropractor for back problems from lugging all the bling around her neck.

I'm still here

Ok, I know I haven't been on here in a while. We have been busy with putting stuff away and unpacking. Not everything is completely put away yet but I will need something to do while David is gone so maybe that is why I'm saving some of it. Here are just some pictures of Katies first trip to the beach. She didn't like it at all, the water at least. She didn't mind being in the sand. We take her there most every evening. She is getting used to it, she jumps all over the coral reef or lava rock, whatever it is. She chases the birds and doesn't mind getting wet now. She won't look at the waves coming in, she just looks to the side :) Do you see those cards Barret is holding??? I will give you the scoop on that in another post :)

Then there's Olive, she has gotten comfortable with Katie. She finds her tail quite fun to play with. She loves to attack her feet too. Katie acts like a big baby though and cowers up to us to save her from the 3 pound kitten.

Do you see that shell ???? That is the BIGGEST shell I have ever found in all of my beach combings :) It is probably 4 inches long ! These are the kinds you buy at the gift shop by the beach ! :) I was SOOOO excited, David thought I was crazy but I was very happy :)

Oh and this is my second batch of frosted Valentine cookies ! Somehow I don't think there will be any left for Valentines Day. I have some other ideas to make for Valentines Day. I think we are having crab legs at home to celebrate Valentines Day and Davids departure :( Oh and David said that was the best macaroni salad I have made Tina ! YAY !