Hello Again :)

 The Holidays are over, the kids are back in school... Life is getting back to normal again. Or not :)

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas.

We had a White Christmas here this year. It is the first one we have had here in 60 years according to the news.  It was beautiful.  :) It only lasted a few days before it melted all away.

Here is my latest finished project. This ripple afghan is for my daughter. She is always trying to take the afghans that I have been working on for others. So, I am surprising her with one of her own. :)

Another view of Kyra's afghan. :)

This afghan has been a thorn in my side for months. I had to restart it soooooo many times because it just wasn't quite right. I am so happy to finally have it done now.

   Ok, so back to trying to dry out my carpet... We had a flood yesterday. What an awful day it was.... So glad it is over and we have a fresh new start today. I guess the good thing about the flood... The carpet is now getting cleaned. LOL!

 Have a wonderful day everyone!

Back Again

I had a good visit with my sister. It was nice having her here for awhile. Took her out shopping a lot. :) I was able to show her how to to the straight Granny stitch, so she is now working on a new afghan. She bought some really nice colors to work on it with. I can't wait to see the finished product when she is done with it.

Above you can see the progress on my Ripple afghan I have been working on. It is almost done now. It is actully folded in half in this picture.I am working on the light rose color right now; next will be the green and yellow, with the aran in betwenn the colors. I will be finishing it with the dark rose that I started it with.

Updates on Afghans I am working on

My sister is here for a visit. I havn't seen her in 4 years. She will be here for 2 weeks. Glad to have some family out here for a visit. Took her shopping earlier and she found some cute NC shirts to take home with her. And later this week we are hoping to find a hat for her husband. :)

Here is an updated picture of the Granny Stripes afghan I just started. I am using RH yarn in Aran, Navy, Coffee, blue and Cafe. This one is moving along well.

Here is the latest on the Ripple afghan. I have added all the colors and I am now working on repeating the colors. I think once I add all the colors again it will be a decent length. I may end it with the Darker rose color.

Schools out, New Picture of Ripple Afghan

Here is the latest picture of the ripple afghan. It is coming along quite nice. I have one more color to add and then I will be repating the color pattern in the same order. It is 68 inches wide and about 30 inches long. I think after the second pattern repeat I will end it with a final row of the dusty rose that I started with.

Today was the last day of school. I picked Kyra up at 11:30 and we went to the library so she could get some new books to read. After that we went to McDonalds for lunch. That seems to have become a tradition on the last day. I go and pick her up and we wait in the long crazy line to eat at McD's. Sean got a ride home from a friend. He was about an hour after Kyra. So we had to run back up to McD's so he could get something for lunch too. :) And now both of them are sleeping the afternoon away. LOL!

And here is Noah... Guess he decided since his kids are sleeping he should take a nap too.

Ripple Afghan, Noah, and Sean

I have been workign right along on my ripple afghan. I am finishing up the last row of Aran now and then I will be adding Rose Pink next. I am really enjoying the way this afghan is looking. After the Rose pink color is added I have a pale yellow and frosty green color to add. Then I will be repeating those colors. When I finish this afghan I will be starting on a granny stripe afghan. I think I will try and use up more of my scrap yarn I have all over the place. :)

Yesterday was Seans last full day at school for this year. He was pretty tired when he got home and fell asleep. He has 2 more half days and this year is finished.

This is Noah. We adopted him about a month or so ago. He has been a lot of fun. Loves to play.

And has shredded several toys allready. If you look closly in the corner is one of his toys he had just tore apart.

Ripple Progress

These are the last of the colors I have left for the ripple afghan I am working on. Once I add these colors, I will just repeat untill I get the aghan to the right length.

Here is my progress on the ripple afghan as of last night. This morning I added the rest of the aran. I am doing 3 rows of each color. I have not decided yet what color to do next.

We had a really nice weekend. Kyra finished out her softball season. Her team took 3rd place this year. They did a great job and had a lot of fun. Looking forward to next year.

Shaking off the Dust!

Wow! Has it really been that long? I can't believe it. I completly forgot about keeping this blog updated. Things have been really busy around here. We bought a new house in Oct, and we are still trying to get all unpacked. We have also been busy with Softball games and practices. Unfortunatly softball season is almost over. This weekend is the last weekend. We will miss softball when it is done. Kyra has gotten a lot better this year, and is hitting the ball much better now. :)

We have also been busy with a lot of youth activities at church. Our new Youth Minister sure knows how to keep them active :)

In the picture above is a new afghan I have started. I am going to try and use up some more of my scrap skeins of yarn. My goal is to clean out some of these rubber maid totes that are full of yarn. So far in this one I have used the colors Dusty Rose, Aran and light sage green. I also have Orchid to add next and then pale yellow. My plan is to seperate the colors with the Aran in between each color.

Have a great day everyone. :)

Sandstone Ripple

Here is an updated picture of the Ripple afghan I am working on. I am getting closer to the halfway point on this one.

Sour Green Apples and Afghan

Here is a new set of dishcloths I have completed. I am calling them Sour green apples. I made them with Peaches and cream 100% cotton yarn.

Here is a new picture of the ripple afghan I am working on. I have made a little more progress on it. This is being made with an Acrylic yarn.

Scrambeled Eggs and a new afghan

I bet you thought I was talking about the edible version of scrambeled eggs. But no, not this time. That is actully what I am calling these dishcloths. :) They are a really pretty yellow and white all mixed up. Kind of reminds me of scrambeled eggs.

And here are a few shots of another afghan I have started working on. This one is being made in the colors Sandstone, butter yellow and winter white.

Fall, Jareds Ripple

Yay! Fall is finally here. Fall is my favorite time of the year. I love to watch all the colors change.


Here are a couple pictures of our drive way. This is what it looks like today. I will take some more pictures when the colors start to change. It is always so pretty here in the fall. The weather here has been great the last few days. It was 90 last Friday. And this week has been even better in the upper 70's. I love it. :)

I have been working on Jared afghan again. Here is an updated picture.

It is now halfway done. :)

Baby Ripple done, Jareds Ripple

I have finally finished the baby afghan. :) I did a shell stitch border to finish this one off.




I started over again on Jareds Ripple afghan. I decided that it needed a sharper edge instead of the more curvy edge. I thought it may be a little more masculine this way.

There is a picture of the new one. :)