Happy New Year!!!!

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Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…….Corey’s sleeping….and so is Chloe.  This was a beautiful New Year’s Eve.  Corey and Danielle came and we had pizza and Corey and I made chocolate crinkle cookies (Keith’s favorite – sorry you missed it Keith).  Corey fell asleep pretty early but Mark, Danielle and I stayed up till 12:30 or 1:00 and then they spent the night.  This picture of our sleepy boy was taken at 11:56 p.m.

Danielle and I knitted and crocheted.  Danielle finished her first baby afghan at 11:58 p.m.  I told her to hurry and weave the ends in before midnight so she could say she made three scarves and one baby blanket in 2009.  She did with Mark supplying a little pressure while she weaved in the ends.  Here’s the blanket – I think it’s Bernat boucle.  We’ve since decided that in order to fix one of the wonky corners and make the blanket a little bigger, Danielle is going to learn how to make a border.  So technically, it’s not finished but here it is……..

Baby sweater – yay!

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This is my first knit baby sweater.  I’ve done plenty of crocheted ones for charity, but with our first grandbaby on the way, I always knew this would be the push I needed to get past my fear.  As I am my own worst critic, I know it’s boxy and not perfect but I feel I need to post it anyway just because it’s my first.  The upside is……………this was fun…this was easy.  This one has been donated to a charity.

The green yarn is just a ball of something from my stash and the white is Bernat Softee Baby.

Mmmmmmmmmmm….chicken noodle soup

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Mom got sick on Christmas Day.  She’s still trying to feel better – bronchitis kicked her butt.  I made her this pot of homemade chicken and noodles with dumplings on top.  Yummers.  We all enjoyed it (Roger………if I knew you were going to be there, I would have made some bigger chunks!!!).  Mom was too sick to enjoy it but Dad, Mark, Roger and myself LOVED it.

Corey……you are talented, my son

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This is the picture from a book that we sent to Corey of a bench we wanted built as a Christmas gift for us.

This is his finished project!

He even finished the inside – he made an insert and covered it with fabric and it has a handle on it to pull it out for cleaning.  He put felt around the lid to cushion when the lid closes.

Pinocchio

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Corey made this in high school.  Yes, he’s now twenty-four.  I have had it hanging but finally got around to framing it.  I took him to my craft room to show him and can you guess what happened next?  He said “oh……..I want that”.  I gave it to him.  He wants to hang it in the baby’s room – who could resist that?

Thanksgiving fun

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I’m way behind in posting so it’s time to play catch-up.  This is what we did on Thanksgiving after a big, wonderful dinner.  We all made little gingerbread houses.  It was so much fun.  These kids are all so creative.

I should have used the digital camera instead of my iPhone because the lighting wasn’t so great and a flash would have really helped – but here’s a shot of all five of our gingerbread houses……

…..and here’s Keith with his…..

…..and Justin…..

….and Corey and Danielle, who chose to put their little picture that was at their table-setting instead of their sweet faces…..

…..and this reject is the one Mark and I made.  We made a very pretty one last year so gosh only knows what happened here.

The wedding purse………..

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wedding purseSomehow I forgot to post this picture when I finished this project.  This was the purse I knitted for Danielle for their wedding.  She loved it.  The yarn is Sinfonia mercerized cotton and the pattern is from Knitting the Easy Way by Terry Kimbrough.  I have the book with the blue cover but mostly I only see the book with the red cover – I’m unsure if both books have this pattern.  There are two Beaded Wedding Purses in the book.  Mine is adapted from the “traditional version”.  It was a fun knit.

Inside of the purse, Mark and I put a picture of Corey as a baby.  Mark wrote a sweet little poem.  I’ll have to attach that to this post later.

Good stuff

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It’s time to play a little catch-up with some great pics (for me anyway – because I love my family and sharing what’s important to them).

The first pic Corey e-mailed to me.  He titled the e-mail “my house on a trailer”.  It is all the old siding off of Corey and Danielle’s house, headed to the recycling center (being pulled by Mark’s joy, his Jeep).  The house in the background is not theirs.  I’ll post a pic of theirs with the new siding in another post.

houseThis is a pic Keith e-mailed to me – it’s the ever-beautiful Molly in all her glory.

MollyThis is the computer that Corey built.  In his e-mail, he calls it his “new UV reactive mod”.  It’s really cool and he’s got some great artistic talent.

Corey's computer

Keith sent an e-mail with this pic.  He wrote:  “This little guy was sitting on the sidewalk and was gracious enough to pose for a photo shoot”.  Gracious indeed.

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