Pumpkin Sunrise

Weekends are for memory making,  relaxing and enjoying quiet moments of our days.   If you would like, please share your weekend moments    in the comment section with a link to your blog. Well, my weekend was full and busy and action-packed.  Our son came home on Tuesday night and on Thanksgiving day we visited my family.  The first three photos are of my sister's house and the last photo is a massive Christmas cactus that my aunt has, isn't it awesome? This weekend was shopping at all the stores that no one else was in.  That's the nice thing about being a crafter.  The lines in craft stores are much shorter and everyone is nice.  I started Christmas shopping too.  Saturday, I decorated my house which I will snap some photos soon.  Football was on the tv, so I had to hum my holiday music while decking my halls.  It's the little things.. I loved seeing my family and spending time with them.  Everyone is getting older and the teens are growing an

In Gratitude: - mornings - quiet - family - friends - pumpkin pie - words and pens and notebooks - novels - kindness of others - chocolate - birds singing - the woods that surround me - my deer - comforts of home - cell phones and who they connect me to - knitting and the joy knitting brings to me - technology - the internet - woolen socks (and hats and mitts and scarves and shawls and sweaters...) - coffee and tea - lunches out - making lists and crossing off to dos - fresh sheets - memories of my mom - my health - my faith - my church - visits from the kids - blog hopping - creativity - cookies - donuts - bookmarks - yarn stores - bookstores - visiting my sister - talking to my aunt - seeing my dad - top 40 radio - knowing the current songs because of top 40 - Christmas music - my bed - knitting bags - pointy needles to knit with - starting a knitting project and finishing a knitting project - and the in between of a project - photography - the hopefulness of life - new beginnin

Same book this week I'm afraid.  I haven't been reading much because of all the knitting and because of my eyes being tired at the end of the day from the endless drops.  I'm hoping that they are getting better!!  Next week I see the doctor.  Anyways, I'm enjoying my book when I do read it. My knitting has been productive.  I finally did the photo shoot of my pullover and posted yesterday .  Thank you for the kind comments and I agree that I'm being picky.  I finished all the mitts I wanted to finish and I've started on some more Christmas knitting for December.  Super secret knitting so I can't say much.  Hopefully over the holiday weekend I'll be starting some more projects that I can talk about. What are you knitting and reading this week? Joining Ginny and Frontier Dreams

Hey, guess what?  I finished that sweater - more than a week ago and my oh my was my blocking off and maybe still is with that pesky garter stitch slant...  The first time I blocked it, I did a slap dash job and it showed.  The sweater was too long.  So the second time I blocked it wide and used a measuring tape.  Much much much better. I might be picky but do you see how the front bunches a tiny bit?  Yup.  I don't like that.  So the question is:  is it just me being very picky?  is that the way pullovers are and I'm a die hard cardigan wearer?  should I block the sweater again? When faced with such dilemmas I tend to put the garment aside and wait it out.  There have been countless sweaters that I finish and my expectations are not met exactly.  Time away does do wonders.  For instance, on Saturday when I took the photos I really was not happy.  Now that I'm blogging about it and looking at it, I think I might be crazy and picky.  I like the sweater! The pa

Weekends are for memory making,  relaxing and enjoying quiet moments of our days.   If you would like, please share your weekend moments    in the comment section with a link to your blog. Brr, this weekend was chilly, but a good kind of chilly, at least for me.  The knitter in me is giddy deciding what wool to wear outside.  Friday was indeed my birthday --  thank you to all of you sleuths who figured out from ravelry and wished me well.  My day was quite nice. I found the new Jane Austen Knts magazine and of course bought a couple of books.  My husband and I had dinner out and enjoyed being with each other.  Both kids called as well as many family members.  All good.  All fun! My self imposed deadline that is arbitrary has not been met.  However, maybe by the time I go to sleep I'll be a day behind...of course completely self imposed.  The best kind of time crunch there is. I really wanted to finish reading my Flannery O'Connor collection book this weekend

Let's start with the awesome, shall we?  On Monday this past week I stopped by our local florist to deliver some prints from the wedding of their bouquets that were beautiful.  The florist has a photo album of weddings they've done and I loved looking at "real" arrangements.  Imagine my surprise to receive a bouquet to thank me, thanking them.  This world is full of good good people. I finished my sweater last weekend and blocked it willy nilly.  Only to try it on after two days of drying and finding out that the slap dash blocking is NOT flattering to my figure.  Ahem.  So I re-blocked the sweater on Tuesday using a measuring tape -- so far I love my sweater!!  Now to weave in ends and do the photo shoot. I've been Santa this week cranking out mitts for gifts that need to be done by this weekend (sort of self imposed deadline...).  I am happy to report I think I'll be finished-phew! Now for the eye update.  I went to the doctor on Wednesday a

I've been knitting furiously (and somewhat fast) on the gift mitts .  So far I have two pairs knit and I'd like to knit two more.  My goal is to be done by Friday....we will see about that.  Anyways, I have been thoroughly enjoying the quick projects.  Instant gratification :)  Early in the morning I add a few rows to my shawl . Because of the massive amounts of time I'm dedicating to my knitting, I haven't been reading a lot and when I do I fall asleep since it's at bedtime.  I cannot read and knit on dpns without making a mistake, and yes, I have tried!  Also because of all the eye drops I'm on, my eyes are tired by the end of the day and somewhat blurred.  I see the wonder doctor this afternoon and I have my fingers crossed that I get to discontinue one of the meds if not both.  Whatever it takes to get better I am at peace with whatever. What are you knitting and reading this week? Joining Ginny and Frontier Dreams