Ta Da...

I finished the Ruffle Hats for the girls and now need to start my next project... SOCKS.. I had purchased sock lessons at the Auction last year and so far hadn't gotten around to using them yet. That will change very very soon..

So do you want to see pictures of the hats??? I know that you do... so here you go...





That's Lily wearing the yellow one (and my arm around her) and Anna who is rocking the pink one. The hats match the Party Dresses that I was making for them.

So now I have nothing to knit with the exception of 2 blankets that I've been working on for a small while that I have no problem taking my time knitting.

Call me Crazy

I finished sewing Dress #2 yesterday during American Idol (there wasn't much on)... So today I attempted to sew the buttons onto both dresses but ran into a problem with my needle so I had to put them aside. I have been working on the blankets that I mentioned last time and frankly I needed a challenge of something new. Something that I haven't tried to do before but hopefully quick.. so I looked through my patterns and found one for a Ruffle Hat and then saw that I had 3 extra skeins of yarn from Dress #1 leftover. So I decided to start the Ruffle Hat.

It's going so quick and shaping up quite well. My only regret so far is that I'm not knitting it in the round even though I'm using a circular needle. Maybe on the next one that I make since if I'm using yarn from Dress #1 then I need to make one with yarn from Dress #2 also.

Here's what the Ruffle Hat will look like when it's done (the yarn used in the website photo that I found just happens to be the same Yarn that I used for Dress #2):

MIA

Sorry about that... I've been MIA from the blog lately.. but for good reasons..





I've been working really hard on my knitting lately and trying to get the dresses for Anna and Lily done. I've had the first dress mostly done for a while now.. even started to sew the pieces together but then decided that I needed to work on the second dress before I went much further. Well last night at my knitting group I finished all the pieces for Dress #2 and when I got home I became a sewing fiend. I sewed the shoulders of dress #2 and even sewed in the collar pieces before I realized that I needed to pick up stitches to make the button band for it. I can't remember how I did this on the first dress. So I decided to switch gears and try to at least get the sleeves of dress #1 sewn on. Well I got some of that done before I went into panic mode because the one and only picture of the dress that I have (on the cover of the booklet) didn't show how the sleeves are supposed to be sewn in... (see picture below)




So I went online to Ravelry and thankfully someone else had also knit this dress (but in a different yarn and size) and I was able to look at their sleeves and get a clue.

So after dropping the girls off at daycare today and making a run to Dunkin Donuts for breakfast for Lee and I, I got busy sewing again and got the sleeves in. Then went out and did some errands with and without Lee in tow. Sewed some more and then brought the almost finished product to my mom's to show the dress to her and have Anna try it on. The good news about having Anna try it on is that it fits. The bad news is that it fits over her regular clothing. She probably won't be wearing it for a while since it's HUGE on her and I still need to figure out how the heck to put the buttons on. After coming home and putting the girls to bed, I got all the Picot rows sewed and done and the dress totally rocks.

I'm awfully proud of myself no matter what. So now I just need to get going on the button band for dress #2 and then get that one sewn together and I'll be DONE with these dresses.

In the meantime I have 2 blankets that I've been working on here and there to get done. There's no real timeline on them so I might actually finally be able to think about trying my hand at making a hat that I have a pattern for or actually using and starting my sock knitting lessons that I bought at the Church Auction last year.

Just some pictures

Anna listening to a CD with Daddy..



Anna's Haircut



Anna's Haircut... she seems to like it.

Please excuse the quality since they were taken with Lee's cell phone and not our Digital Camera

It's the little things..

Anna was so adorable this morning... I could hear her over the monitor this morning calling for us.. So I went in to get her and she spotted her baby doll, so we went and got her baby and changed her diaper before heading to the bathroom (Mommy needed to pee badly) where she saw her toothbrush and started chanting "Teeth". So I got her toothbrush and gave it to her.. and she brushed her teeth while I got her and Lily's milk cups ready. Since Lily was still sleeping she and I went into my bed and hung out with Daddy for a little while till I figured it was time to get Miss Lily up and going. It truly is the little things that make me happy lately.

Cute Kid isms..

Ok I just had to share some of the cute stuff that Anna and Lily have been doing lately..

Tonight Anna finally figured out how to climb up into her booster chair at the kitchen table and buckle herself in... She actually already knew how to buckle herself in but the climbing into her seat part is totally new to me (us). The best part was that she decided to go through the mail that was on the table.

This morning Lily and Anna found the baby doll strollers that I had gotten the girls yesterday at BRU... it was so adorable to see them giving their babies rides in the stroller.. I think that they Love the strollers.

They are seriously ADDICTED to Elmo. Lily has a really bad case of Elmo addiction. She took Elmo to daycare twice this week and we almost left him there by mistake on the second day. That would not have been good at all. Anna is addicted to watching Elmo on the TV or the computer. We seriously almost had a huge screaming fit (her not me) over my making her go to bed instead of me trying to find anything Elmo for her to watch or see.

New Year Wrap Up

Happy New Year... I apologize for not really blogging for a while.. Christmas went really well this year. The girls absolutely loved the dolls that Lee and I had gotten them and have barely put them down at all since they got them. We finally got the tree down and outside today (thank you Lee for doing that for us).. having a real tree was great and something that I have sorely missed for the past few years... it was nice to have the space (ok in the landing outside our door) this year and I think that I will miss it even though I've been dying to have our landing back.

I am hopeful that 2010 will be a good year filled with mostly good things that happen.. we deserve it after the awful year that 2009 was for us. Hopefully this coming year will bring new jobs as well as new adventures for us. I'll even go out on a limb and hope that 2010 will bring a change in our housing and that God willing and with hopefully new jobs that we will be able to afford to buy something that we won't mind living in for a really long time to come. In the meantime there are too many things to take care of around here. Maybe this will be the year that I finally go through the stuff that we have in the basement and do a huge purge and reorganization.