Superman?

Last Friday my son was trying out his flying skillz.  Oh which he has none, let me tell you.  He jumped off the couch and missed a beanbag and hit the floor.  Broke his collar bone.  So not cool.

Here he is hamming it up in the room before the x-ray.  "Mom! Where's my shirt? I'm cold and naked"!

Here he is with his size xxs figure 8 sling.   dudes. it's going to be like, 8 weeks in this thing I think.  It's like a backpack with no pack part.

And here is a picture of his broken bone.  I didn't need the doctor to point out the broken spot. 

Also, I've gotten a new job, and just finished my first week of work!  I'm unit support in the NICU/Peds dept at the hospital. Lots to learn, but so far it's great!

And now, a finished knit!

Back in November, when my son was in the hospital, and the Sanguine Gryphon was splitting up and selling off their yarn, I bout a skein of Mayhem in Bugga. I had plans to make my mother a gift, as she likes red and black.  After searching Ravelry for something that fit her style, I came across the Brass and Steam pattern.  And it was perfect. (and free!) I was hoping to get it done by mother's day, and for once, I beat the deadline! :)

I hope to get some better pictures after I give it to her. I wasn't feeling like modeling it yesterday.

So the yarn count is as stands
Knitted -1
Sold 0
Bought +2 ( a destash of bugga from ravelry)
Past Total -34
New Total -33

Hey, I'm still doing well. :)  This weekend is YarnOver in the cities, and I'm going. I can't wait! I would like to buy some yarn, but I have no plans.  I can tell you I won't be getting very much if I do, maybe enought for a sweater for my son, or something I can't pass up. :)

A finished object!

Notice how the dog was as close as possible to the quilt! So....close... not....touching....

Anyway.  This is a quilt that I finally finished and mailed off yesterday.  It's going to live at Pam's house, for her daughter. :) This project is from the Block Party book, which I'm pretty sure I bought the day we got it in the store at work. It's about 60x60 finished size, and I used yellow and green scrappy binding on it. I used lots of yellow and green leftovers from my stash, and I think the pink is Petal Pink from Kona.

And yes. Our Christmas lights are still up on the deck.

A wild and crazy Saturday night

Well. Not really. I worked today, but went home a couple hours early due to a headache that was heading towards migraine.  I took an nap, and felt better. But now, it's creeping back and I think I should just go to bed.

I've got to tally up some destashes, before I forget them.
 Knitted 0
Sold -6
Bought +1 (Three Irish Girls yarn vault sale. I had to get some. I only got I skein)
Past total -34
New Total -39

Not  bad at all. I am looking at a couple destashs of yarn on Ravelry right now. Trying to decide what I really *need* for yarn. :)

Tomorrow being Easter, I have the day off and plan on spending it with family.  And I'm luckly enough to have Monday off as well, which I think I will spend part of the day cleaning, and part of the day sewing.

I am excited to see my son all dressed up in his "handsome clothes" tomorrow. I got him a sweet little outfit on the sale rack. Shirt, shoes, pants and a skull and crossbones tie. He's going to be rocking. :)

the one where I talk about nothing.

Not too much going on here that's newsworthy.  Same old same old. :)

I finished a baby quilt for a friend of mine, and I have yet to mail it. I need to take some photos then send it off.  I also whipped together a quilt top that I'm planning on donating to J's school fundraiser in April.  I just have to pick a backing fabric and then I can quilt it up.  I did a plus quilt design. So easy and yet so cute. I did use almost all scrap fabric on that top. I just had to buy 1/3 of a yard of KONA Olive cotton to finish it. Which really isn't so bad. I've also picked up a few bits and pieces off the sale table at work. But, I have a whole baby quilt out! So I think I'm still even-ish.

As far as yarn goes, I had a couple of older yarn destashs pop up, so that's 10 skeins out! (2 destashes, 5 each) I haven't bought yarn, or finished anything since my last post.

Old Yarn Total  -24
Destash - 10
New Total -34

I decided instead of holding onto the money, which is too easily spent in my paypal account, I'd send it off to a credit card bill this month. yea! Now I'm making that total shrink too.

I'm also working on shrinking my waistline.  To be completely honest, I've put on some weight this past year, and it's making me unhappy.  I found out after a trip to the doctor that I weight the same now as when I was 9 months pregnant with my son. So not cool.  A friend told me about the app My Fitness Pal, and I'm going to track what I eat and when I exercise.  It's helped with yarn, why not my weight?  I think just knowing the amount of calories I'm ingesting will help me think about things a little more.  Like this morning, they were giving away donuts at J's school. I grabbed one, and took a bite.  Well, it was a  plain, dry, cake donut. Not yummy at all. In the past I would have just eaten it. But today I thought, "It's not worth the calories". And tossed it aside. I'm counting it as a win! Ive also tried to cut down on my Mt dew intake.  I had one yesterday, and one today. The only reason I've had one today is the headache! ugh!  But I waited until after lunch to have one, so that's rather good for me.

Yea. I got a whole lot of nothing exciting. Sorry guys. :) I work tonight, so I best go and get ready.

Busy Saturday

J had his first preschool birthday party today. It went rather well! You'd think he's be passed out, but he's sitting next to me just talking and talking and talking about how I make him pick up his toys and he doesn't like that.

Kids. They're weird man.

I almost fell off the yarn wagon this week.  Verdant Gryphon had an update that included the colorway Osiris, and well, I had to have it.  And I bought some naked bugga for a project I'm collecting. I did have $$ in paypal from destash so I wasn't feeling too badly, but when I logged into Ravelry after buying the yarn, there was someone wanting to buy a older destash of mine. So, that totally worked out.  Then I picked up some of the special edition yarn from Sharon at 3 Irish Girls, and suddenly, again, there was a request for some of my older destash yarn. I think it's a sign I was meant to buy the yarn. I'm still ahead for the yarn out/yarn in money wise. :)

And! And there's more! I finished my teal sweater I've been knitting, so that's 4 skeins of cascade out. I'm pretty sure I bought that the first summer I worked at CD, so that's over 3 years old!

 I'm hoping it'll be dry by morning, I want to wear it to work tomorrow.  I've got it under the fan, with it on high. *fingers crossed*

I'm only going to count the yarn that has been paid for as of right now.

Yarn Knitted -4
Yarn In- +4
Yarn Out  -10

 Last Total -14

New Total -24!!

Holy cow! I'm rocking the destash! 

I also cast on some new socks today. It's some 3IG. Watermelon Chiffon. Loving it so far, I hope it's not going to be too small. I cast on 60 stitches.  I think the next size up was 72 stitches, and that seems a little big. We'll see.

Snow Day!

It snowed! Finally can make snow angels.

Well, not good snow angels. The snow was pretty heavy.
But we still had fun!