It's a Sock!

Okay here is my second big knitting project... one very heavy, very warm sock. It's made to fit me but Jac agreed to model for the blog!

I'm really happy with how it came out, but now i'm on the lookout for a smaller guage loom so that I can make socks using a thinner yarn so they arn't so darn hot.

I learned something new!

So I decided after reading Saturday Night Knitting Club with my book club, that I too could learn to knit. The first step for me was picking up a dollar tube knitting kit at Joanns! Well I whipped through that.. and started my search for how to books. Then while at AC Moore the other day I came across a book using Provo Crafts Knifty Knitter which is a round knitter not needles. Looked perfect and easy to me, so I bought the book, a four pack of the Knifty Knitters, and a bag of cheapy yarn to practice with. Hubby said he wanted to see a finished project within a month. I decided then to make him a hat, and finished two days.. can you believe it.

Here is a picture of me sporting the hat, which came out just a big large, guess the measurements in the book are just estimates.

Here is a picture of the hat all on it's own, see how it came out pretty long!

And here is a picture of the very "fancy" cuff I added at the bottom!
I think next on my list is some socks.. and then once I master this knitter, I think I'll still give those needles a try!

A Little More Mouse!

The clock in my lovely Mickey Mouse themed room seemed to be a bit stuck out in no where...so I decided to liven it up a bit.

This is the far view...

This is a closer view...
And this is a close up of the hand... but you still can't see that the white paper is glittery...

Thanks for taking a look!

Random Bits from the Holiday weekend!

Hi All! Wow it's been so long since I posted... sorry for that. Had some cool pictures to share.. my mom actually took all of these.

Here is Jac out on a limb at her house.

And here is a shot so you can see how high he climbed!

And this is the llama that visited our house over the weekend. He spent most of his time across the road visiting with my sister in laws horses and cows. Till his owners finally came and took him home.

Hope you all had a fantastic Memorial Day weekend.

Elk Country PA

Here are a few pictures of our recent trip to see the PA Elk. Elk were once a native population in PA but had disappeared a long time ago... The Elk we have now are Rocky Mountain Elk. The small population they brought in really took hold and is flourishing.

Here are two bulls fighting... really cool hearing the click clack of antlers. And Elk have a thing called Whistle teeth... they can blow through them and make a high pitched whistle, and these guys were doing that too.

Here is a calf... isn't he cute!!

Sorry this one is sideways... this guy was right up eating grass in someones yard.

And here is a cool picture I took of the early morning sky!!

An Exciting Week.

Things really began to take off this week with our new addition. Before this week there were only a few stakes in the yard marking the area. Then last Saturday we came home and found this beauty in our yard!!

The contractor arrived first thing Tuesday morning, since Monday was a Holiday. He started by cutting through a cement slab where there used to be a shed. The noise level was horrible but thankfully it didn't take him long.
Next he began to dig out the hole where our cement slab and then foundation would go. Jac had a fantastic time watching the digger when he got home from school.
After two days of getting the hole just right, and marking out the foundation, it was time for cement. I had never really watched cement being pored so it was pretty exciting for me.
This is the slab as they got it almost done... smoothing and checking it make sure it was level.
The only sad part was that I headed off to town and by the time I got back and Jac got home from school it was too hard to write our names or put our hand prints in it.

Why yes that is

a first place ribbon.

This is the project I made for the Crawford County Fair this year. It was in the gift wrapping category, and I was so excited when I went up and saw that giant blue ribbon with it. It really made my week, that's for sure.