FOS AND WIPS

This is lilD definetelly a work in progress. For miles up and down our road there are these sunflowers. Its so pretty.











August mid month wip.














"Fetching" caron ss in lavendar












Forgot, I think january dishcloth













Stil work in progress

Well Lild made it through the fisrt day of first grade. All smiles. What a trooper!!!
















Nope its empty, NO HOMWORK.YEAH!!!!!













Lild had a great time and a great first week of school. He did great.

Well I've been working on a corset-t from knitty gritty. Its knitting up very nicely. I'm on a serious budget and am doing it in an acrylic from my stash. So we'll see how it goes. The neckline is in dusty rose and the body in a lighter rose color. Very girlie, and its actually for me. The pattern is so very easy. I might even make one for my sisters hmmm... if they have been good. LilD has finished his first week of school and survived. The teacher loves him, "he' so good and smart"Wait till the honey moon is over.I can see a difference in him. He seems much more mature, and helpful in the classroom. Hopefull it'll stick. Hes a good kid. He called home with the teachers help to say his stomach hurt, an old excuse from last year whenever they are getting into writing. Teacher was thinking maybe he is worried about the letters and doesn't want to make mistakes. So practice, practice, practice.
My Mom and Dad are so funny. We have some cows visiting and the owner brought over a small ATV to let Dad keep an eye on them. So here my parents are driving around on the ATV and mending fences with a little wagon on the back and their dog Patch in between them. Not the picture you would expect. I laughed histerically when Mom told me what they had been up to . Too bad I was asleep a picture would have been great. I might just have to " wreak" a part of the fence just to catch them at it again. For prosperity. HAHAHA.
Oh yeah still working on the dishclothes I have finished a kitty one in burgundy
blue cabled stitch jan mid month
and in progress aug mid month burgundy and ecru very cool and enjoying it alot. All these new and interesting patterns. Can't wait to apply them to a blanket or sweater.:)

Well I made it to Santa Fe. We bought some new uniform clothes for LILD for school. Tomorrow is his first day of First grade. He is so excited he can't wait. We went friday and met the teacher again ( who is grandma to his good friend from kindergarten) He wouldn't stop talking. He showed DAD around the classroom and the lunch room/gym, which they get to play in during the winter months. Also the cool playground.

I got to go to HOBBY LOBBY yipee!!! I found the rest of what I needed for MY secrect pal and am going to wrap it up tomorrow. I all ready had a few small things from Wally world, but I had to get the " gift" Its so cool. Then we went to JOanns and I got for myself a new pair of needles. I got these bamboo ones size 7 for the dishcloth knitalong. I have allready made a few dc's and am really enjoying the cool cable patterns. I can't wait to apply them to a blanket or sweater. Thats the main reason for joining. Plus and excuse to buy cotton yarn. By the way ,I am loving the way these new needles feel. The yarn just glides along. I am just going to have to get started on some new project. I also finished a couple of baby hats. I almost gave one to Kathy-mom(a friend at work) but then remembered I want a picture first. Its purple with matching booties.( MOMsfavorite color). And then another one mint green. but it needs a small bit of lace to make a hat band.

While in Santa Fe we even made it to the OLIVE GARDEN. Wow what a treat. You don't realize what you had till its gone. The restaurants in our small town anre all small and MOM &POP which are good, but there are definetelly no Itailianos living here. I miss the selection of foods. WAHWAHWAH. All right enough of my whining. Have a great day and be good the next project might be for you.....

PICTURES OF CLAPOTIS

Here is Lil D in the Clapotis
This thing is soooo big 6'4''x23''

See the ladder detail, this is a dropped stitch. Very scary to do the first time. Worried the whole thing will fall apart. But it did not it turns out great. I love this shawl/scarf.

CAMPING PHOTOS

Well the day started great. It was beautiful, Big D had a couple of nibbles and caught two small mouth striped bass. Then the clouds started up and we decided to go back to our tent....

We stopped at the side of the dam for a couple of pics.

Then the rain started so our tent get soaked . It didn't have much of a chance esp since we lost the top and have a couple of tarps tied on it.

The storm then calmed down a bit and this is what it looked like. I acctually had to park the Jeep on top of the tent to keep it from blowing away. We had to cut out the bootom to let the water out of it. The poles were bent and we had to throw it away. While the storm raged on we had to take it apart. Lil D and the dogs stayed in the camp ground lean to.

Well my son was playing in his room and said " thers a wasp in my room" my husband went to investigate and there was a SCORPION on the celing. How weird is that I was reading a blog re that and blogged back about how we have them too. No I have not checked my knitting bag by the door. Now I'm afraid. Oh well gotta get back to work hehehe. The sweater for Lil D is coming along nicely. I finished the back allready and casted on the front. I too took a pic of this but the camera is at home and I didn't bother to try due to the probs w/blogger. Really I gotta go.

Well I finished THE CLAPOTIS Pronounced: clap-oh-tee. It turned out gorgeous. I'm so excited I can't wait to get some really nice ombre/mix yarn and do another. Of course still having probs posting pictures. AGH ! Next project is a cute sweater for LilD in Lion Brand Homespun colors Colonial- dark blue and black (forgot the fancy name. He picked out the colors they are his favorite. I had to since all the last projects were for the neices.
We are all doing well and enjoying the RAINY DROUGHT.. Go figure. some of the local roads by our house are washed out. I finally got to mail off my neice MONSTERs poncho. Can't wait for the reaction. Well is almost scholl time oh dear. Lil d is so very excited, He can't wait to get started back up. I'm afraid this summer has been a little boring. Esp with me working nights and sleeping days. He's hanging in there though. New news on the home front. My two great uncles are going to come and live with us. It should be interesting. At least a couple of months. Due to having to order and wait for set up of there new mobile home. They possibly have a buyer for there home in Yucca Valley CAL. But otherwise its been same old, same old. So I'll sign off :)

Finished Monsters poncho and have it ready to send off. Didi got hers in the mail and was so excited to get it. She saved the package and opened it in front of her friends at ther party. She couldn't believe that it was made just for her. She doesn't remember all the blankets and the sweater I made for her. Oh well. I'll be sending off the package to texas on monday. The box almost weighs thirty pounds. Hand me downs for cousin Pres. and gonna pack the stuff for Monster in the middle. She will be surprised for sure. Now just have to wait forBeans b-day to send hers off. I'm sure shes anxious to see what Auntie made for her since big sis got something allready. Maybee I should send a gag gift ahead HMM. Well LilD is getting more and more anxoius for school to start. Hes going crazy at home. We tried to go camping and had a terible storm that wiped out or tent. Poor little gut. He didn't even get very long to fish. We will probably go on my next day off. Big D caught two fish. And I sat and knitted allmost the whole time. I am allmost finished with a pretty shawl/scarf called " clapotis " I have done it in black and it is turning out very pretty. Well i had better get back to work breaks over.