Knitting Away

More knitting projects - I have been finding so many cool stitches and projects for knitting. My new favorite is the fingerless mittens.  So fun!

Pinterest Project #5: Fingerless Mittens
Original Pin - http://pinterest.com/pin/249316529343316953/
I've done two of these so far.  One with just a straight knit stitch and a shorter one using the double moss stitch.

Snow Day Crop

Another snow day and the kids were driving me crazy cakes - so what is a momma to do? Scrap of course!  I actually got 5 total done but for some reason i forgot to take a photo of the other one.  SMH.

#8 Wild Kids and Hot Mamas- Spencer, Elliott and Jennifer visiting over 4th of July weekend.

 #9 family, together.  A family pic of me and the boys from October 2012

 #10 - First Nature Hike: the boys and I at the Outdoor Expo in October.

#11- Ready Aim Fire. The boys throwing water sponge bombs on 4th of July weekend.

Been There Made That

I've been bored.  Yeah I know what you are thinking - four kids, dog, job, house to decorate how on earth can you be BORED?  It's not the "lack of things to do around the house" kind of bored, its the "want to be creative within the time frame/space I have" kind of bored.  So I have been wasting time playing around with some of the stuff that I have been pinning over the last couple of years and actually **gasp** doing some of the projects I have found.  Here are a couple that actually turned out respectably.

You can see my pin boards here: http://pinterest.com/aremid411/

I learned to knit (needed something creative I could do in the car between appointments while I am listening to an audiobook in the parking lot of a Walmart) and I'm learning crochet much more slowly than I picked up the knitting.

Project #1 Tea/Coffee Cozy
Original Pin
http://pinterest.com/pin/249316529343424537/

I saw these cute little tea/coffee cozies and thought that would make a perfect beginner type project to test out my knitting ability.  I haven't gotten as fancy with the edges (yet) and it didn't take long to complete one I have some design ideas to improve the next ones but I think it turned out pretty OK.

$0 used leftover yarn and a button from my stash!

Project #2 Tea Dyed coffee filters/wreath

Original Pin(s)

http://pinterest.com/pin/249316529343355727/

http://pinterest.com/pin/249316529343623519/

 

I fell in Loooove with the look of the tea dyed coffee filters they just looked so sweet and romantic.  And I loved too the idea of using the leftover yarn I had from Christmas stockings so I got to play one night, I brewed a cup of tea and poured some reinker dye into a small dish and started messing around with the coffee filters, my favorites were dipped and then sprayed with Shimmer Mist.  Then I hot glued the yarn balls and attached to a dollar store stick wreath and here is how it turned out.

Project #3 - Canvas/Subway Art

Original Post: 

http://pinterest.com/pin/249316529343413749/

So we have this bathroom...it's orange...I mean - it's seriously tangerine orange. It was orange when we bought the house and my husband has decided that he likes the orange bathroom.  The one that every visitor to our house uses - is orange.  When my mother in law came into town from Colorado, she encouraged hubby's delusion that an orange bathroom is acceptable if we blew up some pictures from our honeymoon and did a tropical theme.  At this point I still don't agree but no amount of pouting, begging and cajoling would melt the orange from the walls :(  So I surrender, put a basket of shells in a basket, blow up some sunset in Key West photos and made this to go on the big blank, tangerine/coral/peach wall.

I have two more drying to put up in the basement and the letters on that one turned out better, but this one is on the wall already :)

More "Pinny" projects to come :)

What I wanted to eat...

...as I walked into the travel plaza and was simultaneously struck by the smell of fresh baked bread from the Subway and the salty crispy fry scent at McDonalds was either a Meatball Sub (480 calories, 18 grams of fat) or a McRib (500 calories, 26 grams of fat)

What I actually ate...whole wheat BLT wrap, no mayo (320 calories, 7 grams of fat).

Sometimes making good choices REALLY sucks.

Been getting scrappy again

It's been awhile since I've gotten to spend some time on my scrapbook table but since the first of the year I have been going through older photos and kits and getting some stuff DONE towards my goal of 100 layouts this year and using up some kits. Observe. (I swear that everything is very straight in real life - sometimes taking pictures of layouts is not the easiest)  All of these were using up kits from www.scrap-room.com and were based on pagemaps sketches. www.pagemaps.com

#1 - Reunion
My girlfriends from high school came over to my house right after I moved in.  I'm so glad to have this photo!

#2 - Ring Bearers. My little Jackson from back in 2009 when he was a ring bearer in my brother's wedding

#3 - Your Heart will Lead you Home - Jackson and his "fiancee" Alivia - he is walking her home so cute!

#4 - Our Family: A group photo from Easter 2012.  Love this one!

#5 - 'tween: My Joshua gets way too big everytime he comes to visit.  Now he is a true 'tween.

#6 - Proud of You: Jackson with mom and dad, nana and papa at his Kindergarten graduation

#7 - anytime anywhere: random shots of Joey falling asleep at random times and places

Seven down! only 93 to go!