13 March - New House? Maybe?

Okay, so we went to look at the red house with the barn...wish we could have just bought the barn. The house was awful. Had about 7 cats running around and it was a rental home...yuck. So, we just started driving around and found a house in the neighborhood we lived before with a huge side yard, large garage with a man cave for Dave and a nice house for me. We put in an offer but we don't know if we have it yet. I am adding pictures here.

So, I didn't get any homework done. I got a little knitting done and I am going to get some more done when I finish here. I will work homework tomorrow. Other than that it was a rainy day. Oh, I did get my hair cut and highlighted. It has quite a bit of blonde in it now so I am not quite used to it yet. Maybe once I wash and style it myself I will be happy with it.

All right going to get some ice cream and then knit.

12 March - TGIF

Oh my, I am so happy it is Friday! What a long week. Today we did video taping for the boss' new podcast and that went really well. It was just a pain getting all the video stuff upstairs, set up, and then back downstairs. It went really well though so should be a really good product in the end.

I've been working on Mommy Purse for a day or so now. I showed Rachel the color and she really liked it. I am just making the pattern up as I go along. I think it will turn out really good and that gives me two purses that are my own design. Maybe I can get a book deal! LOL.

I just went to dinner with my future employers. They are very nice and we had a good time. Talked a lot about future projects. Can't wait to get going on them!

Tomorrow I am getting my hair done with color and cut and then we will go look at the house for sale. I am posting a picture of it here. I think the house will probably need some updating as the description says 2 bathrooms but they are both upstairs! What? We may have to put a half bath in downstairs.

Well, I am going to knit now and watch TV with Dave. I got to talk him into watching Project Runway. Wish me luck!

10 March - Wednesday New Craft Room!!

All right! Finally got David to move the table into the living room. I am all set up and ready to go. I am posting the pictures. I finished the back of the skirt last night and now I have to make another for the front and then the tops. So, it is going to be awhile on that project. I am setting it aside for now and starting to work on Mom's purse.

It has been really beautiful the last few days. I am not going to get suckered in though, I know we are going to have one last blast of winter before it is all over. The dogs are staying outside longer too so that is good except for the mud all over my floors.

I got the stitches out from my cheek today and just have some steri-strips until they fall off. Looks like the Dr. did a really good job stitching it up. It was not cancerous but it was like a pre-cancerous keratosis thing. Anyway it is all gone now!!

David and I are going to be looky loo's at a house for sale this weekend. It is an old farm house that has a big barn (shed thing) so it is something that we are looking for so David can do his welding thing. We will see how it goes. I'll take pictures.

All right off to get knitting my Mommy Purse, that is my official title for it. Think Seafoam green.

8 March - Monday after being busy

Well, slow day today since all of the ceremony stuff is done. I tried to get back in the swing of things but the brain just didn't want to go there. I had a Dr. appointment this afternoon and then went to the gym. I did pretty good walking on treadmill for 30 minutes at about 2 - 2.5 mph. then rode bike for 20 minutes at level 3. Came home, showered, laid in bed with feet up and fell asleep as I was texting back and forth with Rachel. Slept about an hour. Felt good and no pain in back so far...knock wood.

Okay, almost done with skirt. I have about 17 rows to go to finish it off. I am posting new pictures in the thread this time. I even have an action photo of me knitting (kind of). I was hoping to have my table in my craft room and all set up to take a picture for you all to see but I used it as a clothes folding table yesterday and now it is sitting in the front foyer because that is as far as David wanted to carry it tonight. So, maybe I will have things set up by this weekend.

I am going to design a purse for my mom. I haven't seen a pattern I like so I will take bits and pieces of what I like and put it all together.

I am almost done with my class, one paper left to write and it is due 19 March. I am going to try to get it all done before that. I know, I know that is surprising for such a procrastinator like me but I am going to do it.

All right off to knit!

6 Mar - Happy Sunny Saturday!!!

We finally have a beautiful sunny day and temperature is almost 50! Time to get some shorts on soon. All the white is slowly melting away. I think David may take the Christmas lights down this weekend. LOL

We had a great time on our little trip to Cincinnati today. Had a great brunch at IHOP and then I was off to IKEA and David to the u-pull it. He spent about $15 and I spent about $200! I got a nice big table to put in my craft room for cutting quilts and blocking knitted stuff. Now I just have to get David to put the legs on. I also got two new pillows, a duvet cover for Jack, two new pillows, a mattress cover and two lazy susans for our cabinet so David and I can put all our medicine on them since we are getting so old that we have enough medicine to put on two lazy susan's. LOL I also got the required 6 pack of cinnamon rolls for $4...$4 I should have got more than one of those!

I am posting a couple of pics. Sorry the store one is blurry.

I am going to work on the tunic dress now. I also have to start looking for a purse pattern to make my mommy a purse. I have the yarn picked out already, I've just never made the purse. So, I will get going on that but I won't be able to post it here because she reads my blog and I don't want her to see it before it is done. So I'll just have to describe my progress on that one.

Okay off to knit and watch TV with David.

5 March TGIF!! Ceremony is over!

Just posting quickly before bed. The retirement ceremony was today and it went very, very well. I had many great comments on the organization and all the gifts. We just came back from the barn dance and there were tons of people there. The blue grass band was really good. Col Hobson was very happy with the turn out. Well, I will post some more tomorrow. I am going to IKEA tomorrow and David is going to the junkyard but we are eating at IHOP first. Talk to you tomorrow!

3 March - Wednesday Finished Shadow Box

Been busy last few days with retirement stuff. The luncheon yesterday went really well and we had a script run through and that went well. Tomorrow we will do a full walk through to make sure we have all the parts right and everyone knows there duties. I finished the shadow box tonight and the memorial frame, they are all wrapped up and ready to go.

I finished homework Monday night so I got to knit for a bit last night and tonight. I am posting my progress in the side bar. The skirt is coming along nicely. I hope to have it done by the end of the week so I can start the back top. I will cut the pieces of the monkey quilt this weekend and get going on that too. Maybe I can give it to her before she has the baby instead of after like the others.

All right, back to knitting for a few little bit. I had a little minor procedure on my face today to remove a "suspicious" area so I am beginning to feel that pain a little. I will get the stitches out next Wednesday and they will tell me the pathology results. At least it is all gone now so I won't have to worry about it any more.

Posting final pictures of shadow box and memorial frame.