What Kind of Knitting Needle are you?

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Mine was super interesting. :D Hit the nail on the head. LOL.

You are bamboo.
Warm, cozy, and thoughtful, you take your time and enjoy how things feel, smell, and taste. You love the craft and beauty of traditional things, and you value the comfort and experience of knitting as much as the results. But while you are reveling in your warm cozies, don't get stuck. Warm is wonderful, but so is the whole wide world!

I have some yarn coming from a wonderful friend and I can't wait to see what she has sent me!

Newborn Fluffy Stuff

So I've really learned how to knit and I feel like my knitting has become pretty good. I decided I wanted to make something for the baby on the way and a friend gave me some wonderful Malabrigo Merino yarn.

The Results?



Beautiful huh? I'm really happy with the way it came out. :) It's so soft too! I think it will be a wonderful set for the baby.

I do need to make some more for my baby still in diapers. I have another friend that's sending me more yarn and then I can go to town on some more sets. :D

Also I'm helping in a fundraising effort for the Breast Cancer 3-Day walk. We are helping Christine to reach her fundraising goal of $2,200. (You can find Christine's official fundraising page HERE) Christine's friend Shelley and I are donating a cloth diapering set as a drawing at my store.

Here's a sneek peak at what those look like:




That's it for now.

Wow!

It's really been a long time since I posted. LOL. I had actually forgotten my user name and password but evidently I remedied that situation. ;)

So what's new around these parts? Well, the two older ones are back in school and loving it! Cliff has a wonderful job working in a town about and hour away. It's a wonderful blessing but we are looking at moving a little closer. Baby #4 is in the oven baking! (Yep that's right I said another one!) We will be looking for him/her around V'day.

Well I have a stocking at Panda Pants to prepare for so I need go get off of here and get some work done. I'll try to update with pics of what I'm planning. ;)

Sugar Highs and Lows

Ah man you just have to love kids. It doesn't take much sugar to really get them going.

This was taken at a dear friends wedding two weekends ago. She had been given who knows how much punch and helped herself to some sugar cubes. :( She was so cute though and such a good girl though. She was of course ready for her usual 9 PM bed time so we didn't really get to stay too long at the wedding.

My friend has been through so much and I think it's wonderful that she has finally found someone that can make her happy and is willing to stick it out through the good and the bad for the rest of thier lives. :)

All of my kiddos went with us but I don't think I managed to catch a picture of my son. He was too busy with the other kids to stop for a picture.

Ah and now for the sugar low. After she finally crashed with proof on her shirt that she had some punch.

Shooting For the Stars!!

My wonderful Husband has been wanting a business that was "ours" so bad. Tonight we were visited by some friends who had a business opportunity for us. Come to find out it's a glorified online Amway. NO THANK YOU! I had however been a part of a company once that I loved and truely believe in. Their products have worked miracles for me. :) I didn't go very far with it last time simply because I had a very unsupportive husband. So tonight we took the plunge. Now I have another website to add to my collection! We will be selling herbal wellness products. :) Now I'm not going to go into all tonight but I have personally used these products and truly believe that they work and are excellent! Ok I will quit boring you with my little lectures and give you a link. Our New Business

Well I am busy preparing more cloth diapers for the Grand Reopening for Lily Pad Landing and also trying to get all of my current orders finished up and get my new stock ready for the Grand Opening of Panda Pants! Boy it's going to be a busy month!

Seriously I'm trying to make up for it. ;)

Geeze I can't believe that I hadn't written anything in well over a year! The kids are really growing fast. My oldest DD is now in Second Grade. My DS is now in Kindergarten and goes every other day all day long. :) It's kinda nice because my youngest DD and I now have all day to ourselves. She is sleeping and I should be taking advantage of that by sewing.

Gosh so much has happened in over a year! I still have my business but it's taken a little bit of a turn. I ended up leaving the company that I was a licensee for and taking a venture with a dear friend of mine. We now have this website. Panda Pants

I did all of the graphics for it and my Partner did the verbage because incase you can't tell I'm just not very good with that portion. LOL. My wonderful Mother did the web tech portion of it. She is a guiness! We have a newsletter and a gallery and it's all integrated with Hyena Cart to make it look like it's one website. :)

My partner and I have lots of plans for our business. We both own embroidery machines and want to branch out from just makeing Cloth Diapers. We want to make and embroider childrens clothing and blankets and what ever strikes our fancy.

Now I'm sure you are all wondering what my kiddos look like now a days. So here is an updated pic for you.

It was suppose to be a school day and my DH was suppose to be working. However the weather had other plans.

It would have been a good picture if I had been able to get the little one to acutally look at me. She was too busy trying to figure out what the slippery white stuff was.

Enjoy!

Hello Again!

Wow it's really been over a year! My oh my! I'm so terrible when it comes to things like this.

This is just a touch and go message because I need to get my butt into the kitchen to make my family some dinner. I will be back though and it won't be a year I promise!

Cat Hat

She just looked too cute! We had to take a pic!

Cat Hat

Update on Wrist

First order of business... I guess I ought to update you on the wrist. Well I went to see the Orthopedist, per doctors instructions, and the Orthopedist said that it was not broken! Wonderful news of course! What I have is deQuervains Tendonitis. So I am now in a splint that I can remove instead of a cast! Yay!!! I can take a shower again!!

Kitchen Floor

Here it is. The vinyl that is going onto my kitchen floor. I just love it. I think it will look fab with our cabinets. Will update this when the floor gets glued tomorrow.

House Front (Roof DONE!)

This is a Pic of the Front of the house with the roof complete! Doesn't It look beautiful!

The Beauties

I haven't told you about the beauties that live in my yard. I don't like to pick flowers but I saw these growing and had to have them inside with me so that I could watch them bloom. I am so please with how my camera made them look!

Every since I was a little girl I have loved roses. These particular ones are my favorite. It has the soft feminine pink to remind me that I am a girl but the soft yellow to help my day feel brighter. Hope they make you as happy as they make me! Good night!

Master Bath Before

Okay here it is before. Guess I did these backwards. If you are ever thinking of putting carpet in your bathroom go get your head examined first! Worst thing anyone could ever do to their bathroom floors!

Master Bath DONE!

Behold after all of the work was done! Our lovely floor! This pic was taken at night.

A Little Note

I guess I haven't said this so I am going to now. This is before all of the remodeling that we are doing and have done. I will post more in a day or two.

The Infamous Bathroom

Behold the infamous bathroom!

To bad I didn't get a picture of the floor that I took up!

My Three Babies

My House 

Broken Wrist

Okay here is the story about my broken wrist.

You see my wonderful in-laws bought this house and not much has been done to it since the 1970's. One of the first things that we decided to do was replace some of the carpet in the house with linoleum. There was carpet in both of the bathrooms and the kitchen. So I started taking up the carpet in the bathroom and relized that there was linoleum tile underneath the carpet and that the subfloor was rotten. So they had to come up so the subfloor could be replaced.

My job was to take it up. I started to chisel the linoleum tile up with a flat bar and hammer. Well I missed the flat bar a couple of times and hit my wrist instead. It took me a week to relize that I had something really wrong with it.

Well that is all for this story maybe something will happen later and I will post it.