I'm flashing you! (Flash Your Stash)

Since I'm trying to catch up my blog, I decided to be funny and see how much yarn I've accumulated. When I set everything out, I realized it took up my entire bed. I now admit I have a yarn addiction.......LOL. I cannot hide it now. It's out in the open. I just have to get to work and thin it out some! I need to add that this is just my personal collection that I keep in a chest in my bedroom. I have a small Rubbermaid bin of my church yarn on top of my chest right next to my yarn carry all, which has MY looms, the "group" set of looms, my loom books, and my pom pom maker. I also have a huge Rubbermaid tub full of yarn at my church for my "Knit Wits"(my church group) to grab when they need yarn. Well, let's get back to work. The house isn't gonna clean itself.

Mother's Day and Hobby Update!

My mother's day weekend went really well. On Saturday my church had a Mother's Day luncheon, where the men cooked and waited on us. It was nice; my hubby dressed up with black dress pants and dress shoes and a white dress shirt. He ended up being one of the servers. The menu was gourmet fruit salad (a cheese and pear dish), chicken salad, asparagus, croissants, and cake (mine was carrot cake that my son was REALLY happy to take off my hands- he got a hot dog and chips). Hubby did a really nice job; I was so proud of him. On Sunday, my dear hubby gave me a very nice card and money....LOL. He knew I had been wanting some new looms. I had wanted to buy a preemie fine gauge loom from Isela and Sam at www.decoraccentsinc.com but Sam injured his hand so I decided to wait a few weeks for him to heal and then order it. So in the meantime I had learned that the new Knifty Knitter loom set had come out at some of the Hobby Lobby's. I even got a 40% off coupon from the internet from the wonderful people at the KK discussion group on Yahoo. The nearest Hobby Lobby is 32.94 miles from my house, according to Mapquest. On Monday evening, all three of us loaded up and took a trip. I ended up driving, which was fun. I wasn't even sure they had it, but I'd never been to a Hobby Lobby anyway so I figured I'd at least check it out. Turns out that they HAD it! Yippie! I also found some other smaller looms that I hadn't found anywhere else. I was in heaven. We ended up eating dinner at McDonald's because Aiken had a really nice, toddler friendly playground that my son ADORED! It was set up like a tree house with a little tree for children ages (9 months to 2). My son (being a little daredevil) went all the way up and went right to the big slide. I think he was born without a fear gene.....LOL. I ended up getting an Asian salad and ate half (yes I do eat out.......LOL..... I just usually get salads with meat). It was good, but I'm not used to edamane (sp?) which is soy beans. Why don't they just call it that?

I also ended up finding some Star Wars fabric on clearance for 1.00 a yd (Hubby is a fan), so I'm attempting to make a cover for my son's torn spiderman TV pillow. I have a sewing machine, but I've only taken it out of the box once, so we will see if I can do this or not. Pray for me......lol.

My Harry Potter scarf is slowly coming along, because I've got other projects competing for my time. I also had to borrow a friend's die cutter machine to cut out tags for my church mission. So far we've delivered 120 baby hats, 6 pairs of baby booties, and 28 adult hats to Soldiers overseas. The baby hats and booties are going to children at the Medical College of Georgia's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Here is a picture of my mother's day loot.....lol.

PS: The yarn was on clearance from 4.99 to 2.00 each at Michael's. I liked it and wanted to make a small shawl.

The Big Day!

Everything went really well. My son was SPOILED. I am so proud of my cake. I'm sorry not to have posted recently but it's been a hectic around here. The cake was designed to look like a race car. I also made sandwiches for the little ones in transportation shapes. I had Bologna and cheese trophies, chicken salad trains, and PB and J cars. Of course we had fruit salad (Yummy Yummy --Wiggles reference--heh heh), chips, and grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, homemade lemonade and soda. His party was Hot Wheels themed. Since we had little ones, we decided to make gift bags so they wouldn't feel left out when it came to gift opening time. We included coloring books, a Hot Wheels car, a small play doh set, a some race car gummy bears, some candy, and assorted trinkets like balls, noisemakers, hot wheels chalk and other hot wheels party items. I really loved making the cake. I will definitely do it again. My only issue with the day is that it was cloudy so it was too cold for the boys to go swimming. Ah, well. They still had a good time. After Mikey went to bed we ended up playing cards with some friends who had attended the party. It was a great way for me to unwind from the day.