Ok time to show off a couple of finished projects, first my brothers Christmas present a blanket that turned out to be very beautiful.

I think this is is perfect. My brothers dog Maggie approves.

Next is a request from my nephew Wyatt, he wanted a stuffed German Shepherd dog.  I found the pattern in the book "Knit Your Dog" I do not remember the author but this book has a lot of dogs in it this German Shepherd turned out great also.

He's very happy you with this creation. My son also wanted these finger puppets he rarely asks me do make him any thing so I could not refuse.  He found the pattern on this page, http://krawka.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/its-bird-its-plane-no-its-finger.html?m=1

Here is a picture of my finished finger 

puppets cute right?

Late Christmas Presents

I have been working on my brothers Christmas present since November, I am finally over half done with it. Now I feel that is is moving quicker, I am using a dishcloth pattern and simply knitted it until I had almost 300 stitches on the needles. I am using Grandma's Favorite Dishcloth and started decreasing at about 280 stitches. I am striping it and have used my stash to make this blanket. I hope he likes it. I did throw some colors into it that will make him laugh, he is red-green color blind and of course I had to use them to mess with him, wouldn't be fun if I did not do that to him. Once i started to decrease I am repeating the color striping backwards. Once it is done I will post a picture of it, should be soon now I am finally on the downside of finishing this one. It is a large blanket it looks to be about 8 feet wide my brother is very tall.

life and its curves

well life has done it again, I went into work like any other day, I did not like this job much to begin with, they let us work almost the entire day then called about of 20 of us into a conference room and told us the that we were being laid off. Once they had all of us in the room supervisors went to our desks and cleaned out our desks and brought them to the room.  I knew something was up when i saw the hr guy and the location vp in the room. I was relieved that I was laid off, I hated that job!  So now I am looking for a new job, the battery in my car decided it was time to die and not working I really could not afford that expense at all, but better now then when I start a new job.  I need to find something soon.

Trust

Many times I find myself wondering why people act the way they do. My now ex husband swore we would keep in touch, but yet again I have fallen for a lie where he is concerned. Not that he is worth worrying about or keeping touch with, but because we have a son I thought this time he would keep his promises. Yea I hear you fat chance he will follow through again. He proved me wrong again to trust that he would do as he said, guess I wanted to believe he would finally be the man he could be.  I should have known better I would be disappointed yet again, 8 1/2 years of marriage should have told me what to expect from him. Oh well, life goes on, I suppose that if he really wants to know what is happening with our son, he will contact me right.

I seriously need to go somewhere warmer, these changes in weather are killing me. It's not even winter and I am already hating the almost daily weather changes.  I thought I would have more to say tonight but nothing is coming to me. Good Night

Let's start again, I realized I have not kept this up to date now I need to keep up from here forward.

I have taken the huge and scary step to move back from Arizona to live with my Mom, big change and lots has happened.  I finally found a job but with a new job comes a lot of stress, this one is no different, I'm not sure if I can deal with this or not yet.

I keep forgetting how unpredictable life is, many many things have changed in my life and I have had to start over several times. This is no different I feel like I've been knocked down but as usual I will get back up and start over like I have chosen to do.


I am trying to make several things for my nephews fiance Amanda for their wedding in September, I have a small cover up done for my great niece and I am working on a shawlette for Amanda. I love the pattern and hope she loves it too.

I will post pictures of both of these later. Gotta run more to come.

life

Again I have neglected to keep up with my blog.  It has been a harsh winter in the midwest and east coast.  My mom is very tired of the cold and snow.  Mom needs help and I can not go on pretending that everything is great here in Arizona.  I have finally given up on my marriage and will move back to Michigan to help Mom, she needs me more than anyone here will including jobs or my kids who have their own lives, both of them have decided to stay in Arizona.  Cody though may also make a big decision about going into the military after he gets out of high school.  Daniel has his girlfriend and she has her family here and I cannot expect them to move with me.  Life is again changing and I will make a new start back with Mom.  I feel relived that this decision has finally been made knowing that this is the best thing I can do for myself.

Time flys when you are having fun, or not.

Too much time has passed since my last post. Too much has happened too. Life has a way of throwing you curves when you least expect them. June 16, 2010 began like any other has in the last nine years I was thinking about my last husband on what was our ninth anniversary ( I lost him to Leukemia in 2005) until I got a call from a friend who had to pass on some very bad news, my younger sister was gone. She was 42, too young to leave us. I still cry many days, have a hard time most days not grabbing the phone to call her just to talk. I miss the hearing her say "it is just one of those things". I used to hate that, she would say it 8-10 per call but now just want to hear her voice again. Last Sunday Gail's favorite NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon won the race here in Phoenix. Mom called me with about 20 laps to go, we cried most of those laps. When Jeff won we cried even harder and of course both talked of Gail and how she would have lost her voice screaming at the the end of that race. Broke my heart that she was not here to enjoy that race.