Yarn Along

As a way to motivate myself to read and knit more I am going to start joining Ginny Sheller every Wednesday for knitting and reading.  My goal is to finish a book every 2 weeks but also try to complete at least one project a week.  As most knitters, quilters, crocheters, etc have many UFO's so do I.  What is crazy is many of them have less than 2 hours of work to complete the project.  What's up with that?

This week I am reading A Year on Ladybug Farm.  Bought it for $.50 at Goodwill.  For knitting I am making the ever popular ZickZack Scarf by Christy Kamm.  It is a fun knit, taking a bit longer than I expected but still fun and easy to do.  I am using Lang Mille Colori Baby yarn in colorway 06 and 16.  I almost wish I would have a little more contrast but it is working out for the most part how I wanted.

This next Christmas hopefully will be having a fully homemade Christmas.  The idea sounds probably better than the reality but hopefully if I get some things going now it an be reality.

Busy Day

Busy day today, trying to make it count.

Was up at 5:30 to make sure my son got to work on time.  He is 23 but we have a special project at work and there was no room for him not being on time.  Once up, stayed up, I like the quiet of the morning.  By about 2:30 I hit a brick wall, was so tired.  But this morning got a box of stuff priced for an August yard sale, listed 2 items on Amazon, hung out 4 loads of laundry and went to church.  Tonight we went to the casino because as usual my dear husband was bored.  I won $53.00 yea!!  It goes into the cash stash which I will be making a graph for as soon as I figure out how. :)  This is my small emergency fund.  Unfortunately always seems to come in too handy.  Need to get a handle on that.