Phat Fiber is hosting a giveaway for Friends in Fiber. Friends in Fiber is such an awesome store. Jan and Peg are so amazing with their fiber craftiness.

Here is my current stash of FIF

X2 Eggplant polwarth













Eggplant polwarth all spun up lace weight













I am currently knitting the woodland shawl pattern in the eggplant colorway. it is so lovely.










Cranberry Swirl









Uptown Chessie

















so as you can tell Jan and Peg are awesome with their fibers. They do beautiful work. So go on over to Phat Fiber and check out the wonderful giveaway.

Also be sure to check out Friends in Fiber on Etsy

They are currently having a sale right now as well.

well ravelympics is over and I miss it already. Last time the ravelympics happened I only made one item. I did quite a bit more this year. here are all my projects for ravelympics


my easy breezy hat made from my hand spun yarn
this hat is going to charity.


















my lets go shopping market bag I hand dyed the cotton myself. I love this bag























Toast



















my licorice twist that I hand dyed using wiltons
























my hand spun this roving is from Counting Sheep Farm the colorway id parrotfish. It is 100% merino roving 3 ply 171 yards













This is from Boho Knitter Chic Burlesque Spin a Long
my hand spun yarn is 139 yards and is awesome. I plied it with Cherry Tree Hill Sock yarn. It looks so amazing.


















this is me with my batt from Boho Knitter Chic before it was spun up. It is huge



















so that is everything from this year. I had such fun doing more this year. I had an awesome fun time being part of Team Twilight on Ravelry.

I am currently working on finishing up mt flower power elephant and the anatomically correct knit heart from knitty. I have just one two feet to go on the elephant and finishing up the valves on the heart.


here are some current vincent pics


He likes to hold his toys in front of his face. Than I take pictures of them. He than likes to see the picture. It is so cute.











Vincent wearing the Alpaca Hat I won from Alpaca Farm Girl blog. My package was late getting to me because of all the bad weather. I also received a pair of alpaca socks as well, they are so wonderfully warm. My toes are always cold wearing normal cotton socks. not so with these. I love them. Thank you




















This picture of Vincent would have been so perfect if not for the finger. But it is representative of childhood. I love it.
You can see his beautiful blue eyes. I love the expression on his face.

















Well that is it for now. I am going to be posting consistently from now on.
hope everyone is having a good day.

This week has been so nice. Thanksgiving was a little hairy. Little man usually has the run of his grandparents house as far as having no other kids around. My husbands cousin was there with her little ones. At one time or another one of them was screaming because they kept on taking toys from each other. Vincent is almost 2. Her girl I think is almost 5. Made for a long headache filled evening. I was so happy for bedtime.

So now it is Sunday and im up late as usual. The only time I can get anything crafty done sometimes. I made these polymer clay buttons last night:
Some of these are going to be sent in as samples to phat fiber this month. I need to make some more tomorrow.:-)Let me know what you think.





So this week I won some really awesome prizes. The first one that I absolutely adore and cannot wait to receive is this:
photo courtesy of Bella Merce
This wonderful artisan makes jewelry inspired by The Twilight Saga. Isn't it shiny:-)
Womb at the Innsane had a contest for whoever did the best promoting of Bella Merce web page won this wonderful prize. I posted on forums, facebook, and did lots of blogging and tweeting about it.





The second item I won was from The Cats Paw. A yard of Christmas Material. I love it. I think im going to make a stocking out of it maybe . Barbara has lots of wonderful material. If you sew you should definitely go check out her online storefront. Here's a picture of the beautiful material:











This item is so cute and functional as well. Vincent is still a little young for it but it will come in handy when he is ready It is called a Shandle. It clips onto the toilet seat and from the looks of it boys can use it to left up the seat so they do not have to touch the seat. It also has a hand washing reminder on the side when the toilet seat is up. Too cute!!! I won this from Work out mommy reviews. Thank you so much:-)

I was working on knitting my husband a Bokaclava mask. Just type in demon at ravelry.com and you will find it. I got so mad at the wrap and turn rows just threw it down. I hate wrap and turn. I am thinking it is going to get frogged. I will give it one more go tomorrow when the bean is at the grandparents. If it is a no go its out of here.

Here are all my samples spun up from Novembers phat fiber box:
I will post a picture of it on the niddy noddy tomorrow. So you can see all the colors.:-)









This is my hat which is going to be going into my etsy store soon for 9.00 plus shipping:
The yarn is Cascade220 for both colours. I hand dyed the cherry color.

well that is all for now and im out.

so its the weekend and the bean(vincent) is heading over to his grandparents. big bean(husband) is going to Lengthwise to bring back a growler of beer and some super stinky fries(french fries with garlic and gorgonzola cheese Yummy!!). I really love stinky fries and the deep friend twinkies they serve there. So good but majorly fattening. I don't get them too often.
well here are some pictures I took of little bean today:




































so theres all the pictures of the little man and one of him and i together it was a self portrait so pardon the quality.

I received two great free samples this week.
The first sample is eos. I was at first disappointed because when I was selecting my sample I chose the sweet mint flavor. I received it in the mail tried it and actually ended up loving it very much. I guess my mind already knew what I wanted. I have always like mints. I received my little eos(stands for evolution of smooth) lip balm. I was just happy to see the container. It is a little sphere that you open by turning it. It almost feels like a neoprene container and is completely gripable which I like because I am always dropping things due to my carpal tunnel. I opened it and I could smell a wonderful mint smell. I applied the balm to my lips and my lips were instantly tingly from the mint. I love it. The most wonderful light feeling on my lips . I do not like waxy balms that feel heavy and this one is heavenly. The eos is an all natural, 95% organic smooth sphere lip balm. They are sold at Rite Aid. Here are some additional web pages to check out:
EOS
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My second favorite item is my new Zum Frankincense and Myrrh soap made by Indigo Wild. Last week Zum soap on twitter gave away free bars of F&M soap. I received my package on Saturday. They are fast shippers. I was so happy to see this package as well because Zum soap smells so good. When I opened up my package from some I was a little reluctant about the F&M because I thought it would be a little bit strong. I was wrong and I love this new scent. I give it an A plus. There newest catalog just came out and it it gorgeous. I love it. I also received a coupon for another free bar of soap as well. How generous is that. I cant wait to order some soap from them next month. Check out their web page here



















here is my camera that i am selling. it is an Asahi pental k1000 with a 35 mm lens as well as a pentax macro lens. I am including a flash and a cable release. I am asking 150 dollars for my camera but am willing to take offers as well. If you are interested let me know and I can do up a paypal invoice. It will be 10.00 for the shipping because I was to make sure it is insured and I don't ship out of the us sorry. my camera works very well I have taken extremely good care of it over the years and I am only the second owner
here are some pictures:





















so all in all a good weekend besides being under the weather. Off to make some stitch markers for november's phat fiber box.

so I have been playing with the polymer clay as will as still knitting and spinning. I have my project for the phat fiber contest done the spinning that is i am submitting my tree frog merino from Corgi Hill Farms:



I am going to submit this for the spinning and than I am going to knit something from it maybe a mini clapotis ans submit that. should be nice.




stay tuned for more pictures in my next blog post and I will have some new products in my etsy store by mid September if everything goes as planned.
the pumpkins up top are going to be my phat fiber submission for this month if i get them all sanded and done. time to buckle down. let me know what you think please.

Hello everyone. I hope you are having a good weekend and staying cool. As I type this it is 8:30 pm and still 102 degrees.

I finally got all my hand spun yarn and some of the yarn I received from phat fiber boxes as well as roving I bought from phat fiber contributors and wound into balls.I am using them to knit a clapotis. It will be interesting that's for sure. Tori's multi colored clapotis.
Here are the pictures of the yarn wound into balls:






































































I received the prizes from the tween whisperer blog this weekend they are cool.
here they are:







































I also received my swap package from wildwoodflwr on ravelry
I love everything. wildwoodflwr lives in West Virginia and the culture
their is wonderful. I am still reading through all the literature I received.














































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these are my two dogs; Lainie and Valentine. Lainie is the smaller golden brown dog. We got her the day after we were married. Valentine is the bigger one. I named him after the character from one of Neil Gaiman's stories. Both of them are so sweet. This was just after my hubby gave them a bath. Valentine(tiny for short) looks so good. I call him my cow dog because of his spots. He sits in such a noble way. He is strong too. He weighs over 100 pounds.

I also won a couple contests this weekend as well
The first one is from the blog A Day with Two. She was having a giveaway for her 100th blog post. The contest was called a cooks dream
first prize is a red embroidered apron from Portugal
second prize is Cat Cora's "Cooking from The Hip
thirs prize is Dining on A Dime, by Twara Kellam and Jill Cooper and it is signed by the Author Twara Kellam. Super double cool
fourth and fifth prize is two very cute pocket size cook books, from Betty Crocker Titled Sizzling Grilling and Outdoor Eats!
sixth prize is 3 Hand Towels, one each in Red, White and Blue,
seventh prize is 4 very suitable for outdoor (read heavy plastic) eating plates and cups in red, yellow, blue and orange.

so that is really super cool. it will be fun cooking up some new recipes:-)

my other in this weekend is from Rose's Handmade Menagerie for a 25.00 gift certificate. So wonderful. I got for little man a tommy the turtle handmade crochet in red a blue. a bunny handmade crochet in blue and a business card holder in grey with an awesome button. I love it!!

So as you can imagine I had a pretty good weekend. My husband and I stayed in the house most of the weekend because the temperature was 109 and up. bleh. I am going to be staying in alot this coming week also because of record high temperatures. when its hot im inside gal. I am probally going to be stir crazy by the end of the week.:-(

So this week I should get my corgi hill order for the tree frog batt's I ordered as well as my phat fiber boxes.

12 more days to sign up fo the newsletter to be entered in the contest for any set of stitch markers from my etsy store remember to confirm your subscription also please or else you wont be on the list. I am giving away one set to five different people their choice.