I have got some knitting done

Well, I haven't been able to show very many FO's lately, but I really have been knitting. Im still progressing with my baby blanket, and I'm halfway done with that. I also sat down last week and made this right angle dishcloth. It's been sooo long since I've knit a dishcloth. It was nice to sit down and finish something off in one night. Im loving the colors shades in this one. Im also awaiting yarn from Loopy Ewe to arrival in the mail soon. I've gone and joined the international scarf exchange 4, and I picked out some gorgeous Anne Schaefer yarn for her scarf. I also ordered some yarn for my sockret pal to get her socks knitted up. (Bad Tammy for waiting till the last minute).




Our bathroom is definitely making progress too. The drywall is all done now and ready to sand, so I'll be working on that the rest of the week, and hopefully this weekend I can get it all painted!!









If you want to know what I've really been up to, check out this. Once Christmas is over, I usually spend more time on this during the winter. I like to at least get 2 books done a year. If your into this, check out this site, they have so many ideas to give you inspiration. I've actually joined a few swaps here and I've been having such a good time with this. But once warm weather gets here, I usually pretty much put it away until cold weather.

And how could I not leave you without a cute pic of my doggies?? As you can see, they are definitely growing attached to each other. Josie might look like she's being inconvenienced, but she's starting to love the little guy. He is growing so fast. Next week he goes in for his neutering and he's also have a procedure done on his palate. Boston Terriers are known for having palates that are too long. Right now he snores like crazy and snorts like a pig!! But after the procedure, that should stop. Poor puppy, when he was born his nose was obstructed so he had to have an operation for that so that he could breathe. What we won't do for our dogs.

Has this ever happened to you? And bathroom update

Well, here I go trying again, hopefully blogger is more agreeable today.

First, my bathroom update. The bathroom is now gutted out down to the knotty board paneling that was behind all the layers of wall. We've decided to dry wall over that, and that is going to be done this week. We were able to get to Lowes last weekend and buy all this!!

I love the sink and vanity. I've never seen a sink that comes out like that. The faucet and all hardware are brushed nickel. I know the tile pictured below may look like cement, but in person it is really beautiful. It has a rough finish on it, and has hues of gray and beige in it. We also bought some simple sconces and an oval shaped mirror, but unfortunately, I can't get those loaded into my blog.

So have you ever had this happen to you? I bought this yarn last fall. It's Anne Schaefer and I'm absolutely in love with it. I was thinking about either socks or a lace scarf for it, and decided to wind it so that it would motivate me to pick out a pattern. Well, I decided I could wind without the help of my husband, who usually holds it for me. Big mistake!! I've now ended up with a hank full of knots. I really don't want to give up on this yarn just yet. So, I've been spending my nights in front of the t.v. with this yarn, slowly unknotting and winding. I guess I've learned my lesson.

And finally, here's a picture of my daughter and one of her teammates/friends. At the Spirit Festival held at Mohegan Sun two weeks ago, they placed first, winning national champions and the Jackpot winner in their division! They have made such an improvement from the their first competition. They even beat out the team they lost to in their first competition!

So you have to pardon the appearance of my blog today. I'm not sure if I loaded too many photos onto my blog or what, but I ended up losing half that I wanted to show off, and every time I try, my tags get messed up. So this is my Freaky Friday addition of my knitting space blog!!

Well

Well, I'd like to fill up this space with all the exciting things going on here. But Blogger isn't cooperating. I just spent and hour loading photos and typing away to my heart's content, only to lose it all when I tried to publish. All for one missing tag, it erased everything I had!!! Right now I'm so frustrated that Im just not in the mood to start over, but I promise I will soon. Lots of pictures to show you all!!

Where have I been?

Has it really been that long since I last blogged? I guess this puppy's keeping me busier than I thought! He's doing really well and fitting in nice with the family now. He loves to hide under things; cars, tables, beds. Here he is checking out the new socks I got from Suzy, my sockret pal. He definitely approves!! He's another picture of all the goodies she included with my new socks!


I started Knitty's potomatus socks and thought I was going all well, when somehow I managed to drop stitches, couldn't find out where I dropped them, and ended up frogging them. So I will be starting those over soon. I really is a fairly easy pattern, and it's my first reading from a chart which turned out to be fairly simple. I'm wondering now if I should switch yarns because I'm not sure the pattern is really showing up so well with this colorway. Maybe I should use this yarn for some more Monkey Socks.

Okay, I really do have an excuse for not posting. (My husband tells me I have an excuse for EVERYTHING!!). We have decided to tackle the upstairs bathroom. This is mostly used by the girls, but it was just so old. I think the fixtures were from the 60s!! Well why does nothing ever go easy??? The walls has wallpaper on the top half and some kind of paneling on the bottom. So we figured just take off the wallpaper, and paneling, and clean up the drywall and paint. Wrong!!! The walls in this bathroom consisted of three layers. First the paneling. Then sheetrock, which turned out only to be about a half inch think, and under that, wood paneling; not the cheap kind that goes up in sheets that we have all through the house already (yuck!), but thick, about an inch that goes up one by one with a ton a nails in it. We were also hoping that we wouldn't have to rip up the flooring that we could maybe tile over it, but by the toilet it had rotted, so we ended up having to rip up the flooring as well! Needless, to say, it's turning into a huge project, but I know in the end it will be beautiful! You can also see here what it looked before the demolition. Hmm, I'm not really sure which one is worse!!

We had some snow last week, and here's a shot of TJ in his first interaction with snow! As you can see here, he's not to sure what to think of it, and doesn't much like to walk in it because he sinks too far down!

As far as my other knitting goes, I have now made it to the third repeat on my baby blanket. It's really looking nice and the yarn is just so soft. G-girl had asked what yarn I had used on the puppy's sweater; it was just Red Heart in a denim color. It seems to be holding up very well too!