Sock it to me New Years!
Jan. 2nd, 2013 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whyknotmamaOh, my goodness!!! I received my sock yarn for dyeing and am loving the feel and twist! I've managed to get 2/3 of it dyed up and am itching for it to be dry so I can play - I mean put it in the shop... I'll be honest that it will be hard for me to part with a few of these.
Or this....
I'm terribly excited because I've been able to work up some new colors, and reproduce one that I love: Louis Armstrong (sky's of blue) that I also have a lace yarn of. SOOOOO Yummy and squishy and soft and lovely. It makes me want to sing when I see it! Am I getting silly? I hope so! We need some silly, right? Especially when it involves crafting.
On other fronts, my daughter now knows the macarina (thanks Aunt Tia), my son is about to turn 6 (SIX!!!) and has learned to play a board game intended for 8-year-olds called Ticket To Ride (thanks Uncle Brendan and Aunt Megan - he loves it!), and Steve has joined me in hitting the pavement as I start training for my half-marathon in May (basically from scratch).
Our house is being rebuilt inside, albeit slowly, and we officially have 4 new windows that have been installed and another 2 framed in. This is HUGE because it's so important to get the house sealed up as much as possible, you know, so the contractors don't freeze while trying to rebuild it for us. We've also been able to do things like pick out kitchen and bath fixtures, which makes me feel like it'll really be ours again. We're still looking at April as the earliest move-in date, but I'm doing my best to be realistic and think May-June.
So - Here's to a New Years Celebrations and a brand new year!
I mean really, who could resist this? 
Or this....I'm terribly excited because I've been able to work up some new colors, and reproduce one that I love: Louis Armstrong (sky's of blue) that I also have a lace yarn of. SOOOOO Yummy and squishy and soft and lovely. It makes me want to sing when I see it! Am I getting silly? I hope so! We need some silly, right? Especially when it involves crafting.
On other fronts, my daughter now knows the macarina (thanks Aunt Tia), my son is about to turn 6 (SIX!!!) and has learned to play a board game intended for 8-year-olds called Ticket To Ride (thanks Uncle Brendan and Aunt Megan - he loves it!), and Steve has joined me in hitting the pavement as I start training for my half-marathon in May (basically from scratch).
Our house is being rebuilt inside, albeit slowly, and we officially have 4 new windows that have been installed and another 2 framed in. This is HUGE because it's so important to get the house sealed up as much as possible, you know, so the contractors don't freeze while trying to rebuild it for us. We've also been able to do things like pick out kitchen and bath fixtures, which makes me feel like it'll really be ours again. We're still looking at April as the earliest move-in date, but I'm doing my best to be realistic and think May-June.
So - Here's to a New Years Celebrations and a brand new year!