The next two months

After finishing my sister's first sock of the pair I'm knitting for her, I thought I better play it safe and buy another skein for her husband's pair. It took nearly all of one skein for her sock, but I'm not worried about hers..I bought two skeins for her socks, and two for his. So, after church this morning, I made a run over to JoAnn's to pick up one more skein. While I was there, I thought I would take a look at some of the pattern books and start thinking about sewing my clothes again. I love all the new styles coming out for Spring!!! Lots of "vintage" and "retro" designs to get excited about. We have been invited to a wedding in a few weeks, so I'm still considering sewing an outfit to wear to it. Especially since it's an evening affair at a very swank hotel. I sort of went off course there for a minute..back to the socks. Between yesterday evening, and this morning at church, I'm three stripes away from putting in my lifeline for the afterthought heel on my sister's second sock. Her pair will be finished before I know it! Her and I wear close to the same size, so I tried the first one on, and it fit so nicely. I took a picture of it and sent it to her with the caption, "ummm, these might have to stay with me". Her reply was, "I love them! You can't keep them ya know."  Hahahahaha

I'm desperately fighting the urge to cast on for the Brush Creek Cowlette, by Carina Spencer. There are actually a couple of reasons I don't. Number one is I already have too many works in progress for me, and while I quit making resolutions many years ago, one of the things I did add to my list of things to do this year is either finish them or frog them. I've even got a couple of them that aren't even documented on my Ravelry page yet. Number two reason for not casting on is I really want to spin my own yarn for this pattern. I have some batts in three different shades of pink that I think would be very pretty. In order to do it though, I first have to get some singles off my bobbins, which is where the spinning for a minimum of 15 minutes daily comes in. With a husband home for usually at least a month over the holidays, this hasn't happened yet, but it will. I'm anxious to get back to my wheel...but I think I've already told you that.

Did I mention my husband and I got all of our Christmas decorations put away  last Sunday? Everything is all cleaned up now, and we have our living room back. I love the holidays, but I also love when life returns to our normal routine. Since we will get my granchildren back tomorrow, I thought it would be fun to decorate now for Valentine's day. I even bought glitter glue, decorative edge scissors, and I already had a ream of cardstock for us to work on some crafts/valentines. I'm thinking we will decorate that mirror with them!

        They get so excited over candles, so I always have those going.

 

If nothing else, it creates a nice ambience....and what a wonderful way to welcome January and February!