Showing posts with label house. Show all posts
Showing posts with label house. Show all posts

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Babies everywhere!

I can't believe it's been so long since I've posted!  I've been keeping busy crocheting the whole time, but mostly at work on my breaks.  Once it started getting warm out, I had to start putting time in with yard work.  I was blessed with a beautiful garden when we bought this house, but it seems the previous owner planted so many things in the yard that it has a tendency to get overgrown rather quickly...and the weeds are plentiful!

I'm putting the finishing touches on that yellow blanket that I originally started last August.  I had to put it aside while I made some things for baby Alex, and I didn't get back to it right away.  I'm so glad it's just about finished.  I plan on giving it to a co-worker as a gift for her very first grandchild.  I also made a sweater out of Snuggly Wuggly Baby Yarn that may or may not be Daffodil Dots.  I have to look for the color name in my stash.

And just when I thought I could get back to the throw for my couch that I started what seems like an eternity ago, my boss announced that her daughter was expecting her second child...  And then she found out her daughter-in-law is also expecting her first child.  Since then, we've found out that one of them will be a boy.  In the meantime, I started a sweater using Snuggly Wuggly Baby Pastel Ombre.  The pattern is Bella Bambina's Sweater Coat, but instead of the G hook listed in the pattern, I'm using an H hook in hopes it will come out a little larger.

I have to have the blanket and other sweater finished very soon, since my co-worker's daughter-in-law is scheduled for a C-section at the beginning of August.  I'll try to post pictures of them as soon as I finish up.  

Monday, January 17, 2011

Keeping busy...

We closed on our house a month ago today.  It's hard to believe it's been a whole month!  We moved in a few days before Christmas, and it's been a little hectic ever since.  We've had two major snowstorms already, and we went to visit my family in PA for a few days around New Year's.

I have been working on my latest baby blanket project, but since I'm slowly unpacking, I'm really just doing that on my work breaks for now.  I'm about 60% done, and I'll try to post a picture of it soon.

The picture I am posting tonight is from Disney on Ice: Princess Wishes.  We took our nieces last weekend, and they really enjoyed it.  (I enjoyed it too, but I think my husband was a little bored.  *g*)  This is one of the better pictures, during "Be Our Guest."  Beauty didn't skate with the Beast (as the human prince) until the end, which I thought was a little lame.  There were some cooler scenes, like the ice catching fire during the Sleeping Beauty sequence.

Monday, November 1, 2010

It's been too long...

I haven't updated in awhile, but we've been busy house-hunting...and packing.  We didn't intend on buying a house right now, but it just kind of snowballed since we looked at a house close to my brother-in-law and sister-in-law.  This is a picture of part of the backyard.  We have a gazebo and a solar green house!  How cool is that?!  Hopefully we'll be in the house before Christmas.

My friend Sarah is pregnant with her second baby, and she'll find out the sex of the baby this week.  So in between packing and the move, I'll have to find time to crochet a baby blanket.  I'll post a picture here as soon as I find the right yarn for my project and get it started...hopefully in the next week or so.