Ok we have my messy sewing room with some of the fall decorations I am working on and somewhere there is the stuff for the grandbabies Halloween bags LOL. Then there are a pair of slipper socks...the first pair I ever made!!! Next is the crazy Romeo who is now 6 mths old. Then there is my handsome 2 yr old grandson Anthony and my beautiful 1 yr old grandaughter LeAnna.

Some of my crafts

Ok the top pink and brown is a scarf that is not quite finished yet...should have it done this evening.
Next are a pair of wool slippers that I made for my self.
Then there is a pink and brown hooded scarf that I made for my sis in NY.
Last but not least is a smokey blue scarf that is a X-mas gift.

Internet was down....

yesterday :( And I did not get anything done as far as taking pics.

I completely hauled out my kitchen yesterday. What I thought would take a few hours ended up taking all day. I had to keep stop working on what I was doing to do for others. Hopefully today I can get some things done for myself.

Today I have to take hubby to an appt. and he wants to stop at his favorite Chinese place to eat lunch. We get up late so our lunch time is everyone else's dinner time LOL When we get back I will finally get the material for the grandbabies bags in the washer. I also have a ton of laundry to put away and to clean our bedroom.

Trying to get this started again....

Life has been absolutely crazy here. My kids and whole family have gone to hell and been sicker than dogs for months now. One thing I have been able to do to help me keep my sanity is knitting.

My kids hopefully are getting their lives back where they should be. Hubby has been in the hospital multiple times since my last post and needs to go back in again. My in laws have been doing poorly. I am going down there 3 times a week to help them.

A few months ago we bought a puppy and we have a private trainer so that he can be a handi dog for my hubby. He is doing very well with his training.

I have been doing a lot of knitting and sewing. Tomorrow I will have to take pics of my finished projects and of Romeo the pup and post them. I have a ton more knitting and sewing to do for the fall season and for Christmas but at this rate with everyone being so sick not sure how much I will get done. I am also in the process of pulling the carpet out of the house and laying tile. Wish I had never started this...what a pain in the butt!

I have also started doing some preserving to give as gifts for the holidays. So far all I have made we are eating LOL Next month I will get the gifts done. Today on the way to my daughters for dinner I noticed that the road to their house was jam packed with prickly pear cactus that was full of fruit. I went on line and looked up when to harvest the fruit and how to make and can prickly pear jelly. Will be going back by my daughters later this week with a large box and heavy duty gloves....I am super excited to try my hand at this. :D

OH....we had horrible electrical problems with our house last month. It blew up or flat screen tv, hubby's xbox, my coffee pot and our cooler :( Had to have new wire ran and a larger fuse box put in.

Ok guess that is it....off to pull out all my finished projects to start taking pics :D

UGH!

So after getting hubby home from hospital I came down sick with pneumonia :( Today is the first day in almost a month that I feel human again. I woke up this morning and had my first cup of coffee in like over 2 weeks! Talk about a caffeine buzz lol. I have some crafting to get done, not alot and a few swaps that I need to get mailed. Unfortunately it will all have to wait to get mailed for 2 weeks. That is when I will have swap and craft money again :D

I will soon be looking for plane tickets for my sis and her son to come here from NY in July!!! I am super excited as I have not seen my sis in 12 years. I am going to buy a second sewing machine so that we can craft while she is here. Poor hubby will be run out of the house with our crafty mess :P

Will be doing my best to keep up on this now that I am on the road to recovery, but hubby is now starting to feel bad again :(

I'm back!!!

Atleast for tonight. I have been in the hospital since March 16 with my hubby. This has not been a good visit. Thankfully I have my cell phone with unlimited talk, text and picture.....My friends and family have been keeping me occupied and amused. We are usually out of the hospital within 3-4 weeks, but this looks like it will be a long stay.

A very dear friend of mine has been a godsend through all of this. Bringing me things, calling me, keeping friends updated for me, having me over for coffee and teaching me to knit!!!!! I have always wanted to learn to knit and now I am :D I have made 2 knit washcloths, a childs size bath matt- it was an adult pattern but I used the wrong size needle LOL. And I have started and tore out 3 scarfs that I was going to design :P I finally got a pattern going and got stuck on exactly how to add a specific element to my pattern and my dear friend came to my rescue and helped; actually finsihed out the pattern for me!! :D It is now completely torn out and I will start over tonight, somewhere I messed up and when I tried to take it apart back to the mistake I had a total disaster :( I am ok with it though as I am learning and this is just one more learning experience.

Unfotunately I can not upload pics but I do have my digital camera with me so when I get home and settled I will slowly get pics posted here. I will do my best to get out on to one of the hospital patterns for a short time each evening, but don't hold me to it LOL

Been MIA...

because hubby is sick. Will be calling Monday am to get him an appt. to go into the hospital. On top of hubby being sick and waiting on him and fretting over him I have not been feeling well.

Today I started ordering things for my oldest daughters baby shower that is set for April 18th. This will be grandbaby number 3 and 2nd grandson :D I also started doing some crafting again today. I have not crafted for days! Today I finished a waffle icecream cup pincushion and I am half done with one of 5 dottees that I need to make :{ I just do not seem to have my crafting bug or inspiration :( I know that it is because I am overwhelmed with everything else, but this is stuff that I have to get done! And it is important that I enjoy it and not just throw something together...hence why the first dottee is only partially done. I just was not feeling it. And I just can not make myself work on anything else either.....ARG!!!

So, I am off to lay in bed and watch tv and hope that tomorrow is a better day.