Silly Husband

Well I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. Nothing planned here. But that okay. Last weekend my hubby sent me off to the yarn store by myself. I haven't been to the yarn store since May. Since then she's moved to a new space. It's so nice. Double Ewe Yarn is my favorite local yarn store. I went to get yarn for one project this is what I came home with:





Then on the way I stopped at another yarn shopped to check out this new yarn that they got in:

It's Dream in Color Starry. I love it I can't wait to start a project with it.

So needless to say I came home with way more yarn then I planned on.

Our Christmas Tree

Happy weekend everyone. I didn't think Saturday could get here fast enough. We don't have much planned for the weekend, just the normal: errands and cleaning. I'm debating on weather or not to make some Christmas treats. We'll see.

This year I decided not to put up a tree. We have a nice fake tree. But last year I gave up more living space for a third bedroom and a laundry room. The new living room is on the small side and with all our furniture there is not much room for a tree.

But I didn't want to not have a tree and I didn't want a table top tree for the same reason. . .no where to put it. So this is what I came up with:


I kind of like it. But is it as lame as it seems??

Hope everyone has a great weekend

Wreath

Well I came across this on one of my ventures out into blog land. And well I had to make one.

Off to the dollar store I went. $8 later I came home with these:



52 Christmas ornaments.

Monkey helped and cut all the hangers off and I hot glued the tops on. Then we threaded them and then re threaded them and ended up this this:



I think we could have used an other package or two of ornaments. It would have made it easier to use a wire coat hanger to as my base. If I were to make more I think I might spend the extra few bucks and buy a little better ornaments. I had a couple of them pop off while I was trying to close the hanger. The tops split.

So how do you think it turned out?

FO: Squim's Matinee Coat

I got this finished final over the weekend. I had it pretty much finished the week before just had to go and pick up ribbon.

matinee coat, originally uploaded by afraenia.

Pattern: Matinee Coat by Debbie Bliss found in her Simply Baby book.
Yarn: a little over 3 skeins of Knit One Crochet Two Babyboo in olive
Size: 6-9 months

My model didn't want to stay still very long for me to take pictures.

First she was like this:



Ten seconds later she was like this:



I hope every one is having a good week. I have more that I want to share. Here's hoping that I have a good internet connection so I can.

Weekend Book Report #12

Well I hope that everyone has had a good weekend. I've finished a few books that over the past few weeks.

The first book that got finished was Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr. This is the second book by this author, all are part of the a series. It is classified as a young adult fantasy. In these books we are introduced into a world of faerie. In this book we are introduced into the Dark Court. It was an okay read, rated at three stars.








The second book that I read was Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr. This is the third book in this series. In this we are dealing with all four courts of faerie. Another good read. This was was better the the second one. Probably a three and half star rating.










And the last book that I read was Needled to Death by Maggie Sefton. This is the second book in knitting mystery series. In this book Kelly finds the dead body of one of her new friends while taking a group of knitters out on a tour of this friend's ranch. A nice easy read. Three stars.

Coffee Cake

Good evening all!

The Monkey and I were in the kitchen again this weekend. We made one of my simplest recipes that's in my notebook/recipe book.

We started with these:



And made this:

Easy Cinnamon Coffee Cake
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients:
1 yellow cake mix
1 vanilla pudding mix (3.4 oz instant)
1 butterscotch pudding mix (3.4 oz instant)
1c. brown sugar
4 eggs
1c. water
1c. oil
1Tbsp cinnamon

Heat oven to 350 degrees and grease 9x13 pan

Mix cake and pudding mix. Add eggs, water and oil. Mix well.

Mix brown sugar and cinnamon in separate bowl.

Pour half of batter into pan, top with half of cinnamon mixture. Cover with rest of batter and top with cinnamon mixture.

Bake for 20 minutes, then reduce heat to 325 degrees. Bake for 35 minutes more.

Goals

Well good morning! The sky is clear, the air is crisp and we're looking at another almost 60 degree day. For us here in Minnesota, that's amazing for this time of year. And on the even brighter side it should be staying like this into the weekend.

I told my husband last night that I wish there was about three more of me. That way I could get everything done that I wanted to and needed to. I'm sure that I'm not the only one out there that feels this way. I always set myself goals or should I say to do lists. But I can never get them done. Things keep moving to the next days list. Then to the next weeks list. And it doesn't matter whether it's housework or crafting, I just have a hard time getting things crossed off the list.

For example last night's list went something like this:
1. do dishes
2. clean living room
3. fold last two loads of laundry
4. finish sleeve on Squirm's sweater and sew shoulder seams
5. take half hour to sew on quilt

And well I got #4 done. That's it. And well it doesn't help that I fell asleep at 8:30 in the chair watching Big Bang Theory. And well #'s 1 and 2 would have taken all of a half hour to get done. I'm just not sure where the time goes in the evening.

So in hopes of getting more done I'm going to post one goal here that I want to get done this week. I want to get Squirm's sweater done this weekend. That includes buying a piece of ribbon for it.

Sorry for such a long, boring post with no pictures. But on the plus side I do have a post in mind once I get the pictures out of the camera and into my laptop. See another thing that I want to do. So any tips on getting things done? Anybody else want to hire a maid and a nanny some days so they can get to work on fun stuff without feeling guilty?