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.

costume

Well, Halloween came and went. And I struggled to get Monkey's costume done. It took all of 3o minutes to get it done. It started out that she wanted to be a white cat. And while we were at the fabric shop, she decided she wanted black ears. So this is what we came up with.


She loved it. We added ears to a regular headband and made a tail out of a piece of elastic that went around her waist with the tail and a piece of wire attached.

Weekend Book Report #4

Well I hope everyone had a great weekend. My weekend was spent with some 1-on-1 time with Little One. She spent most of her time doing this. . .


And since most of the time she wanted momma sitting on the floor with her, momma got lots of reading done. And all of it mindless no point reading.

Let's see. . . first up was Dragonswan by Sherrilyn Kenyon. This is book 1.5 in the Dark Hunter series. This is a romance series. It's a very short read my copy was only 86 pages. The characters in this involve a history professor and a time-traveler, who also is able to shape shift.









My next read on the list was Mckettrick's Pride by Linda Lael Miller. This is another romance book. It's book two in a series. I haven't read the first book. But I also think this is part of a bigger series, as some of the back history sound for familiar. Basic info is about a widower left with two young girls and a new women in town who is opening a book store.

Both of these books were okay. They were what I expected them to be. . . a basic romance novel. Some smut, but not very graphic or a lot of it. One and half stars. Like I said not bad reads but nothing special.





The last book that I finished was 16 Lighthouse Road by Debbie Macomber. This is the first book in the Cedar Cove series. At the library it was classified as a romance novel, but I find it more a fictional book, maybe a love story. In this book you are introduced to many characters and their stories. A young couple file for divorce that is denied, the relationship between several mothers and daughters, and a start to several new relationships. It was a good read. I'd rate at a 2 and half stars. I'll be reading more in this series but I don't think they are going to be books that I want to buy for my bookcase.

So, what did anyone else do? Read any books or any of these? Hope everyone has a good week. I'll be back this week to show some crafty stuff.

Not what I was planning

Okay so what I had planned on working on the weekend was using some on these for my Sweet Pea quilt. Which in all actuality I did work on it, just not as much as I wanted. As I was sitting there stitching during a movie. The Boy, who is twelve and half, said he would like to make a quilt and do some stitching. So we looked at my quilt books, to get an idea of what he wanted. He picked out fabric out of my stash. We cut. We sewed. We ironed. He traced. He stitched. Then before I could get a picture, he packed it up to take to his mom's house. So his goal is to have the center done when he comes back in two weeks. I'm extremely tickled that he wants to do this or try this. I'm not sure if his mom and step-dad will take this project of his very well. We will see.

On the way to dropping he off at his mom's, this is what Monkey had to say about boy:

He has two mommies and two daddies and too many sisters.

Think she listens to what her big brother has to say? He's not exactly happy that he has five sisters. He loves them, but I know he was hoping for a brother in this last round of babies.

Last weekend

Oh where did this past week go. Here it is Saturday already and I haven't even told you about last weekend. It was a big on the go weekend. I'll have to apologize for the pics. My nephew and niece had control of my camera. So let's see:

We went and saw this on Saturday:



This is a train Disney has tour the country right now. It's for the promotion of their new movie A Christmas Carol. Was pretty neat for something free to see. Lots of production art and pieces from the Dickens's museum in London. I know they will continue tour the US until November when the movie opens.



Then we took the The Boy and our nephew and niece to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I liked, but my hubby did not. As he said it didn't end. But he also hasn't' read the books either so he didn't know what to expect. What did anyone else think that saw the movie.

We went to my hubby's aunts house to celebrate a couple of 50th birthdays. Luckily no pictures.

But on Sunday we Celebrated for the Monkey:

She turned 4. We got to see lots of family, eat lots of food.

So once again another weekend went by and no crafting got done. Well with any luck I'll get some done this weekend. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. The weather here is supposed to be good summer weather here, so we'll see. What does anyone else have planed for the weekend?

Thursday in the park

On Thursday nights in the summer, the city offers concerts at the dam. So last night we took all three kids. The Monkey played on the playground. And took pictures.

Look a picture of mama knitting taken by Monkey:



A self portrait of Monkey:




What was I working on you ask? Here's a little better photo:


This is the left front of the Matinee Coat by Debbie Bliss. I have the back and the right front done already. It's being knitted in Knit One Crochet Two Baby Boo, in olive.

I hope everyone has great weekend. The weather here should be pretty good, some rain, but lots of sun.