Life is good! A friend, Susan surprised me with this Saturday night.

OMG- I may have slept with this under my pillow, except I didn't want to crinkle it!

Yhew- no words for this one!

Who would have thought

I have been away awhile. Sucked into the world of FaceBook. However I am thinking that they do not really care so much about the craft world and what I am up to. We got together last night for knit night and started working on the Cape May Bag. This involves sewing. Yes, I was sewing. If you knew my mom, you would say your not surprised. She is a seamstress and a darn good one. I never really had the desire to sew, even though she got all us girls sewing machines when we got married. Anyways the sewing went well and nothing was broke. Here are my squares, soon to be the Cape May Bag. These are from Amy Butler, purchased on E-Bay and Etsy.

Elma mastering the Bobble. The top part of the bag is knit in the round.
Yes this is me sewing! Frightening. But I think I liked it. Could I be the next Vera Bradley?!

It is good to be back. There has been so much going on. I will do some updates over the next few days while I enjoy the holiday at our cottage. And yes, I am still in love with Edward Cullen so the back ground stays!

Thats my mom on the far right in the pink. She had a quadruple bypass Thursday. We took her out the night before to keep her mind off her surgery. We went to Alex's in Batavia. They have great baby back ribs there. Then we went to our GCDP meeting. We had a good time- these ladies are great friends to my mom. Pray for Betty, she is next to mom in the red. She has Lou Gerhig's disease. She is an inspiration to me- she is so positive about the whole thing. And yes, that is cocktails on the table..

And this is the biggest Twilight fan I know! Looks at her. She has got it going on. From the hat to the Bella mittens, knit by me of course to the tote bag and lord know what else we can't see. Just to let know the obsession continues. Now I got myself something pretty cool, however, I also got one for someone special so I can't post it till I get it in the mail to her. A early birthday present you might say.

Oh and one more thing. Mom is doing great. Her surgery was uneventful, as Dr. Downing said, and she is on the road to recovery. Pretty scary seeing her right after, but today she had a shower and was walking, after only three days. All her tubes and IV's are out- she looks good. Not sure if she'll let me take a picture yet.

Bella Mittens

Who wouldn't want these beauties? I made these for the biggest 11 year old Twilight Fan I know. She even sleeps in these. She won't take them to school- she is afraid someone will take them. The pattern was very easy to follow and a pretty quick knit.

Now I need to knit my own.

OBSESSION

Can you guess what is on my mind this week? I finally saw the movie- it only came out months ago. To make up for that I watched it 3 times with Liz! We had a Twilight Party that was fabulous: T-shirts for the girls, buttons, Sweetheart candies, blood punch served in Martini Glasses dripping with blood- we had the theme going pretty well.

Good times!

This is me on my snowmobile. Don't I look pretty cool. It was a perfect day in WNY for snowmobiling. 22 degrees and sunny. Had a bunch of snow last night that made the trails not to bad.

A Finished Object!

The Christmas Widdershin's are done. Okay, I started these Thanksgiving 2007 when Liz came home. Whenever Liz comes home we pick a project to do. She was teaching me two at a time toe up. It worked great. Nothing better than not having to knit a second after the first is done. HOWEVER, when I went to put them on I could not get them over my heel! Talk about stress. So then I had to call Lynne for guidance. Thank the lord for her! SO I had to tear and bind off 3, yes 3 more times. Do you have any idea how hard it is to take these little stitches out without dropping one or two along the way! I am not even going to go there. Well, anyways they are done and I think they are beautiful, don't you? And I have a finished object!!!!