Mega Pixel

Should be posting more pictures now that I have my own little Digital Camera....stay tuned!

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Christmas Knitting

Why do we do it? What I am referring to is starting to knit Christmas gifts the week before Christmas. Luckily these cute little hats didn't need to be done until Sunday the 30th. They are special little hats for my great, yes great, nieces and nephew. I can't wait to see them in these.
Now that these are completed two days ahead of schedule I can go back to knitting for myself. I was hoping to have the Christmas Widdershins done- oh well- I'll have them for next year.
I hope everyones holiday was as wonderful as mine and that we all have a happy and healthy new year. Santa brought a new camera to me so I was pretty busy snapping away. 'll try to post some pics over the next few days. In the mean time check out the hats!!
The flower pot hat in the center is from Itty Bitty Hats and the other two are Ear Flap hats are from Last-Minute-Knitted-Gifts. Located in the 4-6 hour section they are perfect as the book says for last minute gifts!

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Frans French Onion Soup

Fran serves up some French Onion soup to a few hungry Knitters

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Knitters dine

I used the Panoramic effect for this shot of the 1st annual knitters dinner at Lynn's house

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In the hustle and bustle

of the holiday season always take time out for friends, family and of course a little knitting camaraderie. Lisa just wrapped up an intense semester at school and returned home today. So with a huge winter storm watch here in in WNY we settled in for some cocktails and knitting by the tree. Nothing better...

Dinner with the "Townies"

Good Times!

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Christmas turtle

The tv show "What not to wear" would probably love to see the Water Vixen wearing this old holiday turtle neck. Hope she wears something better tomorrow night for our annual Christmas dinner with our lake friends.

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Cookie Time

Tonight I started baking cookies for our cookie exchange. I enlisted the help of Erin, who was instrumental in making sure that we had enough M&M's in the cookies and her stomach! Several hours later we had enough for the exchange and a few to nibble on. Don't they look yummy! Faith would be proud. I did everything she has taught me over the years, such as cracking your eggs into a seperate bowl then adding to the cookie dough. I have a new cookie I may try over the weekend. It's a Paula Dean recipe that I saw while traveling a few weeks ago. The best part about this is you use Pillsbury sugar cookie dough. I'll let you know how it goes. Whew- do the Christmas preparations ever end?! Still have cards, knitting and shopping to do. Thank goodness for Wheat Grass...

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Headers play Attitudes

The Headers rocked the house on Saturday at Attitudes. There was a special guest appearance by a local favorite, Dan Stoll! They played all our requests plus a bunch of Christmas songs. All my favorite "Header Dancers" were there (Claudia, Robin and Stevie), plus a new one, Faith. We danced our feet off until well after 2:00am. Yhew! A great start to the holiday season. And yes, I played the Jingle Bells.

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Secret Santa

While I was away, a gift bag mysteriously appeared on our front porch. Dan does not know who left this for us or when. It was obvious when I opened it that they new me well. The tag reads "Enjoy the holiday season". Thats it. Nothing else. So whoever you are please let me know so I can thank you- and by the way- it will look awesome on my tree!

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California Weekend

We had a great time in California over the weekend. The company was great as was the weather. After the surprise party, Jules and Mark took me down to The Pier at Hermosa Beach and we checked out a few clubs(we call them bars- Californians call them clubs!). First stop: Mermaid Bar- greeted by two grumpy old men tending bar! Next stop- the Union Cattle Company, where Mark worked and the Bull resides. Very entertaining as the night went on. I was able to talk Mark into riding! Not me- I stayed in my chair- maybe in June when we go back. After a long day we headed back up the hill to Julieannes. The nice thing about Julieannes- you can walk to the beach-no driving- that is until you run into a abandon grocery cart.

Sunday was beautiful day and we ate breakfast at Martha's down at the beach. Very popular spot- received some VIP treatment and didn't have to wait for a table. Afterwards we walked along the strand and enjoyed the weather and the beach. Afterward we met Julie and Mom for some shopping, pounce, dinner and then crepes at Brunos(http://www.cremedelacrepe.com/). Bruno is a friend of Mark and Julieannes and makes the best Crepes I have ever had! We celebrated the Grand Opening of his second restraunt on Friday night and had to take Mom and Julie on Sunday for a taste. As we were walking back to the car you'll never believe what we walked past- a yarn shop! CLOSED. Rather surprising that I didn't notice it Friday night.

Headed home Monday morning to snow and cold. Thank you guys for the fun weekend and I can't wait to return!

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Happy Birthday Julie

SURPRISE!!!

Friday Mom and I headed to California to surprise her cousin Julie for her 60th birthday. Let me tell you one thing- boy was she surprised. Julie and her family have been spending Thanksgiving with us for as long as I can remember and I am 40ish! Anyways when she came in and made her way through the crowd and I said SURPRISE she just looked at me like she didn't know me and walked away. She didn't even see Mom. I said SURPRISE again- after all we traveled 2000 miles for this- she was so surprised she couldn't talk as you can see from the picture above . I think we were all relieved that she was surprised. Julie had just been visiting us for 10 days at Thanksgiving and we were all nervous about slipping. This was the first time in 30 some years I was glad to see Julie leave!! Unfortunately I tried to video this and kept turning the camera off instead of taping- yes, next time I will practice. But I do have a few pics to share. One other thing- you sure can do a lot of knitting traveling across the country. I have almost completed the Tabi Toe sock for a Christmas gift and working on my own widdershins!

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