Another I love you...

Along with my Christmas stocking assembly line, I'm working on another I love you prayer shawl.
The dark purple called to me but I worried it wouldn't be enough and so, the white jumped out at me, longing to be a part of this!

This is my morning knit.  Before the morning's drama begins, I like to get up in morning and listen to my podcasts and knit. It's funny. Sometimes this is a distraction and I can't shut my mind off and enjoy the back and forth of the rows. Sometimes it's my refuge and I'm calmed afterwards.  The common denominator is the reason for it.  I know I'm making this to give away and to offer comfort in some small way.  It gives me pleasure to think this.

Here's hoping you find pleasure in something simple today!

Monday fun days

Blueman has been surprising me with dinner and working on his creative cooking.  So it amused me that when I opened my leftovers one day at work to find a heart shaped burger.

Nothing says love like a heat shaped meat patty!!

I don't care for this brand but found this flavor interesting. 

What WON'T we put in ice cream?

This I saw last week.

This week I bought some. It's not bad with banana slices.

I'm still quite enjoying my work screen saver.

This little fella seems to be applauding me. 

Who doesn't need that at work sometimes?

Here's hoping you receive appreciation and/or applause today!

July is complete!

I believe the color for July was pink. I fell terribly behind due to some illness and some mental recovery that had to take place before I could sew again. I cannot sew tired or angry or moody....I do too much "un"sewing! I finally took a for me day and I wandered from project to project, happy as a pig in mud.

I finish some pretty pink squares.

 I must admit I like the random ones better than the more precise kind.

It must suit my whimsical nature better!

I couldn't resist the name of this product.

I gather it means spicy.

I wonder if they make yowza wowza fish sauce...

Or maybe Hubba Hubba beef flavor...

How about wing zing chicken seasoning?

Here's hoping you find some whoopedeedoo in your world today!

(And that's it's a good thing!)

Where does the time go?

I've been reading so much that other things are going to pot!  It's been a glut of fiction around the house lately. I need to come back to the real world and tell Cherise Sinclair and Ilona Andrews to stop tempting me into neglecting my other hobbies!

I now have 17 of these little monsters done.

Ideal number would be 32. 

Do you suppose I can finish that in a month?

Tomorrow I'll show you more of my progress on other things. 

I have vacation days and sick days....I really need my employer to offer craft days.

All of this was just too much for my baby to handle.

Wait a minute...I think he has the right idea.

A nap sounds mighty fine!

Here's hoping you get something mighty fine today!

No time like now

so for some reason after I fed the children this morning, I was wandering around the kitchen, straightening things and emptying the dishwasher. Normal.
Then I decided to do something I'd been thinking about for awhile.
I pulled out all plastics and made sure there was a top for every bottom.

I realize that this likely is a symptom of an underlying issue. Maybe I feel the lack of control in other areas and now I just need to be in control of my....plastic life?!  Anywho, it didn't take long and the result were what I expected.

This is the storage container pile where every dish has a lid.

Here are the orphans.  

I don't recal ever owning square containers like the upper left. 

As it had no lid, it's not surprising.

It took all of ten minutes to do.  What could you do in ten minutes that satisfies your organizational needs?  Here's hoping you find ten minutes of organization fun today. (Or more!)