HAPPY ST.PATRICK'S DAY!!!

It's always a great time when we go 'up north' to Lori and Jeff's cabin at Cross Lake. We have been up there for motorcylcing, 4-wheelin', snowmobiling and now for the Cross Lake St. Patrick's Day Parade.

The parade was at noon Saturday and we followed that up with a great corned beef and cabbage meal at the Riverside. Then on to the Manhattan Beach Club.

GREEN was required...some were a little less green than others....I did hesitate on wearing the wig, but I recieved a lot of complements on it, some wanted to know where they could get one. (WalMart)

Have a Blarneyful day and don't forget to post a comment on the Unity Stamp Company blog for a chance to win a stamp set. If they get 500 posts two people will win a set.....

Please check out Unity Stamp.....

Angela is doing a drawing for a stamp set....all you need to do is post a comment on her blog and she does a random drawing, if she gets over 500 comments she'll give away two sets....we all like winning...go to Angela's Unity Stamp Company blog and post......keep watching her blog.....it's exciting having a new company starting right in our 'backyard'!!! And there will be more drawings ahead.

My Birthday Weekend.....

So back to Friday night. After we went out to eat with friends

we came back home to play Wii, while the guys played

and the girls napped, I opened cards! It took a long time.

The picture is a little dark but you can see the piles

of cards as my friend Mary, her husband Aaron

and my husband Tim read them.

Mary said, 'it's not over yet.'

I think she was having a little too much fun.

On Saturday morning Tim and I went to the cities with our daughter Megan. We stayed with d#1 and her husband, Nick. The guys were going to hang out and the girls and I were going 'yarn shop hopping'. The first shop in St.Paul, Borealis, was my favorite. Found the knitting needle cases above there, Megan picked the small on and Randi the large one. After a few more yarn shops we spent a little time on Grand Avenue in St.Paul. Found a few 'goodies' there too.

After shopping we met up with the

guys at Randi and Nick's place to go out

to eat. They wanted to surprise me as to

where we were going so they actually

blind folded me. We ended up at the

'Machine Shed' in Woodbury. Good

old fashioned 'farm' food.

Even though our SIL grew up in St.Paul

he enjoys a lot about 'country' life.

After that we went to Nick's parents

house, also in Woodbury, for

game night and cake.

With the time change we decided to

make it an early night. The next

morning after breakfast Tim and

I headed out, made a few stops in the

cities and then headed home...........

....to this in our yard!!![Thanks to a dear sister!!;)]

I then walked in the door to this basket full of gifts on our steps. I didn't count them but I'm sure there are 50!!!! I just finished opening them this morning.....

And with the gifts on the steps was our mail, and 53 more cards......below is all the packages and cards that I have received in the last week and a half. (I have heard there may be more today.) I would like to thank every one who sent me a birthday card, it was fun to see the post marks and to try to figure out who sent some of them!!! THANK YOU!!! (If anyone needs info on retirement villages/assisted living facilities just let me know, I know where to go in central Minnesota.) To my friend in Alexandria, you have too much time on your hands..... and to my dear friend from the 'dump', thanks for making my B-day special! Thank you to our girls for spending time with just me....we need more time like that....priority in our busy lives. I hope this is it, but I am still suspicious.....

Keeping the USPS in business.....

Yesterday my dear(sneaky) friend Mary and I spent the day in St. Cloud shopping and getting pedicures and manicures. We started doing this last year to celebrate our birthdays!! And since mine is Sunday 'our day' was in order. We kept the shopping limited, the pedicure was really at the top of our list.

I should give a few more details, this is my 50th Birthday!

The one thing that is happening to me as I near the big 5-0 is that I have become very suspicious. Who wouldn't when a week before your birthday you start receiving a lot of mail (and voicemail) from 'living facilities'!!

Anyway, we had a wonderful day! But it wasn't over! We had plans to go out to eat and I asked our friends to stop at the house and we would leave from there. Well, that's when my DH Tim decided to give me a few of my Birthday cards that came this past week. There has to be over 50 pieces.

Well, out the door..... we're headed to the cities to spend the weekend with daughter #1 and her DH, daughter #2 is joining us..... I'll finish the story when I get back, I'm sure it has just begun......

Cracked me up......

This 'flamingo' is a new addition to the LYS that I work part time at. He's felted out of Galway wool. He is just hillarious. We all need something out of the ordinary sitting around our house!???


This pile is what I'm working on now!! Want to start 'Mr. Greenjeans' but I won't allow myself to until the Alpaca Sox are done. (the brown on the left). The aqua(Galway)will be a felted eyeglass case, that one is my 'mindless' knitting that I can throw in my purse and work on any where. Then the brown on the right is Berroco Comfort that will be a afgahn square for a baby blanket I'm making for my neice who is having a
boy in about May.

Now off to work at the EC. Have a wonderful day!!

Now they're felted. It may take a few days for them to completely dry. Then I'm going to add something to them....black is so...black.

I tried them on and I think they will be great. I made the large size and they fit me perfectly right now and I'm sure they will stretch a bit. Check back for the final results!

Every other Wednesday I work at Uniquely Knit, a yarn store
in NewLondon. It is dangerous for me, so many great yarns, I want to try so many of them but my hands just don't knit fast enough. I keep telling myself, 'use up what you have.' But
then I see a beautiful fiber combination or color and 'I just
have to have it!' I have so many so many things I want to
make, there is no way I could ever give up knitting.




This hat pattern is called 'Republic' by Nicloe Reeves. Knit in a chunky yarn(I used Lamb's Pride Bluky) it goes pretty fast.
I'm ready to make my next one.




These are called Sula Slippers from Rowan Felted Collection. I substituted two strands of Galway for the Rowan Big Wool. We'll see how it works....next is felting. Then I plan to do some stamping on them. I'm also going to find some
leather to attach to the sole.


The soles are only one layer,not two like the felted clog slippers and they would wear through very quickly.

The black doesn't show up very well, click on the pics to get
a closer look.