what's on your needles?

I joined my 1st knitting dishcloth club last week, the other clubs I have joined on knitting or crochet are mainly chatter and lots of patterns, a crochet a long group makes some nice things, and I have even joined in on a darling bag, but they are way too advanced for me. the knitting groups I am in are way too talented from the looks of their blogs, but I feel like I fit right into this dishcloth group, I am a big lurker, but I enjoy reading and seeing what other people have done, this weekend we made a dishcloth that the group leader gave us a few directions each day but no one knew what design it was going to be till we finished, it was a dress, after I finished I realized it was suppose to be done in red thread but the only cotton I had was leftovers from a bag I did and it was a blue varigated, but it turned out nice. it was easy and a quick project, think I have found my niche, except I also joined a sock group cause I really really want to learn to knit on double pointed needles and the sock looks like it would be fun to do as well plus it is a small project which make is easier to tote, maybe I will eventually get the nerve, but until then I feel another knit dishcloth in the works. so many projects so little time.

Thursday!! one more day till fun time!

It is Thursday, a very slow day here at work today so thought I'd take a few minutes and update my blog it has been a while. Mother's day went really well, my son and his wife came too, 1st time since they were married, they always spend that day with her mom which is fine, I always tried to spend as much time with mine as I could on Mother's day and say Bobby's mom only shortly. we had my mother, my sister was up as well, my daughter, her husband and his daughter so a wonderful family day only one missing was my grandson and he was with his mother. I did lose my baby goat we had been feeding since his birth 5 weeks before, It was heartbreaking cause I had gotton so attached to him, he was so precious. I am trying to talk Bobby into taking his mother to the sale Saturday, she has another baby tho and he wants to wait till she weans him, it really hurts to see her and the other baby doing just fine when she wouldn't have anything to do with my baby.

Ebay...my addiction, well one of them, Goodwill is the other one, I have been so good staying away from Goodwill, since I got rid of half the clothes in there all I could no longer fit into I figured as cheap as they are at Goodwill, if I ever loose weight again I can go back and buy more. back to Ebay, it is getting really adictive, I have stopped at the convience store so much in the last two weeks for money orders they are starting to ask what I am getting now..ha, I have bought this past week children's books, cookooks, and diet books, but I am excited about what I sent money in for today, it is a viritual smorgassboard of vintage costume jewelry, pictures are so exciting, hope in real life when it arrives I will be as excited, and I got it all for a great amount. that's what I love the bargain hunting of it all. well guess I better get back to work.

oh before I go tho I have to brag about something I did last night, I belong to these crochet and knitting groups so I have been printing out tons of patterns, last night I sat down and probably half of them are now in protective sheets and in binders, over 200 of them anyway, of course B,obby was sitting there beside me going "why don't you just throw all those away you know you won't make half of them" but I started on a cotton shawl/ or poncho, I had done as a shrug before in wool, so na na na boo boo, MEN, just what do they know?

Tomorrow is Mother's day

for those of us who are still lucky enough to have our mothers, tomorrow is their day, I feel so lucky mine is 89 and young as ever, she is beginning to slow down just a little but is really remarkable, she lives by herself, maintains her house, cooking, groceries and banking all with only a ride needed to the store. I hope her genes are embeded deep in me as well, she still crochets, reads and sews. of course we all get to hear her say I am healthier than my children, well that was true of our brother (he passed away last year at 68 years old, however my sister and I are both very healthy. Thank you Jesus. I have spent the day helping my husband get the yard ready for summer, you know, mulch, planting flowers, and shrubs, so very little has been done for the party tomorrow here for all of us Mothers in the Milligan family. So tomotrrow morning will be a challenge, trying to get everything done before everyoen comes, oh well it is only dirt, if it isn't spoltess who cares, right?? I would like to say "Happpy Mother's Day" to everyone, kiss your mother tomorrow, this could be the last year you celebrate together. We never know so, enjoy the day with your family as much as possible.

Smooches everyone

Monday, Monday, so good to me??

well it was rather quiet at work today, shhhh, all hell will break loose tomorrow probably!! whew another busy weekend but mostly fun, had my GS birthday party Saturday, my wonderful daughter thought up a Pirate Scavenger hunt, he had so much fun!! he'll be 9 tomorrow, the hunt ended up with a treasure chest full of Booty!! I bought all the toys and stuff at Dollar Tree and he loved it all, of course I spent 25 bucks, but there are a lot of pool toys in it so it'll keep him happy when sumertime gets here and we can get in my pool! he also got a 25 dollar walmart card from my sister, bubble machine from Aunt Angie, money from my mother and 2 game boy advanced games from me and papa!! on top of feeding the crew and ice cream cake, but they are worth it right??

I spent the day yesterday cleaning out my closet and 5-39 gallon trash bags of summer clothes later I can find things that actually fit!!

well time is gone for the day got to snuggle with DH for a few minutes so he won't be so jealous of my computer, after 32 years you'd think he could care less but a great friend of mine left her husband for someone she met on the net (right Deb?) so guess he may get nervous..hee hee Smooches everyone...till next time!