Birdies fly the coup... er nest.

June is Birthday month!!

Happy Birthday to lots of my favorite people this month! First of all to my wonderful husband and adorable son...

 To my wonderful sister-in-law...

 And Happy Birthday to my wonderful brother... I can't believe he took a bite out of the cake!

Blue bird eggs and finish-it-up-itis

 

I've been neglecting my pansies last few days and so they needed to be watered pretty badly. Yesterday afternoon I filled up the pitcher I use to water the plants and headed outside. To my surprise I found a pretty little nest in my planter of pansies. I was so tickled! I watered around the nest to make sure I wouldn't disturb it and took a picture of the pretty little blue eggs. Guess I need to be sure to keep the pansies watered to they can hide the nest instead of laying droopy all around it!

Over the past month I have had a serious case of finish-it-up-itis. I've managed to finish a gorgeous pair of socks, a cowl, a Booga bag and am planning to finish my linen stitch scarf today. I've also freed the needles off a couple of projects that just were not going to happen and organized my stash. My EZ green sweater got ripped back as far as it could be ripped since some of the steeks had been cut and was then felted and cut up into squares for coasters. The funny pieces are making great cat toys for Marvin. He loves alpaca!

It's been a week.

It's been a week. It's been a not so good week. My sister and brother are both sick and I think I've had sympathy pain for them. I'm sure my brother will be fine. I'm praying my sister will be. Her situation is tough and I hope she comes to realize how strong she really is and gets through it. I plan to give my sister the gift of knitting. It is good therapy. I hope knitting works for her as well as it does for me. Carpe Lanam.

39

I'm celebrating my 39th Birthday today and being pretty lazy about it. I did get up at 6am, but then went back to bed around 7:30 and slept a bit longer. When I woke up there was breakfast in bed and a morning of knitting in bed. After lunch I was served the most yummy cake made by my man-folk. It was chocolate with strawberry icing and sprinkles. Gorgeous... right?

Disgruntled

I'm disgruntled with my knitting.
Its not the knitting's fault this time. The knitting is being perfectly cooperative.
I've had two days at home to be lazy and do nothing but knit if I want to. Now that my knit marathon is over though I feel disgruntled because I really didn't work on anything I am just in love with. You know how it goes... you get the perfect yarn and and the perfect project together and voila! nothing but fun. Well, I did shop the stash and Ravelry for a new, fun project, but I have finish-up itis and nothing sounded good enough to throw the other projects to the wayside. So I finished a hat. I worked on my vest and on a pair of socks. The hat is finished, but after two days of knitting I thought I'd have more to show for it than a hat. Well, the vest is about 3/4 done and the socks are getting there, one sock is past the heel and the other almost at the heel. But I'm disgruntled anyway, because I'm looking for a new sexy project and it hasn't found me yet.

I'm also disgruntled with FedEx. My phone was supposed to be delivered yesterday, but it is now scheduled for Monday. According to FedEx tracking it went for a ride right by my town and kept going about two hours east. I hope it comes back soon.

Finish-itis

I seem to have caught a case of finish-itis. I'm going to run with the feeling. Tonight a slouchy cottony hot pink hat... tomorrow a sweater vest.... then on to a pair of worsted weight Dream in Color socks. Along with the knitting finish-itis, I'm enjoying some nice time with season one of NCIS. Its going to be a beautiful knitterly birthday weekend.