Good to be home

The past couple of weeks have just been a whirlwind. It was nice to be home today. Week before last I spent most of the week in Dallas with my sweet daughter. Thank you all so much for the caring words and thoughts about her and Brian's loss. It always feels good to have the kind of friends that let you know they care during times like these....I so appreciate all of you! I count myself as blessed to have friends like all of you!

I came back home for a few days, had "sleep-overs" with Clayton and Carter then with Savy and Dax, worked the first part of last week at GYC, then we left for Dallas again on Thursday to attend DH's employee appreciation banquet. Those things are usually soooo boring, but the trip ended up being a nice one. He had sales meeting Friday until about 2 pm so I got to just hang out in the hotel and knit all morning that day. We went to dinner with Mel and B Friday night. It was good to see her again for myself and see that she is doing ok. She still has her "moments" about losing the baby, but all-in-all, she is doing pretty good and they are planning to start trying again as soon as the Doc says it's ok.

Saturday we just "played" all day. DH took me to visit The Shabby Sheep...I think the only yarn store in the Dallas Metro I had never been to. It was a fun visit! I was having withdrawals from all the fur-kids and when we pulled up in front of the shop there was a "Stoneleigh" looking out the window at us! She was a cutey and Ron had a blast playing with Abbey while I got my fiber-fix! She looked so much like our little guy! I did manage to do some damage while there :-) BUT all of it wasn't my fault...lol! I picked up the pattern for the Opening Night Vest and the Manos del Uruguay to do it out of and was in the process of checking out when DH came to me actually fondling a skein of eslebeth lavold baby llama saying what a nice scarf and hat it would make!!! What a guy!!! He didn't have to do much convincing for me to decide HE needed it!!

From there we spent the rest of the afternoon hitting aquarium shops so he could do some shopping around too. He was so sweet and offered to take me to a couple more yarn stores, but I seriously need to STOP with the stash acquisition.....seriously! My wall of yarn is full and things are starting to pile up in bags and corners again. I must get some FO's done before I do any more yarn shopping! I think I have aquired quite a few things I haven't even posted in the past few months.....with Ravelry in my life sometimes I can't remember if I have actually posted things both places or not! We went to the banquet Saturday night and Ron won a nice digital camera!! So it was a nice little trip!

Here are a few things I've picked up fairly recently...

I'm usually not much of a novelty yarn type of gal, but I thought these Feza Alps were so pretty when they came in at Gourmet Yarn the other day. Amanda did a quick scarf out of the Feza Dazzle a couple of weeks ago and she just loves it, so I thought I would do a couple too! A quick mindless knit is always good to have around!

I also picked up a couple of sock goodies:

Madelaine Tosh


Some Yarnsmith Silk Soc

And some Prism

I also snagged some Zephyr to re-do my MS 3 out of. I'm still just sick that I had to frog the first one. It was my first real lace project and I was so proud of it....I'm just determined that I'm going to do another one!

I'm pretty sure that's all I've gotten lately....I think...see what I mean....time to stop!

I have been knitting some....not just hoarding yarn....I promise I have!! I'm still working on Savy's Polkadot out of the Berrocco Boho, am a little over half finished with the Modern Log Cabin Wrap, getting ready to turn the heel on some Jaywalkers out of Opal Neon and most recently started a Clapotis. I'm doing it out of the frogged MS3 yarn...Cherry Tree Hill Supersock. I needed to get that going so I can attend the Clapotis Tea at The Gourmet Yarn Company next weekend!!

I'll try to get some pics of those wips on here soon....for now, I'm tired and just hoping I can sleep tonight. Been having problems with that lately and it sure makes a body tired!