FO Friday #6

Showing off my three quick Calorimetry headbands I knit over the Thanksgiving holiday that I finally got around to buying some buttons for this week!

Using up some of the Bernat I used for my Saroyan

It's driving me nuts I don't remember what kind of yarn this is. It was in my stash randomly without a label.

Lion Brand Amazing :) Not my favorite colorway they make in it but I still like it!

Also whipped up that wreath I was talking about on Wednesday this week. Took me about 20 minutes :)

Pictures were rather hastily taken this week as I'm writing this Thursday evening while the hubby is home to occupy the little one but we all know how that goes. They never really COMPLETELY watch the little one, Mama still has to keep one eye looking that way :-P.

Also there's a poll on my blog's homepage on the left side. Take a moment a give me your input on how my skeins of Simply Soft Light in black should be used in a shawl :) It's much appreciated!

WiP Wednesday!

Posting a little bit later in the day but that's due to a trip to the craft store with my mom this morning!

Here's how the rest of my week is going (hopefully):

*Needing to complete two hats by next Tuesday (should be easily done in about a 1/2 day)

*Finally picked up some things for a quick winter wreath. I thought about doing some Christmas colors but wanted to leave it up for the entirety of the winter season so I decided on a different color scheme.

*Also picked up the things needed to make my 3.5 year old niece her Christmas present. A cute little girly purse with a little sparkly bling of course! I had to keep it somewhat small and portable since they'll be flying out from the west coast. Hopefully she'll love it!

Here's the yarn and lining fabric

Here's the must have bling for the bag!

*Still have to do one more of my crochet button slippers. As excited as I was about using the boucle I got from Target, I think it's better suited for a knit project as it's not agreeing with a crochet hook so I've switched to a Red Soft Yarn instead.

*COMPLETELY forgot the Advent Scarf started for the month so I'm already a week behind on that! Hopefully tonight I can catch up! I'm excited to participate, I just think someone needs to create a crochet version next year :-P That I could keep up with even better!

This is all on top of my Year of Projects items still in progress (which are going very well but you can't have an update until...Sunday (or maybe Friday if there's something finished ;) you'll have to wait and see).

Squee Sunday!!!

Oh how behind I've been in my Sunday Squees but just off the top of my head I think I have plenty to share!

Starting with the most recent, hubby was surprised he was nominated THREE times at his job's annual holiday awards banquet and even better he won one! It was the one he wanted too. Nothing like winning an individual achievement and getting to claim it in front of 500 people in a ballroom! So proud of him :)

Little one has figured out rolling from her back to her tummy AND has mastered the art of eating cereal and not spitting it back out :-P.

We also took her to see Santa last weekend at the local firehouse! It's a $25 donation to the volunteer fire company, get you one 5x7 print (additionals for $4 donations), and your very own 15 minute scheduled appointment for Santa. So basically we walked right in, never had to wait in line with a baby around a germ-filled mall with cranky children AND we got 15 minutes with just us and Santa AND our Santa visit is tax-deductible AND the mall doesn't give you an AWESOME fire truck in the background of your picture!

I thought we'd only get one print of her and Santa but the photographer was nice enough to snap a family shot of the three of us so we have two fantastic Santa prints!

YoP #5

I'm 6 rounds and four corners away from finishing my 3rd Vortex square. Going to see about getting that done today while the laundry runs.

My ballet camisole is coming along nicely. It was the perfect project to use my yarn from Tess' in Maine. I have a few more decrease rows for the lower body but it works up pretty quickly,

Think I'll whip up my crochet button slippers this week as well. I have some comfy boucle for those that oddly enough I got at Target in the dollar section!

So good progress this week I think. Snowflakes till have a small bit to go but I'm at least opimistic that'll be complete by Christmas. I've been slowly working on my Cap Sleeve Top as well but not worth a picture for progress right now :).

FO Friday #5

First up, my Knit It Tonight Cowl from Caron's site. I had originally planned on doing the lighter turquoise with a purple Simply Soft that I had but with Simply Soft super cheap last week at Michael's, I spotted the darker shade and had to have it. I do still have about a half skein of the darker shade, half skein of purple and a small amount of the lighter turquoise left so those three will likely be used for another small, quick project of mine. These quick projects have really been keeping me motivated on the larger projects I have (although I'm anxious to finish my one blanket so I can start the queen sized one for the master bedroom)!

I also realized I never even got to take a picture of myself sporting the cowl! Hubby saw it and said "I'm trying it on, give it here" so I may have to make that second one quickly if I want to have one for myself! We also amused ourselves by showing the dual use of a cowl:

BABY SKIRT!!

She was just plain confused when we put it on her thus the blur in the bottom of the picture from those little feet kicking away. It was still amusing though!

I did do three small projects (all the same pattern) last week during the car ride but I haven't made it to the craft store this week as I had planned in order to pick up buttons to complete them so they'll have to wait until next week!