I couldn't find my camera so I used my daughter's.  The picture looks o.k. here but it's a bit blurry.  I blocked it a little too hard so if my secret sister ever washes it (I put a tag on it to hand wash cold and lay flat to dry) it should shrink a little.  I really would have liked it better if I could have added one more repeat to it.  I still have a bunch left over so I was kind of thinking of making again and alternating the blue and red and just keep going till I run out of yarn.  I want to make it in a worsted too and get a really big squishy shawl. I finished the hat and scarf as well.

Now that I have those two projects off the needles/hooks the next project that I plan is making six wash cloths or so.  The plan is to order some soap and lotion from Wolfe Farms and put it with the washcloths for teacher gifts.  I still have the the baby blanket to make for my husband's coworker but she has already gone on maternity leave and he probably won't see her till she gets back in a couple of months.  After that I still have my husband's never ending sweater.  I am out of baby mitten ideas (for now) so for my charity knitting so I am going to make a blanket.  I of course have other plans but I'll hold off on those till I get some of these done.

I listened to podcasts yesterday.  Amy Beth (The Fat Squirrel Speaks) was funny as usual.  I think I'm up to about episode 70 of Knit 1 Heart Too.  It's fun knitting or crocheting wile listening to other people talk about their projects.  Today I'm playing WOW and tomorrow I'll try and look for Personal Taste again.

It's been a busy week.  On Thursday I went to a meeting about what to expect when your child goes to middle school.  The parents tended to be emotional but the kids were just having fun with the combination lock they were given to practice on because next year they have them on their lockers.  When I went to get Amey up on Friday morning she had it in bed with her.  On Friday we went to a school art show, which was o.k. but would have been a touch more fun if one of my kids had been in it. Today was the secret sister reveal and that was fun too.  Next week looks calmer but it's a short one because of Memorial Day. Outside of planning for the summer I think we are done.  See you next time.

Since I forgot to take a picture before I mailed the secret project I used the one from Lisajedi (Ravelry name) when she said she received it.  She collected everything and sent it on.  The little totoro is easy to recognize, but the square I'm really disappointed with. There was discussion about using acrylic or cotton because there is a wool sensitivity in the house.  I thought other people would be using cotton so I was trying to match.  It's two strands held together and the yarn was really splitty (if that's a word).  It's mostly knit with some surface crochet to give the comic book panel look.  When I was tucking in the ends I cut one why to short.  Lisajedi is a Jedi (spell check wants that capitalized) because she made it work in the blanket.  The totoro has french knot eyes since it's for a baby.  The baby's older sister wanted to steal the totoro so that made me feel good.

I worked on the Shaelyn but not as much as I should have.  I'm going to work on it a lot today and hopefully be able to block it tomorrow or Friday.  I need to get it done.  I'm down to the last minute again.  Why do I always do this to myself?  When I finish I'll try and finish the scarf.  I did work on the baby blanket a little before bed but I didn't get much done.  I'll have at least one project off the needles soon and possibly two.

The King of Dramas was still good.  There are just a hundred little things like a dancing flower on the dash board of a run down truck or someone wearing a scarf with hearts on it to a secret meeting about a love scandal.  I think I just finished episode 15 and there are 18 so I'm almost done.  When I'm done I'll go back to Personal Preference (Personal Taste).  I watched about three episodes of it before and then got distracted.  I think, even though Lee Min Ho is in it, I will be a little disappointed after The King of Dramas.

I think I saw a male house finch. It looked brown like a sparrow but the head was red.  Not a bright ted but a red so brown it almost didn't look red.  Many of the pictures I saw on line the birds look poofy (for lack of a better word) but the one I saw was really sleek.  It was the only bird that was listed on What bird that was even close.  I think that was my only adventure.  I'll see you next time.

Here is the sock I mentioned (socks actually).  I really wanted to cast on something new so I caved.  The yarn is the Zauberball I bought a wile back.  I've had so much trouble fitting socks.  They are either too big but fit my calf or fit my foot fine but I can't get it over my heel. This will have no pattern so I can watch stitch count and figure out what actually fits me.  So that I can keep track better I am doing them at the same time (which is why the picture looks so crazy.  I am knitting one from the outside and one from the inside of the ball.  They will be opposite but with this color I don't think it will matter. I started with 32 stitches and increased to 60.  I did both toes (on separate needles) and am now working on one foot.  When I have determined it's long enough I will do the other foot before I do the heel.  I want to try the "fish lips kiss" heel.  she had a lot of instructions on how to measure your foot properly so I will do that.  I'm really enjoying the project and am just doing a few rows here and there now since I have so many projects.

Because I cast the socks on on Sunday and took time away from the mittens I finished the last pair on yesterday and didn't have a chance to work on the Shaelyn till later in the day.  I'm making that up today and will work on the scarf later, after lunch.  I need to get these projects finished before Saturday. A coworker of my husband has gone on maternity leave.  I have the yarn and meant to make her a baby blanket an I just haven't gotten around to it. I worked on it last night before bed and in two hours got it almost half done.  It will be my regular crochet blanket.  The secret project arrived at it's destination so I can talk about it now.  One of the women on the Shady Cels team was pregnant and we sent her a baby shower in a box kind of thing.  A few of us made squares for a baby blanket, some people sent sweaters and I made a little white Totoro.  If I can find a picture I will show it next time.  The baby is here as well and doing just fine.

I watched a lot of podcasts yesterday.  Steve and Callie (Dramatic Knits) were talking about all their pregnant coworkers and all the baby blankets they plan to make and Steve said, "Lets stop talking about this before one of us ends up pregnant."  I laughed.  Skein after Skein finally put up their episode that they recorded back in April.  They had some notes on what is going on and that the show may be taking a break for a wile.  Michelle is having some work and emotional stress and Eve is pregnant...with twins...due at the end of the month.  Yeah that would be why she's tired.  As someone else said, she kept that quiet.  So we will have to see what direction Skein after Skein takes because I don't think Eve will have energy for a wile and, wile I like kids, they do make things more complicated.  I finally got Knitting Butterflies to work.  Today I'll watch The King of Dramas after I watch this week's Running Man.

I think that's all for today.  It's kind of chilly and rainy so I'm sleepy.  My husband is coming home for lunch so I can make him ramen, it's a good day for it.  I guess I should say good-by for today and go do house work.  See you next time.

Here is the Shaelyn so far.  I just worked on it until I ran out of the first little ball I had (a partial skein).  I think it will be fine.  If I just just keep working on it till near the 17th (the secret sister reveal) and put a red edge on it it will be good.  I was afraid it would be small but if I can get one more ball in it, it will be good (granted if I can get more it will be even better).  This is of course unblocked so it will grow a little more.  I think I may do this again in a worsted weight for a giant warm shawl.  Today I will work on the scarf and if I finish the first ball I will go on to the never ending sleeves of my husband's sweater.

I did play WOW on Saturday.  I got my level 89 past the quest she was having so much trouble with so now I'm in a new area I haven't been in before.  The down side of WOW is I didn't know it was children't week till it was too late.  About once a month there is a week long event where you have specific tasks and can get specific rewards and achievements.  If you do the listed ones all year long you can get an achievement called "Long Strange Trip" and you get a purple mount.  I have them all done except two for Children's Week.  If I had known last week was Children's week I would have worked on them so I could be done with it.  Now I will have to wait a whole year to try again.  Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but a bit of a bummer.

On Sunday I watched more of The King of Dramas.  The office manager from Let's Eat is in it. The dad from ... Alice is in it as well. I love Anthony’s cloths, he always dresses so well. I know it’s product placement but I love all the Marvel stuff around Hyun Min’s (second leading man) apartment. It really goes to his mental state of sill being kind if a kid.  I love how Go Eun is idealistic but not exactly innocent, she has some spunk to her. She even beats up some muggers wile drunk. I like that the road manager’s name is Kwan Soo like Running Man.  It just seems to be a lot of little pieces that fit together really well. I also started a list of dramas I have watched and want to watch on my drama list.  It looks like it could be a real time suck where you just get caught up researching different actors, dramas, and movies.  I'll play with it more and see what I think.

Today is sunny and my son actually asked to go outside, usually he's more of a home body.  There is supposed to be a nice meteor shower tonight so I'm trying to decide if I should keep my kids up to see it.  If if gets cloudy we wont see anything at all.  I'll let you know how that goes next time.  That's all for today.

This was as far as I got on the Shaelyn.  It's fairly simple.  I really didn't like it at first because my first lace section doesn't look good.  Now that I'm to the second lace section I think it looks a lot better.  I have quite a bit of the blue so I should be able to make lots of repeats.  I'll work on this tomorrow wile I watch kdrama.

On Saturday I did play WOW so I didn't get any crafting done.  I think I may play WOW on Saturdays in the same way I craft for charity on Sundays.  My level 90 finished Bloodmyst Isle so I'm on to Darkshore which will take a wile because there are 90 quests there.  My hunter got out of Teokkar Forest, into Nagrand and hit level 65.  After taking such a long break it was kind of fun.

Yesterday I worked on the baby mitts but I only got two pairs finished. I'm a little disappointed by this.  The first day I made them, I made five pairs and the times after that I've always made three. Hopefully I'l get back to three next week. I was planing on listening to/ watching podcasts yesterday but my son wanted to spend time with me.  We ended up sitting in bed all day watching Young Justice. Mooky said he had fun.

It's been very rainy here but that's normal for this time of year.  "April shower" and all that. Things are starting to turn green and that's nice to see. I think our May 1st picture will be nice, hopefully I will remember on Thursday.  See you next time.