Carla, the puppy is adorable, and your daughter is gorgeous!
Lisa, great to see you posting again! [COLOR=Red]HAPPY BIRTHDAY![/COLOR]
Dustina, I love the stocking! I really need to get moving on my girls’ stockings…
Gina, thanks for the recipes! We made sugar cookie dough last year, colored half the dough red, and twisted them into candy cane cookies. mmm, they were so yummy and the girls had such a good time making them.
Christine, how is DH feeling today?
Everyone else, HI! Hope you are all having a lovely day! I finished up my part of the oddball shawl last night and did one repeat on my cashmere scarf. I don’t think that thing will ever be done! I also hit the dollar store for stocking stuffers for the girls, and the library to return some things and pick up a holiday knitting book I had put on hold from another library. Chris, I picked up another M.C. Beaton audiobook while I was there, too! I am addicted to those stories, and to Graeme Malcolm’s voice.
Gina… Thanks for posting the cookie recipes… I really need to get into the kitchen and bake some for DH to take to the office. No motivation here :whistle:
Julie… thanks for your link also. I added that to my favs.
Dustina… I love the stocking. Is that something you think I can try. If so I might attempt it after christmas.
Carla… what a great pic of the family.
Ok… question of the day. What traditions do you all have for the holidays?
We just have the same foods every year and go to grandma’s or go to DH home in OH. I was trying to get a cookie baking party this year but no one wanted to do it. :sad:
Well off for more knitting on the 5th scarf… and maybe on the sock. I am doing all this knitting for christmas but I have no clue who will get what…:shrug:
sue that is a very pretty scarf… Where did you get that pattern from? That would be nice to knit also. Not like I dont have enough scarfs knitted already…:teehee:
I think so because you use a worsted weight yarn and larger needles than you would on the socks. It would be a great introduction into colorwork :happydance:
Sue~Very pretty!!!
Carey~I need to hit the dollar tree this weekend for stocking stuffers…I can’t wait to see girl’s stockings :happydance:
QOTD: Our traditions up here are decorating the trees together, the Christmas play at church, try to make it to one of the candle light services (depends on temps)… I also have an advent box and tree…every day they open the box get out an ornament and then place it on the tree…I make candy and they get a piece of that as well while we count the remaining days…we usually go and see Santa…I try to bake something with them…we make ornaments for Isaiah’s class, grandparents and this year Roo’s dance class. Watch the different Christmas movies together…each year I buy them a DVD of a movie…Usually ones we watched growing up but you don’t see on as much now days…On Christmas Eve I fix the big dinner, the kids get to open one gift…on Christmas morning we make them wait while JD “gets his coffee ready”…on the 26th me and the kids head home…JD joins us when he can…:teehee: while down there the kids get gifts that were not sent up here…we have a Pizza Party…usually a New Year’s party…just lots of food and talking/knitting…
Growing up our family traditions were going to Church activities… decorating the tree, stringing popcorn and cranberries till your fingers were soo sore…watching Christmas cartoons together…going to my grandmother’s on Christmas Eve, coming home and usually watching Home Alone (dad’s favorite), going to bed and getting up to hear “not until the house is warm”…then we would open gifts…my other grandparents would then stop in and see what we got (always odd 'cause they didn’t celebrate Christmas, my dad grew up with no celebrations-very strict southern baptist)…my best friend since Kindergarten would then call and we would discuss what we got…then we would eat a big breakfast and then later that day we would have Christmas dinner. My dad is still a HUGE kid during the holidays :teehee:
ETA: ohh I forgot we always put out milk and cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer we did this growing up too
Dustina that ‘test knit’ is beautiful. Also loved all the pics on your blog.
:waving: everyone!
We gt a little over 3 inches last night, that’s my guess by looking anyway. I just finished shoveling our long driveway & sidewalk up to the house. Our driveway is long enough to park 2 full size trucks in a line & 2 deep, so in other words we can easily park 4 full size trucks in our driveway, 2x2. All be darnednow it looks like it’s snowing again, like a drizzle almost. sheesh. Currently it’s 29’, not sure what the wind chill is. Jacob’s schools were on a 2 hour delay as of 8:30 last night and as of 8am they decided to just close. Which is great because last night after Brian got home the cable for our garage door snapped & one of the springs is not on the door anymore, the other is still there but accoding to Brian the other cable is frayed. So the van is stuck in the garage-o well. Garage door man is comming out today, hope we can just have him put in a couple new wires & not have to do new door runners or something like that.
Dustina- I only just remembered to read your blog. really enjoyed your photos. I love your stocking, very nice. I think after Christmas I will have to look up some patterns and start some for the kids for next year.
Carey - love your idea of colouring the dough and making candy canes. would the recipe that Julie gave be OK for this.
Julie - Hope the Garage turns out to be an easy fix. My kids would just love to get some snow, it never gets cold enough where we live. It snows and then rains, sometimes if we are lucky it last a day. One year we actually got enough snow to make a 2ft high snow man, when it started to thaw the disappointment on my kids faces was too much to bear so we decided to pick up our little snowman and put him in the freezer. He was in there for about 6 months.
Karina, I think any of Gina’s cookie recipes would work just fine for the candy cane cookies! I would definitely chill the dough first though, and then pull it out of the fridge in small batches as you work through it. As it warms, it gets stickier and harder to shape.
All I have left to do on the slippers for my MIL is seam up the inner & outer soles on both slippers! The knitting is done, thank God too b/c it was starting to hurt my hands & on up into my arm. Wierd. Now I’m gonna get Jacob’s teachers gifts bagged up & fix lunch and then maybe seam the darn things-wont take long, just that I’m tired of looking at them, I really wanna knit my sweater. And a pair of socks & I really would like to knit myself a hat, any ideas?
for the QOTD: we really dont have many traditions…We decorate the tree as a family, we make cookies, let the kids decorate them & set them out for Santa along with a cup of milk. Usually we will open 1 gift on Christmas eve & then the rest Christmas morning. We try to go to Christmas Mass on Christmas Eve, but that’s hard b/c so many do that (who dont have kids) and so the Church is PACKED for the 2 ‘children’s’ masses. Anyway then CHristmas morning there’s no waiting, as soon as the kids are all up then we open gifts, then Brian fixes a breakfast & then we get ready to hit the grandparents houses. Makes for a long day but it’s good for the kids. I’m ready to take all the Christmas stuff down a few days after Christmas; last year it was all down the day after & put away…it’d been up since the day after Thanksgiving & I was ready to have my living room back. The same will happen this year too-darn kitty like to climb up in the first 3 tiers of branches; drives Brian batty!
I decided to knit for myself today :teehee: and I just whipped up this hat…it was so fast and so easy. I still can’t add picts :wall: sooo hopefully tonight or tomorrow I can show you guys. I used a deep dark red…I want to get back to my mittens and socks but can’t just yet…I keep thinking of others that I need to whip something up for :biting: …I want to knit a couple more of the berets it was hard to chose which one :teehee:
Sue~Did you use the 110 yards? I have enough of my deep red to make something small and thinking about making one of these :think:
Thank you for the comments on the blog and stocking…I’ve had that one ready to go since April…but have I made the green/white one for Isaiah?? No
Still a yarn I can’t get in the UK. How annoying is that. I think I have some Debbie Bliss aran something, can’t remember. just remember it is very soft, may use that. showed Kamilia the hat and she wants one. She saw the name Beret and got very excited, she is going on a school trip to Paris in June/July. I did tell her that it may just be a bit to warm to wear to Paris in the summer.
Dustina: The yarn I used was Patons Shetland Chunky Tweed. The ball has 123 yds. I have just made a little coffee cozy with what was left over and I still have about 8 yards. Hope this helps.
Forgot to show this. this was a last minute gift. started it yesterday just before midday and finished around 4pm. Then wrapped it up with the soap so Kamilia could give it to her Music Teacher at the choir concert at 6pm.
sorry the photo is a bit bad, had to take the photo when it was dark outside.
QOTD: Our family decorates the tree on the Sunday after Thanksgiving (and anyone who can’t be there is smote by lightening bolts and threatened with disinheritance). Sometime between then and Christmas, we do a small gift exchange with Great Grandma and her sister. On Christmas eve, we go to mass, then to grandma and grandpa’s house for dinner and while the parents do dishes the kids pass out gifts, and then have our primary gift exchange with all of my cousins on my mom’s side, Then we go home and have another gift exchange with all three grandparents, sometimes some cousins (same side of the family… it gets complicated), and the immediate family. Christmas day we usually go to dad’s aunt’s house to hang out for a few hours, then we have a giant dinner at our place (giant as in amount of food, even though there’s only 7 people who come). Sometimes we go to midnight mass, particularly if I’m singing, but I haven’t in a while.
I have two favorite hat patterns, Julie: Shedir (from Knitty’s Breast Cancer Awareness issue… this is the hat that in fall and winter is pretty much grafted to my head. It’s too big but I’ve gotten a lot of compliments on it) and the double-knit hats I do (the pattern on my blog). I made myself a double-knit one but it’s just a little too small… I wear it when I’ve washed the Shedir and it’s drying.
Karina - awww that’s cute!
Alright well pizza just arrived so good night everyone!
[B]Karina[/B] My snickerdoodle recipe is a lot like Gina’s but we use butter instead of shortening. (Very small difference, we just like the taste of the butter)
Thank you for the comments on the blog and stocking…I’ve had that one ready to go since April…but have I made the green/white one for Isaiah?? No 
