End of the year...

So this is when folks normally make some nice philosophic post about what their life has meant the past year, what they are looking forward to in the New Year, blah, blah, blah. LOL Obviously I'm in a Bah Humbug mood and really don't have the time to make a post like that.

Gotta say Life is Good though. The past year was nice and we're still adjusting to my husband's retirement from the Navy. If he had still be in he would not have been here for the holidays this year. It was a bit odd to have him home for 2 Christmases in a row!

Things have been hectic and crazy through the year too. I never thought I would be busier once the kids were grown. I always (stupidly) thought things would settle down some.

I'm looking forward to 2009. I'm hoping to find a bit more time for some things I love to do. I'm also hoping to get back to regularly updating my blog. We'll see if that happens or not! Life has a way of "happening" and getting in the way sometimes.

Wishing all of you the best in the coming year!

Happy Holidays!

Wishing everyone the best of the season!

Life gets in the way...

So, I haven't forgotten about my blog. Life has just been busy, hectic, and at times annoying. I will try to update and post some pictures soon!

Knit One Save One

These are just a few of the hats I'm donating to Save the Children's Knit One Save One program. I currently have 30 done and am continuing to work on more. I'm getting close to running out of scraps though! Darn it. It's a little tight, so when I run out of yarn I may be done for the year. I'm trying to run down some yarn donations to continue making them. If you would like to donate yarn or know someone who will donate please have them email me at cleedesigns@gmail.com .

Color Guard again...

So I got a panicked phone call from our daughter the other week. The place she ordered the top for the one girl in her color guard called to say that since it was a special order it would not be delivered for 6 weeks. ugh They wait this long to get back to her on that?! Of course that meant mom had to come to the rescue.

The top needed to go along with the one I made for Allen. (see Poet's top) So I came up with this one. The red portion is made of the same red used in Allen's top. It is also cut from the pattern piece for the heart portion in the closer flags. I also used lace around the bottom of the top like that lace used on the opener flags. The red is sewn along the top and into the side seam, but the rounded side of it is loose for movement on the field.

The goats...

The top photos are of one goat that kept looking over the wall to see what our spinning guild was doing. He was so funny checking up on us and probably hoping to find food close enough to steal. The other goats we in various pens and were all friendly and sweet. I got nicknamed the "goat whisperer" because they all seemed to like me and would let me pet them.

More Fair photos

Of course I had to take photos of the cute little baby bunnies! They were so sweet. Then you have just 2 of the many sheep that were there. One member of the spinning guild brought 6 of her sheep to demonstrate sheep shearing. I didn't get any photos of the shearing or of the guild spinning.