Jo Knits!

Great day!

Well yesterday was a great day! One like no other great day since a long time.

The kids went to skate at the rink with dh and my mom. I stayed home a while but was going to go join them and skate too. I got a package from Cindy, (she's a WAHM that sells wool soakers) each kid got a handsewn pair of fleece mittens! It was a simply a gesture from her heart! WOW! I was floored, what kindness and generosity this person has. I ran, well slipped and slided on the icy sidewalks, to the ice rink to show the kids! They thought the mittens were great but alast I couldn't find my skates before leaving home so I sat on the bench while everyone else went skating.

Then my mom kept the kids and Carl and I went downtown. I had a big bill of 20$ to spend! ;) I was planning on buying one or two knitting magazines and some yarn. At the book store I only found Knit It and bought that! We then went to a crafting store and checked out the yarn. I heard that Patons Classic Wool felted well. Great, I thought, I can then start my felted slippers from Knitty that I'm so eager to knit! I even started my swatch as soon as we got home! The color I chose is indigo but when I look at the yarn at home it looks black, oh well.

This morning we got up pretty early to take the kids see a game of hockey played by young ones. Zoe would LOVE to play hockey with other kids but poor girl she can't skate without holding a big plastic orange cone! ;)

Then we got back home, made some nice pancakes for breakfast. Hey, that game was eeeeeeearly! LOL! Then I continued on my swatch. Weird it's not adding up, my gauge is waaaaaay off than the one on the site. See, I substituted the yarn thinking it wouldn't be a problem. Well, who am I to think that? ARGH! The Lamb's Pride wool they suggested is a thicker yarn! ACK! ;( Now I'm stuck with these 2 balls of yarn, they costed me 13$ plus taxes and I could've bought something else instead with that money! I am so, so, SO bummed about this! I mean, dang it! we are so broke and then I go out and splurge on myself for one with gift money and I buy yarn that ain't good for what I want to make! Grrrr! Ok so I could knit up a hat or a scarf but I don't want those! I wanted felted slippers that I could show off proudly and say *I* made these. ;(

Then there's the fact that I'm being hormonal! Don't even get me started and I BEG you don't even ask! If I have something to add, in due time I will. :X

Also tonight we rented one of the three free movies we got fromt he satellite company. We called them saying they have bad service and then got free movies! LOL! Anyway, we will still need to cut the service soon, at least for now we did cut on our channel selection. So we watched Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, well I didn't get it! I must be the only one who didn't "get" the movie but I guess I'm slow. What was Viviane's secret, what was it that her daughter did not know about all her life? I guess I missed some important conversation while I was concentration knitting Carl a washcloth! ROFL! It was a nice movie but I just miss the punch line I guess.

I still need to learn kitchener stitch! LOL! I'm dreading it but I need to learn it. It's hard to get all your concentration on something while the kids scream around you though.

Oh yeah, last night after buying the yarn we went to a 2nd-hand store, it's one that belongs to a big chain of stores here. Anyway I found some yarn there! LOL! I jumped on it and got some old Kmart neon orange and lemon yellow variegated 70% acrylic 30% wool yarn! 5 balls in all and 3 still had their original ban on them. You can tell this was bought way back when 'cause for 1- Kmarts have been closed in Quebec for a few years and 2- the balls sold each for 1,83$ at the time. I paid them all for the price I could buy one ball of yarn at a main retail store. That got paid with my gift money, it was yarn after all! ;)

I've been reading my Knit it! magazine and really like it. Just like I like the Family Circle Easy Knitting magazines. I did notice a lil'mag called Knitting Digest and they had I believe, 2 afghan patterns that I really liked but it wasn't worth paying aroudn 7$ just for a pattern or two.

Well tomorrow is dh's last day off before going back to work, it'll be weird to not have him around all day. I guess it might be for the best though...

Today it snowed all day, a nice and light snow. Zoe asked all day to go play in the snow, finally after supper we went outside and she made a row of snow angels on the front lawn. It looks so cute to see all those angels. She was so happy making them, I think she was beaming! ;) Lucas had a blast shoveling and I'm thinking tomorrow we'll be spending some time playing in the backyard!

Oh yesterday I received a gift from Valerie! She just came back from a week in Cuba with her boyfriend. They brought me back a very cute wood box that has a burned landscape and the word Cuba on it! It is VERY cute, I really appreciated the fact that she took time to think of me while on her vacation. It touched me! :) Inside the box were 2 lollipops that the kids seem to believe are theirs! HAHA! Will I let them have them or not....? Well tomorrow IS sunday after all! They can eat one candy on sundays! :)

hugs and anyone got an idea on what to knit with 446yards of wool? LOL!