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50$ and baby knits

Yesterday the kids, my mom and I, went shopping downtown and bought nothing I was out for! LOL! I resisted buying the backpack at Gap when I saw they had at least ten of them, when friday there was only one. Then as a spur of the moment thing we popped up at Veronik's door. The kids had a blast playing together and my mom, V and I got some grown up talk going on! ;) Only once you get kids and stay home with them do you value the opportunity to talk to other adults in a day. LOL! Carl joined us there and even brought a yummy homemade seafood pizza with him. This was one of those "I'm so proud he can cook" moment! teehee! We were all so hungry, it was nice for him to bring good food along. The kids sure were happy to finally see daddy too, they hadn't seen him all weekend.

Now tonight..... at 10pm I get a call, it's that 'dh' of mine (not dear!) once again he will have not come home like he said, his cell phone isn't working and there is now way to reach him. So finally after waiting a few hours for him, I decide I have enough. We (my mom and I) went along with our lovely evening, the kids were really happy, we went out and they were so well behaved (we were lucky). LOL!

As for my morning, I had a BLAST making 50$ in two hours. :) How you asked? By doing what I do best, be opinionated. LOL! I participated in a survey about advertizing, it was so much fun. Before it started, in the waiting room I was knitting away on a baby bootie. I could feel the looks on me but instead of being shy, I just smiled and kept on knitting. Once the survey started and after saying that knitting was one of my little pleasures in life. Others said how they were impressed seeing my fiddle with the 5 needles at once. I was beaming! :) So the concensus was that American ads were funny but most were done with the cookie cutter 'model'. The young and cute girl saying how eyelash g-r-o-w when you apply this brand of mascara and that hair product ads just aren't really convincing! LOL! Ok, we did talk about mostly french ads and talked much more about those. We were taped and people were watching and listening in our survey comments from a 'tricked' mirror. I just had so much fun and can't wait until they call me back to be a part of another survey. :)

Now, what about knitting? Well said bootie has been completed and sadly it is HUGE, that's the kind of thing that will make me wonder if I can really knit or what!? Gosh, can't I even knit the most basic item, a baby bootie? Sheesh! I did get courageous and started the EZ Baby Surprise sweater anyway, hopefully, it'll come out better. ;)

Last pic is simply of little stitch markers I made myself, I could make these all day. I still don't have the hang of wrapping the wire around the little headpins but they are usable and I love them. :) Oh, I found coilless safety pins locally. For once I found something knitting related at somewhere I didn't expect. LOL! Anyway, here I was jumping up and down in the beading section of the crafting store. This store has a total of 50 yarn balls and that's about it, half of it is acrylic and the other half is Paton's Classic Wool. So I got the yarn for Zoe's felted mittens, now I just need to knit them. They will wait until I finish the baby sweater as the pregnant mom is about to burst! ;)

hugs, wednesday is a very "busy bee" day for me.