Wrist Warmers for Carolina

These wrist warmers are made from Alpaca and are very cozy, I made up the pattern myself using circular needles (the two needle trick which is GREAT!) I hate seams!! The top edges are K1 P1 ribbing and I created the thumb sleeve using a great trick I found online:

http://akittenknits.blogspot.com/2006/12/thumb-trick.html

I am planning on felting an old sweater and sewing a square pocket, Carolina had an idea to make a pocket on them to hold a "pocket warmer."

Beanie and Booties for Paola's baby shower!

What a fun project this was! Super fast too, I want to guess that my total time was about 1 hour for each bootie and 2-3 for the hat. The pattern is from a book called "Natural knits for babies and moms" but I added my own little touch to it. I made the sole be a different color than the rest of the bootie, i made the picot edge on the hat a different color from the rest of the hat and the little flower at the top was my thing too. I made it out of a chain of 5 bobbles. I used Debbie Bliss alpaca silk which is a blend of 80% baby alpaca and 20% silk, OMG the softest most delicious yarn...perfect for baby! I have enough left over to make one more set....this one is going to be a gift for my cousin Paola's baby shower...hope she likes it!

The NC Mountain State Fair

After a very STRESS FILLED week and a Saturday that was a normal workday for both of us, David and I decided to take a much needed break and check out this fair….OMG had I known the sheer awesomeness of it I would have taken my camera to get some REAL photos, not only was it carny-filled and a midway full of rides that weren't all rusty and falling apart BUT it also had your typical blue ribbon pie contests, preserves, clogging competitions and livestock galore. Tractor pulls, paintball arena....the list goes on and on. Of course a girl like me who grew up in Queens, NYC it was unlike anything i had ever seen before.....don't get me wrong we have plenty of great fairs but nothing like this.....Pure Appalacia Cheeese.....mmmmmm

Oh and by the way that is a 307 lb pumpkin and NO we did not try the frozen pickle pops or that scrumptious sounding corn in a cup BLECH.....there was also deep fried snickers bars...GROSSS

CRAZY gourd vine

At the beginning of the summer, my friend Lauren gave me a teeny little plant. It was 3" tall and she told me it was a gourd. I planted it in the back, didn't think much of it ...the thing has completely taken over my little hill, it is lush, and green and crazy. It's tendrils crawled up onto my pool area and actually entwined itself onto the pool cover (we never did open the pool this summer due to electrical problems... but that's a whole other story). This vine is reminicent of the monster plant "Seymore" in "Little Shop of Horrors." As you can see, the one gourd that is growing is the size of my HEAD!!!

Muddy Paw Adventures Part1 - Graveyard Fields

Roxy goes on her first hike of the season...4 mile hike at 5000 feet,

Graveyard Fields with upper and lower falls.

WHAT A PERFECT DAY!!! She is agile like a cat,

hopping from boulder to boulder with no fear... :)

My dog is PINK!