Category Archives: Holidays

DPP: Day 23

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December Photo Project: Day 3

Ladies and Gents, we’ve have a fatality in the Tong household. While carrying in some heavy bags (filled with plates, incidentally) I managed to swing one of the bags right into the manger scene. Um, sorry Joseph and random Wise man, you’ve been beheaded. AND! I can’t find any super glue in this house. So, most likely I will put them back in the box and forget about it until next Christmas when I break out the boxes… and maybe by next Christmas I’ll have found the superglue.

DPP: Day 22

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December Photo Project: Day 22

My lame attempt at a gingerbread house. Bess’ was much better than mine. She built a castle, a CASTLE, people! With turrets and whatever those spiky things on the top of the castle are called! Seriously! (also, you should click on her name, it will take you to her blog where she tells a funny story about slipping on the ice while carrying 5 dozen eggs!) Anyhow, it was a cool house (yeah right) and then the roof collapsed, so I am made it into a shack, with a busted, crooked front door. A shack where the little blue gummy bear lives. (By the way, have you ever tasted a blue gummy bear? I hadn’t. But they’re kind of gross, and they taste like black licorice, of which I am not a fan. ) But hey, at least he’s got his chocolate rock walk-way in front of his house, so there’s not much to complain about, cuz those things are tasty.

My house smells like cookies… I’m not complaining.

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Ahh, my house is clean. Seriously, is there anything better than a clean house? (Except maybe a clean house with lots of fresh baked cookies?)


Made another (huge) batch of cookies for Paul to take to work, cleaned the house, finished Christmas shopping, all of the presents are wrapped, I am (mostly) packed, the dishes are done, now I’m just trying to decide which knitting projects to take with me on the trip. (This is difficult. Last time I traveled I took no less than 8 projects with me, and had time to work on ONE. Waste of precious suitcase space) but I am planning on a lot of downtime on this trip, so maybe 3 projects and a book? I can always go to the yarn store and buy more yarn if I am dying for a project.

Also, trying to learn how to knit ruffles… I am not impressed so far, seems like ruffles would be easier. Also, I love ruffles, why has it taken me so long to try them? Anyhow, this will be a ruffled baby hat, and I need to learn to knit a flower to go on the side. Why have I never knit a flower before? Huh.

Blogging might be light during the trip, due to the fact that it’s Christmas, and who blogs during Christmas anyway? I am hoping to keep up with my December Photo Project, I am pretty proud of myself that I haven’t missed a day yet! And we’re already on day 22, so I can do another 3, right? Or! I could take 3 more pictures today and then set to Auto-Post and just call it good. Is that cheating?

Well, off to make dinner and pack away all of the Christmas presents.

Merry Christmas!

Diagonali!

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So we have a winner, it’s now named Diagonali. My Aunt Cynthia came up with the name, so I’ll get a little present to her.

This is my father-in-law wearing his new Diagonali Scarf!

So here is the Diagonali Scarf  pattern:
Two skeins Cascade 220 color Slate
Size 6 knitting needles

Cast on 20 stitches
Row 1: *K2,P2* Rep to end of row
Row 2: *P2, K2* Rep to end of row
Every 4 rows move your stitches over 1 stitch,
So at the beginning of the 5th row P1, K2, P2, and repeating until the end of the row.
Repeating this until your scarf is as long as you want it (Mine was about 6 ft long) and bind off!

Twisty Scarf Voting!

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Ok, so I finished my twisty scarf, and now I will let you guys vote on which one you guys like best. I just can’t decide!


I’ll also be sharing the pattern later this week.

There was a nice bit of snow coming down while Paul was taking these pictures

And what I really like about this scarf? No blocking required! Which is good, because I finished it late last night and it’s going to its new owner this afternoon!

Ok! So now I need you to vote on the name you like best!
A) Twist and Shout
B) Diagon Alley
C) Tree Trunk
D) Cable Crossing
E) Licorice Twist
F) Twizzler
G) Hagrid’s Beard

OK! So leave me a comment and let me know (All of the names above are ones that were suggest to me in the comments when I first posted a picture of this pattern) And whoever had the winning name will get a little present. (That is unless it’s my name that is drawn picked, then I’ll send it to the runner up!)

In which I bake and try to be a good wife

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It’s finals week.

Yeah. So, that means that most of the time Paul is:
A) At work
B) At School
C) Studying
D) All of the above

If you guessed D, well then, wow! You are right. I am ready for finals to be done so I can have my husband back. Not that I mind that he is doing well in school and studying to ace his finals. No, no. This is good! So I try to be supportive and make him little snacks. Like cookies, with a tall glass of milk!

That there, that is the best cookie recipe I’ve ever, EVER, ever made. It’s Mrs. Jack’s recipe, and you girls from Faith Pres, it’s in the church cookbook! I’ve honestly never tasted a better recipe for chocolate chip cookies. (And it uses a whole 4 sticks of butter, so they better be good!) Let me know if you want the recipe and I will send it to you, if you are one of the unlucky few to have a church cookbook (worth their weight in gold, I tell you).

So last night, while cutting up an eggplant, I sliced my left thumb up real bad. (Not bad enough to need stitches, thank goodness, which is good cuz my insurance was up the end of November) but just bad enough to prevent me from doing normal things like washing dishes, or knitting at a regular speed. But there is so much yet to be done by Christmas…. sorry family, I had great plans for knitted gifts for you, but there are so many Christmas orders that I just couldn’t do it… so instead of being awesome and making everyone handmade gifts, well, we are lame and are giving you store bought things.

This picture sums up how I feel about:
1. Having two bum thumbs (yeah, my right one is still all messed up, too, FROM AUGUST!)
2. Not having time to knit gifts this year (I even had the yarn bought and the patterns picked out!)
3. My husband having finals week

So there it is, all of my whining is done. Back to regular knitting related posts tomorrow.

Nutcracker

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Whilst wandering the aisles of JoAnn’s today I found this little lady, 60% off. I just had to take her home with me.

She’s a pretty tiny little nutcracker, only a few inches high, but I think she is darling!