4th of July

Phew, it was a great weekend! Four days off work and mucho time to do lots of things.

On Saturday, the girls and I went shopping at an outlet place . . . but managed not to buy many things. The girls were babysitting for a friend's grandchildren and spent the night.

On Sunday, Z-man and I worked upstairs. I reorganized my stamping stuff and updated my stamp binder. Plus, I started hemming Dave's shirt sleeves. He hates wearing long sleeve shirts and I had told him that I would hem his recent long-sleeve shirt purchases. What a pain. It took HOURS. Long sleeve shirts are blousier than short sleeve shirts so you have to make some adjustments and then there just isn't much ease to hem with.

I also finished Wendy's Lucy bag and felted it . . . I will add pictures later. I also finished my bowl for my One Skein SP . . . will add pics later. And, made another smaller bowl with the reverse colors. The second bowl I started and finished Monday evening although it still needs to be felted.

Some of my siblings and some of their children came over yesterday for a picnic. Other friends were supposed to come but they had a flood in their basement and were moving furniture and sopping up a mess. Anyway, those of us who were at the house had a great time. We ate lots of food and drank gallons of coffee . . . which might explain why I was still tossing after midnight. Well, it was that and the fact that the girls went to some fireworks display. I went to lay down at 10:50 and they weren't home. Kept listening and tossing and checking to see if maybe they had managed to sneak in while I wasn't looking (or hearing). I must have dozed off for a couple of minutes and then it was 12:10 and I checked again. The car was in the drive AND they had managed to get to bed quietly!

After everyone left, Dave and Z-man and I sat on the back porch and I balled the yarn for Z-man's Wallaby sweater. Z-man played and had a great time. He is so very fun to be around and is a very sweet kid. I also started his sweater on the bus this morning. The instructions are very clever in that they suggest that you start working the sleeve in order to check gauge.

Anyway, I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful 4th of July. I know that I did.

p.s. I forgot about some of the cool stuff that I got from my Secret Pal . . . I got Margarita Jelly Beans (already been consumed but the tin will be great for little do dads and such), a really cool pencil holder which Lindsey will want but can't have, Strawberry lemonade mix which is staying at the office and two skeins of the Cat's Meow Paradiso which I think will be perfect to make Fetching {http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer06/PATTfetching.html} from the new Knitty.