Hi Everybody!

Great to hear from you Allaya, and hope to see the pics and hear form you
again soon Happy Easter God Bless Gwen


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Hi everyone!

I'm still around...kids have just been keeping me busy. "Terrible
Two's," as it turns out isn't just a clever title.

Anyway, still trying to settle into our new home. We sold our old
place, but it fell out of escrow at the 11th hour, so it's back on the
market agian. *sigh*.

Otherwise, someone backed into my car in the parking lot with all of us
in it. Nobody was hurt, but I was so upset, I immediately ran to the
yarn store down the street (the "unfortunate" thing about where I
live...I have to drive 15 minutes to get to a grocery store, but yarn
stores abound) and bought some Noro...then I designed and knitted Lammy
a sweater jacket out of it. hehehe. I guess it beats eating chocolate
cake, except for I turned around and made myself a giant chocolate cake
too, so I'm not only out $30 for the Noro, but I'm 5 lbs heavier after
it was all said and done! LOL

I found the local Wal*Mart and Lammy picked out two skeins of Red Heart
Plush, one hot pink, one bright lavender. Of course, who could say no
to a cute little 2 year old earnestly trying to purchase yarn (after
mommy's own heart, I tell you!), so we bought the two skeins, and I
designed and am almost done with a second sweater. Ironically, Lammy
doesn't like to wear sweaters, but they're so quick to make, I guess I
don't mind so much, just to get the experience in. I'll post pictures
later, and you can email me and tell me if you want my design notes.
(*I* think they're cute)

I've settled into a really small church in the area, and attend their
craft meetings regularly. Now, we're sewing some bunnies for social
workers to give to displaced children. We'll be branching out to teddy
bears and tote bags soon.

Okay, that's the run down in five minutes. Hope everybody's okay!
I"ll try reaing RCTY stuff through Google, so I hope it's not as quirky
as it used to be! hehehe

Allaya

"Allaya" wrote:

I'm still around...kids have just been keeping me busy. "Terrible
Two's," as it turns out isn't just a clever title.

Oh gosh, no it isn't. My second one is going through them right now and I'm
wondering how exactly I managed to survive the first time ... and whether
I'll survive this one. And the next, which will be sometime in 2008.

Hang in there, I guess. That's one thing that working with yarn does for
me -- keeps me centered during all the familial wackiness. The kids will be
going ba-gonkers, the husband will be tearing around after them, the cats
will be knocking over the garbage and spilling litter everywhere, and I sit
in the middle of it all trying to ignore the noise and working on a tricky
decrease or edging. Lacework is out of the question, but pretty much
everything else is doable. I'm not sure what it'll be like in June when the
newest little one arrives, but I can certainly try.

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I've settled into a really small church in the area, and attend their
craft meetings regularly. Now, we're sewing some bunnies for social
workers to give to displaced children. We'll be branching out to teddy
bears and tote bags soon.

Check out Teddies for Tragedies. A friend of mine here in town is a
Daughter of the British Empire and she gave me some information about it.
http://www.teddiesfortragedies.org/ is the website. She had the inside
scoop from several people who are in Doctors Without Borders and other
organizations that hand them out. It sounds like an incredible operation.
It's actually based in Canada, but somehow Shirley had a connection through
DBE.

Don't forget prayer shawl ministry. I just got a letter a couple of days
ago from another person who received one of my shawls and it's so entirely
worth it to me.

--Threnody
http://aff-the-fang.blogspot.com