Why I love Sundays

This is why I love Sundays

Especially Birthday Sundays

A typical Sunday is spent getting ready to have this kids over for Sunday dinner  but this day I had the whole day to  just sit and enjoying spending time and knitting and visiting.

this is to me is a gift greater than anything that I can think of,  spending a day " My day"with my Family and look we had a little knit along as my oldest learns to crochet and is now working on a blanket for JT. Yup it was a good day

my family all under one roof just spending time together.

I didn't get a picture of Son Shayne he spent his day sitting on the computer putting tons of pictures on a memory stick for a digital frame that I got as a gift from my Daughter Autumn.

 Hubby was manning the grill making a great birthday dinner ( Steak a Shrimp )

yeah it just doesn't get any better than this

Sun Pickles

Have you ever made these?

They are sun pickles we were given the recipe last year and were so excited to make them again this year, they are super simple to make and so good. I like to use the bigger pickles that are too big for my regular canned dills.

The Recipe

6 1/2 Cups water

3 1/4 cups vinegar

1/4 cup canning salt

1 tsp. alum

a couple heads of dill

a few cloves garlic

Stir all ingredients together until salt is dissolved and pour over gallon jar of pickles.

Set in sun for 3 days and your done.

Store in refrigerator and enjoy.



In the Garden

 We have been busy in the garden.  since we live about 10 miles away from our garden its been a bit of a challenge getting there as often as we would like
 
 so things get away from us very quickly.   when we are there we have a great time chatting with chickens that provide us with eggs and

 harvesting all that we can get into the truck so that we can get it put up.
I've done quite abit of canning this year already and I haven't even started with the
Cucumbers and tomatoes

 these pictures were actually taken about a month ago.  The garden is quite a different place now.
I'm  always amazed at how quickly everything grows!

Looking forward to getting back there in a day or two.
How is your garden growing?

Summer!

A Busy summer finds us in the garden often weeding and havesting with help from littles JT loves to pull weeds with Grandpa!

we have lettice that is comming up great for us

I found a new canning book/magizene that I'm having a great time with. It has so many great and different recipes in it along with some great gift giving and packaging idea's

and a simple summer knit that I work on inbetween all the rest of the summer fun.

Have a great week!

Well I've finally taken pictures of a top that I finished up a while back I was having a hard time finding a top that went well with the necklace that my daughter made for me.

so I descided that I needed to knit one up.

Its perfect for summer and Im haveing a great time wearing it!

Details are here

Have a great weekend

Summer Knitting

Along with all the other things that go along with summer fun I'm working on a summer top that Im hopping will be as pretty as the picture also did up a couple of dish cloths with some left over cotton linen yarn that I have

Hope to get pictures of the garden soon

Finally Finished

Well, I finally finished that sweater that I started last June I'm happy with the way it turned out and think I will have fun wearing it this next fall

I love the different textures in the piece. The original pattern called for a button band down the front but I decided on a belt instead as I know that I would not take the time to button up all those buttons. A belt is just so much quicker.

Details for this sweater can be found here

Have a great weekend!

This Week

This week I got a couple of things done I took the red off this wall and replaced it with white (I know Mom, you don't like it white) and you would think that with all the snow that we have seen this winter I wouldn't want it white either but I was just feeling like it needed to be white right now, clean and fresh. Oh yeah and the paint was left over from another project so it didn't cost anything. I also picked up this set of wall words at JoAnn's when I was there picking up some items for a client. They were 19.95 but I had a 50% off coupon so for $10.00 I've got a new wall.

and I'm finally getting to a project to use up all my little left over yarn bits Its a little Blankie for JT. I think he will like all the bright colors for when its nap time. It's also something to keep my hands busy til my yarn shows up for my next project!!!

Have a great weekend

Finding Summer

Thought I'd share one of our projects from last summer ... since I'm missing it so much! this is what we started with, its the space in front of and under our three season porch its always been an eyesore stuff just piled there because its a good storage space but it looked like Hell!

I came up with a plan ... complete with a drawing for hubby and we went to work. This part was my job. I spent a week making a path by digging up and seperating 30 years worth of rock and dirt to make a path that I we could line with plants and lighting .

Hubby made some removable panels according to my drawings and then I painted them and he hung them up

and there you have it and I love love love it its clean and pretty and I can wait to see how the Hosta's ( the plants that line the path ) do this summer when they fill out a bit more. oh and I should have taken a picture at night when the light's are on.

yup I'm ready for summer !

Hats

Getting a few more things finished up for Birthday gifts. I thought some fun hats for my niece that just turned 7 ... one for summer using this pattern and one for winter using this pattern both were fun and easy to put together. for the knit hat I used sock yarn from my stash two strands held together. for the summer hat I used a fat quarter bundle that I found at Wal Mart
and something fun for mom this hat I made using an old hat that I took apart to use as a pattern and the scarf I found a tutorial here

Yup I'm still stuck on the whole hat thing... I'm having one problem with them though for some reason I cant seem to get the brim on straight and I don't know what I'm doing wrong!!!

if any one out there has the answer I would love to hear from you.

have a great weekend.