I'm still trying to hold on to Summer....

Me and the Roses are refusing to give in to the call of cold weather. In this photo you can see the light dusting of SNOW! Rude indeed...
OK, ..... so it makes for a good photo opportunity..... but that's ALL.
(did you hear me? cause I was yelling a little bit there) he he he he

See I even have some color left in this garden of mine. Poor little rose buds, hoping for their day to shine.

Here is Prancer, coming over to play with her mommy in the grass. She was a bad girl yesterday and got into the kitchen trash while no one was home... she was after icky dried up cat treats. She chomped that poor plastic container to death!

I know this is a crappy picture, but I wanted to show you .......

'that my tree has BALLS' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, ok....I have been knitting, but didn't get pictures of that. I started making Konrad his own pair of felted slippers (cause he stole Randy's). And a surprise pair of hand warmers for Chelsea. (I don't think she follows my blog?) I'm going to send them to her in the mail, so she will get some 'fun' mail at her apartment, not just bills :)

The boys have had their Senior pictures taken and it has been very hard to decide which ones to pick from. They turn "18" on Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow.

Fall keeps fallin'

Does this make me look funny??? It sure is warm and it smells of silk.

The ornamental pear trees are dropping their pretty gold leaves

This is a good Halloween photo,

now scroll down to the next photo and .....

BOO!!! Did Purl scare you !?!?!?!?

She was so funny, trying to be in all my pictures

No knitting here.....

I bought some yummy looking plums at the farmer's market,
and made a Delicious Plum and Blueberry Upside down cake,
recipe compliments of allrecipes.com.
Yes, I ate 3/4 of this whole thing by myself..... it was THAT good.
And I have enough plums to make another : )



This is my pretty prancer enjoying some fresh rain water, she loves photo ops.

Fresh flowers from my thoughtful husband.

Can you see that I actually caught a picture of a bee in action, with my measly camera!!!

And this photo shows the autumn colors in my yard, during a lovely sunny day.

PLEASE let there be more sunny days.

I LOVE these Socks!

After visiting a friends house, I decided if her walls could talk then so can MINE !!!

Here is what it looks like in my house...can you see it over my back door. I thought this was a good place, heading out to the pool.

And here are the socks that are so very cool. Do you love them??

The heel is the cutest thing ever....

And look how cute they are on!! I had to be a contortionist to take this picture of myself !!

Anything for my viewers : )

They are the best fit ever. AND the pattern is free!! Knitty.com !!!

Purl can't stop meowing about them either!!!

Wearables !!!

I finished this sweater earlier in the year (before blog) and I get compliments EVERY time I wear it. It was such an easy, fun garment to knit, that I swore I would make another.......but other prospects come around and poof ! It fall out of the loop. And here is the long awaited sweater !!!!! Top half is knitted and the bottom half is crochet!! Make sure you click on the picture to see it up close.... but don't look at my funny face :}

Sunset on Summer

O M G !!!!
This is the sunset coming thru my craft room window, check out the awesome glow !!!

So naturally I had to run outside and catch a few photos for you. This one is on the front porch.

This is just seconds later, as long as it took me to walk to the front yard and the sun has dropped out of site. Can you believe all these colors?? Phenomenal.

Ran thru the house to the back yard..... no more purple, turning to black now.

And I couldn't let the day go by without showing off the new crazy sock!!

Isn't it the cutest thing?! The pattern says this part is like doing a hat with ear flaps!

Can you see that?

Here is how it fits the heel.

Next step is picking up stitches to do the foot, then pick up stitches on other side and work the leg. This way is great because you can finish out the skein of yarn making the cuff as long as the yarn will let you, no more second guessing and no more left over sock yarn !! win win

For those of you that know me well....YES, those are my real nails!! For some reason they are growing and I am not chewing them. Savor the moment :)

Autumn has fallen.....

The closing of the Pool..........may we bow our heads in prayer........that Spring will find its way back SOON !!
I do not like this day, and every year I push the closing date closer and closer to October. On the knitting front, I have finished and blocked a sweater that was left for about a year and a half!!! I know, awful huh? Part of the reason was because I had tried it on and the arms and armholes were on the tight side,,, surely the yarn did not shrink as it sat waiting, surely my arms have not gained in circumference....

Well, I decided to suck it up and I washed it and blocked the $#@)(#$*&)@*)&)@(!#*)($ out of it (it's cotton, will it continue to grow?) The color is a pretty turquoise, it's this dang Fall lighting (or lack there of) that made these pictures look grey... ANYway, i tried it on and WOW!! it fits!

I haven't got up the nerve to start the sleeves of my striped sweater yet.....I should do both sleeves at once and I can't wrap my head around that yet.....so I started a new sock pattern instead....I know 'that doesn't make sense', cause the sock took more brain power, anyway the sock is going ok, on this pattern you start at the heel!! check it out over at knitty.com

I made a necklace, its full of everything, Sterling Silver findings, wire, charms and tons of stones that only my brother can name ! :)

I am very happy with it

It felt very good to sit and create such a wild piece....I think a matching bracelet might be next!