Cute Chicks

My house is full of cute chicks and I don't mean just me and my daughters!

I checked for eggs this morning, but no luck...maybe tomorrow.

Sorry Melanie

I just realized that I never posted the picture of Melanie's dishcloth that I made for her and forgot to take a picture of! She very nicely sent me a picture of it so I can prove that I am a good sister. :-)

I don't know why, but I felt like making her a Martini Glass cloth...

Spring Has Sprung

Here we have the first sign of spring that happens around my house. I used the warm weather this weekend to wash TONS of sheets, blankets and towels and hang them out to dry.


Wow, that was an exciting entry!

So, Where Do You Start?

Where do you start when you haven't blogged in almost 2 months? I mean, things DO happen, but which are the important ones?

I will start with a party!!

Deanna from Taking the Scenic Route to Parenthood puts on the best parties I have ever seen! This one was a Murder mystery dinner party set in Napa Valley, California (wine, anyone?)

We each had a part to play and game plays out with scripts for each of us and clues we must figure out to discover who killed Barry Underwood (whose body was discovered under a wooden floor in the cellar...)

We arrived to a beautiful themed spread that I'm sure took our esteemed hostess hours of work to put together.



We had a great time eating, drinking and enjoying general merriment as we played out the murder mystery to finally discover who the murder was. I will not give it away here, but we weren't disappointed in the story line.

Here we have Ralph Rottingrape, Bud Wizer, Otto Von Schnapps and Papa Vito all dressed in their party clothes.



And here are the ladies...Bonny Lass, Marilyn Merlot (yours truly) Hedy Shablee and Tiny Bubbles.

Thanks Deanna for the great time and we look forward to next months party!

Car vs. Deer

So, I guess it could be worse (actually I know it could be worse). But I am still really sad. Just look at my lovely blue minivan with the missing eyeball. It is hard to see, but the hood is also cracked and not exactly down the way it should be. This is the price I pay for no rust...fiberglass that is pretty much unfixable without a really expensive trip to the body shop and those of you who know my husband, know that isn't going to happen.

And close up you can even see little bits of deer hair where a lovely working headlight and turn signal light used to be.

I am very thankful that no one was hurt. Paul was driving 3 of our kids and one neighbor kid home from church (try not to take the wrong lesson from that) and in an instant it happened.

Oh, and if you are wondering who won, the deer or the car...the deer is now hanging in our garage and will become many meals in the future.

(Yes, he did get a permit to bring home a dead deer)

Don't You Just Love Gifts?

These are the goodies I got in a swap I recently participated in called The Winter Wonderland Swap. It was through Knitting Help and it was my first knitting related swap. I made my very first trip to an Actual Knitting store to pick up yarn for my swapper and got to touch all sorts of great fibers I have only heard about from other people! LOLSo here it is all opened up and posed for a picture. Please notice the cute snowman who ventured across the country to move in with me...cute! I haven't used the Alpaca yet because I am trying to find the perfect project for it and I have a huge fear of messing it up!

So thanks again Riss for being such a great swapper!

My Alter Ego

I thought since some of you know that I have an alter ego, I should finally introduce her to you.


This is Amerielle. She is a level 44 Human rogue and enjoys sneaking up behind bad guys and stabbing them in the back. Lately she has been going the Thug route and carrying around that huge ugly mace, but you will often find her armed with a beautiful, shining dagger. She also has that large sward that she carries just to save time during her killing sprees.

She is very misunderstood as most people find rogues untrustworthy, but she is just doing her part for the Alliance.

Amerielle also has a few friends that I might introduce to you in the future. Then again, she likes to keep her business to herself.