Yesterday, Burton and I had the pleasure to be invited to share our friend Julia’s birthday. The evening started out by meeting Julia and her husband in Lenexa and going bowling. It was awesome. Bowling is so much better with beer involved. Burton and I had pathetic scores, but we were enthusiastic about it. I was doing a lot of, “OHHHH!” really loud and high-fiving whenever anyone got a strike, spare, or gutter-ball. Then we headed out to Mi Ranchito where we had delicious chips and salsa and I had a not-so-delicious burrito. I made the mistake of finishing it tonight, and it is NOT sitting so well. After dinner, we went to The Red Balloon in Shawnee to partake in some karaoke. Unfortunately, I was the only one who sang. Burton had a case of the nerves. Julia said she’d have to drink A LOT to sing, and by the time everyone had a few drinks, it was too crowded to get songs in. I sang Radiohead’s Creep and Bonnie Tyler’s old stand-by, Total Eclipse of the Heart. (Lisa, c’mon! Another karaoke and knitting party, please!) After karaoke, back to their place where we played…champagne pong. Let me tell you, Julia and Cole skunked us. Burton and I didn’t have a chance of staying sober. Then we played almost another round, but with beer and didn’t finish the game. I crawled upstairs and laid on the couch, about to horf, but never did. I thought I should eat something, but eventually crawled back downstairs to sleep on their air-mattress they graciously set up in case we didn’t want to drive home. There I slept until 8:30. We woke up in a panic because we had a 10:00 appointment at Home Depot to discuss cabinets and counters. That went well (I know you were worried). It’s almost 8 o’clock and I still haven’t had a shower today, but will rememdy that after the kids go to bed. I’m so glad I never went to a real college. I would’ve flunked out. Obviously, I am too old to party like this regularly. Haha.
Anyway, I made Julia the Bella Mittens for her birthday since she likes Twilight as much as I do! I made them in Plymouth Encore, color 520. It’s a deep charcoal. Since I’m classy, I wrapped them in foil and tied a bow out of the free wool I got from Dee Anna. (I kept forgetting to buy a gift bag.) She liked them (?) and now her friend wants me to make her a pair for some $$$. Excellent!
My AWESOME mother-in-law came up and watched the girls for us Saturday and I asked her to bring a blanket I made for her about 3 years back. I wanted to take pictures and post it to show y’all! I have actually made two of these (my sister has the other one). It is comprised of 42? (can’t remember) squares, using crochet. Basically just chaining and popcorn stitch. It’s made out of Red Heart acrylic in off-white. The pattern came from a crochet leaflet from Leisure Arts (obtained from my mom!) that I would bet money on it’s out of print. I really like it though. I would like to make one in red for my bedroom some day. It took a long time, but would probably seem really fast after MONSTER BLANKETA.
I miss my Dee Anna! We will have to get together soon to catch up on all the Biggest Losers we’ve missed!
I miss you too Lora! I have been crafting a birthday present for you and snickering all weekend long.
Dee Anna
Love the mittens! Love the blanket! And as you know, SO relate to the Home Depot pain!! I hope your cabinets make you happy.
Dee-YES! I’m sure it will be awesome!
Steph-It was relatively painless. After 11 years of marriage, Burton and I make a good team. What he forgets to ask, I do and vice/verse. We are just waiting on a labor quote so we know exactly what we will spend and then we will place the order. The only bummer is we will be w/o a counter top for about 2-3 weeks after they install the cabinets, because the counter top is special order.
We don’t have a lot of money, so we will be getting laminate cabinets (in white) and a laminate counter top. BUT, it will still look better and be more user friendly. I hate to dump too much money in this house, because of the location, and age of the house. I feel if we do too much, it will be over-priced when we go to sell. So we make improvements, just not TOP OF THE LINE improvements.
#1 You look friggin SKINNY modeling those groovy gloves
#2 That blanket is awesome – you *must* make me one lol
#3 Another party is in the ‘works’ =)
Lisa,
#1 YES! Thanks! Puking will do that to you…sadly.
#2 YES! For the right price! 🙂
#3 YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can’t wait!