Friday!

Hello My Friends.  It's been a strange week and I'm so happy to drop in here to chat with you for a few moments.  I thank you all for your sweet comments and well wishes for my back.  I'm still sitting with ice packs and heat several times a day and have only been out of the house once this week for just a half hour or so.  I ran to the store between ice storms to get some bread, milk and fruit.  Then I've been inside again. It's a good thing I'm not one to go "stir crazy".  I love being at home.  It's where my heart is.  When I worked full-time, my heart yearned for home.  However, I would like to be able to be up and doing things. 

I haven't been doing absolutely nothing though.  I finished my Hermione socks made with Knit Picks Stroll yarn in the "Frozen" colorway.  I love them and they fit perfectly.  I did adapt the pattern a bit to fit my feet.  That's a perk when you make your own socks.  You can make them to fit the strange things about those particular feet!

I made a doily for my gift drawer.

I finished four more pairs of mittens.

I started another doily last night.

I also started a corner to corner blanket from left over sock yarn.  I'm not loving how it looks though so it's in hibernation until I make the decision whether to rip it out and start on something else or not.  :-)

I did get this in the mail all the way from Edinburgh.  I won it from C.C. and Dami at the Geeky Girls Podcast for their 52 weeks of charity KAL.  It was lots of fun. I also won a beautiful shawl pattern designed by C.C.  They are a mother/daughter team of podcasters who are Americans living in Edinburgh while C.C.'s husband finished seminary school.  It's a fun podcast to watch.

I couldn't let the opportunity pass to share Miss Piper with you.  She made this bird for Mommy all by herself.  Mandy gave her paper, scissors and markers and she brought this to her a little while later.  Of course, I think it's the cutest bird ever.

She has been struggling with making e's in her name and looky!  She finally did a great job of writing her entire name.  For a little one that just turned 4 I think she did a GREAT job.

A couple at our church went to California where the bride grew up to have their wedding with family on New Years Eve.  This past Sunday after church they rededicated themselves in front of their church family since none of us could be there for their actual wedding. Then there was a wedding luncheon with cake and flowers.  I, unfortunately, was unable to be there for that either because of my back.  I rarely miss church and I was so disappointed to not be there.  Our doorbell rang on Monday night and look what they brought to me.  A piece of wedding cake and flowers from the decorations.  Wasn't that sweet of them? 

"Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on His law day and night. Psalm 1:1-2

I love and care for each one of you my friends.

Blessings,
Betsy