Branching Out in Alpaca.

My Aunt had a coworker who raises alpacas and she knew I love to knit with fun yarns so she most graciously sent me some. She sent a ball of sparkly blue and one of a beautiful green for me to use and a black for me to make a scarf for her.
The pattern I used is called Branching Out by Knitty.com, it's one I have wanted to try for a while. My Aunt loves gardening so I thought that the leaf pattern would be perfect for her.



The yarn ended up going much further than I expected it to, so I was left with extra to use up. So I started making the least yarn intensive projects I knew how, that being mainly flowers. Flowers going well with the leaves and I, continuing to be left with more yarn that I intended after a project, ended up making several.


Flower Pin

Flower Necklace

Headband with Flower, modeled by the ever lovely Yorick.

College Girl

Yesterday was my first day of college. I have 2 classes twice a week, MAT 1111 (college algebra) and AHS 104 (intro to health care). I had about a half a class of math before the school shut down because of the snow, so I didn't get to my health class. My classes are at night, and in the mornings I babysit a little neighbor girl who's dad has classes the same days but in the mornings.

Church Christmas Party.

Our church has an adult Christmas party every year. By adult we mean 13ish and up, aka not likely to run around the room and put your hands in all the food.(just in case you wanted to know why Naomi was at an adult party, thats why)
Anyhow, Naomi had picked out some fabric that she wanted made into a dress. So together we picked a pattern and I was able to finish it just in time for her to wear it to the party. I twisted her hair up and lent her my pearls(she has pink pearls but my white ones went better with the blue dress)and my silver shoes. She looked lovely, very elegant. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of her at the party but these were taken right after.

This is Naomi tired of my fumbling with the camera trying to get it to take a proper picture. No, it was not posed.



This is me and my party outfit, which I also made.

Here we have Bishop Epps in his new miter presented to him by the Landon family. This miter is for the much loved season of Football. (for the full story see dads blog http://frjonathan1.blogspot.com/2009/12/bishops-special-miter.html and for a video see moms blog http://landonfam.blogspot.com)

Fish

I have some new digital fish. Feel free to feed them.

College Bound

In case you didn't already know I have been accepted and am enrolled at West Georgia Technical College, a college not to far from the house. I am starting this January, with 8 credits. We will see how it goes for the first 2 quarters, and wait and see where the family will be moving next summer before I make any solid further plans.

The Morning After

Curlers are very effective in my heir. Because I decided to sleep in the things (see former post for this one to make much sense) I went to church the next morning looking like a version of Shirley Temple.

Ok... so this picture is not actually the morning after but it's funny anyway. There was hair spray paint at the party and Jon told one of the girls there to have fun with it. She made what hair he has look like a psychedelic rainbow. This is the aftermath of the clean up of that.

Halloween Costumes

Our church threw a All Saints Eve party, and we were there with hair curlers in. Haha. Well, I had hair curlers in anyway.

Naomi was originally planing to go as little red riding hood, until I found a pair of lime green, fish net stocking on clearance in Wal-mart. I also happened to have just enough lime green fabric to make her a pair of longish shorts and a vest. Don't ask me why I got such a crazy color fabric, but I did and it turned out for the best. So she went as a frog princess. Mom embroidered cat tails on the vest and a frog sitting on a lily pad on the pants.

Naomi went trick-or-treating with a friend and not to the party with us.

Jon-Paul made a cross out of some scrap lumber we had, borrowed an alb and my purple bath robe, put a wreath on his head, and went as Jesus. He painted on a beard with some of my mascara. He doesn't look to bad with a beard, if he does say so himself.

He won the costume contest for the adults. The prize was a 20 gift card for Wal-mart. I of course thought that mine was the best but there is just no competing with Jesus.



Originally I planed on going in my PJ's and calling it a day. Then I got the idea to put my hair up in pink curlers too. A martini happened to work its way in at about that time. Then I searched through my moms make up and found blue eye shadow and the reddest lipstick I could stand. I was transformed into a 50's housewife, or as Fr. Epps put it, a once desperate housewife who had just given up.

Here we have us in the costume contest, with none of us looking at the camera.