A shot of them posing in the new ponchos. I added ribbon to the neckline to cinch them up a bit, it worked out pretty well. 

My beautiful girls. :) 

Arenne is too much, she is so sweet and wore her poncho all night. 

And here is the front. I am going to add some ribbon-I think-to the neck to cinch it up a bit for her.  

Here's the back of Arenne's poncho, it's a little big. 

It's not boucle

that is of the debil, it is fun fur. *twitch*

I really detest

sewing in the ends. A lot.

I have the first poncho sewn together, and am sewing in all the end strings. Then it's onto sewing Abbie's poncho together and those ends in. Then the fur fur. I will have them finished tomorrow, hooray! (About time too.)

One lesson I've learned, if your strips end up wider on one end than the other your poncho will be slighty off. Hopefully this will not be that noticeable when worn. Hope for me. And my children. ;)

All four strips, FINISHED! 

Phase 1 of Desk Excavation has begun

Halfway through, and I had no idea I had as much yarn as I do. WOOHOO! I am trying to get my area back to craft friendly, I set up shelves and am moving things around a bit. It makes me wish I had my very own craft room, but I'll have to make do with my corner.

Still working on the ponchos, obviously I haven't had as much crochet time today. We have our nephew over tonight and the girls are over at my parents for their own sleepover, I am way outnumbered by the boys. Football, video games, and pizza. Good thing I like all those things too. ;)

The Hawkeyes won again WOOHOOOO!

And the poncho saga continues

I have not had NEARLY enough crocheting time lately, so still working on strip #4. I must get them done by this weekend. It is my duty as a crocheter. And as a mom of two little girls who are waiting, not all the way patiently, for them.

Tonight is party night with Big C, he is raring to go, and WILL NOT be held, lest he fall asleep. We are listening to launchcast on yahoo messenger and he is dancing his cute little diapered behind off. My little wildman.

Today I had to go get a copy of the title to my old car that we are trying to sell. As usual, this trip to the DMV was filled with adventure. They couldn't find the title in their system based on my name. I was told to come back with the vin # and license plate #. The problem here is that I had to work today, so I planned on trying to get out of work early to go up before the kids get out of school. WRONG. Today was busy, the other waitress was sick, and the one who filled in could only stay until 12:30. Of course we were then busy, and I didn't get out of there until almost 3. The plan was changed to include carting four kiddos to the DMV. I bribed them with fast food if they were good, and hoped that maybe their presence would help get me in and out faster. On the way there I was very nearly hit by a FedEx truck, backed into by another truck, and had a car take up two spots so that the kids and I had to walk even further. (Said car pulled into both spots right ahead of me, and did not move over even though I was patiently waiting behind them. People are so thoughtful.) We actually made it into the DMV, the kids were pretty well behaved. Turns out that they had to call Des Moines for the title no. and will now have to make a new copy, which will take 5 days. My buyer was coming on Sunday. Scratch that.

Adaptable? Hell yes i am adaptable. With four kids there is not much that goes as planned here. In spite of my adaptability today was enough to shatter what was left of my nerves. I rewarded my well-behaved children with Burger King, complete with Spongebob kids meal toys, drive-thru all the way, treated myself to a latte, and we made it home.

It's a drizzly, rainy day, jammies were put on right away and we settled in for a night of book-reading and game playing, and to top it off some Nemo watching. Now if I can just get this rowdy little one to sleep so I can crochet in peace.

Here is the yarn I am using for scarf/hat combo. Lion Brand homespun and this yummy furry yarn for edging. 

Will illness ever leave my house?

With six of us living here, and having to each catch all the bugs, it seems as we are never fully well. Arenne is home sick today, she threw up last night, poor kiddo. It seems to be going easier on her than it did Colin though.

I am hoping to finish the second strip for Abbie's poncho today, then I will move onto sewing them together. I'm a little nervous about that part, as I've never done it, we'll see how it goes. After that it's fun fur time!

I have worked on the scarf a bit in the car, although not a whole lot. Still haven't picked the bag back up again, it's on hold for now. After finishing the ponchos I am making a scarf/hat combo to be auctioned off at sybermoms. I'll post a picture of the yarn I am using for that in a bit.

I won a wool yarn auction on ebay today, 8 skeins of white superwool. I've wanted to try koolaid dyeing for awhile now. I'll definitely need pictures of that, I'm sure it will be an adventure.

So I'm still working

on Abbie's poncho, but the more I work on hers, the more I worry that I am going to have to frog and restart Arenne's. I will have to try to get a pic, but one end is wider than the other, as I added stitches on both strips. Blech. I'm worried that if I do frog it, it will ruin the yarn. I think I can sew it together and it will be fine, but it's harder when you are doing two, that will be worn together, the differences will be very obvious then. So far I have decided to continue working on Ab's and then decide. (Which basically means I am just putting off the decision.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHELLE!

I have to have a message just to send birthday wishes to my good friend V. Hope the day treats you well, in spite of everything, and that you get to enjoy your weekend. :)

Progress so far tonight. :) It's going well. 

Strip one of Abbie's poncho, same kind of yarn, different color. 

Wooohooo!

Arenne's strips are done! I have started on the first strip for Abbie's now. I really had trouble with adding stitches with the boucle, hopefully I will get better with these next two.

Hopefully.

Blah Ha Ha!

So, today my mil came to pick up the munchkins, and I promptly conked out on my couch. I am feeling better today, no more spending half of my day in the bathroom. Yesterday was just tons of fun, I now have the entire bathroom memorized. ManBleu came home with a latte for me-a good, good man. He made dinner for us, the kiddos came home and I graciously allowed him to take over kid duty. Good thing, because the tremors decided to visit, and as usual I was very stiff and achey afterwards. I was also frustrated and down, and I am just pretty much fed up with all of this physical crap. I had planned on doing some mad crocheting and at the very least finishing strip 2, buuuut instead I sat at the computer, and felt sorry for myself because I couldn't get my hands to work.

After a few hours of moping, an M&M/Oreo blizzard, fun on my favorite websites, and a really great conversation with my friend Soop I am feeling better. My hands are working again, so I am redoing the couple rows I had to frog because I missed some stitches, and hoping I can finish strip 2 before I need to get to bed. (I really need to get there now, but I am pretending I don't.)

Wow, I am tired.

ManBlue is at the Hawkeyes game, having a blast. I am here, in my messy living room with four very wide-awake children. I wish they all still took naps. C is feeling much better today, he was a sick little man yesterday, poor guy. We had a rowdy night last night, please pray I get some sleep tonight. Hopefully the illness is now on it's way out of our house.

I've been working on Arenne's poncho still, over halfway done with the second strip. I am itching to totally finish it, but I want to stick with the plan of doing Abbie's strips next. I can't wait to see how they turn out.

Let's Go Hawks!!!

My good friend Michelle sent me these absolutely gorgeous wood crochet hooks, and some yummy yarn as well. I'm almost afraid to use them they are so cool.