Yarn Along

A post of my current read and what is cast on my needles ~ Inspired by Ginny over at {Small Things}

One glove down... one more to go!

This knitting thing is going better than I could have ever hoped now that I've completed one glove with the correct number of fingers *grin*. I'm just a little worried that I might not finish in time for his birthday this weekend!

I'm loving the pattern that I'm using as it is so straight forward. Nothing to complicated except for casting on a few stitches in the middle of your knitting but I found the handy little video on youtube that I've shared below showing me how to add the stitches and it is really simple :)

Now if only I could master how to read and knit all at the same time like some of you guys do! I'm reading Don't Make Me Count To Three by Ginger Plowman and loving it. So far it's on disciplining your children by getting to the matter of what's really going on in their heart along with using the scriptures and I'm learning so much from it :) I just need to squeeze in a little more reading time LOL.

Can't wait to see what you are all up to this week and last week Jen at S/V Mari Hal-o-Jen shared her Ravelry name and I thought it was a great idea to find yarn along friends and see what other things everyone is knitting or wanting to knit. So if you would like to be my ravelry buddy I'm RosyPosyy *grin*.

Hugs,
Rosina

My Little Farmer

Well actually he's really not so little anymore :)
He's the man of the family while his dad is away at sea and he takes his role and the big shoes that go along with it very seriously.

Oh my goodness he is such a BIG help to his mama!!
This year he has taken to splitting the firewood. I never even had to ask him. I think it may have been the lure of being able to swing the big splitting maul *grin* but whatever it may have been that called him to the firewood heap we now have 8 cords of wood drying in the woodshed :)

Lately he's been by my side in the garden planting the vegetables and weeding. I think next year I may turn the garden over to him and let him make all of the plans for what we will do as he shows so much interest in it and has plenty of ideas for what we should be doing! You know that old saying about 'backseat drivers'? Well I've got myself a big ol' backseat gardener! LOL.

Don't worry though he's enjoying his youth with gusto. Between the fishing, bike riding, tree fort building, camping, swimming, sister teasing and general boyish mischief he's having a really good time :)

Case in point, he's taken to setting booby traps lately and he is dead set on catching mama in one of them but so far I've outsmarted him every time *grin*. Actually it was just my good luck last night as he had rigged up a heap of boxes in the bathroom tied to the door knob just before he and the others went to bed knowing that no one else would go in the bathroom anymore but me. What he didn't count on was little brother making an emergency trip to the bathroom and he was the one that got bombed by the box wall! Haha, foiled his plans again *grin*.

Oh how I love my boys and my pretty little princess girl to :)
~ Rosina

Man Fabric

I just love having a good excuse to buy new fabrics and since my shop is seriously lacking in the manly fabric department I just knew I had to have these!

The outdoorsman in your family is going to get a real kick out of this one :) The comic strip style pictures have the funniest little sayings to go along with the graphics and are bound to please any hunter or fisherman *grin*.

Fabricland was conveniently having a sale on these manly gems so I also picked up a fish one appropriately named 'The Daily Catch' which I know my boys are going to really like. It's a win win situation for everyone *wink*.

I've got them all pre-washed and cut so tomorrow I just need to whip em up, take photos and get them listed in the shop :) Can't wait to see them in sandwich bag size!

~ Rosina