Random

Hello there,

So maybe my blog should be called "Random Ramblings" lol!! Lots of things have been happening. Little Ensley had strep throat and it was truly heart wrenching to watch her.  She's only 18 months old. Thank goodness she's better and we got to spend the day with her while Jenn & Dan took Elliott & Ethan to Imagination Station. Fun day for all!

Speaking of Jenn. She started an Etsy Shop! Willow Root Design It's a beautiful little shop and I can't wait for my first order to arrive. There's a permanent link on the side bar too so I hope you take a peek. 

Since I quit Project Life, I've been going through all my old albums and actually throwing away a lot of pages from my regular albums..albums titled All About Nature or Celebrations. No one wants those and the pages I do decide to keep, I'll put in my album. I had about 6 12"x12" pages along with a few 8.5"x11" pages sitting on my dining room table while I hem-hawed about throwing them away. Which I did yesterday. Now worries. 

Still struggling but at the same time I'm off to new creative outlets. Still knitting (which I'll never give up as long as my hands can take it) and I've started decorating and adding paper to Elliott's 1st Year album. It's so cute! I will post pics here of the album before I add her photos to it. 

My color-work socks are still coming along. I'm determined to finish them although I'm not sure I LOVE the process. I really don't like knitting them on magic loop because the 2 gaps-one at the beginning of the row and the one half way through with the floats is super annoying. So after I got going, I bought a pair of 9" needles. They're metal so my hands don't like them as much as wood but there's no gaps!! 

Inside out I've learned really helps with tension and the floats. 

I'm now working on sock B as I've finished up to the heel on sock A. I will never finish one whole sock again and have SSS second sock syndrome. 

Sock A

Back in the fall I went to Amish country with Bev, Lydia and Linda. 

We had a ball and I was on a quest to find some macaroons. I ALWAYS used to buy macaroons when we went there and for some reason, the bakeries no longer make them 😞. So, I looked on Pinterest for a recipe, now these are the coconut macaroons, not the meringue macarons. Found the perfect recipe. These will definitely be made again..

YUMM!! 

So, some of my new creative adventures involve painting. Now..I haven't started yet and I did sign up for a class, which I cancelled after I realized, I don't want to paint with acrylics. Oh well. So, I have some watercolor paints, some colored pencils and I'm really interested in Alcohol Inks! Wow do those ever look cool. Very abstract which is what this perfectionist personality needs. 

I have a wandering jew that needs to be pruned and repotted tomorrow. Here's a pic from July last year when I got it and today 😳

So, that's about it. As always,

Thanks for stopping by.