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Iowa WIPs

So we landed here last night and the dang hives were back with a vengeance, I think it may have been due to traveling, leaving our kids to go somewhere far away from where they'd be with my parents, or something along those lines.  I've never been freaked out about traveling before, but we've never really left them behind either.  And we're pretty far away.

Well, today I woke up okay so I got to spend the day visiting and playing cards, drinking yummy hot chocolate and working on WIP's which are going to be cowls for myself and my sister in law.  Mine's the darker green.

Wish me luck, tomorrow I'll be spending the day with my mother in law, whom I am nowhere near like, and get very stressed out near.

I'm going to try to work on some new dolls too.

Image overload

:: What's been going on the last couple of weeks, save the hive thing ::

:: My aunt's chicken potholder that I finally finished, from my Japanese Potholder book with some adjustments.  I made the body and the head looked ridiculously small, so I increased it a round and added more to the comb.  And since my cousin thought it looked dead with the X eye, I made her sleeping instead. ::

:: First day of preschool ::

:: Camping at the beach, this was the first day when we took a walk around to see what was what, obviously they couldn't wait to put their swimsuits on :) ::

:: The next morning, both of them wanted to be buried in the sand, and both stayed there for around 20 minutes without moving.  My husband and I were sort of just standing around twiddling our thumbs waiting for one to want to get out ::

:: Then tons of food, this was my plates shared with both of my little ones, so that we'd be able to get to...::

:: Tons of cakes, this one a raspberry cheesecake with white chocolate- I don't remember exactly, I didn't taste this one ::

:: Nor did I taste this chocolate mousse one, I was saving all the room for... ::

:: THIS! I LOVE fruit tarts more than any other dessert, and this one always is fabulously delicious! ::

::Here's the other chocolate one, there was a bit of a chocolate overload because of this little chocoholic's 80th birthday ::

:: My grandpa turned 80, so we had a big party over at my aunt's house. My grandma was sitting on his lap cracking up over some hilarious joke I was telling.  Nah, I think he was just pinching her tush :) ::

:: My little girl's been really into mermaids lately, so here's the latest doll.  The pattern'll be available soon, I'm not done with her yet.  I have to finish the hair, and embroider on her, she won't be topless either. ::

:: I'm still not finished with the flower blanket pattern either, hopefully I can get it done this weekend, but I'm really shooting for availability around the first week of September.  ::

:: I think that's it, the hives are gone too. I didn't really think anyone would want to see pictures of that though!  That really freaked me out, and I'm trying to figure out what's going on with it.  I ended up having a reaction to the medication I was prescribed, so I had to go back to urgent care since my hands swelled and felt like they were on fire, and instead of the rash going away, it had gotten worse.  Thankfully that's gone away since I stopped taking the medication, I think I'm going to have to do some sort of food elimination thing to see what's up. ::

Japanese Craft Book- ISBN-10-4309280684 ISBN-13- 978-4309280684 shawl, stole, marguerite

How pretty are these?  I'd bought this book because I couldn't stand how beautiful all the patterns are, but it's one of those things where these type of patterns just don't fit into my lifestyle right now.  I wouldn't want my little ones getting a hold of these if I did actually make anything from this book.  Nor would I have anything to wear these too since most days are jeans/khakis and t-shirts :)

This book includes knit & crochet patterns

This first pattern shown is a knitting pattern.

All the yarn used in these projects seems so light and airy, they drape so beautifully.

I wish I had occasion to make and wear some of the things in this book.

I always think that I have so much more time to make things like this than I actually do. I suppose that when my little ones get older I can get around to spending time making beautiful things regularly, but for now I guess it's all going to have to be eye candy for me.

Japanese Crochet Pattern Book- 10 digit ISBN 4861912016 13 digit ISBN 9784861912016 Desserts and Food theme- keito no tei taimu fujita tomoko no nitsuto ru mu- 毛糸のティータイム

Another book that I couldn't wait to get & drooled over every time I saw projects made from it, and then opened only a smattering of times to admire but never ever make anything from. Nuts! These are really fantastic projects.
 
Yum!- what a perfect front cover.

Back cover

a lovely "pear" of ideas :)

I really wanted to make this

an apple coin purse

pattern example.

This one is definitely one of the most beautiful crocheted fruit/food books I've ever seen, I wish I had time & the inclination to actually make some of these projects.