Can You Believe Tomorrow is February????

I just can't believe today is the end of January - didn't it just feel like Christmas - New Years! Heck even Thanksgiving! Wow 31 days into 2009 already! Time sure flies!

Well all the wool is washed and put in tubs - the tubs still sit in my living room! I'm not sure where to go with them - Have to do some serous rearranging in my hooking room to make room for it - Plus a lot of it I want to dye - so one of these days I plan on spending a day in the kitchen just playing around in the dye pots!

I went over today to get the rest of the wool! She had another full bag - Oh my - plus inside that bag was two huge patterns - old ones - and get this one of the price tags on the one pattern is $5.00 and it's huge! I'll get pictures later in the week to show you - If anyone is interested in them - they are on burlap (burlap makes me itch like crazy so i left them out in the car until i find something to put them in) and one is started! They are both florals by Rebecca Rugs - never heard of that! There was also some more cut strips. I will be washing some more wool but not for a few days! There was also a cutter in the bag - but it's a plastic one - haven't played with it to see how it works.

When I got home there was package sitting there for me and then I see it's from my friend Kathy - and I just knew it had to be great. Check out her projects on her blog, http://woolfind.blogspot.com/, she occasionally posts pictures of what's she working on (and she has a link to her Etsy store when she's selling stuff) everything she makes is wonderful! Next week is my birthday and she sent me the most wonderful items! She made me a wool tissue holder - how cool is this - it will go right in my purse and now hopefully I'll find my tissues inside of a ripped up ball of them! She sent me a redware ornie heart which is on my feather tree, and she made me a SNIPPET BAG - too cool - I love it and the fabric is a great old looking print! (I had asked her to make me one that i fully intended on paying for- sneaky woman this one!) , a couple pieces of hand dyed wool which is beautiful, and a utensil you use to get your hot teabags out of the pot - very cool - will save my hands and of course a cool kitty card! I'm so lucky to have her as a friend in my life! She keeps me laughing! So THANK YOU KATHY!

This past week i got right on making a rug for the women that gave me all the wool - I did a "sampler" look to it as she's a quilter - Not sure what her tastes were so just did hit and miss and things like that - The bird i traced from a pattern from Kelly Belfast and the cat from a pattern from Debbie St. Germain. So thank for the inspiration ladies. The pic came out awful - the colors are much deeper in person - the bird is really old gold with red and a darker tan background - all the colors are "richer" in person. I finished whipping this rug this morning and put on the label and took it with me to pick up the wool - I think she really really liked it! She said it would be a wonderful memory of her "donation".

It was a pretty dreary week weather wise but the sun's been out the last few days! Tomorrow is supposed to be warmer and lots of sunshine - I'm hitting the road to the Jersey Shore - it's nice to see the Ocean in the winter! Plan on spending some time with my friend who lives down there part of the week.

I'll end this with a pic of my two boys together this a rare site - I woke up in the back bedroom (I often sleep back there rather than our bedroom due to the pain i have at night in my arms) and when i move back there normally Riley follows me) Well sometime during the night Miles came in too! Too funny - i was wondering why i couldn't move when i woke up - I scrunched myself out from under them and grabbed the camera since it was shocking as Miles can't stand to be in the same room with Riley!