I Feel Better All Over

Thank you all for your healing wishes.  I still have the cold but feel human again.  Just down to some coughing fits and using up those boxes of tissues but overall feeling so much better.   I hear from so many people how the colds lately just last and last and last.  Hoping its definitely on its way out and hope it stays out!

About those little mats, Julie asked if they were the Oxford punched.  Nope, just hooked.   I have done the Oxford punch in the past but I prefer using my hook to punching.  Just me  Oh and I had already hooked some of those little mats before I got sick - can't take credit for being creative while sick because I was a complete lump until I decided to pick up the needle and yarn and finish whipping them!

This past week was spent mostly at home.  This little guy is never happy when I start coughing so much he has to jump off my lap and wait for me to be done...

This little guy is still addicted to treats and always looking for them (i keep bags of them on the shelf in the hooking room and he gets them out and throws them at my feet!

He also has been spending time with me watching the boobtube...

And of course napping....

Well Tuesday night I decided to go to Bingo - I do like to play bingo and play weekly.  I was happy I went because at the end of the night I got this....

and got to yell this...

and then did this

I was over the moon - I won the jackpot of the evening and won it alone (which to even win is a rarity for me but alone! woohoo)  Oh and the jackpot of the evening was $1,000 and it was all Mine! LOL

Wednesday I decided to bake these Sour Cream Coffee Cakes...

And Thursday I decided to go to Grant Street, however they were having a 3-Day Dye Class so the Hook In was not going to start until the evening.  I ended up spending the day with Kathy,  We had some "designer" yummy iced coffee, I meandered around her house looking at all the treasures she hooked and stitched and sewed and then off we went to do some antiquing and junking.   I didn't buy anything but it's always fun looking and seeing what's out there.  We had a good and filling late lunch and then remembered it was Cinco de Mayo so before we went to Grant Street decided to stop at a Happy Hour.  Can you believe the 20 something year old waitress didn't even card us - The nerve!

Anyway - it was off to Grant Street for some fun and laughs as usual. There were still some stragglers from the dye class but a lot of the girls had left since they had to be back again today.  

I took my Flower Basket rug to bind.  I finished that and here it is all done.  I tried to get the true colors - the pic is a little off - it's a little more "drab" in person...

 I also received a cool "RAK' from a friend in my group this week in the mail - Mimi - she made these little appliqued/penny stitched ornies - aren't they cool!

So now it's Friday - today I'm hoping to get some hooking done along with some silly chores.  I want to run out too to find a Mother's Day gift for my Mom.  She's so hard to buy anything for so not sure what I will get her but will find something!

Happy Mother's Day and have a wonderful weekend.