i'm alive...

Aunt Doot arrived on the sixteenth and is headed back to North Carolina as I type. We've been BUSY having Girls' Night Out, Beer and Bead Making Night (where she and our brother, Nic, snatched beads left and right from my stash.), Sit On The Couch and Veg Out To Olympic Curling Day, Veg Out to Project Runway Marathon Day (she doesn't have Bravo in NC so we HAD to watch all of them. Even the ones we already saw a few nights before. It just wouldn't have been right otherwise.), etc.



Nic took this picture during one of his coffin nail breaks on Beer and Bead Making Night. My camera is super crappy and doesn't take nice far away photos, but you get the idea. The clouds looked like giant scoops of fluffy ice cream. Honestly, the first thing I thought of when I saw them was Crisco...how gross is that? And moreover, why on earth did fluffy clouds make me think of Crisco? Weird.

We also had a Beer and Rummikub Night. Holy crap, if you haven't played Rummikub yet, get thee to the nearest Walmart/Target and buy it today. It is as fun as it is addicting. Oh, and what is this!? A Rummikub word game...I'm on the hunt now.

Somewhere in between all the beer and vegging out I managed to make a couple of these little guys and complete the pattern instructions for them too:



This particular one is for a friend of mine, but the first one of these I ever made (over three years ago) is featured in my article in Country Marketplace (hits newstands next Tuesday!)

Okay, it's become too quiet as I've been in my typing frenzy here...must go investigate. More later...I've been tagged, I have pictures of stuff, etc.