fo cowboys socks / blue steps

I finally finished some knitting projects.  I have been having a hard time getting much of anything done since this pregnancy started.  I have been working on these socks for my brother in laws birthday since Christmas!!!  I usually fly through socks but I just have no ambition lately.  My brother in law is a major Dallas cowboys fan, and since I made my hubby the vikings good juju socks, I thought it was only fair to make uncle Larry some cowboys good jujus socks.  Here they are in all their finished (finally) glory!!

After that I figured I better stick to some instant gratification projects and seeing as I am preggo what better projects then some fun baby goodies.  I dug through ravelry and my queue and found some great patterns to work on but first off I thought I would give this one another shot.

This is the pattern blue steps by regina willer.  I had tried this months ago and found it super frustrating because it didn't make sense to me. I went through all the helpful notes on ravelry and found blueknots to be helpful.(here is where I go into knitters language for a while excuse me if you are not a knitter feel free to skip this paragraph because it will make 0 sense to you!)  There was one are where the decreasing starts that I I had to look back and forth between her interpretation of the pattern and the original to figure it out.  The problem I was having was that it said work 14 stitches in hbs.(Half Brioche Stitch)  well that didn't make sense to me because the first round of hbs you make increases so what they meant was work 14 of the original stitches in hbs. so you split the 28 stitches in half work the first 14 in hbs and the second half is the decrease half.  So what ever I also found where you are supposed to work 10 rounds of hbs straight at the end I would end funny so I did 11 rounds then knit the 8 ss rounds. 

Well I suppose I should fight my nausea and exhaustion and cook for my family!  When will this end yuck!  Have a good day guys :)

11w

  

Well here we are 11 weeks I am getting so close to being out of the first trimester and hoping that my nausea will be gone along with it.  I have had longer spurts of energy and managed to catch up on laundry and get my house mostly clean for the first time in ages.  I also went to the cities quickly over the weekend, I got to spend some time with my family, and got my self a great little treat at teavana.  I will post more about that later.  

Other then that it has been pretty uneventful mostly lots of dusting and laundry.  Its library day and I have to get these girls there and take them to get valentines!  I hope you guys are having a great day :) 

valentines day mani monday

 hey guys here is my valentines mani monday.  I have been meaning to do this for a long time after seeing it on pinterest.  I went to walmart and bought 4 different paper punch shapes in the scrap booking isle (all of them were less then a dollar a piece) I got a butterfly, a heart, a star, and a damask one.  Of coarse I was looking for the heart for this look ..

I painted all of my nails china glaze ruby pumps which is a beautiful chunky glittery red and then painted my middle and ring fingers in china glazes make an entrance. Them once that was dry I ripped 6 small pieces of painters tape and punched holes in all them and put them on my accent fingers and did my thumbs too.  I painted them the alternate colors.  All I had to do then was throw on a top coat.  Here is the original tutorial I went off.

I hope you guys like the tutorial and give it a shot.  It was easy peazy.  I can't wait to try some of the other fun shapes I picked up :)  I will for sure share it when I get it done :)  Well off to finish the mountain of laundry I have been working at scaling all day :)  Have a great day guys.

10 weeks

Okay so here is my 10 week update.  Everything is pretty much same old same.  I had a migraine during the super bowl but I toughed through it and threw together a quick dinner but then after it was done and in the bowls I went to garnish it and realized the parm was moldy!!  So dinner went down the drain and the family had to eat salad!!  My hubby is soo used to me having a dinner cooked and the house clean I think this has been a bit of a culture shock for him.  But he has been really great and supportive through it all.

Other then that life has been pretty boring.  I have noticed that I think I am starting to lose less hair so maybe my thyroid meds are getting things back in order.  I have to figure out what to feed my family so you guys have a great night :) 

mani monday

 Happy Mani. Monday.  Today's mani is nyc sidewalkers and the tri accent is wet and wild bite the bullet. 

 

 Today hasn't been too bad of a day.  Last night I had a full out migraine but today I am feeling pretty good and everything is going well.  I am up dressed fed me and Fire monster twice already and even did some chores!  That is better then most days lately.  Speaking of Fire monster Benji went up to check on her before he went to bed last night and couldn't find her!!  She wasn't in her bed where he put her!  He found her here..

She had curled up in her "fort" under her desk and fell asleep.  Always keeping us on our toes that one lol.  Well I suppose I still have a ton of chores left I should be getting done while I am feeling well enough.  You never know when you are going to start to feel crappy again.  So I am off to do laundry and tidy the basement.  :)  Have a great Monday guys.

homemade 0 cal s.f. passion tea lemonade

I don't know about you guys but I am obsessed with the starbucks shaken passion tea lemonade.  I love that stuff.  But seeing as I don't have a starbucks with in a hour of me (actually more then that) I had to get creative this summer and come up with my own rendition of this little bad boy.

At first I followed some one else recipe that tasted more like the recipe but it still had allot of calories so I improvised. 

 My version is sorta a cross between the starbucks version and the sparkling caribou teas because it has some fizz. but unlike the 200 calorie and around 51 gram of sugar counter parts mine is 0 cal and sugar free! It is also caffeine free so I have been downing this stuff like there is no tomorrow for a nice treat for my prego bootie :) Here is what you need..

A box of tazo passion tea (I get this at my grocery store for 3$ and some change), a big pitcher, and a 2L of walmarts strawberry lemonade seltzer (.89 a bottle) .  

Now what you do is take unwrap 3 tea bags and tie the strings together in a knot.  

Now in the summer I would throw it in my ice tea pitcher on the porch for a few hours (or until I remember about it) but seeing as it is 16 degrees out side I don't think that would work.  So I toss a sauce pan of water on the stove and bring it to a boil  Set a timer for 5 minutes and let it steep. (removing it from the burner and turning off the heat after like one minute)  In the mean time I fill the glass ice tea container half way with cold water.  When the timer goes off I pour the tea concentrate into the water and fill the pitcher the rest of the way with water.   (This tea will be stored in your fridge.)

Okay to mix the drink fill your glass with ice then pour about half the glass full of the tea mixture

 Next fill it the rest of the way with the seltzer.

 After that you can add a artificial sweetener or another thing I love to do is add a bit of sugar free peach syrup.  Soo good!   I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I do :)  Have a great day!

whiskers is at it again

This is the new naughty business the kitten has been up to.  I was doing a girl friends hair the other day and he kept doing this...

Have a good day guys