How is this for an ideal club pkg...

I just got this in the mail yesterday. It is the "Chocolate Sock Pack" from Woolgirl and I am just thrilled. I can't wait to dive into the sock yarn, pattern and stitch marker. The box of chocolates is already a fatality LOL
You can sign up for all the Woolgirl offerings at Http://www.woolgirl.com. They currently are offering a "Cranberry" kit that is due to ship in January so get your order in by December 20th.. You won't be disappointed..

Been soooo Busy

Well I have put off posting to my blog because I hate to blog without pics and all of my cameras seem to have disappeared into thin air since our last move. We have now moved about 5 times since we got here to Montana but are temporarily settled in Kalispell just across the HWY from Somers. I have been working anywhere between 2 and 5 jobs to try and keep our head above water and to hopefully save a bit to buy a home of our own. Life has taken a complete 180 on me and I am doing all I can just to stay afloat. Thank God for my nursing degree. I do so want to go back and complete my bachelor's with the expectation of a Nurse Practitioners license on the horizon but there is just no funding for that right now. I once again have done my job so well as to put myself out of work. My bread and butter job is a 12 hour night shift which is now 3 nights a week and I take care of an 11 month old girl who is very ill. She is scheduled to have her trach taken out tomorrow and they will no longer need a nurse. My other jobs are all very part time so I have to hit the resume trail again and score another full time position. God is good. I have no doubt He will bring me to just the right job to meet our needs.
Anyway, Jason has gotten me a new camera which I will probably not have until Christmas but at least I will be blogging more after the holidays. I have been using this time at work to knit up a storm when the baby is sleeping and I will be getting pics and posting them of all my new progress. I seem to be loving lace lately and that surprises me as I usually don't go for the little fiddely stuff. LOL Take care all of you and remember to pray for those you love.. JoyB

Wow has it been that Long???

So I am back! I have had one hell of a challenge lately in changing states to Montana, changing jobs and homes and returning to Oregon to assist with my father's care. I am now back in Montana and trying to find work in nursing. I have several leads I need to go check out today but wanted to share an update with you first. I signed up for DishRag Tag once again. We took first place last round so I am hoping we will do well again this round. I have not had time to knit or quiilt or much of anything lately so this will be a wonderful way to make time and do some extra dishrags for a local shelter here as well.

I have found my next car!!!!

I absolutely HAVE TO HAVE this car.. JoyB

More Johnson...

This baby is just keeping me so thrilled with his charm and his antics. I had to share. Hugs. JoyB

Introducing Johnson

Since I have been back in Montana, I have gotten behind on updating my blog again and many of you have asked to see my new Min-Pin puppy, Johnson. So here he is. Such a sweetie. Hugs. JoyB

OMG!! You know you have it bad when.. LOL

You have to watch this. Don't bother to notice that this woman highly resembles me!! LOL

I know it is a little early

Heather has the chicklets this weekend and they had a Halloween party to go to but they had to stop here first. So I grabbed my camera and got a pic. Yes that is Heather. She had some swelling from a bad tooth and asked her mom for a new face and this is what her mom got her. THANKS MOM!! LOL

Brain Cozy pics

For those of you on KnittingKnook, you know that I just recently completed my first original hat pattern and dubbed it the Brain Cozy. I have been without a camera and unable to post a pic until just now as the Fed Ex cutie just dropped off my new camera !! YIIPPEE!! So here is my friend Rose modeling the Brain Cozy. Enjoy...

Glitter frrenzy with Martha Stewart

So Marilyn was kind enough to share a link to a video clip from the Jay Leno show in which Martha Stewart shows Jay how to glitter a personal photo. She also noted that she was not able to watch it again as it was not available in Canada so I am embeddeding it here so that hopefully you can all enjoy it. It really is hilarious and perhaps the only time you will see Martha Stewart with that "just had sex" look. LOL Enjoy.. Joy B

Oh how does this fit?? LOL

Son of DRT

I have to tell you that I am sitting here chomping at the bit to start the next round of Dishrag Tag. Our team is awesome and I sure would love to win it this year. Our team leader Amanda had her husband Jeff do a logo for us so here it is. I chose the name and everyone liked it so it stuck LOL.Thank you Jeff. It rocks!! Hugs. JoyB

Hermione hat done

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I just love it when someone thinks I am awesome cause I can knit. My dd, Sara Joy>

She was not here to pose for the pic so dd, Angel agreed to model it. I hope she loves it. I know I do. Hugs. JoyB

Always late LOL

I know I have promised quite a few updates but with travel and holidays, it has been crazy. I did want to post a few pics of my grandson, Jacob's, 3rd birthday. My Dd, Sara Joy, did a great job of putting together a pirate themed party for him at a park in Wilsonville and we all had a great time. Jacob opened his kite first and I could not believe that kid could get it up in the air and actually fly it by himself. Here are a few of the pics. Hugs. JoyB

Just had to Rant

Ok I had to share my frustration with all of you. This is the first socks I have tried to use my square needles with and THEY SUCK! Don’t get me wrong, I love the way they feel but it was taking me forever to get the stitches back on the needle to work them ( I am doing Magic Loop). The connection is so rough and the cables so soft that I had to literally pull on the cable while I moved each stitch over with my thumbnail!! I was thinking "okay I can do this" and trying to find a better way but not getting any progress. The last straw was that the last round I did I went to slide the stitches over to the needle and I was barely pulling on it and the cable came off thru the stitches leaving all but four of them just hanging free )(&$##$@#))+__&^^$$@!!&(. And so on.) So I run get my Knitpicks and put those stitches on it real quick so that I don’t drop any of them and then put the last 4 still on my needle on it too. Needless to say I then had to put the remainder of the stitches on the new needle and that was a trainwreck. I got it and have done three more repeats and it is fine now and I am going so much faster but I had to tell you.. Square needles and Magic loop are cause for much cussing and several shots of Bacardi!! Thanks for letting me vent. Hugs. JoyB

Incredible Socks

I have promised my dear friend Susan that I would post a pic of the socks and the sock she made for my tiny keychain for quite a while now and I have been so busy with travels that I have not gotten to it so here at last are pics of the Monkey's she made me as part of the Spring Fling swap and also a pic of the tiny sock and keychain. I can't thank you enough Susan. You are so amazing and talented. It is an honor to have met you. Hope to see you again next year. Hugs. JoyB

Scavenger Hunt Swap

My package arrived today from Danielle and it is fantastic. Thank you so much D for the goodies and for the laughes. I will starting on those amazing socks soon. Hugs. JoyB

Saturday night.. Those other two LOL

OK this one is for Kim in Mo... Many of you wondered what Lynne and Yvonne were doing while Kim and I were at the amazing Mexican restaurant drinking our margaritas. One guess.. Yep. They were being good. Here's the pic ( don't kill me guys, the other one was worse LOL). hugs. JoyB

A bit of an interruption.. Spring Fling

I am just going to post a quick "cut and paste" that I sent to my IQ group about my recent trip to St Louis this last weekend. The pic is of my dear friend Kim in Missouri and I on Saturday night. Pineapple margaritas rock !!


As for me I just got back Sunday night from a 4 day retreat in St Louis. I spent thursday getting to meet three online knitting friends and we all had so much in common. One of the gals is from the other side of Missouri and the other two drove over from Wisconsin for the weekend. I took two sock classes from Wendy of WendyKnits and I can now do toe up socks and am designing my own sock pattern. She is a wonderfully funny lady with a very famous cat named Lucy who has her own fan club LOL.

Friday morning we got on a shuttle bus to the yarn shop ( Loopy Ewe) and I was so good. I only spent what I had budgeted to spend and still came home with some luscious yarn. Kim decided to get the same yarn and we are knitting the same scarf with it. It has a silver thread that runs thru it and boy is it yummy. Friday afternoon was my toe up class and we were too tired to eat much that night so we nibbled off the buffet they had set up for us. Saturday started with a free period in the morning to sit and knit ( or sleep in LOL) and then that afternoon was my second class on sock design. That night we all took Yvonne's car and went into town and walked what they call Delmar Loop. It was wonderful and everyone there was so friendly. We visited a yarn shop called Knitty Couture and I picked up a little stitch dictionary to use for my designing and then the other three had to have one as well. I think we bought them out . Lynne's son is in the seminary there and she and Yvonne had gone friday to visit him and do some sightseeing and he had suggested we go to Blueberry Hill for dinner . So we did. The food was great and so was the music.

We walked around a bit more and did some window shopping and then drove back to the hotel to knit and chat and share all our goodies. The next morning Kim and I had to get up and out early to catch the shuttle to the airport as our planes left that monring. I got to the airport and got checked in only to find they has overbooked the flight and were seeking volunteers to take a later flight out so I did just that. I got out 4 hours later and was routed thru Dallas instead of Seattle but that was fine. I got a 300 dollar travel voucher that will get Jason and I both to Vegas and back in June for our anniversary. I also got to teach several ladies how to cast on and do a knit stitch while I waited and on the last leg of my flight.

God is sooooo good. I was so anxious about flying all that way by myself and I had no need to worry. I actually enjoyed the trip and can't wait to get back on a plane and visit again.

Sorry to be so long winded. I just couldn't wait to share with all of you the blessing God shared with me on this trip. Praying that you all have similar blessings and Praise God that He loves us. Hugs. JoyB

Texas Trip Day 3