So I turned 28 yesterday.  I still can't believe it.  I remember being 15 years old and imagining how cool life would be when I turned 28.  Now, years later, I am still not cool!  Just older, pregnant, and more than a little nauseous. 

It was a pretty decent birthday.  My husband and son took me to my knitting shop and left me to shop alone for an entire blissful hour!  I stocked up on fabulous Rowan yarns, perfect for knitting fabulous little-bitty baby gear.  I'm very excited to get to work on baby things:) 

That's really all I got for today, just felt a bit like blogging (mostly so I could procrastinate a bit more before I get some exercise today).

Hey y'all!  It's been a long time since I put up a blog on here.  In the past few months, my life has completely gone insane.  My husband was offered a new job in Tulsa, OK.  Needless to say, moving everything across country was not a treat.  Luckily we're here and trying to get settled in.  On top of everything else, I just found out on Sunday that I'm pregnant again!  So, sometime next June, I will have my hands full with another little one!  I can hardly wait to start knitting baby stuff!

So, other than making Henry's Halloween costume and doing a bit of knitting, I haven't had much of a chance to be crafty.  I think I'm going into withdrawls...or is that morning sickness?  I can't tell.  Anyway, just wanted you all to know that I did not, in fact, fall off the face of the Earth!

My husband got me a Cricut Expression for Mother's Day.  He is so awesome I can't stand it!  He spoils me horribly and I love it.  Darin is the best!!

Ok...I've been procrastinating for days and days now about starting a scrapbook.  Last weekend I went on my church's annual women's retreat and for the first time a very dear friend was unable to go with us due to her leaving the area.  I vowed to make her a scrapbook of all the insanity and fun she had to miss out on.  Of course, I've never done any scrapbooking every in my whole life, thus the procrastination.

So today I picked up my pictures from Target and avoided looking at them all day.  Finally, I put Henry to bed (twice, because he seems to come up with new and amazing ways to avoid bedtime everynight) and I got to work.  My husband is out of town for work and I have made the biggest mess all over the living room floor.  But I LOVE what I've come up with!  I'm sure you seasoned scrappers will find my page simple and quaint, but darn it if I didn't crop like a maniac and I'm so proud of myself!

First of all, let me just go on for a minute about how much I love Stampin Up's paper selection.  I love to make cards and I think it was a natural progression to scrapping.  All the colors coordinate so beautifully and I think this first page turned out great!  Now if only I could convince my husband that I really do need a Cricut for Mother's Day...

Ok, knitting and I are back together.  It's been a rough readjustment, but we're gettting on like a house on fire now.  Of course, my embroidery and cross-stitching are sitting sulkily in the project basket, plotting their revenge...

Anyhooo....I need to take a minue to wax philosophically about hand-dyed yarns.  I'm not a fancy gal, as I'm sure you might have noticed, but I love love love to dye my own yarn.  AND since I have a wild 3-year-old, I'm not exactly keen on the idea of harmful toxic dyes in my kitchen.  Thus, I have found joy and contentment with Koolaid dyeing.  The most fabulous discovery since the dawn of mankind. 

This past weekend I was playing around with it and teaching my dear friend, Tiffany, the finer art of throwing wet wool into a pot full of koolaid and letting it boil.  Since somebody had been drinking my stash of dyes (namely my husband, Darin) I was left only with orange and pink lemonade.  I was a little apprehensive because I thought they would turn out kinda blecky, but I was plesantly surprised!!  Yay for new discovery!

So since I titled this blog "Sock-tastic", I should probably ramble a little about socks.  I love them.  I love making them, especially as gifts for other people.  Recently I made a pair for my friend Carrie (that were dyed with some grape koolaid, no less).  There's nothing quite like the reaction of someone who 1) loves to receive gifts and 2) loves the fact that you made something just for them.  I mean, c'mon!  Custom fit socks!  No bunchy heel sticking out the back of your shoe, no pinchy side toe pain.  Just all around fabulocity.  Yay for socks:)