Little visitor swap

I've joined a swap on my favorite website, craftster.  It's called the Little Visitor swap.  Basically, I get to send one of my stuffies ( in this case I sent 2, they're twins), and in turn my partner sends me their stuffie.  I get to carry this little fella around for the next couple of months.  My partner is sending me a sock monkey that she made, named Miles.  I sent her amigurumi, and they're names are Fred and George.  Yes, just like the Weasley twins from the Harry Potter books.  Their my favorite characters and the yarn I had made me think of something their mother might make a sweater out of.  Yes I know Fred died, but they're my dolls and this is them before all that bad stuff started happening.

Here they are.  When they get home, I'm gong to give them limbs.  I think they'll be cuter with the limbs on them.  I just didn't have time to make them before they left.  Fred is the one with the silver eyes and George has the green eyes.  I did this in part because I only had 1 set of each and because the silver one's look like they would belong on a corpse.  I also gave them red hair.  I think it makes them look REALLY cute!! 

I can't wait for Miles to get here, There's going to be so many pictures!  I'm hoping he'll be here before friday because we're going to Sand Lake for Memoial day and it would be a perfect way to start off the swap!

Ok, well, now to get back to my other swaps.  I need to get them all done before I go on vacation otherwise I won't be able to finish them.

Happy Thrusday everyone!!!

Had a blast with my mom!!

I've had such a blast with my mom this visit!!  And no, it's not because she spent all kinds of money on me.  We've had such a great time together!  If I haven't been at work or sleeping, I've been hanging out with her.  It's been really nice hanging out with my mom.  My daughter's been haging out with us to.  I'm so glad she was able to come up.  I think this has been one of the best visits, if not THE best visit I've had with her.  We've been talking, sharing stories, hanging out together.  I guess it would be considered typical mom-daughter stuff.  I've never really hung out with my mom like this before, and I have enjoyed EVERY minute of it.  I'm gonna be really, super sad when she leaves.  I'm  getting teary eyed just thinking about it.
She even extended her stay to stay an extra week with us.  I love my mom, I wish there was something I could do or some way I could show her how much I appreciate everything she does for my daughter and me.  I can think of one way.  So I'll have to try even harder to get  her house looking like it did when she lived here.   That's gonna be hard, and take a lot of work, but I have to do it.  It would make her happy.  So less craft swapping and more yard woking! lol.

So that's it for me for tonight.  Pretty damn tired.  Busy day at work, but I'll go into that more another time.

Have a freat tuesday!!

What a great week it's been!!!

It's been such a great week!  Had lots of fun at the beach.  My mom met up with one of her really old friends from high school and she spent the day with us.  I'm glad Sue was able to join us.  On the way down to the beach we stopped off at a must eat place on highway 26, Camp 18.  It's an old logging camp.  They've got all kinds of neat logging equipment, really old stuff to.  Lots of old pictures of logging that was done in the area and stuff.  I had the razor clam dinner, and boy was it yummy!!  I haven't had razor clams in a long time.  They weren't as good as the ones my dad makes, but still pretty tastey.
Saturday is when Sue came to hang with us.  It made my mom happy to have her friend come and visit.  We walked around downtown Seaside, had lunch at one of the restraunts on the main strip.  Had a Dungeoness crab sandwich.  I ate lots of seasfood over the weekend.  And boy, was it ever yummy!!  We didn't do much else saturday.  Just kinda hung out.  Sunday was check out day.  We drove on the beach to find some sand dollars that had washed up, and there were tons of people out there.  It was a pretty low tide, probablly minus.  I wish I had known that, I would have taken my clam guns with me and we could have gone clam digging.  That would have been fun!!  But oh well.  At least I know that I can go clam digging in Gearhart.  I guess it was a fairly uneventful weekend, but it was still fun, and I'm glad we went.

Since we've been back from the beach we've done nothing but shop!!  Shop, shop shop, shop, shop!!  My mom has been spoiling me an aweful lot since she's been here.  I feel kinda guilty because I know I can't spoil her in that way.  I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out something extra, extra, extra special to give her for mother's day, but I can't think of anything.  I don't really have time to crochet her anything, or really to make anything for her for that matter.  All of my free time has been spent with her.  It's still not enough.  I want to give her something REALLY special to show her that I appreciate everything she's done and has been doing for me.  Come on brain, think, think, think, think, think!!!!!  Maybe I'll think of something after mother's day and it can be a late Mother's day gift.

And that's the cliff notes version of everything so far.  Now I have to take my Explorer into the machanic to see why the oil preasure gauge is going all wonky on me and why the check gauge light keeps coming on.  Oil is full, so it's not that.  Hopefully it's nothing bad and it's just the sensors that are going out.  I'm also very lucky that my mechanic was able to get me in on such short notice.  He does great work, and I'm sad that the shop he works at is gonna be closing down. :(  He's not sure if he's gonna open his own place or not yet.  So until then, I have to get a reference from him.  Someplace he'd take his car to get fixed.

I hope everyone has a great Thursday!!

It's almost the weekend!!!

I'm so excited!  Tomorrow is Friday, and for my birthday, we're going to the beach!  It's been a little while since I've been to the beach.  I can't wait to go.  I love the beach!  The smell of the ocean, the sound of the crashing waves, the sand, and yes, even the sound of the seagulls.  It'll be fun to go.  My mom is booking the trip, which I wasn't expecting her to do at all.  I can't wait to go.  Taking my crochet with me, we'll take a few dvd's with us since they have DVD players in the rooms now so you don't have to rent one from the office anymore.  It's even supposed to be nice this weekend.  Definately have to pack warm clothes though.  My mom also gave me her old camera so I'll be able to take lots of awesome pictures to post as well!!  (Insert squeels of joy here)  We'll come back sunday to so we'll be able to do lots.  I'm hoping that we'll be able to find some sand dollars on the beach while we're there.  Just have to make sure we get up early to go and look. :)

Is it Friday yet??

So far, so good!

Well, everything is so far so good!  My mom will be here tomorrow and I can't wait!  Haven't seen her since christmas and I'm really looking forward to it!  The house is pretty much clean, just need to finish the dishes.  Not that worried about the outside.  It looks ok, I know she won't be happy with it, but we've done our best. 
This week has been pretty good to.  Not to bad at work, not to bad at home.  The thing that makes everything the best though, I now have 7 days off!!!  My birthday is saturday and my mom will be here to celebrate it with me.  I'm so glad she's gonna be here for my birthday!  She hasn't spent a birthday with me since she moved to California 8 years ago. 
The Ami I'm working on is coming along just fine!  I'm almost all done wtih her.  I've got one leg left and then the 2 soles of the feet, then the body is done.  then I just have to figure out how I'm gonna dress her.  I have somewhat of an idea, but I'm not sure, so I have to play around with it a little bit.  I only have til next wedensday, then I have to send her and her pet dragon out.  the dragon is pretty much done.  I needed to take a break from him.  He just needs his hands, the other wing, horns and the brow ridges.  All that stuff will be pretty quick and easy.  The body was the hard part, and that's all done!  I can't wait to send them to my swap partner.  I hope she likes them.  I know I do.
And that's the cliff-notes version of the week so far.  Now it's time to go and wathc LOST!  It's so exciting!  Can't wait to see what happens this week!!

Hope everyone had a great Tuesday!!

Take your child to work day!!!

Well, today was take your child to work day.  It was actually a lot of fun seeing everyone with their kids.  Not to many people were allowed to bring their kids because it's a hospital and certain areas with children in them would violate HIPAA guidlines.  Fortunately, I work in an area where we are allowed to have children in the work area.  So I got the ok from my boss, and she was allowed to come.  Unfortunately it was only for half the day.  One of my other bosses was nice enough to pick her up from school today and bring her to work with him.  I have some of the best bosses ever!!!  I'm so grateful that he did that!  And she was thrilled to come.  She said it was fun and exciteing getting picked up by someone that wasn't me or her grandma.  And on the way in, she talked his ear off the WHOLE time!  He said she never stopped talking. 
So when she got there, she came and said hi, and I gave her my name badge so she could have some lunch and charge it to my account.  When she was done, we had to find someone for her to shadow because unfortunately she couldn't be with me at the grill.  Kids weren't allowed to be in food production areas.  She was so excited to be there and so eaget to help!  I wish she was that eager when it came time to clean her room!  She got to clean carts, put some supplies away, help with the dishes and wipe down tables.  She was really anxious to get to the dishes.  She had so much fun doing the dishes last time she was there, that's all she wanted to do this time.  My baby!  She's so cute!!!
Of course everyone there was in love with her!  I mean how can you not be!!  She's so bubbley and talkative and sweet!  She's polite and curteous.  I know I'm bragging here, but she's the child every parent wants!!!  I've had people compliment me so much on how well behaved she is.  I truely am the luckiest mother alive to have such a wonderful child!  I wish every day could be bring your child to work day!  We had such a fantastic day together. 
After work, we went and saw my uncle who was there after having a  heart attack on saturday.  He was glad to see us.  It was good to see that he was donig pretty good.  He had the nasty chest scar and a nasty scar on his arm, but otherwise he seems to be faring good.  He looked good.  And for the first time in my life, I saw him without a beard!  I have never seen my Uncle without a full face of facial hair.  It was kinda wierd.  So I took a picture!  Had to have the proof.
Then after seeing the uncle, we went to dinner.  One of our favorite new places, Cafe Yumm.  They have this AWESOME sauce that they put on all their dishes, and it's fantastic!  Then after dinner, we went to Target to get a movie to watch at home.  We picked up Fern Gully and Avatar.  We choose Fern Gully.  I love that movie, it's so cute.  I mean, who doesn't love a story about fairies living in the rain forest?  I think next week we'll watch Avatar.
It was a very good day today.  I love being able to spend quality time with my daughter.  I love the bonding most though.  What more could a girl ask for?  A beautiful, sun-shiney day and a beautiful daughter to spend it wtih!

Happy Thursday Everyone!!  Hope everyone had as great a day as I did!

Day 2 of blogging :D

Another fun day of doing nothing!! :)  Ok, that's not ENTIRELY true.  I did work on one of my craft projects.  I'm making a little Amigurumi cat from a Japanese crochet book.  It's  hard 'casue I can't read the directions, I just have a chart to go by.  I can read the chart ok, and that's not the problem.  The problem is the changing of colors.  So far, mine looks nothing like the pictures in the book, and I'm not sure how to go about the color change.  I'm still experimenting and it doesn't look TO bad, but I want to hurry and finish it as I have a lot of other projects that need finishing so I can mail them off.  I'm doing like 4 craft swaps right now.  An Avatar: The last airbender swap, Magic yarn ball swap, an Amigurumi swap, and a twilight Eclipse swap.  I need to finish the Avatar and MYB swaps first so I can send them out at the end of the month.  Amigurumi is ending May 5th, and I haven't finished yet.  At least the twilight swap isn't due until june.  I'm almost ready to send the Avatar one.  I need to make a shirt for my partner.  I'll have to post pictures of it here when I'm done.  the MYB swap isn't to hard, I've pretty much got all the little crafged items done for it, I just need to get a few other things for it so I can send it.  I'm almost done with the Amigurumi's to.  But I thought I had more time to finish them.  I didn't realize they were due so soon!!  I need to get crackin!
But this is the LAST time I take on 5 swaps at a time.  Gonna try and limit it to no more than 3.  Dividing my attention between that many swaps makes my crafts suffer a little bit, and I feel I don't do as good of a job as I could.  I hate being rushed.  Of course, with all the stupid things I do on the damn computer, it's no wonder I have no time.

Well, thanks for reading!!  Happy Tuesday!!