Mom's Socks

It's been a fun filled weekend. The weather was beautiful this weekend. I think it was in the 60's.  We spent all day Saturday out at the land.  Had our first bonfire, cookout, and S'more fest!  It was fun!  Of course...the S'mores were the best!

On to crafting....I did get some a few of my project life pages done.   I seem to be better keeping up using the project life.    I am still behind, but just ordered pictures to catch me up through this week!  So hopefully I will be getting caught up!

And finally,  my finished socks for February 2014. My goal is to knit 12 pairs, one pair a month for 2014.  So far I am keeping up. I got January and February done and now I am onto March.  But these are my February socks. I made them for my mom since I really hadn't knit her anything yet.

I was very excited to here that they fit her.  she called me the day she got them and sounded very happy so I think she liked them.  Well, I hope she did anyway!  

That is pretty much for me this week.  The only other thing is I am starting again with my weight loss. I have ordered 21 day fix and am hoping that gets me back on track.  I have stopped drinking soda.  Today is day 5 with no soda.  For me, that is a really feat!  I am just waiting for my challenge package to get here then I can get started with my weight loss again. I have done good eating wise as well this week but the exercise I am sure will help!  

Catching Up

I am so sorry!  I cannot believe it has been almost a month since I have blogged! I know that is terrible.

Here in Virginia we have had some terrible cold weather.  But I guess because of those Polar Vortex's or whatever they are called....everyone in the country has cold weather. I don't think the girls  have had a full week of school since they went back after Christmas.  Of course I am not complaining.  I am absolutely fine with not being out on those roads taking the kids to school or just being out in that cold.  The girls school was cancelled again today so they are here with me all day!  Shawn is working a lot of over-time for work.  He has to work to get certain projects done!  So again...just me and the girls hanging out!

I haven't been doing a lot of scrapbooking or cardmaking.  However I can tell you that I decided to start the Project Life.  I found that I am just not keeping up on scrapbooking and am hoping that will help me keep up with "scrapbooking" this year.  We shall see.  I have the first three weeks of the year that I am working on.  I bought a few of the Project life kits and am storing them like this!

It is in a plastic case I found at Lowes.  Then it has a lid. It is perfect because I can put the lid on it and take it with me to a scapbooking day, or just move it around my scrap area with no problem.  I have each set of Project Life kits separated with cardstock dividers and the name of the kit on the divider.  It works perfect for me.  Unfortunately I just don't have the space to store each set in the original box it comes in. 

I have been doing a lot more knitting than anything.  I can do it while sitting in the living room with Shawn and the kids.  I can take it with me to the doctors or in the car to wait in the car line at the school!  It is very easy to take along so I get a lot more done.  I also meet with a knitting group every Wednesday night for knitting night at a local coffee shop!  So much fun!  Here are a few objects I have finished in the last month. 

These are socks for Madison!  I think they turned out great.  They fit her perfect! 

This black hat is for my hubby.  It fit perfect. It was my first hat!  I think it turned out awesome. My knitting friends all laugh because they say knitting hats are so much easier than socks.  But I learned socks first.  

Madison's pink hat!  She loves it.  I hat to take out the decreases and add a bit more in length 

This hat is Carli's Steeler's hat!  She loves Steelers.  Not real sure she will wear it as she is 15 and well that pretty much explains it.  But I wanted her to have something that I made her!  

I am making a few more hats over the next few weeks along with a few more pairs of socks. And of course hopefully I will be working on my Project Life a bit!

Hope you all are staying warm!

Project Life ~catch up

Hello!  I know I know finally posting. I have been working on my project life and have a few weeks to share.

 This is the week of December 10-16th, 2012. I traveled to Florida by myself for our office party and to visit my friend Heather.  It was a great 5 day visit! 

 This week is the week before Christmas Dec 17-23, 2012. Always a fun time.  Christmas Shopping, present wrapping and my birthday celebration.  WE always celebrate my birthday a few days before Christmas.  

Lastly, March 4thru10th week.  A busy week in the Kottwitz/Tucker house.  Art shows, birthday party, sick kids, and just working on some knitting while the kids are lounging around. 

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Project Life

I have had some motivation.  With doing project life I am making an effort to take more photos of everyday life, which I guess is the whole purpose of project life.  I do like the general idea of it as I tend to forget to scrapbook some of the everyday things and have missed those opportunities in the past.  With doing project life I am finding myself taking pictures of different objects and different things.  I am normally the type that like to see people in my pictures but I am not breaking out of my comfort zone and photographing other things.  

This is my week 9 of project life.  I have enjoyed this way of scrapbooking the past couple of weeks.

This is the total two page layout.  I used Project Life Design A page protectors.  Those and Design D I think are the one's that I will be using the most.  

I used the right side of the left page for the pictures and documenting our trip out to our land this week.  Shawn had to move his game cameras and we walked to the top of the hill to see where he wants to clear it for a house.  

Pictures out at the land. Yeppers I made the kiddos get a picture with me.  I took them so they are a little close up.  The girls were not thrilled but...OH well! 

 My Kindle Fire I love, love, love.  I have to confess something too.  I love Fifty Shades of Grey.  Yep. I sure do.  I will admit it definitely was an "education" the first time I read it.  But it is what it is. Millions of people have read it and I am not ashamed of it. I have read it not once, not twice but many times.   I tend to read books, then read others, then go back and read them again.  Right now I have over 200 books or more on my kindle fire so I read them over and over.  

Another hobby of mine after reading is....PAPER CRAFTING.  But who is surprised at that statement?  No one.  I enjoy scrapooking and making cards.  Once a month a fellow crafter and friend of mine Caitlin get together for "card club" and make cards.  It gives us a chance to chat and get some cards made.  So this this happened to be the week we got together. 

 My small yet growing yarn stash.  I have recently learned to knit.  I rather enjoy it.  It is relaxing and so far the scarves I have made and dish clothes have turned out so I can't complain.  But I do go in spurts.  I will knit every night for a week or two then maybe not for a month. So I took this pictures to get motivated into getting some knitting done.  I have started a project so I think it worked. 

Our lifestyle change basically is our family trying to eat better and get more exercise in.  I weight watchers is helping me with that and really has helped.  My hubby started the P90X workout and I do some of the exercising with him if it is something I can physically do.  We have both seen a difference and both feel better.  So even if we don't lose a lot of weight at least we are feeling better. 

Well have a great day everyone and a safe weekend for anyone going out there to celebrate St. Patty's day this weekend. 

Project Life

What a long day!  A good day but long day!  I was sick all last night.  Started at about 1:00 a.m. and was sick all through the night.  Finally about 7:30 a.m. I was able to get about an hour sleep...that is thanks to my hubby for going to the store and getting me some over the counter medicine.    My stomach still isn't feeling great but no more vomiting or other stuff.

Even with lack of sleep there were things to do.  I had to go weigh in at weight watchers. So glad I did!  Today I hit my 10% weight loss.  Super excited!  I then went to the parent teacher conference for Madison at her school.  Super fun. We had to go to all her specialty classes as well, Art, Library, Music, P.E. and Guidance.

I also decided to take a few pictures of my Project Life.   As I told you in a previous post I decided to start project life in 2013.  I haven't yet bought a kit from Becky Higgins or any other site.  I am kind making up my own project life as I go.  I want to see if it is something I will keep up with and if I find it useful.  I am a traditional scrapbooker but found that I wasn't keeping up. So I hope that deciding to do project life that I will be more inspired to take more pictures and journal more.  

So below is my first week I worked on. I am going to back to the beginning of the year to catch up, but this is the first week I completed.  It is technically week 8. 

A little bit of everything this week. As you can see I had to take a picture of my dog and cat.  they are spoiled rotten but I love them!  I figured I better get an updated picture of them since it had been so long! 

 One of the things I love to do is read and thanks to my hubby this past christmas, I do that by reading on my kindle fire.  So while I am sitting at the school waiting for the girls or waiting for a doctors appointment or whatever it is...I always have my Kindle Fire with me. 

 This week was also the anniversary of my cancer diagnosis and remission.  I was diagnosed on Feb 21, 1990, so I was diagnosed 23 years ago...and have been in remission for 22! Other than being a mom to the 2 greatest kids...it is the best accomplishment of my life! 

We took a hike out to the land.  Madison had a girl scout outing and went to the World Thinking Day.  And I got my judgement in the mail regarding my ex and was super duper happy! Finally after a decade we are on the down hill slide of getting things settled.  

As you can see I didn't use any kit. I have so much pattern paper and card stock that I wanted to use it for a few weeks and see if it would work that way.  Who knows I still may buy a kit or two and mix it all up. We shall see.  

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a good one!