Birthday Jewelry-Making!

Alison at her bench @ Museum of Art in Mesa!

'3rd hand'

heating up the back

sawing the edges

rasping the back

burnishing the stone

2nd polish w/rouge

Gaspiite stone from Australia! This is the ring Alison made me for my birthday today! Thank you Alison!!!

Harmonica Band!!!

Nostalgics Trio + One provided entertainment at Fiesta Village March 5, 2008...I had never heard a harmonica band and loved their music! I visited w/them after...these are serious musical instruments!!
modulating harmonica








& expensive gold harmonica








world's 'tiniest' harmonica
and he played it for me!!








plus his stone covered harmonica
the Chicago drummer said I was a 'knit'wit!!!

bass harmonica - just like rhythm/blues!!








The Armed Forces medley and Maleguena were my fav!

MESA at last!!!

These pics should be a contrast to the snow pics!

"Play Ball!" statues in front of Hohokam Park in Mesa...
Reniassance Theatre provides the Star Spangled Banner...

Derrek Lee @ bat!!!

Feb ICE~SNOW~COLD~and 'Robin'!!

We have truly had the Winter of '08!

Several blizzards left 6-10"

My neighbors will marvel at the size of this icicle!!!

A 'well-endowed' robin sat on the tree branch today, then perched on St.Francis' head for a respite! (in Feb below zero)

Ethan's BB tournament...

Ethan's Regina 4th grade BB team @ tournament in WestBranch
Feb 2, 2008

Regina won the tourney w/medals!

Ethan

Ethan's cheering section:

Evan, Ethan,

mom-Teresa, Gma Sandy,
Gma Bev, GGmaWilliams,

Papa Terry, Gpa Terry, dad-Chris

(cousin Henry-not pictured)

G'ma & Greta to exercise class!!

G'ma Linda took Greta to her 1st 'gym' class earlier in Jan!! This is the 'jungle party room' mural where b-day parties happen!! We went around the gym circuit and Greta jumped in the 'pit' 3 times!! She is growing up so fast!!

Golf Club covers...

I made golf club covers for my son-in-laws since they both golf seriously. As more gsons start playing golf more seriously, I'm sure I will be making more of these~~ 'Spiral Rib' pattern from the web.

end of 2007 ... a very good year!

Character...

IOWA CITY!

from the Yahoo homepage today...

http://promo.realestate.yahoo.com/best_cities_to_educate_your_child.html

...4. College Town
Colleges and universities are great white-collar employers. In fact, there is a big connection between research-oriented universities and healthy economies. Two historic examples are Stanford University's boost to the growth of Silicon Valley high-tech enterprises in San Jose and the Bay Area, and MIT's faculty and alumni, who started electronics firms along Route 128 outside Boston.
Any place can be a college town if it has at least one institution of higher education.But if you weight each person attending local colleges by the number of years needed to get the highest degree offered (that is, associate of arts enrollment is weighted by two, bachelor degree enrollment by four, master's degree enrollment by six and doctoral enrollment by nine), you come up with a wide range of numbers.
Places like College Station-Bryan, Texas; Iowa City, Iowa; Lawrence, Kan.; and Columbia, Mo., come out very high on this criterion. Alas, there's only one game in town in Ames, Iowa (Iowa State University), in College Station-Bryan (Texas A&M), in Lawrence (University of Kansas) and in Columbia (University of Missouri). Something else is needed to reward higher-education variety.

The Interview with GOD...

If you need something beautiful and meaningful to watch click on the link below...
http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/
and then send it to your special friends...I received this from one of my special cousins... Sharon!

I've just 'elf'd myself!!

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1132840560

This is soooo much fun to send to your friends!! Make one for yourself to spread some holiday joy!

Christmas Nativity in knit!

Look what I found! A miniature Christmas nativity set to knit at
http://www.jeangreenhowe.com/











Mr/Mrs Claus!










knitted Tea Party set!







Coco & Greta @ G'ma's 'Beary' Tea Party house!









knitted tea party treats!










baby's 1st Christmas sock!









Christmas sock ornaments!










and thimbles and buttons galore at http://www.buttondrawer.com/

Little Sheep Yoke Cardigan!

I am browsing this morning waiting for the IOWA Hawkeyes to play...and look what I've found...!!!!

http://lookingglassknits.blogspot.com/2007/10/sheep-yoke-baby-cardigan-pattern.html

I absolutely love this and am going to make it! The sheep are just darling! I've started collecting a few sheep ornaments since I'm knitting more than quilting. Thanks to Jen for this pattern on her blog.

Go HAWKS!! The Hawks were victorious and the 'pig' has been returned to IOWA from Minnesota!!

Also, the Regina Regals were victorious and proceed farther into the state semifinals!!

I just read a very interesting article on the Lion Brand Yarn site from a woman who lives here in Iowa City and knits for veterans!

http://www.michelledwards.com/

Volunteering @ Regina!

I went to the annual Carver-Hawkeye craft bazaar w/Susan- bought 'knit' Santa #3!! Since I knit more now, I'm always looking for Santas who KNIT!!!! I still want to take some old sweaters and make Christmas stockings from them-I love recycling! I'm volunteering now @ Regina HS to help the counselor w/filing. It is one of those jobs that needs to be done, takes a lot of time and always gets 'put on the back burner'...plus some typing when it comes up. She emailed me that just knowing I'm helping do some things she doesn't have time for has relieved some of her stress, both mentally and physically. That makes ME feel great!

Completed projects ~ Oct 07

Greta models knit jumper Nov 7'07 @ G'ma's house!
Sirdar 3009 lacey baby sweater/bonnet Bernat Softee Baby (db strand) newborn-3mo for Sheri Roggy (my eyeDr)
Knitting Pure & Simple
Collared Topdown Bolero
Acrylic worsted rust
(2T)
Coco's pink ruffle heart sweater Oct 07
4T
Coco's Monet watercolor ruffled heart sweater Oct 07
4T
'Emma's' lacey jumper pattern for Greta's birthday Oct 07
Joanna's Poncho pattern
9-12 mo
acrylic worsted
"hawkeye" garter-ridge for Coco Sept 07