Dont do's and do's while you are avoiding swine flu

So, for all three of you avid followers who actually read my blog, thought I'd post just a tip or two about how to spend your time when you are waiting out something like sf, and being so thankful it hasn't been worse than it has....

Do not by any means waste any time dusting, it will just come back, worse than before, instead...

think about what you are going to make with the yarn your son brought you back from Chile before he contracted said dreaded sf...

Take this pretty floss and cheap bracelet from hancocks and after spending two hours wrapping it and approx. ten dollars, end up with something you could buy at cost plus for two.

Dont clean out this cubby, it has been like this since September, it will be like this till the my children go back to school, when the doors are shut, no one knows the evil that lays within...

Do pick a tomato, the first big one, and put it on a bagel and eat it.

Dont bring in the laundry, it will be there tomorrow morning, and it will smell like fresh morning dew....

Do appreciate something someone gave to you a while ago, I love this little bag, my sister gave it to me.

Dont clean up the mess on the table, the juice will get drunk, the hat will get worn, and maybe at some point the sweater will get knitted.

Do make a purse, really happy with this, especially the little turtle buttons, found them at maiwa in canada.

Most of all just be happy that I am sitting here avoiding all the work around me and doing lots of things I enjoy!!!

just a few things.....

So, just thought I'd throw a few things up that have been going on around here, put these bags together and hung them on my art room wall in hopes of containing the knitting chaos, eight bags, eight projects, it kinda sorta works....

My wonderful sister sent to me the best wool I have ever seen/felt, the colors are amazing, put them all in our mema's flour jar between working on it, think it looks like the best candy, the project with it is going to take awhile, but should be alot of fun when it is done, very under the sea themed.

Alaphabet peppers, habaneros, need a really good salsa recipe, if you have one pass it to me please!!!!

This leather bag in one of my faves, made it from some leather from salem glove co. and some linen, want to do anther out of this lee jofa fabric and brown velvet, do you think the aqua linen works??? Want to use the wood bracelets to connect the handles to the bag, think there should be a zipper too.

This is out or Noro Iro, the best yarn ever, love the cable pattern, want more of the yarn....

New fave hat, made from the simple pleasures pattern on purlbee, out of baby suri and baby alpaca lace, snuggly enough to keep you warm, loose enough to avoid hat head.

My first real sweater, love it, out of merino wool that feels like silk, it is the perfect through on over a cami do.

Monster squash, this is what happens when you cant find squash because the plants are soooooo big.

These are some kinda spicy peppers, made my eyes water just sitting on the table.

So this is a little out of order, bedroom shot with really cheap ikea lamps that i glued paper onto and then strung with crystals, table painted red by himself, (these are the sort of nice things your husband will do for you when they are laid off)

This is the other nice thing your husband will do for you while he is looking for his next job, he will grow the most beautiful garden in the world, this is an oasis, it is a treasure hunt every day to see what is out there, and if only I could capture a picture of the bumble bee who lives here, it is massive, and so bumble beeish it just doesnt look real at all.