Only The Knit Stitch

I've been a long time knitter. My mom taught me how to knit when I was in high school. I would have knitting spurts here and there over the years. Never constantly knitting items because I couldn't find the time. In the past few weeks, I broke out the knitting needles and started knitting some scarfs. Every evening when I get home from work, I eat dinner then start knitting. It's relaxing and been fun. I've been doing it now every day for about 4-6 weeks and I've got a large collection of knit scarves going on. So what am I to do with this pile of scarves? List them on Etsy! Here is a sampling of the scarves that I've knitted. I'll be adding more to the Etsy store because I've got about 6 more to list.

 

 

I decided to call my shop the "Only The Knit Stitch" because I do all my scarves in only the knit stitch! So if you get a minute go check me out on Etsy!

3 Day Weekend Got Me Like Whoa

I don't know about you but I think I need another 3 day weekend to make it to Friday.

 

I haven't posted much on the subject because I really can't. In June, the 25th to be exact my soon to be mother in law was out on her morning walk and was hit by a car. After many weeks of being away from home she finally came home on Friday. She has a long recovery to go and we are hoping she can walk by our wedding. When she came home on Friday we were flooded with tons of family coming to see her and had a little party in her honor. I prepared and made a 16 pound ham. Have you ever made 16 pounds of ham? No. Well it's an experience.

 

I baked this ham in pineapples and brown sugar. It was good! I've also ate ham everyday since for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Anyone want some ham?

 

On Saturday, I totally screwed up my nail appointment. I talked last week about my strong nail game and I think that came back to me. I always have my nail appointment at 11:00a.m. The salon isn't super packed, I'm in and out early and have the rest of my day to do whatever errands or relax. I want in the door at 10:57 a.m. announcing I'm here and on time! And guess what... my appointment wasn't until noon. They were super nice and went ahead and took me. The girl that always does my nails, her 11:00 didn't show so it all worked out!

 

I also spent a huge amount of time knitting. I got sucked into the Michaels' Labor Day Sale of 30% off all yarn and got a few rolls. So I spent the weekend knitting 3 scarfs. I also made my soon to be mother in law a phone holder to put on her wheel chair. I mean clearly you have to have priorities when your hands are being used to wheel yourself around. Her phone is stored now!

 

I also consumed the following movies... because what's Labor Day Weekend without some movie watching?

 

How did you spend your Labor Day Weekend?

Hello September

 

 

Today marks the first day of September. The past two months, I took a break from blogging about my life to focus on Christmas in July and Elvis in August. This month I'm back and talking about anything and everything. Summer has flown bye and the beginning of fall is here. One of the things I miss about living on the east coast is the major season change from summer to fall. I miss seeing the leaves change color and I miss the rain. California has been in a major drought so I'm hoping for some rain drops in our future.

 

I've been a busy little bee the last two months and we are 103 days out from our wedding. Needless to say, planning is in full force. Since I've got so much on my plate, I've made some goals for the month. I figure if I write them down, it'll help motivate me to get them done!

 

1. Send our invitations to our calligrapher.

 

It took us a month to finalize our invitations for the wedding. We've had them hand made and hand painted. We personalized everything from colors, envelopes to the return stamp. Their being flown in from Arkansas and once they arrive, they'll get shipped out to New York so our calligrapher can fancy up the addresses. I can't wait to have the finished product!

 

2. Knit 4 scarves.

 

Last month I got back into knitting. I use to knit a lot in the winters but it had been awhile. Life gets busy and I just hadn't knitted in a long time. So last month, I got out some knitting needles, yarn and started knitting while I watched television on the couch. I've knitted 5 scarves and I'm debating opening up an Etsy store. I get that there's 1000 people on there knitting but oh, well. I like to knit for fun!

 

3. Read at least one book.

 

I've read nine books so far this year but two of them were books I re-read. I'm hoping to read 10 new books before the end of the year is out so I'm starting with a new book from my favorite author this month. I can usually read his books pretty quick. I wish he would come back to California on his next book tour!

 

 

4. Finalize our wedding menu with our venue.

 

We went to our food tasting last month and it was amazing. We tried so many dishes we thought they were going to have to wheel us out of there. We also did our cake tasting the same day. We know what food we are ordering but just haven't sent in our final decisions. Tick tock goes the clock! I need to scan that to our coordinator. The cake on the other hand is done. We picked the flavors, the fillings and came up with a great design!

 

5. Schedule my hair trial.

 

Confession. I've already done one hair trial and two makeup trials. The first girl did my hair nice. It wasn't great but it wasn't bad. The makeup trials were bad. The first one was just ok but not what I was wanting on my wedding. If the girl couldn't get what I was telling her on the trial then clearly she wasn't going to get it right on the wedding day. The second makeup trial lady made me look like a snow beast. I'm talking 1980s eye shadow and eye liner so thick I was going to get Julia Roberts a run for her corner in Pretty Woman. Finally, the heavens opened and I met a really nice lady who's not going to charge me an arm and leg. We will be doing the hair trial soon but she got married in August so we couldn't do it then.

 

6. Start Christmas shopping.



Our wedding is during the Christmas season. Our honeymoon will be literally days before Christmas. I'm not going to have time to shop during the month of December so everything needs to be purchased, arrived and wrapped before our wedding day. So that gives me 3 months to shop for everyone. Better start giving Santa your wish lists now! I've got to make a list of everyone and things I think they'd want this holiday season.

 

What do you want to try to accomplish this September?