My Daughter's Birthday

Little Miss turned 3 today. She loves princesses and today she had them everywhere. She had a wonderful day and was all smiles until she was too tired to smile anymore.

I made her a Barbie cake at home (without the fancy Barbie pan). And it was a blast. I love making the kids special things instead of buying them.

Sick Kids

So, I called into today. Mainly because last night all 3 kids got sick. Which is always pit in your stomach painful. Now tonight, my youngest has a fever. And I thought it was really high, but I looked some things up and it is within normal range at 101, sometimes 102. I think our thermometer sucks. It is still scary and heartwrenching. I love my babies and I have to go work tomorrow and I don't really want to now.

Well, I was going to post about my recent experiences in the land of yarn, but it will have to wait til the kids are better. I must get back to worrying.

As Promised..

The cake pictures. Did I mention my mom thinks Mike Ditka is hot? Yeah, I don't think Eww even begins to cover it. But hey, it was her birthday, if she wants to break of a piece of Mike Ditka, who am I to judge?

Classes

So, no cake picture. I am enjoying a lazy day off and I don't want to give it up and actually do something. I am going to teach knitting every other week in a retirement community starting in July. I will also sell some kits there. I will be finding out about some other places to teach, including the YMCA. I would love to teach children as well as seniors. I am a little nervous, though, since I haven't done it before. Plus, I am very shy. Oh dear, getting more nervous. Dang.

My yarns for dyeing should arrive on Friday, which means that next weekend my Website should be looking sharp. I am thinking of doing a couple of repeats of popular colorways, along with some new stuff. No Merino Roving, although I had planned on it, and will do it along with some lace silk in the future.

I have not heard a "no" from Knitty yet. That is good, right? Or they haven't even gotten to mine yet. Geez, I hope it's not that.

I am working on "Ms. Marigold", which is a Zephyr pattern. It is pretty. I bought the kit on kpixie like a year ago, and I like the yarn they chose. Soft, yet light, it was a very good call. Pictures this week.. I promise.

Business meeting

Well, I had my first meeting about progressing the business, and it went amazingly well. I am thrilled. She was impressed and thought my ideas had "endless possibilities". Sweet! I was so scared that I was going to find out that I suck. Instead I have to learn a bunch of overwhelming business stuff. I can do it, though. My kids are awesome and I want their lives to be good, and I need money for that to happen. Besides, succeeding in creating a business I enjoy and am passionate about, is definitely setting a good example. My kids are brilliant, and they need to believe they can make anything happen.

In closing, it was a good day.

Where Have I Been

So, I get up this morning to check my e-mail, and low and behold some actually COMMENTED ON MY BLOG! Yay! That so makes my day! It is a huge motivation to post more frequently.

So at work I am trying to get into the Bakery dept. I figure they make more and decorating cakes is arty (and hey, I am arty) and just so much more interesting than making coffee. However, in order to get into the cake decorating dept., I must practice. Not only that, but of course I don't have alot of time because I pretty much have to prove myself right freakin' now (okay, like Sunday, but still). So stay tuned later today for my feeble yet slowly improving attempts at cake decorating. I can do it! Right? And yes, I will post pictures.

Additionally, I am very close to finishing my second Kai-Mai sock and it should be finished by tonight, so I will post pictures of that as well.

Thank you commenter for giving me hope!