Crochet this, crochet that. Crochet, crochet, crochet...

My quilting room remains untouched as I have continued my YouTube crochet ventures...

Dishcloths and such have been made, all the while practicing for consistent stitches... 

{Dishcloth patterns}

The crochet rugs have continued...

The initial DC woven rug has made progress too;  I need more yarn though to reach its final size...

And now... a new design is being learned:  Cluster V pattern.  I have NO idea what this will lead to.  I'm simply playing and still having fun with this new craft :)

Today marks year 15 for Paul and myself. 

Time really does fly.

Home again...in a QUIET house....

There is something to having peace-n-quiet....but now that the girls are older and more independent, it isn't as easy to "let them go" for a couple of weeks while I'm doing classwork. In years past, I will openly admit that having a break from the constant "neediness" of them at their younger ages was nice.... but now, so much more can be done with them during the summer, and two (maybe even THREE) weeks is a long time to be apart. ...... DH and I headed out from my sister's around 12:30 this afternoon, waving goodbye to the girls as we left for the 5.5 hour drive back home across the state. They will stay with my sister for a week, and then be handed over to my parents for another week (or two).

We drove through two storms along the way; one of the eastern part of the state, and the other on the western part of the state.

OH!!! AND GOOD NEWS! My sewing machine techie worked out a "hand-off" with his neighboring business "Chicken Unlimited" for me to pick up the Bernina since the quilt shop isn't open on Sundays. I should have taken a pic of the chicken place, but simply wanted to get my machine, say SUPER DUPER THANKS to them for being willing to "babysit" my machine so that I could save a 3 hour round-trip some OTHER time in the week to pick up my machine, and be on our merry way again.

So....DH and I already took a walk through the garden, picked a container full of cucumbers, did some minor weeding, unpacked the car and bags (a little bit), and are sitting reading through the mail and just relaxing after the drive.

Thank you for all the CONGRATS comments for our 12th year; he IS a keeper for sure :0)
Happy Sunday.

12 years today...

It's been 12 years since DH and I "officially" have been "together." July 11, 1998 was the date that "he settled".

But it's been 16 years since we both played on the same volleyball team when we first met, and our first "official" date (September 11, 1994).....



We don't celebrate many days except for Christmas, so...it's just another day for us. But still, worthy of note :0)

Belated, but finally acknowledging our Anniversary

Being out of town last weekend, I didn't/haven't gotten around to posting about our "special day" last Friday, 7/11/08.

Ideally, and eventually, I will make a list of ten things/reasons of what/why my marriage means to me, but with the day already beginning around here, I will need to save that for another time.

However, I am acknowleding our success, MUCH do in part to the absolute patience and understanding my DH has (towards me) ;0) At this day in age when divorce rates are exceeding 50%, I take pride in the 10 years we have been able to share.

Happy Saturday.