little catch up....

A little baby hat I whipped up and mailed off to Tennessee.

a FRESH strawberry cake in January?  Yep.....made it for Matthew right before he left for Scotland...

Osa trying hard to snuggle with Suki.....almost there.  She just wants "someone with fur" to sleep next to her!

A mural on Strathclyde's campus.  This made Matt feel right at home!

Matt out with new friends:

Beginning of the night....

End of the night.....

Nope, doesn't look like ANYONE had fun, does it?

Where is he?

Osa waiting patiently for Dean when he went into a store for a few things....

Homecoming

This post is SOOOO late.   I had it in a draft and didn't realize it never posted.

Kaela and her friends before the homecoming dance.    Ready to leave

Trying HARD to leave as I insisted they take another photo...

With Landon while saying sweetly "WE GOTTA GO!"

They all had a great time...

good friends....

You know that saying about great minds think alike?    

Well, I bought this for the "bar" this Christmas

A girlfriend of mine hadn't come over in months.....she presented this to me for Christmas the other night...

Apparently, great friends think alike too!

Off he goes.....

Matt left for Scotland today....for 6 months.   He is doing his study abroad and is super excited.

I took the day off to take him to the airport with Dean.  I keeping a "stiff upper lip...." but I'm a wreck.  

I know he will be fine, I know he will be fine, I know he will be fine, I know he will be fine.  

Right?

more arm knitting

Last week was my first week back to work and it was a busy one.   One good thing was that Osa wasn't left alone all at once.   Dean was off a couple more days and Matt is still home for 2 more days.

We have had too much going on to take down holiday decorations so instead of trying, I just relaxed a little and made a few more scarves using the arm knitting technique I learned.

I made 3 of them while watching Tombstone....we love that movie!

Here is a cream one

and a pretty butter colored one

and lastly, a multi colored one using some yarn I've had in my stash for about 10 years!

I took a close up of this one so you can see the colors....it is beautiful.

Most of these are gifts so I have a headstart for the year!

A year of crafty challenges....

Last year, I hosted a craft along.  I posted a challenge each month and then participants would post what they made.  

Here are the things I made:

I am so glad I hosted this event, it wasn't my most successful, but I made a lot of things I could either use myself or as gifts!