Knit Picky Knitter

Jo took this picture of me last week in the shop working on my sock!!

Mothers Day

Not too much fun!! I had a migraine and Wayne was passing Kidney Stones!! OOUUCCHH!!

I will get that one made up at a later date!!

Birthday Gifts

Well - I hit the 35 mark!!

Wayne was so sweet. He brought me roses to work. He went to Caravel and bought me a cake. He got me a BEAUTIFUL necklace from Simply Sterling that I LOVE!!!

Mom got me a pretty little dainty ribbon necklace and a new piece of Vera!

Becky and Sissy got me a gift card to Bath and Body!

My knitting buddies Kristen and Karen got me some much needed knitting supplies! Cute Markers, tape measure that is a little fuzzy lamb and a great pattern notebook with all these pockets that I have already started filling up.

It was a pretty good weekend!!

Relay for Life June 1st

This year I am participating in Relay for Life on June 1st as a dear friend of mine from the ballfield has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. She has a wonderful support team and a wonderful husband and two terrific boys. She has been through half of her treatments and is doing well.

Please help me by reaching my goal and above. You can either donate online or you can donate to me with a check or whatever you feel comfortable with, even if it is a couple dollars. I would appreciate anything that you can do!!

To donate online, please click or copy and paste on the link below. It will take you to the website. Then look on the right hand side for Cyndi Owens. Click on that and her page will come up. Once on her page, click on My Team and scroll down and look at her team list. My name is there. Click on it and then follow directions.

Again anything is appreciated as this cause is very important to me.

Thank you so much!!

http://www.acsevents.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=206508&lis=1&kntae206508=34423C89AFC14972B9D3F1306EFD4A70&login=t

Cinco de Mayo Birthday

I had a wonderful Birthday! My husband spoiled me and I received wonderful things from my dear friends Karen, Kristen and Beth. I will post pictures soon as I have to download them from the camera as soon as I have time. Busy , Busy time of the year!!

My Secret Pal has sent me a Pattern

I am so excited about SP10!

My secret pal has sent me a little note and a pattern already and I LOVE IT! This is so much fun!! It is fun to get little emails from someone with your interests and wondering where it is coming from. ?? Are they close or across the country? Are they in the US or Canada? I get so excited just to check the email!! I can't wait to get to know my SP better!!

She sent me the Rogue pattern from Girl from Auntie. Check it out! It is so me!!

Thank you so much my Secret Pal!!

:)

DMV

Needless to say - I HATE THE DMV!

As many know I just had a Birthday Saturday and then it hit me Sunday that my license was expired!

8:00 AM on a Monday morning at the DMV is a very bad way to start off the week. Especially when I had to wait over an hour and a half with NO KNITTING!! Yes - you heard me 1.5 hours of wasted time that I should have productively been using KNITTING!! I could have kicked myself. Instead - I sat there and watched and listened to all of the weirdo's and their lies in order to get a license. It was quite amusing to hear. It was quite an experience! Not to mention - what lovely personalities the DMV workers have. I think someone went pee-pee in their cornflakes before they got there. The one lady was pretty much a B****!! But I had the nice man named Gerald! He was very nice. A little slow - but nice. I think those workers really hate their jobs and the bad thing is if you complain to the state, those workers get raises and promotions!! Not to mention state benefits!!

Never the less - it is done for 8 years and I hate to brag, but the picture was quite good!

Contest 5

I am not sure what I enjoy more, knitting in the fall/winter or spring summer. All I know is that I just love to do it! When I don't - I can tell as I am grouchy! I did not get to knit much this weekend - so needless to say - I was GROUCHY!! And it was my Birthday too!!

In the fall/winter, I love to curl up in my recliner and a fuzzy blanket and sit by the fireplace with coffee and my favorite cat slippers on. My Taz cat likes to go under the blanket as well and we sit for hours as my husband watches games. I have learned to tune them out and enjoy my snuggle time with my Tazzer!!

In spring/summer, I enjoy sitting on the screened in porch by the pool in my wicker rocker, sipping coffee and enjoying fresh homemade strawberry jelly. (I love April/May and Strawberry season!) There is a fan and a light, so I can do morning or night! I will get up at 6:30 to go out there and listen to the trickle of the water in the pool and the birds. It is so peaceful. Of course - where I go, my feline followers must go too! All 3 love the porch. I get to enjoy that until 10:00 or so when the rednecks across the street kick their screamming kids out all day long. Then we cut the music on to drown them out! Then 8:30 at night - all is calm again!!

SP10 questionnaire

Here are is the questionnaire for SP10.
1. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with? What fibers do you absolutely *not* like? Love sock yarns, Debbie Bliss, Blue Shy Alpaca. Don't really care for fun fur!

2. What do you use to store your needles/hooks in? I Use Della Q cases

3. How long have you been knitting & how did you learn? Would you consider your skill level to be beginner, intermediate or advanced? almost 3 years, a friend at work taught me, skill - intermediate

4. Do you have an Amazon or other online wish list? no

5. What's your favorite scent? Pumpkin spice and vanilla candles

6. Do you have a sweet tooth? Favorite candy? YES! Chocolate, Hot Tamales, lemon and cotton candy jelly bellies

7. What other crafts or Do-It-Yourself things do you like to do? Do you spin? Flower arrangements and Jewelry. I have spun, but not very good.

8. What kind of music do you like? Can your computer/stereo play MP3s? (if your buddy wants to make you a CD) From Aerosmith to Kenny Chesney. I pretty much like it all!

9. What's your favorite color(s)? Any colors you just can't stand? I love brights like Orange, lime and hotpink. I also love red, black and brown. Don't really have any dislikes.

10. What is your family situation? Do you have any pets? Married, 1 child, 3 cats (my babies)

11. Do you wear scarves, hats, mittens or ponchos? scarves Yes, hats yes (love baseball hats and visors with velcro backs too), mittens - don't have any but would like them, ponchos - OH YES!

12. What is/are your favorite item/s to knit? SOCKS and handbags

13. What are you knitting right now? socks and a baby blanket

14. Do you like to receive handmade gifts? Yes!!

15. Do you prefer straight or circular needles? Bamboo, aluminum, plastic? Circular bamboo or Addi

16. Do you own a yarn winder and/or swift? Yes

17. How old is your oldest UFO? dont know

18. What is your favorite holiday? any with presents

19. Is there anything that you collect? Jim Shore

20. Any books, yarns, needles or patterns out there you are dying to get your hands on? What knitting magazine subscriptions do you have? Want - New Sensational Socks. Want - Rebecca. Subscribe to - Interweave Knits and Vogue Knitting

21. Are there any new techniques you'd like to learn? toe up socks

22. Are you a sock knitter? What are your foot measurements? yes, shoe size 7.5 wide, (foot Circum. 9 1/8 total length 9.5-10)

23. When is your birthday? May 5th

Knitting Photos

Here are a couple completed and a couple I am working on - (socks and blanket)

Parisian Tote

Trying to get my son's camera from him long enough was very hard!
He takes pictures of everything!!

Ok - In the past several months here are some of my recent projects. Most I have sold or given as gifts, but here is a few.

This is my Parisian tote. I have yarn to make 2 more that I will start in July when I am out with my surgery.

Mini Ham Puffs Recipe

Ok - Here it is for all of you that really wanted it!

Mini Ham Puffs

1 package (2.5 ounces) processed ham (Or turkey)
2 Tbsp. finely chopped onion (I don't use)
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese (or swiss)(I use more!)
1 egg
1 Tbsp fresh snipped parsley
1 1/2 tsp Dijon Mustard (I use a little more)
1/8 tsp black pepper
1 package of ref. Crescent rolls

Preheat oven to 350
spray a mini muffin pan lightly with oil
Finely chop ham and onions.
In a bowl place ham, onions,cheese, egg, parsley, mustard and pepper. Mix well.
Unroll cresent rolls and press into a large rectangle, cut into 24 squares using a pizza cutter.
Place 1 square in each mini muffin cup. press lightly into cup.
Fill each cup with a small scoop of ham mixture.
Bake 12-14 min til puffs are lightly brown. Remove from pan and serve.

** I do not use the onion and I add more cheese and ham, as I have found sometimes the egg over powers the ham and cheese and makes it more of a quiche than the ham and cheese taste. Once you make a couple times, you will decide how you like. Also good with turkey, cheddar and a little broccoli.

Enjoy!!

Hokie Healing needs our help!

OK! I have found this and I am going to do this. This yarn shop in Blacksburg is collecting squares for the victims families to put togther healing blankets for them.

They need 8 X 8 squares, any patterns, Knit or crochet. It must be this size.

Colors are Maroon, Orange , black and White. It must be these colors.

I want to show Va. Tech and the families that we support them! Please have all squares to me by May 25th and I will send to the shop in Blacksburg,VA. If everyone can do one or two squares, it would mean so much. Attach a small note with your name, email and a message.

Thanks and let's show them that the Knit Picky gang has them in our thoughts and prayers.

Birthday Bash at Knit Picky!

Well we had a great time tonight at Knit Picky. We celebrated Karen and Kristen's Birthdays! They are so very sweet!! I hope they had fun. I love chatting with them both very much.

We had cake, ham puffs, dip and WINE!! YUMMY!!

Most of the gang was there - Jo, Anne Marie, Diane, Pat, June Bug, Shanna and Laura and a new one too!

I really missed Dawn, Jeannie, Julie and Alice.

I hope Karen and Kristen had fun and hope that they both have a very Happy Birthday!!

BASEBALL IS HERE!!

I have to say - I love all sports. But BASEBALL is my favorite! I love being outside (except for last night it was misting rain and in the 40's at the game).

I love seeing this group of 13-14 year olds grow and turning into young men. Not to mention that they have grown 5-10 inches since last year and they have those cute cracks in their voice when they talk and yell!! They are growing so quickly into fine young men.

There is nothing more enjoyable than watching children be children in the light of everything going on in the world today. Little Girls that wear their little sun dresses and sandles and sit in the red mud and play with matchbox cars. Watching a group of little ones with a tennis ball playing "Wall Ball" and laughing. Watching little ones eat a hotdog or corn dog and nachos and cotton candy. Oh - watching my husband who is so quiet and laid back sit and eat a funnel cake with powdered sugar all over his face and just having a good time. Seeing a little one who has struck out everytime at bat, hit one and not know what to do. Watching you kids face when he/she hits their first homerun. Knowing the main thing that all of them want at the end is a free drink that is a mix of cherry, pepsi, dr. pepper and Mt. dew. It is amazing to see how they can grow together and work together and the memories that they have from their games and after the games just hanging out.

I have to say that there is no greater thing for a parent to see their child doing something that they truly enjoy and succeed at. I love to watch him play and watch him do well. Even though he is 13, he still hugs and kisses me before every game and tells me he loves me.

There are so many things that kids can do away from the ball field that have taken away from families actually doing something together. At least there are still some kids left that want to spend all day Saturdays at the fields hanging out, getting together a pickup game on an open field and being with friends and family and not in a closed room on a computer. We have to drag Hunter away from the field most nights.

I love to see kids having fun -- too bad the parents cant be as mature most of the time!!

Virginia Tech

Please take time today to remember those who lost their lives this past Monday. Today has been declared Virginia Tech Day and we have all been asked to wear the maroon and orange to remember them.

VT has a special place and fond memories in my heart. There were many weekends I spent there with friends and family growing up. Even though I love my Deacons, I grew up a Hokie and and always will be in my heart.

Please pray for the families and their friends of those who lost their lives....

Go Hokies!

Upcoming Birthdays!

I love Birthdays!!

Presents and cake are 2 of my favorite things!!

I was happy to learn that there are 2 other special birthdays coming April 25th and May 4th!! You know who you are!

Both of you need to plan on being at Knit Picky on the night of the 25th!!
We are eating and drinking that night!!

See you then!!

My Heart is broken!

It has been a very bad day. I just received bad news about my sister. The egg was stuck in her tubes and she lost the baby. My heart is breaking for her.

Why is it that the ones who deserve to have kids and the ones you know will be the best parents have so much trouble? And yet the ones who do not want to take care of them have so many?? This is the 5th loss and they get harder each time. They want a child so bad. They are such sweet and kind people and they have so much love to give....

Please keep them in your prayers and thoughts...

I love you both April and Dwayne!!

Love - Sissy

29 days til 35

YES - it's 29 days til I turn 35! For all of those that know me, you will understand that Birthday month is fast approaching at my house. May is Birthday month for me. I get to do whatever I want all month as I am the Princess and spoiled absolutely rotten!! My husband will tell you that as well!

Now for those who truly really know me, every month is birthday month!! Which basically means that I pretty much do not get told the N word. (The N word is not allowed at my house when I ask for something. It is the word No.)

Needless to say, my husband spoils me and even if he says the N word, I normally get my way. He laughs at me, but will tell you that it is the truth.

He tried to use the N word several times. Now, he loves Taz and Kisa as much as I do!! (I am still working on the puppy, but I really like the freedom you have with cats as I am not a get up at 5:00 AM and walk the dog in cold rain kinda gal!)

My sister and fingers crossed and many PRAYERS

For those who do not know - my sister and brother-in-law have been trying for years to have a baby. They have done many many procedures and surgeries and tests.

My sister just had a positive test Sunday. Her levels increased Monday. She goes for levels Wednesday and Friday.

Please everyone - pray for her as they want a baby so much! They will be such wonderful parents...

April - I love you and my thoughts and prayers are with you!!!