Here's another attemp to write a post using everything in a strange but beautiful foreign language of which I sadly do not understand. Hopefully everything will work.

I got up early and decided to spend a liittle time reading. But that put me promptly back to sleep sitting up on the couch. I slept until after 9:00. Not good. Then I got out my sewing machine and stitched the last of GD #1's Christmas present. I managed to get it all done except for the top stitching (quilting) before my machine got sick on me. It kept balling up on the underside every time I tried to sew. Kathleen says it probably needs cleaning because the smallest little thing like a piece of fabric or thread will cause that to happen. So that's at the top of my to do list tomorrow morning. Clean my machine. Hopefully that will take care of the problem. It was very frustrating this morning when I couldn't get my machine to work right. I was so close to having her set done and out of the way. Oh well, tomorrow's a better day I'm sure.

I finished the scarf I've been working on for the last couple days. I washed and soaked it in cold water. Then blocked it. Hubby help me carry the mounting boards into the spare room. It would have fallen apart if I'd tried to do it by myself. It looks very nice. Kinda flattened from rolling it in a towel to extract as much water as possible. But I roughed it up with my fingers and hopefully it will look okay when it's dry. The pattern for it is called Gossamer Shell Scarf. It's very light and open. Very nice. Since it had so many holes in it I thought to use my wires for blocking. I don't know that they made it any easier. In fact they may have required more work than using the pins. But the sides are nice and straight. Now I need to decide tomorrow what I'm going to knit next. There are a couple more scarves in the latest book I bought that I might try. Thing is I've got scarves coming out my ears. I told GD#1 that I'd be happy to give her some scarves that she could use as thank you gifts for her hostesses if she wanted to. She is selling Mary Kay cosmetics now. She's just getting started. I'm hosting a party for her on the 14th of August. Now all I have to do is round up people to come. And I want people to come who might really like the product and buy the skincare line. I really don't want the people to just come for the party and not be interested in purchasing really great skincare products. So I am being selective with prospective guests.

I have knit so much getting ready for Christmas but I'm hoping to get all the gifts made and maybe even wrapped as soon as possible so I won't have to worry about them anymore. The gift I've picked out to make for GD#2 will take a little time but is should turn out to be something really nice for her. Something besides scarves and slippers. I still need to find other things to make for her though as everyone else has multiple gifts. GS will be coming home on leave from the Air Force on the 31st of July. Just a little over a week from now. I haven't seen him since he left back in February. That's 5 months!!! That's a long time!!! Too long. I'm hoping my yarn comes in tomorrow. I'll start the slippers as soon as it gets here. Or maybe I should start on GD#2's gift. I don't know probably one or the other. And I still need to think of what I can do for my GS and my son. Guys are hard to make things for. I have an extra pair of slippers (gray) knitted up in case he says he's wear them. He's the only one in my family that didn't get slippers last year for Christmas. I'm hoping he'll say he'll wear them. But I do need to decide on some guy gifts. Maybe I should go look through patterns again at WalMart. Maybe I'd find something that I could sew for them. I'm thinking like a poncho. GS is being stationed in Alaska when his leave is over so he will need lots of warm things. I could knit him a hat to go with the slippers. And I might even knit him a "sleeve" for his hand to go in when he's using an ice scraper. I imagine he'll probably have lots of times he'll have to scrape the ice off his vehicle. This pattern has an ice scraper sewn into the end of the sleeve. He'll stick his hand in one end and grab the handle of the scraper inside and then scrape away. The sleeve will protect his hand from the ice shavings that come off when scraped.

Well gang it's late so I think I'll bow out for tonight. One of these days I'll have something interesting to write about. Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants? Okay I'm going to see now if I remember how to publish this post. I can't read any of the instructions and have no idea what I'm clicking on. Sure wish I knew how to get back to that formatting page and put this thing back into English. Frustrating! Until next time... P.S. I just discovered I can no longer spell check. RATS!