WAY Too Much Cute!

The cute is ridiculous!

Can't wait to see what's next on the Lily Happy Baby Growth Calender.

(That's a real thing,right?)

Also. This little guy tried to kill me.I don't know his formal name. He was marked Red Thai Chili. Looks teensie and innocent? Contains the fires of HELL!!!! 

All of the fires!!! 

Soooooo hot!

What do you folks do with unbelievably hot peppers?

Trimming Grandpa Jimmy

This is one of the silliest things we've done in a long time.I had to share.

Love this guy heaps! He's the only one who gets my jokes every time.

Keeping Cozy

We Canadians are really good at cuddling in for the winter. That's exactly what we've been doing around our end of the woods.

Mom's been keeping us in flowers to keep us all cheerful.

I've been learning new knitting skills.

Potato mash, cod and cheddar spread is being had.

Even more socks are being knit.These are for our Mercy.

I've been making scratch Bennie for lunch.

It's been a great winter!

Squirrel Progress

There is progress, but it's very slow. I tested up the squirrel grid for my fair aisle vest in some worsted weight acrylic so see how it looks in the real world. I think it'll do just fine. I've sent away for the colour wool for the actual vest and am waiting patiently for it's arrival. I'm working the vest in fingering weight yarn and it's taking FOREVER!!!! Most of the materials I work in are fast finish deals, but this teensy yarn width takes an excruciatingly long time to work up anything bigger than a sock.

So I'll try to stay patient until I can finish it up and wear it.

I must admit I really am enjoying the idea of creating my own unique kitschy vintage vests. Who knows what's next....... maybe dragons?

A Fair Aisle Squirrel Grid

We had a seriously terrific 2014. Mercedes moved back to our home province after two excruciating (for us, not her) years across the country. We had the best vacation EVER to a castle in France. Maggie and Austin gave us our grand baby Lily. (Still can't believe she's here!) and I have a very successful operation that ended ten years of pain. Here's hoping your slipping into 2015 with as much happiness and comfort as we are experiencing. I really don't know how the new year will ever hold up to the last.

Here's a bit of what we've been up to.

Loads of cuddle time and knitting. I'm working up some squirrel and acorn fair aisle vest grids. I'm using my STAEDTLER ergo soft pencil crayons to get some colour ideas. More on that later.

Lily is growing like a bad weed. It's all I can to to keep her in slippers!

The latest Lily foot coverings are plain old granny slippers with pomp poms.