Knits and Beautiful Days

So apparently I never blogged about the first lace shawl I ever made, so here it is:

My question is can I pull this off wearing it in either one of these fashions?



 

So some other things I wanted to tell you about,  after all the crazy rain, we had one of the most beautiful days yesterday, here's some pics I took as I was waiting for some clients yesterday at one of our properties:


 
And last but not least, did you know that Debbie Stoller now has her own line of yarns with Red Heart?  I was at JoAnn's yesterday and I spotted this:


 
Look how vibrant those colors are!  And they're only $4.99 for about 150 yards of yarn!  There are 3 different yarns Full of Sheep,  Bamboo Ewe, and Alpaca Love!  I'm thinking of getting some of the Full of Sheep to make the Sunshine Intarsia Bag from Boutique Knits.  Here's the pic of the bag from the book:




I think I either want to make it in pink and red for Valentines or yellow and green for bright obnoxiousness.  Not sure yet, I'll keep you posted!

New Year New Home

So, right before the new year we moved into a new bigger house as I told you all we were going to.  Now I'm gonna show you some pictures of what the house looks like empty and as soon as we're done decorating I'll post some pics of that.
 Here's the garage:

 
This is where our new washer and dryer are now
 


Here's the Living Room

 

 

Here's the stairway with the awesome sky light:

 

 

Here's our Room and bathroom with the awesome Harry Potter closet that's going to be my craft stuff:
 




 

And here's the munchkins room with a walk in closet:



 

And last but not least the hall with the linen closet that we're using for books and the awesome up light:
 
 






I also wanted to show you all a great set I did for my parents Christmas party.  Here it is fresh out of the curlers:
 
 
And then here it is brushed out and styled, sorry no pics of me in my dress and such.

 

 

We're Moving

Hey all!  Steve and I are packing up and getting ready to move. 

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As you may or may not know the owner of the condo we've been living in for the last 14 months is short selling the home.  The new owners have no intention of renting the house out so we're moving.  At first I was really upset about this, I mean I hate packing and moving.  But it's ended up being a really good thing for us.  We're moving out of a small 900 sq ft 2 bed 2 bath, horrbily designed upstairs condo that needed a lot of work the owner wasn't willing to do.  The home we're moving into is 1132 sq ft 2 stories, 2 bed 2.5 bath with an attached 2 car garage and laundry in the garage.  It's a huge step up for us, not to mention the areas a bit nicer than where we are now, it's all homes as compared to the apartments that surround us now.  I also feel like we'll be able to have people over since all the living areas and such aren't right on top of each other.  Now, I'm looking to paint the house, but we haven't decided what colors we're gonna do as of right now.  So it looks like we'll be painting after we move in.  Because of this I would love to use a paint with no VOC's if at all possible.  I was trying to find a good paint, and had kind of given up, but then I happend on this blog.  She's awesome, and she's having this giveaway!  It's a perfect start to make the new house our home!

I suck

Ok, I know, I know, I suck.  I haven't posted in almost 2 months, but with the wedding and honeymoon and all that I got distracted.

So the wedding was awesome!  I would not recomend my coordinator to anyone however.  There was one point at which we were lined up ready to go down the aisle and not only did she yell at my wedding party about smoking, but the caterer spilled some marinara sauce on the upper level of the cabin deck right in front of us and everytime they tried to wipe it up more spilled down, she did nothing.  I had to ask them to stop wiping until we walked through.  But it was a beautiful day, and I am so glad I am spending the rest of my life with my best friend.  Now for some wedding porn, like I know you all are looking for:



Steve and his best lady Janice waiting for the entrence of the bride.  That's Mike, Janice's brother, in the back ground, he was our officiant.Steve got teary eyed as I walked down the aisle.

 
That's our awesome photographer Leah Lee in the background.
 



 

Ok so this is a lot of the wedding party right after Grace, the flower girl and Mike's daughter, and Richard, my cousin the ring bearer, entered.  My maid of honor Lauren is in red and my sister Susan is in purple, you can kind of see Amanda in blue there too.
 



 

 

My sister doing her reading from Corelli's Mandolin.

 
Matt, brother of Mike and Janice and uncle to Grace, doing his reading from Oh The Places You'll Go! You can also see Jeremy in this pic.
 Our first Kiss. 

 
Our Exit.



 
Some of my family coming up the aisle after pictures, that's my Momma in the front with her head bent.

 
The whole wedding party!

 
Lauren giving her toast.

 Janice giving her toast.

 
Us toasting.

 
Steve giving his toast, he got teary eyed again
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My Dad giving his toast.




 
My Godfather Tom giving his toast, made everyone cry.





 
 



 

 
Our first Dance, we danced to I'm Your's by Jason Mraz.








 
My cousin Zach sang the processional,  Such Great Heights and then I'll Follow You Into The Dark at the reception.  It was awesome.

So that's the wedding, more later.