Okay, I admit it, there hasn’t been much knitting happening here at the andreasen household. I spent yesterday building a new cage for Fuzzy to go in the boys room. With Rose living outside Fuzzy has been pretty lonely so being with the boys will get him more playing time.
This morning Tracy dropped by on her way on her way out of town. She is spending a long weekend at her parents house & Christy’s wedding in Tahoe. I think that will be a lot of fun for her! She left me with all the ingredients to make another batch of lotion bars. This time I am using a massage bar mold and a truffle candy mold for the perfect shaped bars. 
You can see the bars on the right have grated orange peel in the bottom of the mold. I think the texture will be nice & add just a soft scent of orange.
Of course those two molds didn’t hold all of the liquid so I did some more bullets & used an ice cube tray for the rest. 
Then I busily scraped all molds & the pan & the measuring cup I used for dispensing for every last little bit of this magical lotion! Into my little tin it went! Okay, the tin isn’t so little, it’s 2″ across & an inch deep.
I also am working on other items, some are gifts so they cannot be put on film or talked about just yet! Graduation gifts are a difficult thing to come up with. And just to remind everyone, please do a circular gauge swatch in pattern when you are coming up with your own sock pattern! I had to rip another sock completely out last night because the eyelet rib pattern I did it in stretched out almost an additional 3 inches!! Only 44 sts and it would have fit an 11inch calf!! No thanks! By the way, the recipient of said socks has an 8inch calf, not happenin’! So thank goodness the sock was only 2 hours worth of work before ripping. sigh. I guess I am going to have to start over & I am considering using a different yarn & pattern completely to better match the recipient anyways. It’s all good, it works out well in the end!
Tonight is knitting & man do I have alot of stuff to bring, Thuy!! I will bring both yoke sweaters, my spinning & I don’t think I will bring any other knitting. I have books to return to Mary too & I don’t want to forget those! I will hopefully be there around 6:30, maybe even earlier if George is home sooner than that!
Thuy is defenitely right about the crappy weather being the reason for a lack of APAD’s lately. I can’t get inspired to do any photography! I don’t have anything new or spectacular blooming around here so I can’t do an nature pics. I am in no mood to do any self portraits & the kids are just about as grumpy due to the gloom! Alas, no apad’s. I may just have to bring my camera tonight to knitting to get some fun group pics to post on the sbknitters site. We’ll just see about that! I always forget to pull out the camera & take some shots.
