Here is another one for the garage. Love my nephew's "stand up straight" hair!

New stuff is up at the Garage. I love the challenge to do layouts each month.

On the needles

This is my latest knitting project. Hopefully it will turn out like the picture! This magazine had some cool patterns in it so I hope to be able to try some other ones after I am done with this one.

First day of school, First day of notes


The boys started their new school on Wednesday. I love the picture of Tyler I took. Look at that face! I did take one of Timmy but it is blurry (we were running late and being rushed so I'll have to reshoot his). So Matt and I thought everything went well the first day, until about 8:00 that night when Timmy decides to tell us he got a note sent home that we had to sign. What!! Your first day! Come on - already this is starting?? I actually wish I could have saved the note because the teacher made him fill it out himself and his answers will be really funny in say 10 years or so when he is an adult or if it wasn't my kid. She was trying to use reverse psychology or something because it was fill in the blanks and it said something like "Because I did not behave correctly, now I do not know how to do _____". So of course my son wrote in "...now I do not know how to do NOTHING!" So someday I will laugh about that because it is just his personality. Sure hope he has a strong teacher this year that has been teaching for a while. Good luck Mrs Swank - you are going to have to be pretty clever to keep my "I know everything" kid in line.

I got to visit my friend Sylvia's new baby girl- Danika! I even got to hold her! She is such a little peanut and I loved having her curled up on my chest. Sylvia is always making something cute for someone so I thought I would make something for her and the baby. Michelle gave me the Baby Bolero pattern from the One Skein book (which I ended up buying later because it had so many cute projects in it). I can't remember the name of the yarn but it was so nice to work with and soft. I figured out that I finished the sweater at the exact moment Danika was being born! I also made a Baby Keepsakes tin for her which I got the idea from Stephanie's blog. I saw hers and had to make one! I'll post more projects later - I am knitting a t-shirt and I finished up my layouts for Bay Area Scrappers! So lots to post!

D-O-N-E-!!

I am done!! Done with my event that is!! What an event it was!! So many things got messed up that I really am feeling very critical about it. So I guess I will just vent and move on! Let's see where do I start - with some of the 2nd round of award redos coming in wrong, or the SAG union picketing our event with a giant inflatable rat outside of the hotel, or the banquet people setting up for tables of 10 instead of 8 which would have thrown off my whole list of reserved seating for 400 people (but I threw a fit - it was their fault anyway - the diagram the hotel made for me was set for tables of 8 - look at your own stuff guys!) or the lighting guy breaking two of my awards the day of the event or the guest speaker's horrible speech (which I had read beforehand and begged my boss to have our president talk to him and change it - sorry but a owner of a National Ad agency should NOT confess to 400 people that he had a mid life crisis, got divorced and then found the love of his life and then say how one of our top managers had his heart broken by his first love etc etc when the guy's wife is right there!! hello? I don't know about you but I wouldn't want my husband previous love of his life brought up at all let alone in front of 400 people. Oh and somehow this was all tied to his theme - perserverance??? Also if you are speaking to a bunch of KFC managers why are you talking about football legends the whole time!!! Either talk about something restaurant related or at least music related since that was our theme. All I have to say is YIKES!!! Ok - I am getting worked up again!! It's over - it's over - that is what I have to keep telling myself.

So I move one and what do I have on my to do list:

Get the boys ready for school - which starts next Wednesday. I feel like they had a cruddy summer. Sorry boys! Now I gotta get things ready like clean out all of last years school papers, get uniforms and haircuts for them.

Finish up my layouts for Bay Area Scrappers. They are actually done but I just have to post them and drive over to Suzy's and hand them off. Doing those layouts was a bright spot for me.

Visit my friend Sylvia and her new baby girl!! I made some goodies for her but will have to post them after my visit .

So I promise I won't gripe about work anymore and next time I will post fun stuff like layouts, what I am knitting etc...

What else could go wrong???

Okay - so my big event is a week away. It's crunch time. Time to finalize everything and take care of the little stuff. Suddenly, last week, all heck seems to be breaking loose - Wednesday we get a call from our hotel and the remodel they thought was going to be done by our event is now delayed due to parts that were backordered. So we lost 1/3 of our foyer space that is replaced with scaffolding disguised with black drape. So that was bad but we can handle it and it will just be a little tight for our cocktail party for 400 people. Then Monday hits and we get the news that one of our big wigs miscalculated some figures which meant about 20 out of the 200 awards we already had ordered and received had to be redone! Can they be ready by Tuesday? We sure hope so! Then my boss got a call today that our DJ who was working from 3pm - 1am has Vertigo and is in the hospital (which is ironic since one of the songs we are using in our event is U2's Vertigo). I know a lot of other things could go wrong but at this point would I really be surprised?? Will Imake it through 'till the event is over?!