Even the Tea Has Turned on Me

Good Grief, will it never end?
Today:
-Got kicked in my sleep by my husband (hard)
-Woke up at 5:00 am, unable to get back to sleep
-Realized the Duke is still sick as I gaged watching him clean goop out of his eyes
-Fought with (for several hours) and then finally canceled my health insurance
-Spilled scalding hot tea all over myself, my couch, and of course, my computer
-In my rush to clean it up I find (deeply imbeded in my foot) the second of two needles I dropped the other day in the carpet (unable to find the second at the time I concluded I had been mistaken and there must have only been one.)

On the other hand:
-I finished the slides for my Business Plan presentation on Thurs
-Created a template for my patterns and formated the first one, which is all ready off to Princess P. who is test knitting



-Got better photographs of the Easy Peasy Baby Rattle and the Birthday Bib

-Finished a little baby hat for a friend who is due on Sat.

-Got a great start on the next Ba Ba Baby design Sweet Sunny Baby

-I am up-to-date on my tetnus shot (I think, I had one in 1999- checking- yup 10 years, I'm still good for a bit longer)
-There was still enough hot water in the tea pot for another cup of tea

Luckily my silver linings are usually pretty broad.

So what are you going to do now?

Due to some recent, unexpected, and major changes in my life, I have suddenly found myself with a significant more amount of free time that I have had in the past. (I'll tell y'all more about the major changes in a few days when I have better processed everything.)

Princess P. emailed me earlier today and (among other things) asked what I was going to do with my free time now. Good question, Princess, what am I going to do with this new abundance of free time?

I'M GOING TO KNIT OF COURSE!

I have wanted, for a long time, to create my own line of knitting patterns, but I have never had the free time it required before. Now, well. . .

Today I spent some productive time with my design notebook and came up with a half dozen ideas, then I spent some healthy time with my needles and yarn.

You all get to preview the first two patterns in the first set of designs, BaBa Baby.

Easy Peasy Baby Rattle
This darling little toy is easy to knit, uses soft and natural wool, and has the sweetest little shushu noise when rattled.

Birthday Bib
At our house birthdays meant Mom's homemade spagetti and angle food cake. The birthday baby might not get a lot of that spagetti in her mouth, but oh what fun! First crack at the cake was another well earned reward for a year of accomplishment. A bib to compliment the show was a must. This one gives plenty of coverage with arm holes so the birthday baby can still throw tomatoes at her big brother! (I don't have a baby to model this, so my stuffed pup will have to do for now.)

More to come. . .