Friday Fill Ins

1. Please don't tell me it is suppose to get really cold here again next week.

2. Can you wake me in the morning?

3. The color of my son's eyes makes me want to kiss him!

4. I have a craving for real breakfast food. I've been following the Morning Banana diet as a test for 3 days now. Sick of bananas.

5. If my life had a pause button, I'd pause it when I get to Hawaii.

6. Eyes are the window to the soul, right?

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to hopefully getting some rest since I've been coughing up my lungs for several nights in a row now, tomorrow my plans include giving a marketing presentation and Sunday, I want to start packing for Hawaii!

More Fill Ins here.

Friday Fill-In since I have a bad pain in my neck!

1. It's January; time to get out the alpaca socks, a deep freeze is headed our way and we are going to have high temps below zero next week.

2. Sleep is what I crave most right now (I coughed all night and couldn't sleep).

3. Cork and wine go together like yarn and a loom (hee, hee).

4. Rest is so nourishing.

5. Let us dare to make changes to the new CPSIA law taking affect February 10, 2009.

6. Welcome to my home.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to going to bed early (hopefully I won't cough up my lungs and can rest), tomorrow my plans include celebrating a belated Christmas with my family and Sunday, I want to have a belated Christmas brunch!

More Fill-Ins here.

Friday Fill-Ins

1. My blueprint for success includes a great deal of hard work.
2. A mini Milkyway was the last candy I ate.
3. The best facial moisturizer I've ever used is my own facial oils -- LOL, I don't need to use moisturizer.
4. Loom Knitting a pair of gloves, glittens, or half finger gloves can be good therapy.
5. I'd like to tell you about my alpacas if you really want to listen.
6. My lips are my strongest characteristic.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to watching the newest Survivorman, tomorrow my plans include test knitting my loom knit toe socks again and Sunday, I want to see my hubby when he gets back from hunting!

Friday Fill-Ins - Halloween 2008 Edition

1. My favorite food seasoning is chocolate.
2. Trick or Treat is music to my ears.
3. Lucky is the kid that gets the last piece of candy.
4. Pumpkin carving is something I take very seriously.
5. Many people will be out past dark tonight.
6. A Spiderman costume was the last thing I bought at the store.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to trick-or-treating with the kiddos, tomorrow my plans include sleeping an extra hour (yeah!) and Sunday, I (will) want to hide all the Halloween candy from the kids because they will be sick!

Friday Fill-Ins

1. Dancing to the music of laughter while visiting with my friends makes me happy.

2. The last time I doubted myself I nearly gave up, but I persevered and everything came out just right.

3. When I drive I love to sing to songs on the radio.

4. I saw our beautiful alpaca Samson standing out in our pasture this morning and I couldn't get over how handsome he is.

5. Give me fiber, give me a drop spindle, give me yarn.

6. Next week I am looking forward to working in the Alpacas of MN State Fair Booth, promoting alpacas and the Alpacas of MN Farm Tour, hope to see you there!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to creating paper mache manaquin parts to display my alpaca garments, tomorrow my plans include creating more manaquin parts and Sunday, I want to visit with my sister who is recovering from surgery!

More Fill-Ins here.

Friday Fill Ins

1. If I could travel back in time, I'd go to when I was just a little girl and watch my grandmother knit and crochet and try and bring back some of that information to today so I can become better at these two things.

2. Give me sleep or give me coffee (sorry, I only got 2 1/2 hours of sleep last night).

3. I am listening to my two year old singing.

4. Somewhere, someone is thinking does this woman ever post anything other than Friday Fill Ins and Wordless Wednesday? Well, yes, I do! As soon as five of my six kiddos are back in school, I'll be able to post pics of all my creations and I will be able to write all about my creative endeavours.

5. I'll always be creating something until the day I die.

6. My idea of a good time includes peace and quiet! (I must be getting old).

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to baking and decorating the birthday cake I designed for my mother-in-law, tomorrow my plans include attending the Alpacas of MN meeting I was responsible for organizing and Sunday, I want am going to the birthday party that above said cake was made for!

Friday Fill-Ins

1. I believe whatever doesn't kill you now sits in your body and will eventually rear its ugly head someday and cause cancer or some other deadly disease.

2. If you're good at something, turn it into what you do for a living because it will be the best job you ever have and you will never feel like you are working.

3. Why so silly?

4. Something is out there, it's obtainable for those that set their minds to it.

5. If my life were a sitcom soap opera, it would be titled All My Children.

6. Sitting on my back porch [if you don't have one, use your imagination] I see our back 40, the alpaca barn, and sometimes I see the alpacas grazing in the back pasture.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to finishing up a dishcloth design I am doing for a calendar for Breast Cancer Awareness, tomorrow my plans include going to a family picnic and Sunday, I want to get back into the garden!

Friday Fill-Ins, whew, it's been a tough day!

1. If I could be a fly on the wall I wouldn't be since I hear enough whinning and complaining from each of my two stepdaughters talking about the other.

2. Jealousy is driving me crazy in my family! My two stepdaughters are so jealous of eachother, they fight constantly and I just can't stand it anymore.

3. When I see a shooting star my wish would be that everyone would love and respect everyone they meet and love and respect themselves too.

4. I'd rather be happy, happy, joy, joy than angry and upset (like today) any day!

5. Certain songs when I hear them make me wanna cry.

6. If time were in a bottle I'd pour it out quickly on days like today.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to time away from my two fighting stepdaughters, tomorrow my plans include still more time away from them (hee, hee) and Sunday, I want to do something fun!

Friday Fill-Ins and a pretty rainbow

1. Oh, I can't wait until I have a drum carder.

2. The milk usually is the first thing I see when I open my refrigerator.

3. I never leave home without my purse.

4. If I were a condiment, I would be mustard because if you spill me on your cloths, on the table, or anywhere, I leave a permanent mark.

5. Food crumbs on my kitchen floor is really high up on my list of pet peeves.

6. The last thing I thought of before I went to bed was oh I hope we don't have a tornado warning during the night.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to getting safely to my brother's house in southern Minnesota without running into some terrible storms, tomorrow my plans include visiting with my mom and dad and brother and Sunday, I want to get back home safely to see my kiddos and hubby!

We've had some rocky weather lately. I took this photo a few days ago after a particularily violent storm passed through:

Friday Fill-Ins

1. A smile is universal.
2. Scrabble is my favorite board or card game.
3. I would love to have more relaxation in my life and less stress.
4. When I think of the Summer Solstice, I think of playing red light, green light as a kid in the yard until 10 pm and listening to the frogs in the creek and seeing the fireflies come out when the sun finally went down.
5. I just remembered I need to make a salad for tomorrow (see #7).
6. One of my favorite song lyrics goes like this:
The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!
Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
'Til there's none!
When I'm stuck with a day
That's gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And grin,
And say,
Oh
The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
Tïll tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
I love ya
Tomorrow!
You're always
A day
A way!
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to going to the Chanhassen Dinner Theater and seeing Married Alive, tomorrow my plans include going to a graduation party and then going to a birthday party for my brother, sister, and brother-in-law (yes we have three birthdays right in a row) and Sunday, I want to visit with my mom and dad before they go back home!

Friday Fill-ins

1. Getting a drum carder is high up on my bucket list.
2. My favorite quote is Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight; it's from Proverbs 3:5-6.
3. Denise@knitchat.com inspired me to start blogging.
4. Strawberries are best fresh from the garden.
5. I was spinning in the last dream I remember having.
6. The most enjoyable time to go for a walk is in the evening after it cools down and the sun is setting.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to keeping an eye on our new addition to our alpaca herd


Awwwe, isn't he cute???

tomorrow my plans include spinning more of our freshly shorn alpaca and Sunday, I want to celebrate Father's Day!

More Friday Fill-ins here.

Friday Fill In Meme

1. Idle hands are not mine, I have them doing something all the time.
2. I love to hang my hanks of handspun up in the shower.
3. My favorite time of the day is when I can do my arts and crafts.
4. The last tea I drank was yesterday, I had spiced chai.
5. I like to go boating in the Summer.
6. My mother always said I can do whatever I put my mind to.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to spinning, tomorrow my plans include spinning some more and Sunday, I want to spin some more(can you tell I am completely addicted?)!

More Friday Fill-Ins here.

Friday Fill In

1. For me logic and critism is are the opposite of creativity because when we are criticized, the left side of our brain takes over. The left side of our brain has to do with logic. We create with the right side of our brain. If someone is overly critical of themself, they will hinder their own creativity.
2. "Call of the Wild" was the last excellent book I read to my son.
3. I like fill-ins because it is very fun and interesting to see how many different answers people come up with and it is fun to blog hop and meet new people.
4. In nature I like looking at water.
5. I plead the 5th on who I think should win the US elections.
6. The last time I laughed with all my belly was last weekend at my two year old, little ones are so funny!
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to being alone with my husband (date night), tomorrow my plans include getting up bright and early and heading down to southern MN to go to an All About Alpaca Fleece Seminar and Sunday, I want to work on my alpaca rug I am hooking with hand carded alpaca fleece and loom knitting some more on my latest design!

More Friday Fill-Ins here.

Friday Fill Ins

1. On my laziest craziest day I like to drink a beer to relax me! (I don't get lazy days, I have six kids!)
2. Progress makes me feel like I'm being productive.
3. I love little kisses from my kids and big hugs from them too.
4. This summer I want to go on vacation, but that will never happen.
5. The writing of Denise over at www.knitchat.com made me start my blog. (Hee, hee, I bet she didn't know that!)
6. Red roses and orange tiger lilies.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to steak dinner, tomorrow my plans include major spring cleaning and Sunday, I want to go out in the boat!

Friday Fill-Ins and Blog Contests!

1. There is absolutely NO way you can get me to give up my hairdryer and curling iron!
2. The trees budding out reminds me that summer spring is almost here! (I am not joking, our trees are just starting to bud out!)
3. I cannot live without my knitting looms or knitting needles.
4. Knitting a sweater and knitting a baseball hat are two things I'd like to try and design on my knitting looms.
5. When life hands you lemons get out the sugar and add some water and enjoy a delicious lemonade.
6. Playing games with my mother at the kitchen table before bedtime is my favorite childhood memory.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to having the house to just myself and my two youngest since my hubby and the four oldest kiddos are going camping, tomorrow my plans include finishing up planting the garden and Sunday, I want to get my hair cut, it is getting way too long and thick!

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Friday Fill In #71

1. The meatloaf had an extra secret ingredient; it was worcestershire sauce!
2. I see a beautiful red cardinal through my window.
3. Right now, I need to get over this cold because I have a big day today and tomorrow. Today I am going to the Children's Museum and then the Como Zoo. Tomorrow I get to go to the Shepherd's Harvest Wool and Sheep Festival and will get to meet my online friend Lisa Anderson.



4. To bed early is where I went Thursday night; it was just what I needed since I am really feeling under the weather lately.
5. Why does a sore nose hurt so much?
6. All I can think of is the tickle in my throat.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to turning in early again, tomorrow my plans include the Shepherd's Harvest Wool and Sheep Festival and Sunday, I want to go out to eat for Mother's Day!

Friday Fill Ins...blog party details...and a bordom buster prize giveaway!

1. Two of my favorite ingredients in a drink are alcohol (hee, hee) and fruit!
2. My husband often amazes me.
3. You can keep doing that forever, the dog is dead.
4. Take 1 egg; 1 cup milk; 1 cup buttermilk; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp salt; 2T oil; 2 cups flour, and mix it all together and voila! You have Buttermilk Pancake Batter!
5. If I had a yard with a garden, I would love to grow iris's.
6. A teenager's face is best au naturel (I hate it when girls cover up their natural beauty with makeup).
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to going to be knitting, tomorrow my plans include knitting and Sunday, I want have to knit (because I had a little snag in my test knit pattern that was suppose to post yesterday for the May LAL)!



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Friday Fill In

1. When I fell in love was when I first layed eyes on my first born son!
2. May is (suppose to be) when the flowers bloom and it heats up outside, but the way things are going it'll be July!
3. Oh no! The internet connection is down, now what am I going do with all of this time on my hands??!!
4. MADtv is the craziest tv show ever.
5. Cheese and crackers make a great meal!
6. Plant a garden.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to a steak dinner and a movie, tomorrow my plans include not much, we are suppose to get a pile of snow and Sunday, I want to send the kiddos to my sister's!

Friday Fill-ins...a contest...and what I've been up to.

1. The last time I lost my temper I scared myself!
2. The price of gas is what I'm fed up with!
3. The next book I'd like to read is my own (I started writing it - whoo hoo).
4. Summer is what I'm looking forward to.
5. If you can't get rid of the skeleton[s] in your closet, look in someone elses, I bet they have more (hee, hee)!
6. The best thing I got in the mail recently was some Wolly Wonka from a contest I won over on the Purling Dervish's blog.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to a nice long workout, tomorrow my plans include working on my mom's mother's day gift and Sunday, I want to go for a walk outside, it will be nice finally!

Now, about the conest, if you like dancing and you like gospel, go check out this cool contest going on over here. The contest winner will be announced on April 23rd, so hurry on over and check out the contest rules.

I've been kind of quiet lately. I been asked why I haven't been posting to my groups and why I haven't blogged (I didn't know anyone would miss my mindless dribble). Well, I have lots of designs I am working out for the loom. First and formost, my mother's gift which is taking me forever and a day since it is knit on an extra fine gauge loom! I took a break from that over the past couple days since I heard the call for designs for the Summer issue of Loom Knitter's Circle Magazine and I worked out the most darling design (if I do say so myself). I am my worst critic and always think my stuff isn't up to par to submit, so I don't. This design though even impressed me. My kids are so funny, they keep saying that they can't believe I designed it. They don't think of me as being anything but a mom, I guess. Well, got to go, I have miles to go before I sleep...

Friday Fill Ins and My Latest Loom Knitting Experiment

1. I love springtime in July?! (Hey, it's MN, we are getting a blizzard right now and we are expected to get up to 2 feet of snow). See for yourself.
2. Pancakes and omlets are foods I love to eat for breakfast.
3. It seems I'm always searching for ideas of things to knit :D
4. A good long workout is a great way to end the day.
5. I think I am addicted to yarn!
6. A vacation is what I've been craving lately.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to shoveling snow(?), tomorrow my plans include shoveling more snow(?) and Sunday, I want to stop shoveling snow!

My latest Loom Knitting Experiment

See how it's done here.