Lucky Me!

Well, considering this year got off to a rough start for me what with allergies and just not feeling 100%, it looks like January is turning out to be a great month :-) I recently won a giveaway over at Stephanie's La Dolce Vita blog, when she was celebrating 3 years of blogging! My prize arrived just before last weekend . . .

Stephanie had chosen a few books in different categories (house, cooking, photography) and the winner got to pick which one they wanted. I already had the Pioneer Woman cook book that Stephanie had chosen, so I picked this sweet home book 'The Perfectly Imperfect Home'.

 It's filled with water colored pictures that I just love. I haven't had a minute to sit and read it yet, but I certainly will find the time this week. I would think this book will sit on my bedside table for a while too, so I can browse it at bed time ;-)

Thank you again Stephanie, and here's to many more years of blogging for you. If you haven't visited Stephanie's blog before HOP ON OVER and say hi. Her photography skills are amazing.

And if that wasn't lucky enough, I also learned last week that I'd won another giveaway on a knitting blog :-) I'm waiting for my package which is being shipped from the UK. I'll post about it when it arrives. Speaking of knitting, it's taking up all my spare time at the minute, I just LOVE IT.  I knit this hat last week for Kristen, it only took me a day!

Isn't it cute :-) I just love it, and I learned something new this week - I don't mind knitting fairisle!!! I always thought I hated it cos it was too messy twisting the yarns, but you don't actually have to. It knit up much faster than I thought it would because of that. 

 The pattern calls for bulky yarn, but I didn't have any. I decided to use a different yarn but knit the larger adult size, giving me a 'young girl' size when it was finished :-) The yarn is 100% wool from Hobby Lobby.

I'm just thrilled with how this turned out, I am thinking of buying the bulky yarn and knitting one that will fit me. There is also a pattern for matching mittens that I might make us. Sad thing is we probably won't get to wear any of these til next winter. The weather here in TX has been positively Spring like this week!!!