For Nenna!

I was talking to my sister last week and mentioned the chair Kristen bought with her Christmas and Birthday money the family sent her. I put a picture on Facebook when she bought it just after Christmas but didn't post pictures here, so these are for you Nenna :-)

Kristen fell in love with this when we were out shopping just after Christmas. She used all of her birthday and Christmas money to just buy the chair! I had to buy the cushion for her, which I said was a little extra Christmas gift from me ;-) She wanted to sleep in it the first day she got it, but she didn't! She sits in this every day though to play her wii games.

Papasan Chair from Pier 1 Imports!

The fog is lifting. . .

Hi everyone,

I can't believe we're already in to the 10th day of this new year and I'm only just starting to feel somewhat 'normal'. I've hardly done anything since I packed the Christmas decor away (ok, truth be told it's STILL not all put away, some boxes are still in the dining room!), so I've hardly got anything to blog about ;-) 

I finally got in touch with my ENT (Ears, Nose Throat specialist) office yesterday, hoping to get an appointment to see my Dr but he is booked solid this week til Friday morning! No kidding, I'm sure I'm not the only one around here suffering badly with all these allergies. Thankfully they were able to call in a prescription to my local pharmacy and I went yesterday to pick it up. Can I tell you I'm already feeling SO much better this morning. SO MUCH better that I actually went up to the gym with Cheryl at 8.30am!  My hearing is still a bit 'fluffy', feels like theirs cotton wool stuck in my left ear, but it's not as bad as yesterday so I know it's improving every hour. 

I'm still not doing much around the house, other than laundry, dishes, knitting and reading ;-)  So I have no pictures to share. But I can't have a post without pictures (I sometimes do, but it's rare!), so here's one final Christmas photo (or two), I found these pics on my other camera and forgot I'd taken them. Remember the pretty candy cane vase I made . . . 

 The week of Christmas I bought some lovely red carnations to put in it - they lasted all the way through new year too :-) Sadly last week I threw the vase away! The can was all rusty from the water and there's no way this would last a whole year in the garage with the other decor, I would think the candy canes would melt once it got over 100 in there during the summer. It was a cheap make, just $2 for a box of canes, soI'm sure I would do another one next year.

 You can see more of Jason's Christmas windmill in this picture. We've always wanted one of these and I found one a couple of years ago on Ebay.

And with all my talk of knitting, if you're wondering what's on my needles at the minute, it's this. . . . 

It's called the Dahlia Cardigan. Mine is in a light blue. I've knit most of it and am working on the first sleeve at the minute. I'll be sure to share photos once I am wearing it :-)

A New Look!

Ta Da!!!  Here’s the new look to my blog… what do you all think? I’ve been working with Jenn from Munchkinland Designs this past week and I think she has done an awesome job on redesigning my blog. I’m loving it :-)

As you can see from the buttons up top I will have all my knitting posts, cooking posts and healthy eating posts labeled so when you click on those buttons you can easily see them at a glance. All of my blogging will be done here, my other blogs will be left as they are right now, mainly for my own purpose of using my blog rolls on those pages to visit other blogs.

I hope you like the new look, it’s certainly motivating for me to get back to what I loved most and that is ‘daily journaling’ about my life.

I’ll be back soon with a picture post. Today I’m just chillin on the sofa with Jason (and of course I’m knitting) :)