My First Ravelympics!

For those of you out there who don't know what the Ravelympics are, it is when all of us knitters and crocheters on Ravelry knit our fingers sore during the Olympic Games. This time it's in Vancouver, Canada during Feb 12-28, 2010. The goal is 2 weeks of focused team challenge knitting while watching the actual Olympics unfold before our eyes.

I am part of Team Dizzy. GO TEAM!!

This is my first Ravelympics and I am so excited! I decided to make something for my mother after she called me to say she had just bought a hat to keep her head warm this winter. That made me feel like DIRT! Here I am a knitter and my mother is buying a noggin warmer!

She loved the Star Crossed Berets that I had made for myself and my sister, so naturally she wanted one too. So I am making that slouch hat and a matching cowl, inspired by the hat pattern, for her. I am using some of my Dream in Color Classy from the stash. Thou, my mother loves pink as much as I do, she wanted something different. I thought the Cloud Jungle would be a lovely color for these two projects.

I feel like I can complete these two projects over the next two weeks. On top of caring for my family.

So good luck and happy knitting to all of my fellow Ravelympics 2010 Winter Games crafters.

Can I Do Better?

I have been really bad at not blogging lately. Not because I don't have anything to talk about, but because I just am having a hard time finding TIME.

I will have to do better this year! Maybe I can vow to blogging at least once a week. I feel so bad! :(

Happy New Year!

It has been another amazing year for the Boykin Family. I hope everyone has had a great 2009 and I wish everyone a wonderful New Year in 2010!

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, because my family sure did!

Black Friday. . . A Good or Bad Thing?

I haven't decided if Black Friday is a good or bad thing yet. I know it is good to be able to purchase items at a discounted price and save some money, but come on! Who doesn't want to save money? The reason I ask if it is good or bad is because of my experience this morning during a Black Friday Doorbuster event.

For some crazy reason, I decided to go to Toy R Us of all stores to partake is some of the money saving deals. The store opened at 12 midnight and I arrived at 10:45 pm. Well, there was already a long line. There had to be more than 250 people in front of me. No lie! I looked at the line and said, Ok this won't be so bad!

Ya, right! In the time that I was standing in line, I saw 2 people get handcuffed by the cops, 1 person almost get tased by a female officer, and heard the most ungodly words used in the worst way! To make matters worst, after I picked up the 3 items I wanted, I stood in a line for 1 hour only to have a sale associate tell me and about 100+ other people this wasn't a real line to the checkout.

Let's just say that set it off! Oh, did I mention that I had 2 chics try to jump me in line after all this other crap had gone down. Let me just tell you the short story to that situation, the 2 chics ended up putting their things down and walking away with nothing after I confronted them!

I didn't leave Toy R Us until 2:15 am! I love my kids, but this was a first and last time experience with this toy store on Black Friday . . . that was all the bad! The good . . . I did end up saving $60 on my 3 item!

Happy Halloween 2009

Halloween has become a fun holiday for me, my husband, and the boys. The kids get really get excited about the costumes and of course the CANDY! Between the three of them, I know they collected about 4-6 lbs of candy! And we didn't even hit all the houses in our neighborhood with the lights on! Anyway, I thought I would share some of the pictures I took this evening.

Jalen as the Transformer Bumblebee.

Cameron as G.I. Joe's Storm Shadow Ninja.

Johnny with Ryan as a Blue Ninja.

The boys all dressed and ready to go!

Being Sick Sucks!

I have been so sick for the past two weeks with the flu! I am feeling better now, but this sore throat and cough will not seem to go away. I have coughed so much that my tongue hurts too! It has been a blessing the the kids are all health, but my husband wasn't so luck. He is recovering from the flu too!

Pray for us!

Something New and Cute Too!

Now I will admit, that I am not great on my sewing machine. I have never even taking a sewing class. But, I am good at researching and following directions.

I have been seeing these little sewed box bags knitter use for small project and I wanted one too! So, I made it my mission to find a pattern to make me one! I thought to myself, it can't be that hard to make! Well, I found several tutorials online and the one I found here seemed right for me.

It only took me about 2.5 hours to sew and I think it looks great! Now, it does have flaws and they are bothering me. But this was my first attempt and I will do better next time.

My husband, as usual, just looked at me when I told him I was making a bag for small knitting projects. But as the bag started to form, he said, "Well, go ahead Martha Stewart! It looks good!"

And you know what. . . It does! Yes, that's right, I am tooting my own horn! I love it and I am already planning to make more!