Back for a day or so....

I know, I know.....I have been missing in action for most of the last month however I did try to post last week and the modem went out for a minute and took the long post with it and I didn't have it in me to recreate it at that time...needed to recover! 

I sat down with the calendar this week and figured out that I had been home exactly FOUR days since school got out for Memorial Day! YIKES! We had a vacation and then a trip for the Relay for Life where I feel very strongly about supporting all Cancers together (long story..different time) and then another trip back to the same place the following day for another week due to a death in the family, back for VBS, then off to my parents and now home to do laundry and head off for a week on the Buffalo River with the in-laws! I am so exhausted by this summer I can't wait for school to start back up! What a relief that will be!

That said this has been nice being the first summer in 4 ...read it...FOUR that my baby sister has not had major abdominal surgery for her colon cancer. This has been really nice because the last three have been so fraught with Drama and her being incapacicated that it is a nice change of pace to actually get to spend time with her outside of a hospital! What would be really nice is if her treatments would start to work already but we will take what we can get at this stage! She is a teacher and tends to only get sick during the summers (don't know how she worked that out but her school is happy about it! :O)!

Ok, On to happier stuff and the knitting that people supposedly come here to see! I haven't done as much knitting as I would have liked here recently because along with all of the travel we have done here lately came a huge amount of driving! Guess who got to do that driving 99% of the time...ME!  DH has been working and not traveling with us most of the time so far (he gets to go this week since it is his family!) so the driving has fallen into my lap which has seriously cut into my knitting time! I have gotten some projects done though...

First I got my Dye-O-Rama package from Beverly who did an AMAZING job! I love the yarn and plan to start my next socks for the trip out of it today!

The soap she sent smelled wonderful and there was also a very nice bookmark! What a great pal! Beverly, I want you to know that the fact that it took me a month to pubicly acknowledge your package is NO reflection on your dyeing abilities, just the amount of time available since I got it! I LOVE IT!

I worked on this great new purse from KnitPicks last weekend.

It was a lot of fun to knit and only took me one day to knit and sew together. I made the freestanding version and Love it but I decided to order more yarn and knit straps for it because I HATE HATE HATE (read: Despise) Hard handles. The lining is still pinned to the outside waiting for the yarn to finish it!

Last but not least are the socks I finished out of my Kool-Aid yarn. Modeled here by some tremendously skinny ankles. I loved the way the stripes worked out. This was my first skein of self dyed yarn. I hope my pal Carry liked her yarn and it knits up well for her too!

Well, I am off to do some laundry and pack my knitting bag again for another trip! I will try to be better at posting when I get back! Maybe even have some more FO's for ya!