Sock Critters!!

I'm not sure these critters ever were posted. 

I'm putting them on the blog so I can repost them to my Pinterest board. 

Ahhh...so many places to post. So little time.

This is Brainiac.  He's one of my favorites. 
I like the look of him so much that I had greeting cards made with his picture.

This is Estelle.  I made her from a pattern in a book. 
This is a few years old and I made her at Hannah's request. 
Mostly I think Hannah wanted me to make the hardest pattern of all.

Froggy. 
We meant to give him away but then fell in love with him.
He sits on a shelf watching our every move.

This super soft little guy was a gift for Baby Jasper.

Mister Wiggles. 
Is soon to be given to a little baby....should I ever finish the 75% completed baby blanket that goes with him!

This is a pink sock monkey, with ears.
 I hate making ears, but did it because I can hear my mother saying, "Where are the ears!?"
I gave this to a co-worker who had a baby girl last week.  Along with a WAY cute baby blanket.

In other news - the snow is melting (thank goodness!) and tonight's my birthday party. 

Now it's time to sign off and make birthday cake!

Crunchy on the Outside. Fluffy on the Inside...

That's what Aaron said as he plodded around the back yard this afternoon. A short spurt of falling ice this morning gave our snow a crunchy top layer. It was supposed to warm up and turn to rain today, but instead it stayed cool and snowed all day long.  We're up to about six inches so far.

Today I took what just might be my first-ever Seattle snowday - largely the result of having a cold and just not feeling like dealing with a long commute for a short day of work. Yesterday was fairly easy bus commuting, but it was r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-o-o-o-w. As in: two hours each way. The bus home got stuck and we had to wait to get chains, but once that happened we had it made. Luckily I left early and still got home before dark.

Since then I've been sipping an assortment of warm drinks: cocoa, tea and the last bit of apple cider from Christmas. Aaron and I celebrated with Snow Day Brunch, although it was interrupted continuously because I was working from home. Still, any day that starts with eggnog waffles can't be too bad!  At 4pm I signed off of the work email and went for a short walk with my Honey.

Here are a few pictures:




Looking down our street.

Aaron under the arch - he was brushing snow off of our little trees and shrubs.

Front yard...doesn't the flag in the foreground and the orange studio make for nice spots of color?



Misty, our penguin, finally sees the snow!!!



Aaron's noticed these cool branches with the snow looking like veins on a leaf.

By the way - my birthday week has been super-fun with presents arriving every day and celebrations galore.  I'm one lucky birthday girl!

Happy New Years - Redux

OOPSIE!  Not a flawless start to the New Year as my fingers went much faster than my brain and *POOF* The blog was sent out without any words.  Here's Take 2.  This time - with feeling.


As party season comes to a close and Anner's Birthday Month begins, here are some pictures to catch you up to date:

Aaron's prized gift this year is an antique(ish) miniature plane.  It's that little doo-dad in his fingers.  A little tool for the little pieces of wood in his jewelry.  Everything's cute when it's little, right?

Adam LOVED his crazy straw that we got him.  It took three adults to help him use his creation, but he was way into it. 

Anner loves Aaron.  Happy New Year's!  It looks like he's trying to wrestle himself away from me, but really he's going for the s'more.

Ben and Karen love homemade s'mores.  Who doesn't???!!!!

It only appears during the holiday season, but here it is.  The infamous Homemade S'more!  Homemade marshmallow, homemade graham cracker.  Theo Chocolate.  It's everything good in about three gooey bites.

Anner made cookie after cookie after cookie this year.  Aaron's done a find job of keeping up eating cookie after cookie after cookie.  He's just keeping up his part of the wedding vows.

This is the very cool pendant Aaron gave me.  It's enamel on copper.  Love it.

I got "red-lights" put in my hair.  Not at all sure that I like them.  Positive I'm not in love with them, but definitely a fun try for ending good ole 2011.  2012?  Who knows?  So many possibilities...

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday and are as excited to see what happens this year as I am!