Lazy Sunday?

I am recovering nicely from my knee surgery.  One week out and I am abe to walk, barely beat my 2yr old up the stairs, and play with adult legos.  Yes, yesterday I brought this family a little closer to having an adult looking house and one more step away from the college dorm look. 

With fall closing in rapidly I had to bring in my house plants.  They enjoyed the lovely summer but it is now time to enter the now catless house so I promised them there will be no peeing on them this year (fingers crossed the 2yr old does not try this).  To do this I had to get rid of the 2 very large boxes containing the lego sets.  Might as well put those together while the hubby and 5yr old are out and all I have to contend with is the 2yr old.  Famous last thoughts.

I spent 3 hrs just on the bookshelve.  Rowan, dear Rowan, decided to "help" by placing all of the weird circle locking mechanisms into all of the holes they fit in, that was after he shoved as much of the broken plastic into each hole.  Let the evacuation of each circle commence before locking in the bolts..sigh.  Of course I am disctracted by this and proceed to put the back on backwards.  So the instructions with the arrow is now on the right side.  So unscrew all of those, replace, screw back in...half way through realize I have a machine that makes this faster and spend 10 minutes locating the screwdriver and a working battery.  So proud of myself at this point that I carefully pull the bookcase upright and...yep, there is one of the shelves in backwards so the edge of the shelf is not glossy..ggrrr...put back down, unscrew the back again, unlock the top and 1 side, two sides for the shelf that is wrong, put shelf in correctly (checking myself), undig the circles again from industries 2yr old, relock all sides and top, rescrew (thanking god i found the electric screw driver) the back on correctly...stop to feed said industries 2yr old and wonder if I have any hard lemonade in the house but settle for organic non-alcoholic lemonade.

The tv stand went much smoother.  I only tried to put the front on upside down and took about an hour per drawer.  I hate drawers.  I either put the rollers on incorrectly or backwards or inside out, or the supposed insert for the bottoms never line up.  But it is together, Gamer hubby plugged everything back in and I feel alittle more grownup like. 

Next big house project...painting.  I am tried of living in a cream colored world.

To celebrate, I am ignoring the mess in the kitchen, ignoring the pile of laundery, and spinning this beautiful fiber I bought at Craft Akron a year ago.

this turning into that :)

  Then I might get industrious and do a little felting.

It is now past 11pm, and besides running interferance between the kiddo's and doing a little knee therapy I got to spin :)  this is the result:

Daniel has already chose the green to be a pair of socks for himself.  I may be making some cowls out of the rest, maybe some mommy socks.

And.....he's fighting it...

While I am sitting here contemplating what to work on (felting, knitting, some physcial therapy) I am watch my 2yr old fight sleep.  These past few months have seen alot of changes in his little world.  His big brother started school, he started daycare part time, mommy has had surgery, and he has moved to a big boy bed (bottom bunk).  Needless to say he visits us almost everynight.  I can allways tell when we are about to get a visit because he cries, then there is grunting (finding his way out of bed, hard due to the safety rail), patter of feet, and a soft cry of "mommy".  By which time I already have my arms out, half asleep ready to lift him into bed to fall back asleep with him.

And before anyone tells me I should take him swiftly back to bed I will kindly thank you for your advice and let's just move on and agree not to agree.  Thanks.

 

 

So, now that he has finally lost the battle, not the war, I think it's a little pt with some hulu playing.  There is allways time to felt or knit tomorrow.  It cannot compete with such cuteness.

Snag or Full tree

Sometimes in creating pieces I come to a cross roads.  If someone is around or handy on the phone or even on Facebook I look for some input.  This week has found me with 2 such issues on 2 pieces. 

This piece is still in fluffy mode, one good puff and its all gone.  If my 2 cats were still at the house and had not found some where else to live this would have been a cat bed.  Instead it has sat on the basement table for 24hrs, and will probably be there until tomorrow night.  I cannot decide whether to make the far tree on the left a snag or to pine it up.  The problem is if I 'pine it up' and then decide it would have been better a snag, pulling the green up will hurt the background..cause it's "SO FLUFFY".
     
But I must admire them, they really do look like pine trees, and on my first go...GO ME!  And it does kinda look mountainous in the back there...GO ME!  I am kinda impressed with me, and I hope my little fan club of one (me) does not put you off.  I have had many blunders as I learn how to paint with fiber.  They just get turned into purses or clutches so they are no longer in evidence. Cause I am sneaky that way..soooo sneaky...

The other piece is a question as to "eye or not to eye, that is the question".  There is something missing..can't decide if its an eye or simply need more detail in the background..maybe some indication of scales..mmmm.....

And of course gremlins have stolen my phone.  And so the photo of the eyeless fish, who may or may not need eyes will have to wait.

Finally decided to put an eye on it..looks soooo much better.  And the day I did that, it found its home.  There is a satisfaction level of finding that piece missing and knowing that it completed the whole.