Dear Sony Please fix my camera. love nobody

So, I made some snag-free stitch markers and put them up in my Etsy shop yesterday!
Within 2 hours, someone in ONTARIO had bought a set! (Canada people!! I've gone international!) Then to my surprise, when I logged on this morning, I found that another wonderful knitter had purchased 3 sets! They will be shipped off to PA tonight!!

To all of you that have been so supportive of my efforts, thank you very much! I will try to keep making things you like. I have some un-dyed yarn on its way, and I will find a way to post pictures of it as soon as it is dyed!!

In other knitting/crocheting news.. I finished the two at a time socks, I started a sweater for my niece, and NO, the wedding blankie is not done yet. No pictures.. :(

I took my broken camera to a camera shop, but the tech could not diagnose the problem. He sent it off to Sony for me. I miss my camera :( I hope they can fix it!
My son's 2.1 mega pixel just doesn't cut it. My phone takes better pictures!

In memory of when I could take pictures, I have some for you today from the last time it worked... my friend Jeni's wedding.. woo hoo!
I love mid-westerners in the desert in spring!! :D

I was kinda put in charge of the "no strippers" bachlorette party at the last min. with the only direction being.. "we want tattoos".

SWEET I can do that!! No notice needed.



Where once there was blank skin and faded tattoos




There would be fresh ink!!

The beautiful bride,



the maid of honor,





the brides maid,






and the other midwestern friend,


all got wonderful tattoos from the extremely talented artists and Ink Inc. They never let me down. :D

Is it just us? or does this caladah look strangely like the wicked witch from sleeping beauty?

Mirror Mirror on the wall...?

BA tattoo for a chef eh?


Now we see why she got this tattoo the first time..

It's so pretty.



Then we went to Freemont Street, cause once you take someone down town to get a "yard stick",

you know they are going to want to go back!!

And of course, no bachlorette party I'm at would be complete without some bikers!!




The wedding was early the next day :D It was so beautiful!
I hadn't seen her parents in atleast 8 years..
Mom on the right.

Dad.. also on the right.


They got married at the Chapel in the Sky at the top of the Stratisphere :)


Adam didn't really seem nervous at all.

The bride's maids dresses were great!



I was cryin' like a baby!



Ok, now he looks a little nervous.

Some last min. advice from Mom.

(notice the fresh tat! ;)

Awwwww


I'm so happy for you Jen. I hope you and Adam are as happy as me and my hubby! (I know you've already been together WAY longer than us.)

That was the end of my picture taking abilities. :( There was a beautiful reception, and then we went and picked up my son from Prom!! and me with no camera! I hope that I hear back from Sony soon!!

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First Friday

So, I went to sleep when I got home from work on Wed. and did not get out of bed until around 2pm yesterday. I forfeited 24 hours to this cold, but I think it worked. I'm feeling quite a bit better and it's Friday!! SWEET!


I promised my first two HeartMade Blessings squares to an assembler in IL!!
I did a search in the list that they keep online for the oldest "Operation Purple Heart" afghan that still needed squares! I was surprised that the oldest one is only from November! These ladies really mean business!
I will be setting everything else aside until I get the 2 promised squares done. I plan to have them sent out on Monday! :) I am going to find out the postage for 1 square and for 2 squares so that I don't have to go to the post office every time I need to send something out :).
I know, I said I was going to do 1 square a month, but she is working on 2 afghans, and I figure this will give me a little leeway that I may need later in the year :)


Gail Knits is having a sale this week.. Sat.- Sat. I am going to go get a swift to go with the ball winder that my hubby got me for x-mas. JoAnne's is also having a sale that includes Patons Classic Wool. It is -$2 from its normal price, so I am going to go pick up some for the helmet liners that I'm making.

All of a sudden there are a bunch of people I know that need them. My hubby's brother and my friend's brother are both going to boot camp in Feb. So, I guess I will make them each one in addition to the 2 for my daughter before I will be able to start sending them in to the charity.
I'm going to count these in my goal of 12 for the year.


I have not contacted project Linus yet, but I will when I get a couple things moved from "in process" to "done".

My daughter and her fiance are gone :( She dropped him off at the airport at butt-crack am Thursday, and I vaguely remember her waking me up for a goodbye hug sometime in the lost day. She had the tattoo on her back fixed up by Dee at Ink Inc. on Wed. night, it looks much better. Thanks Dee.. I will have her send me a pic to post when it is all healed up.
She will be back in Vegas for about a month after she graduates from EOD in April :D woo hoo!

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# 100

So, this is post 100!!!!

I have been wanting all week to post, I didn't want to waste the 100th episode on:
so umm hi late.

We'll start by looking back.

A couple months ago, I became a rescue diver. One of the requirements for rescue is that you have to be an advanced scuba diver, to become an advanced scuba diver, you have to do "specialty" dives, and one of the specialties I chose was underwater photography!
I promised you pics back then, but never got around to posting them.
(sorry)
Here are some of the pics that I took that day:

This is my dive master/trainer person Anner!

No one ever looks good from this angle,
it must be my ausome powers of camera operatoring!
(yeah, that's it hahaha)

This is Captain Mike.

What a gig!

And here is my dive buddy Cody.

He saved my life on a previous dive!
Like totally for real!
He transfered to Macau, China to work on the new Cirque show that they are developing for the Venetian Macau.

This catfish was just swimming around watching us..

he hung out for a long time, so I took like a zillion pics of him, but I'll spare you..
Here's Anner watching my technique. :)


There is a really bad infestation going on at Lake Mead.

These are zebra muscles.

Bad news for the lake.. but easy to photograph.

This is a mooring.

Divers and boaters set them up to have places to tie off their boats.
The lake used to be just a valley, sothe bottom is very deep. Just dropping anchor is not always so easy.
This activity is illegal in federal parks, don't get caught!

It was very "bad" weather for the desert,

but since we were already wet, we didn't let it bother us.

This is the "batch plant".


With Anner standing on it...

They built this during the damn days. (hahah) It was used to wash gravel before it was sent to the cement mixers.
Not too long ago this whole thing, island and all, was 102 feet under water!
Now instead of being a good dive,
it is a good hike. :(

There are still cool parts and pieces underwater though.




And more fishy pics :)








And somethings that "fell" off boats...

FORE!!


Ok, now for the more recent past...
aka, last weekend!

Friday, my son's football team lost the first game of the play offs :(
Most of the players were Seniors, and they had a really strong 2nd half, so the end was a pretty emotional. They just ran out of time.

Proud parents..



Friendships forged during years on the battle field..



And great athlets

that will be on opposite sides of the ball next time they meet on the field.

Alot of tears were shed.
It was truely moving to see all these big tough guys showing so much emotion.
Go GRIZ!
See ya'll at the football banquet.
(I'll still have my camera.. so wash your face... and comb your hair!)

Saturday.. tattoo day!!

This whole thing started as a Showgirlz Tattoo day, but the girlz are not big on RSVPing, so I extended the invitation to my cc, my mc, and my sister-in-laws!

The turn out ended up being wonderful, a full day for all 3 artists!!


I love this pic..


(my camera did not like the lighting and tattoo gu.. I'm sorry)













These guys are real artists..


That's sharpie on my leg folks..

that's how Matt @ INK Inc. rolls baby!!

By the time it was over, the guys were ready to go party!

Or go to sleep..

You know.. whichever.

Here are a couple pics of my tattoo in progress..



and a better one of when it just got done.


I'm gonna go ahead and throw in a couple old tattoo pics..
my still not so sleavy sleave.


And Anna's butterfly.


Sunday, I left my camera at home, so you don't have to see a bunch of pictures of the candle party that I was at.

But I do have knit pics.. hahaha

This is my son in my hubby's biker santa hat!


Yeah, so, I restarted the red hat sock and the red was traveling around in a real cool spiral thing, and then..

it started going straight.. ??
I wanted to keep knitting last night to see how it ended up, but it got to be way too late :(

Grr... x-mas is getting way too close for this people!! I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet.

This weekend, my son goes for his driving test, the red hats are having a function, one of my sisters is racing her drag bike at the speedway, there are a couple bike things (including THE Turkey Run on Sunday), and I need to knit!

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