Up Next.....

Next up: Family barbecue. Fireman found this fun piñata for the barbecue tonight.  Don't you just love whimsy?  The little kids need a fun game at a family event, don't you think?   My jello rainbow came out AWESOME. When I cut it I'll take a picture.  Wow, I'm bragging about JELLO.

 Next Up: I am casting on for a baby afghan with some yarn that decided it didn't want to be a vest.  I want to alternate between the afghan and the Mult. Shawl.  Karen gave me this book to browse through and a suggestion for which one to choose.  She's so smart about colors and yarn and what goes great together.   I will listen to her and make the easy peasy garter baby blanket.

Karen is knitting her second SUMMER FLIES Lace shawl.  She tells me she takes a few rows forward and a few rows back this time, but I think she's fabricating to be humble. I don't' think she knows how to make a knit mistake...

Next Up: Cleaning the house a bit for the party.  I learned to take it easy before a party in the past few years.  My mom would go into a frenzy before parties.  No wonder, there were 9 of us living in one house and I know for a fact I was a piggy.   I remember my normally calm funny mom turning into a barking sergeant before she entertained

I found I mimicked this perfectly as I prepared for entertaining at my own home.  Then my friend Madelon taught me:
"It's nobody's last meal" .  Those 4 words have gone far in my mind.  My aha moment.
Let's face it, I can clean for a week or more nonstop and you would still find a blob of pop on a kitchen appliance, some cat hair rolling across the floor like a tumbleweed, some Irish Lace in a corner high up on a wall, and the like.  It just isn't' worth getting worked up about.

So Next up:  Fresh flowers, because they make the house look great.
A good nap, because when I am tired, I am not a fun person.
Cleaning some jello off the stove.....because it is pretty noticeable....
Filling up the piñata and hanging it from a branch.

then as always: KNITTING!