Though I sometimes use it as such!  Because my brother and his family came to visit – and he is my little (youngest) brother – I must set a good example – So I did some cleaning and organizing of my house.

There was also a selfish purpose – with my brother here to help, my father could take care of a couple of specialized fixes that needed doing.  My plan worked perfectly.

Soften them – my brother and father – up with a great meal the first night and get them to work for another (hopefully) great supper the second night!  I love it when a plan comes together!

You may remember the Bathroom Reno last year.  I wanted Stained Glass for the windows.  Poppies to match my Mother’s Petit Point – which I “stole” from my father – he had two!

I went to Cheeky Monkey Glassworks – a glass studio in town and found the perfect pattern.  Then I got to pick the colours of glass!  That took a long time – there were so many choices.  It was going to take a month before the pieces were ready.

The time frame wasn’t a problem.  The glass pieces were my Christmas Present.  I could wait!  It has been harder to wait for the glass to be hung!  It was a two person job and my husband is not handy and my father did not want to do it by himself and so life goes on!  They were worth the wait!

I did some other organizing.  I repurposed a Quilt Rack – given to me by a friend who had just downsized – for some of my shawls.

Another friend has also downsized and she gave me these two gorgeous little antique cupboards.  When I first got them I asked my father where he thought they should go – he was very helpful – he had a spot at his place that would be perfect!

I finally decided where they were going – one to each corner of my dresser – the dresser now has quite the vintage feel!  I don’t know what I will do when I downsize!  I may need to upsize instead!!

With my brother visiting this last weekend has been very busy and I haven’t done a lot of knitting.  It didn’t help that I decided that I needed to rework the last 4 -5 inches of a shawl I was working on.  I am waiting until this evening to rip it back.  I was having pattern and yardage issues – no real mistakes – just design decisions.  So out it comes but I had to wait a bit and make sure that was really what it needed!  After two days – no change – it is still what it needs so out it comes!  Three or Four days of knitting for naught!

I did knit a pair of little booties yesterday.  They are quite gorgeous.  A great little project to learn a little bit about beading with pre-strung beads and create a gift for a new baby as well.

We got the new Angora Haze in from Rowan – a soft, hazy 4-ply.  I really wanted to work with it and as I am also working on the store fall classes, what could I come up with that would cover both!?  Beaded Booties seemed like the answer.

We walked at Long Lake yesterday.  It was a lazy kind of walk; ate a few blackberries; they are ripening rapidly; watched the bee’s at work and the dragonflies dance over the blackberry bushes.  Did you know that Dragonflies like to eat the blackberries!?

Back to work today!  it has been a great B.C. Day long weekend!  I hope that your weekend was as well!

Happy Knitting

Lynette