Mom's Christmas presents

For Christmas I knitted Mom another pair of socks. There were like the blue ones I made her for her birthday except these are red.

I also made her 4 pairs of earrings.

Dishcloths Part II

The final set of pet themed dishcloths that I made my in laws for Christmas.

Cat

Dog
Paw Print

The Chinese food boxes I put them in.

These pots were made for cooking

Lately I've had a craving for brownies and chicken and dumplings although not together.

PB cup brownies brought you by Duncan Hines.

Chicken and dumplings even though I should have called it dumplings and dumplings. More chicken and a bigger pot next time.

Potato salad that I made for Christmas dinner and was a big hit. I don't think it's a coincidence that Dad asked me to make more potato salad and the grocery store has bags of potatoes buy 1 get 1 free. I'll share the secret ingredient---cat hair.

Last, but not least, cheese turkey burger pie. It's supposed to be cheese burger pie, but all I had was ground turkey so it became cheese turkey burger pie.

Tis the season....

Pictures from my Christmas and loot.

Tree

Muggie under the tree

Lexi (Mom and Dad's dog) opening her Christmas presents on Christmas Eve

My presents from Doug-Melrose Place season 1, new JayZ cd, Dallas Cowboys car pack (includes plate, frame, key chain and sticker) DVDs What's Love Got To Do With It and Elf

Doug's family-Hello Kitty bedroom slippers, necklace, charm for my phone and tin of sour cherry candy

Mom and Dad--Giant Clock, purple sheets and a set of cat plates that we hung on the wall.

Dishcloths Part I

I knitted up a bunch of dishcloths to give out as Christmas presents this year. I put them in Christmas Chinese food take out boxes.I got all of the patterns from Knitting Pattern Central.

I made plains ones for Mom and DadI made a set of 3 apples for Grandma

I made a beach themed set for my SIL

Lighthouse

Lobster
Sailboat

Muggie's Bed

Muggie's Christmas present this year is a bed. She's had the blanket, but it was time to make a bed out of it.It supposed to be brown tabby like her, but I think it looks more camoflauge. In case you are wondering, her bed is a cardboard box I got out of the junk boxes bin at Costco and painted.

Muggie's Blanket Story

There is a story behind how Muggie's blanket became hers. I spent a month or so knitting a blanket as a Mother's Day gift for my Mom. I finished it a couple of days before Mother's Day. While I was weaving in the ends I noticed that the yarn had broken in the middle of the blanket. It unraveled and there was a big hole. Since it was the first blanket I had ever knitted I was too heartbroken to throw it away. I tossed it in my craft corner. Several months later I was cleaning out my craft corner (don't laugh, I really do get around to cleaning my craft corner from time to time) and I put it in the "throw out pile." I finished cleaning and Muggie was sleeping on the blanket. That's how the blanket became Muggie's. She didn't care that it had a big hole in it and it made me happy that someone was getting some use out of it.

Picture of Muggie for cuteness.

So You Think You Can Cook

I made chow mein before we left for the beach. It was quite tasty. I'm going to make more this week for dinner.
I made blueberry muffins to take with us on the trip. Nothing special, just good ol' Duncan Hines.

Birthday at the Beach

I decided to spend my birthday at Myrtle Beach this year. We stayed at the Crown Reef. We've stayed there before and loved it. This time we got a king jacuzzi suite. I swear the bedroom was bigger than my bedroom at home. It was really nice. We were on the top floor and had an awesome view.

Pictures of the suite---

The livingroom

Kitchen
Jacuzzi tub (it got a lot of use)

View of the beach from our hotelroom

The dot in the middle of the last beach picture is actually a person.

I had two birthday cakes this year. We bought one at the beach. It was an ice cream cake. Since I got a Dallas Cowboys watch and hoodie for my birthday I kept with the football theme and got a football ice cream cake.

The second one we had last night at Mom and Dad's house.

Scarves

Some lucky person will be recieving the breast cancer illusion scarf I made as a Christmas present.

I also made a scarf for a scarf drive for the homeless.