Another crafty project for the not-so-crafty wanna be Kanga-Mom

Oh my goodness, what was I thinking?










Every year around this time I get the idea to knit or sew or just make something from scratch. Usually, that's as far as it gets. The idea is enough to give me hives!

Last year, I went so far as to go to Michaels and purchase yarn and needles, but that was as far as it went.

This year, I went upstairs and dug the store bag out of my closet and sat it on the counter. There it sat for three days.

Today, I took the yarn out and asked Eeyore if she could show me how to cast on (that's knitting talk for "get started", see how much I've learned!) again because it had been so long since I had tried to knit that I had forgotten. Eeyore knits on a fairly regular basis and took an after school knitting class a couple of years ago. She rocks!

Anywho...

Attempt #1: After several attempts I finally got going. Only to discover that I had made it too tight... so I had to pull it all out.

Attempt #2: I actually got three rows done and was having trouble keeping it all on the needles because I had made it too long...and had to pull it all out.

Attempt #3: After getting another few rows done I decided that the yarn I had chosen was too advanced and that maybe I should start with a more basic yarn. I'm trying to use this really cute, fancy-pants, hairy blue yarn. For this beginner it's really difficult to see what I'm doing because the yarn is so irregular. So, I decided that perhaps I had better switch to a more straightforward yarn...even though it's not nearly as cute! ...so I had to pull it all out again.

That is where we're at right now. After over an hour of effort, I'm back to a ball of yarn!

The Case of the Missing Sippy Cups

Have you seen these sippy cups? (actual sippy cups were missing at time of picture.)



We recently found ourselves in a sippy cup shortage. At first, we were only missing the occasional stopper. Then a lid would go MIA. Finally we were down to one sippy cup. One! This family cannot survive on one sippy cup! What was happening to them? Was there a sippy cup thief among us? Who could it be?

The suspects were difficult to photograph because they are constantly on the move. This is the best picture we could get of all three of them together:

WANTED FOR QUESTIONING











TIGGER, WINNIE, and EEYORE

After a housewide search, we came up empty handed. We were stumped. The trail had gone cold.

Then one day, the case broke in a most unexpected way. Tigger was upstairs in her room waking up from a nap. As I walked up the stairs to get her, I could hear her repeating in a loud voice, "I cyimb out, I cyimb out!" When I opened the door to her room, this is what I saw:










She was trying to get out of her crib! That night, Christopher Robin moved her mattress down to it's lowest setting. When he pulled out the crib mattress, what did he see? Four sippy cups! The case broke wide open and all three suspects caved under the intense investigation that followed. It turns out that Eeyore and Winnie were giving Tigger sippy cups filled with water while she was taking a nap, or before bedtime. Then, when Tigger was done with them, she would throw the cups behind her crib (This seems like a reasonable thing to do to me. They aren't very comfortable to sleep on, after all.) .

Mystery solved!

Now if we could only solve The Case of the Missing Sock!