Faster Than a Speeding Bullet.....

The month of October has flown by.... We were awaiting the arrival of our 4th grandchild and had made plans to make the trip to Colorado when he arrived. I had a short window of opportunity since October is a busy month at work with Quarterly Payroll Reports due by the 31st.


Tobias Evert Uncapher arrived on Oct 1st, his arrival was a little less than conventional, so I booked a flight and was in Colorado on 10/3 and helped bring the not so little guy home from the hospital. He weighed in at 8# 13 oz and was 22in long. For the next nine days I helped out by doing laundry, cooking, cleaning and baking treats for Mom and Dad. It was really a great experience to hold a newborn baby again.

This is a picture taken this week..... 14 days old!!!!

He is such a sweetheart......he has his Dads hands and feet (Dad is 6'4") and I don't know were the dark hair came from..... although his Aunt Amanda had dark hair when she was born, but it fell out and came back in blond, maybe Tobias will do that too.

I have been home since Monday afternoon, back to work and have even started on another beading project, so will have more to post soon.......maybe even new pictures of Tobias.

New Beads

To date I had never made a "set" of bead work, I usually go for individual pieces. These pieces started with the cab, when I finished it I decided to make a rope to go with it and then the bracelet and by the time that was done I just kept going and did the earrings too. The closures on the necklace and the bracelet are more of my vintage mother of pearl buttons, ear wires are 14K gold.


The pearls around the cab are fresh water and all the others are glass.

The earrings are not me, I don't do dangles. I don't want to break up the set, so they will probably go on consignment to the Bead Shop where I teach. Price $90. Right now I have all the flat spiral bracelets there priced from $35 to $45 depending on the bead cost, labor is the same. Anything that doesn't sell will probably be turned into Christmas gifts.

You wouldn't believe that it is the first day of fall.......the high today was 83 and it is still 71 at midnight. I still have green tomatoes so I guess it is OK that it hasn't turned cold yet, I can always use more tomatoes in the freezer.

Projects turn into Gifts

You may remember we are due to have another grandchild (probably a boy) very soon, and we have had two new babies in our Church family with more due in the next few months. I have started to work on some baby things. I'm knitting another blanket, but it is slow going, I just can't get into the pattern. So I decided to try out some other ideas for a few useful, but quick projects to use as gifts. This bib is one I am working on........
Terry cloth with a little embroidery. I didn't want to use bias tape as the edge finish so tried to do a satin stitch. It was OK , but the terry and t-shirt fabric both were a little too stretchy and it gave me a ruffled effect on the edge. I think I'll try a blanket stitch next time....

The next two photos are of a sweater I made for Sabrina for her B-day next week. It is in the mail so she should have it in plenty of time. I don't use a light box to take pictures so the colors are not really as intense as they should be, the wool yarn is a hand dyed sport weight I fell in love with .......I hope she likes it.....it is a very bright. It looks small in this picture, but it is supposed to be the short crop style that is in right now.

Close up of the neck and yoke detail. Top button is for looks and does not button.