Crochety goodness

I need more crochet thread, size 10, white. This is a good thing. It means I'm making significant progress on the wedding gift I'm making. I've finished off the thread left over on two one-pound balls, so I'm off to Zellers this afternoon to buy more. I have another three or four feet to go - I haven't measured lately, and Piet was asleep in the room with the most accurate measuring device (my quilting ruler) so I'll do that later.

I've also decided what I'm making for my sister's wedding present. I have a set of coasters done in pale yellow over a blue background, all different designs. I love them to death, especially since they're one of the few things I've ever made for myself. My sister is going for an African-themed living room, so I think I'll get some taupe thread, and maybe some black for the background (because I just will not do a chocolate brown - ew) and make up a set for her. I have about eight different patterns for these things - two different crochet magazines ran patterns for four coasters each during the years when I was spending fifteen dollars a month on crochet magazines. Then I'll buy her some nice wine glasses, and voilà! A gift with crocheted flair! (It seems to me I did an almost identical gift for one of Piet's cousins a few years ago - but Alanna wasn't there, and the colours and style of glasses will be different.)

The nicest part about the coasters is that they work up really, really fast - an hour for the lacy part, maybe an hour and a half for the solid background. I can do one each weekend for a month and have them done in plenty of time for the wedding.

All of this means the baby blanket is on hold - probably until I learn that the lady at work who has been trying for four years now is actually expecting and past the 3-month mark. We've all got our fingers crossed for her.

It's nearly two-thirty, which means it's time to start making noise so Elizabeth will wake up. We're going up to Limeridge to do bridal makeup shopping. I think I'll try to talk danaeris and sassy_fae into getting their eyebrows waxed. Yippee! Three red-faced women and a baby!

A typical gaming night. . .

Involves half an hour of me blogging while the baby settles down in the next room and my friends game without me.

Quite often, it involves the little girl deciding not to go to bed, with vehement cries of, "I not! I not!" This sometimes (as tonight) involves her throwing up her last meal all over her bedraggled and bedamned carpet.

Tonight it was, "I a bunny, I not go to bed!" My two-year-old was quoting one of her favourite books - Mercer Meyer's "Just Go To Bed", one of the litter critter books. At the end, Critter is in his bunny pajamas. He says, "I'm a bunny, and bunnies don't sleep in beds!"

I can't believe my two-year-old quotes books in context. That's phenomenal. Though I suppose no moreso than her running around on a foam alphabet map, singing the alphabet song at the top of her lungs. "Won' you come an' sing WITH MEEEE!!!"

Even when she's making life more difficult, she's still making it more interesting. I wish I could write a developmental linguistics thesis using my daughter as my only subject. She's fascinating.

Okay, no sounds from toddlerland right now, so I'm going back to the game. With any luck, she'll sleep in a bit tomorrow.

Ha! When has she ever done that?