A warm, happy Mother’s Day all around. I had a lovely, and I hope yours was pleasant as well. Nate surprised me completely. I wasn’t expecting anything significant, and here I am- owner of a new digital camera and loads of batteries and photo paper.
It may sound silly, but I’ve wanted photo paper for, like, a year. For whatever reason, it hadn’t happened. So, as silly as photo paper may sound for a MD gift, I was thrilled. But the camera? Wow. It’s a humble camera, to be sure, but it’s a 4.0 megapixel with some manual control. Considering I’ve been using an old, hand-me-down 1.3 megapixel for the last 11 months, I’m ecstatic.
I would again like to thank cousin Elisa for giving me her old digital last spring. It has been fab, given me no troubles, and even survived being dropped on concrete more than once. (By me).
But I am very happy to have a new camera with better resolution. And a manual. It’s amazing how helpful those things are.
As for knitting, I did some. I finished the final flower washcloth, and they were well received. I’m still working on the Flower Basket Shawl, and I’m actually having some trouble there. My pattern is going great. It looks fab. Everything is lining up and seems peachy, but I’m having trouble getting to that “195 stitches” number the pattern calls for before starting the edging chart. If I do one more repeat of the lower chart, I’ll have 191. Unless I’m an idiot and can’t count. Which is possible. But I think I’ve figured it right. Anyone know what happened? I can’t find a mistake anywhere. Everything seems to be working out like it’s supposed to. I’ll spend some more time today staring at the pattern and adding 16 to 175, in the hopes that one of these times, it’ll equal 195.
May 9th, 2005 at 3:38 am
What a cute picture 🙂 Looks like a wonderful Mother’s Day!
May 9th, 2005 at 5:57 am
I just knit that pattern and I think 4 stitches are added on every increase row. Could you have skipped one row buried in the middle of the pattern (which wouldn’t really show much)?
May 9th, 2005 at 7:13 am
Happy Mother’s Day! My gift was George being home with a normal temp! I’m so happy! The dogs also got me a really great card.
I think the shawl looks great!!!
May 9th, 2005 at 7:31 am
Wow! A digital camera for Mother’s Day?! Usually it’s just a flowers and chocolate kind of holiday for us… Phil and the boys went out before I woke up and brought back flowers, a couple of cards, and a mocha. My two year old had been practicing how to say “Happy Mother’s Day” all the way home and pulled it off perfectly as he gave me the card. 🙂 It was very sweet. My mum liked her shawl and we took her out to dinner on Saturday night for her birthday too.
May 9th, 2005 at 1:19 pm
What great pictures! Isn’t it weird to look at three kids and know they’re all yours? (Except mine are boys and are younger.) It sounds like you had a great Mother’s Day. Thanks for sharing!
May 9th, 2005 at 5:22 pm
you have beautifull daughters.
May 10th, 2005 at 3:41 am
That’s a lovely photo of you and your beautiful girls. Happy Mothers Day!
May 10th, 2005 at 5:50 am
Coming out of blurking (is that a word in blogland? you know, lurking on a blog, visiting regularly but not commenting?) to say what a fabulous picture that is of you and your kidlets! Glad you had a nice MD:)