good spirits

Raise your glasses, my friends, and toast the latest wine! This is our family's holiday wine for 2007. Like the label? It was designed by one of my very good friends, she's really got a gift.

Naughty or Ice, 2007, Private Reserve

See, now don't you wish you were on my Christmas list? Even if you don't get a knitted gift this year, you'd still get this rich dessert ice wine, with a hint of cranberry. Fa-la-la-la-la!

The edging is done on August and I am sewing on the star points. Pictures of the completed project should be available soon.

girls, girls, girls

So in addition to this blanket:

(in detail)

I've THREE pink and white projects coming up! Everyone is expecting a little girl this year! The one pictured above, sent and sold to Angela, is called Cotton Candy. I really loved how it turned out, it was almost as though there were patterns within patterns on it, and it seemed very light for its size.

So as I mentioned before, I'm working on Candy Kiss right now, that's a piece for a friend, and then I have to choose another two patterns - one of which will be a gift for my little guy's favorite daycare teacher, she's expecting her first daughter in November.

I wish my hands could work faster, I have so many projects I'd like to do. Just last month I finally finished my 1' x 4' framed wine cork board, and I've already gotten a ton of requests for cork boards like it. This weekend the fam went to the local summer festival, where we spotted some great deals on frames, so I can at least make a couple of those. And then of course I'm still hoping to make some lounge pants for my son, and if that works, I'll take on the rest of the guys in our family. Every guy needs comfy pants.

Daddy-B started our Christmas ice wine this weekend too, which will yield thirty hostess gifts. I need to start thinking on a name for it.

And I also need to put some thought into a name for this year's fantasy football team... Hmmm...