Alpaca and yarn fun........................

Today Little Buddy and I met my friend Cathy for a little adventure.  My very favorite yarn store, Criativity in Largo Florida was having their Third Anniversary Event.  As the owner has an actual alpaca farm there were two very special visitors at the event.  You know I can not control myself around alpacas or sheep, I just love them and I am hoping to instill my love for them in Little Buddy.  Although to be honest he was more interested in the fence they were in, and that they had a fan in their pen then the actual alpacas themselves.  Are you ready for some cute alpaca photos?

Little One had a fine time looking at these two, and frankly two was enough for him although I would love to go to the actual ranch sometime soon.  You can find the information for the farm here at this link Luna Bella Alpaca Ranch.  He did not enjoy the yarn store quite as much as playing with the fence, he bossed me around telling me not to walk slow, walk faster, stop and to go this way!  Lord, he is the biggest boss ever!  All the lovely ladies in the yarn store thought he was hysterical.   I carried him on my hip all over the store and back again, let me just tell you this boy is gaining weight!

Do you like his hair cut?  I took him to Great Clips to get it cut this past weekend between headaches.  He was a doll, sat as perfect as could be, turned his head when asked, and behaved beautifully.  It was done in 12 minutes! That is right, 12 minutes!  It takes me two days, and is such an issue with all the crying and head turning and thrashing about, not to mention the clean up which includes hosing down his high chair.  I. Will. Never. Cut. His. Hair. Again!

  

Back to today, the yarn store was having a bit of a sale and I picked a 20% off coupon out of a bag, so I had to buy yarn, right?  I mean when do you get to buy Juniper Moon Farm Moonshine yarn on sale?  I have not gone crazy in the yarn buying department just buying some this past month after taking a full eight months off , and remember I am only buying if I have a specific project in mind.  I am thinking about making Flaum with this yarn, but now that I am looking at it I might need one more skein.  This might be the best ever go to sweater.  That is two sweaters in this brand of yarn I have planned for the near future.  The other sweater is Lily, but I just may rethink that one.  Flaum looks like it might be fun in a wide variety of colors including the raspberry bought for Lily. Hmmmm...  I will have to think more on that one.

I also bought one more skein of Berroco Modern Cotton, just like I had for the baby blanket I just finished.  You see while making the blanket I panicked that the crochet was eating up the yarn at a rapid rate and I was going to run out of yarn, so I went and bought one more skein of each color.  Funny thing is the blanket was finished with less yarn than I had originally planned for it, I had three skeins leftover, two of cream and one gray.  I felt if I added to that amount I could make a nice drapey tank top to wear over a T-shirt, in wide stripes of course.   Remember the yarn was on sale so I could hardly pass it up!!!!

I will leave you with this darling face, and a special thanks for your positive responses to my baby blanket.  It will be  placed in the post on Monday.  I hope the soon-to-be parents will like it.

Also thank you for your genuine concern about my headaches.  You are all right I need to slow down, but that is not happening anytime soon.  I am looking into the cause and think I am making progress.  We will see soon.  I have talked to my doctor who is a brilliant woman and also my neighbor.  We are going to try some medication but the thing is I have to get a migraine during office hours so I can go get a shot and she can monitor my response to the medication.  Hard to do when you get so many during the weekend and in the early evening.  I went to my acupuncturist and she has helped me so much.  I have now been headache free for five whole days.  My vision is still a bit funny but it is clearing up.  All will be back in balance soon.  Thanks you all for your kindness and support.

Hope you are having a wonderful day.