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On Monday, Poppa is taking me to Kentucky for 5 days.  While he works, I will have lots of free time and need some suggestions from anyone who is familiar with the Louisville area.  Matthew and I will be loose in Louisville on our own.  If there is anywhere that you think this yarn, antique, fabric etc loving momma should go and see please leave me a comment 🙂  Thank you!

So a trip with my little Matthew on our own necessitated a cute little hat, for him not me 🙂  This little earflap hat used to be my go to for friends who were having a baby.  It is one of those patterns that I thought I would sell in my store (which I closed a few years ago) and then it just stayed in my very big book of patterns. It is a nothing special pattern which has been done a zillion times over by now but still a favorite.  I also never made it for any of my own babies so…. I finally made one for my little guy.  This ear flap hat would fit a 2 or even 4 year old but I like my babies hats to be loose and soft.  So nice to put a hat on him that he doesn’t rip off, maybe its the braids?

Joining Ginny again this week.  Please don’t forget to enter my Cuppow giveaway.  You have until Thursday night midnight to enter when I will pick two lucky winners to each receive a regular size and wide mouth Cuppow mason jar drinking lid.

Do you remember this pattern?  Well, a few years later I am still getting requests for the pattern.  The problem is that a year after I made this offer, the pattern got lost forever in a laptop and has still not been retrieved, sadly.  Every time I get a message asking for it, I get that same sad feeling of knowing everything else that was in that laptop which I may never see again.

So, a few days ago I promised a reader that I would redo the pattern and get it to her, yesterday….  I sometimes don’t understand the amount of other things on my plate and don’t project well the amount of time it will take me to get things done.  I am almost there though.  I took one of the apple cozies I made from my pattern and have slowly redone the pattern.  I will share it here so no one has to wait for me to get around to sending them the pattern again.

In the reading corner, I found this little gem which is a reprint of a 1950’s book for little children.  Oh, so sweet!  Now, Livie has a book to read while we are at mass too.  Oh and lest you think that I never get anything fun for myself, I as looking for something at Tuesday Morning a few days ago and I allowed myself to walk through the yarn isle (there was a new shipment of awesome wool yarn goodness there but more on that misadventure later) and I found these books at 80% off which means that I walked out with these two books for less than $4 for both!  Be still my heart, I love it when that happens.

Please remember that tomorrow night is the last chance to enter the giveaway for the Peepods momma cloth giveaway and I will announce the winner at the original posting which was on the 2nd.  I can hardly wait to post this weeks new giveaway….  there is a little hint in the background of one of today’s pictures…wink, wink!

Yarning along today again with Ginny!  Now I am off to see what everyone else is up to, I also need to organize my bedroom and continue working on projects for Alexandra’s second baby shower this Sunday. Phew!