De-Funding Planned Parenthood?

The amendment to de-fund Planned Parenthood is going to a vote Friday rather than the expected Thursday. Steven Ertlet at Life News writes about Mike Pence taking charge on this issue. Jill Stanek, at her blog, addresses how to contact your representative at the Capitol Switchboard (202-224-3121). I am late on the ball in encouraging you to call, but you have time! Friday, first thing, CALL your representatives and voice your support of the amendment de-funding Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.

Tonight, I'm working on

My first-ever officially paid cakes. 2 cakes for a joint birthday party, one is Transformers and one is Star Wars.

It's for a friend, and I'm doing it at cost because of the opportunity to gain exposure.

Still, I'm super-excited!

Wish me luck!

Knitting Adventures

In a recent attempt to be more productive with my time, I started knitting... and when I say started, I mean started. I used my good friend youtube.com to teach me how to knit, purl, increase, decrease, bind off, and after some time, what k2togtbl (or p2togtbl) means and how to do it... I am amateur at best, but I have 2 finished projects (rather, 2 of the same finished project) under my belt.

The first one I did wrong. Rather than moving the yarn in front of the needle each time I did a knit stitch, I moved the yarn behind the needle each time. This, it turns out, makes all the difference.

So here's N in my *first* finished project:

Having successfully (if incorrectly) completed my first ever knitted project, I started on another sweater vest, same style, for my 3 yo godson, KC. After researching why N's sweater vest came out so thick and bulky, I came up with this for KC:

So there it is! My second-ever knitted project! Looks a little lumpy in the left photo only because it's sitting funny, by the way.

Next on the agenda is this handsome sweater ... if I can actually figure out knitting on circular knitting needles and/or in the round. I have the tools, I have the ambition, do I have the skills? We'll find out, I guess!

Sharing a giveaway

 Oh, I almost don't want to share this with you...

...but I'm sure there are others out there who would value this gorgeous painting as much as I.

The giveaway is here, and while you're there, please check out Melanie's blog.