HAPPY 2012

New Year is the time to

                                        unfold new horizons & realize new dreams

to rediscover your strengths and abilities 

to rejoice in simple pleasures and

gear up for  new challenges

Wishing you a truly fulfilling 2012.

HAPPY NEW YEARS FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS.
SEE YOU IN THE NEW YEAR.

Merry Christmas

We spent the morning here opening gifts and having breakfast.

The afternoon and evening was spent at Peters. We had a wonderful turkey dinner with ALL the fixings.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!



Morning Surprise

This is what we woke up to this morning.



Christmas completed!

Visitor

Emma and Charles came to visit today.

Charles is sitting well on his own but he still needs supervision.

Newfoundland or Thrum Mittens

I've started a different mitten and they are suppose to be the warmest hand made mitten around.
They are called Newfoundland or Thrum Mittens.
They are made with Briggs and Little Yarn.

    

       After you finish the cuff and start to knit the main mitten you add a piece of this handspun yarn, called roving, every 3rd stitch. Each strand is 3-4 in. long.

I found mine online from a lady in BC.

It takes approx. 50g. of roving for one pair of mittens.

Usually you will see mittens like theses with one color of roving, but I was into our local Cricket Cove and saw a pair that was multicolored.

When I received my roving in the mail, she had packaged 6 different colors, and so I can get my varigated look in the mitten.



This is what the inside of the mitten looks like, therefore the warmth.



Help for Local Food Banks

Harbour Lights - the 15th Annual Campaign

$50,000 will light the star atop the Harbour Lights tree.

2011 Donations to date Harbour Lights Total: 110,726.66

The Harbour Lights TreeThe Harbour Light Campaign raises money each year for food banks in Southern New Brunswick... from St. Stephen to Saint John to Sussex.

Each year the Saint John Port Authority installs a giant Christmas tree made of hundreds of twinkling lights near the Saint John harbour.

Each two dollar donation lights a bulb. And as December progresses bulb by bulb the tree is lit. Once that year's financial goal is met, the star on top is lit up, too!

Do they do anything like this in other cities?

Mittens! Mittens! Mittens!

The needles haven't stopped.