Slumber party (no knitting happened, but we talked about knitting)

Several weeks ago, Amy, her girls, and I had discussed the possibility of having a slumber party the next time Mr. Lovie was out of town for the night. Amy and I promptly forgot about the conversation, but not so her girls. It so happened that Mr. Lovie was out of town last night on business. Yesterday morning Amy called to say that the girls wanted me to come spend the night. Of course, I just had to. Amy and the girls went out an bought us all matching pajamas! So here we are in our PJs. Amy has hers on too. You just will have to imagine how she looked. We went out to eat Mexican food (not in the PJs) and then came home and watched Polar Express (in the PJs). A grand time was had by all.

Restoration of deleted photos

Having accidentally deleted these photos from an earlier post, I decided to get them back on here. I couldn't figure out how to put them where they were, so here they are in a brand new post. Just to review, the picture of the two precious girls shows the skirts and boa I knit for them. The orange tunic is a cotton with metallic ribbon and crystal embellishments. The baby is wearing a pixie cap (which has a cute point in the back which doesn't show in this picture. The camouflage sweater is being modeled by my oldest grandchild. Detail of the yarn , etc. are in the previous post about P.B. (preblog) projects. No comments required. I just wanted to get my complete blog on record for the future.

Jannette's Prayer Shawl

Here is the prayer shawl I knit with the help of some of my friends in our knitting group, Knit Together. It is made with Lion Brand Homespun on size 10 1/2 circular needles. It is for my friend Jannette, who has been diagnosed with a lymphoma in her brain near her cerebellum. She is facing chemotherapy beginning next week. If you are so inclined, I know she and I would appreciate your prayers on her behalf.

Buttoning 101

At the request of some fellow bloggers, I am going to attempt to describe how to get a button on one's blog. Since I am a non-techie, I had trouble following the normal tutorial instructions. So I will explain what I was finally able to do in non-techie terms. I plan to do this in two parts.

Part one: Creating the Button.

I was told simply to create a graphic that was about 105x39 pixels. I had no idea how to do this. I was quite familiar with creating a graphic using my Printmaster program, but that program didn't tell me the pixels. My wonderful son Allen showed me that if I use the Corel Photo Album program that was on my computer, I could see the sizes. I used a photo that I had saved in that album, cropped off a tiny slice of approximately the right proportions, superimposed the name of my blog (which by the way took some experimenting with font and color), then shrunk the whole thing down until the pixels were near the recommended size. The pixel numbers showed on the little bar on the very bottom of the screen. Once I had that done, I saved it to Photobucket.

Part Two: Inserting into your side bar. ( I have just copied the instructions Amy sent me)

I had to delete the whole code thing. See below


Except use the http:// location for your photobucket button.

And you need to use the dimensions for the button you created, not the above numbers.

Now, you can paste it before or after the previous posts. You can move it around to different spots. Remember to preview or look at the draft or whatever option it gives you. Once you save it, be sure to republish. That was my big mistake the first time I tried it.


Oops! when I checked the preview on this post, it seems that Blogger changes the computer code stuff that I inserted on my blog from computer-ese to regular words. If you need the code, I might have to email it to you, so I need to know your email address. You can email me at
mpeachATelcDOTnet.

Oops! Oops! Blogger wouldn't let me post with anything of the code on the blog. So let me know if you want the code. I'll do my best.