Swap-Bot Scavenger Hunt

I have done some swaps on my crochet site and when I found Swap-bot, I thought that I would join. Here are the pictures for the scavenger hunt. Now lets see if I can post these pics.

Here is a picture that I took of a river, or a creek or maybe it was a pond in Alabama.

Here is a picture of my parents dog, Clancy.

This balloon is the first picture that I took with my big digital camera.

These were some candles that my mother in law had burning at Christmas. I like the star filter that I used.

Here is a blanket that I made for my newest little cousin.

On the Road Again

We are moving across the country. We are half way there so far. I meant to post things each night on the blog but that just didn't happen. Usually I was just too tired to get the laptop out of the case.
I'll probably go back and edit this and make it look nicer and tell more about the trip on here later when I get more chance.

The super quick highlights
Thursday
Virginia - We stayed last night in the hotel in Waynesboro and as a fluke I checked my email. Boy and I glad that I did. I won something! I'll post more about that later.
West Virginia -
Kentucky - (we stopped in Shelbyville-home of a really big Saddlebred horse show. Ironically, one of the books that I was reading takes place here. I am a fan of Rita Mae Brown and her newest book, Puss and Cahoots, takes place at the horse show. I would be able to tell you more about it but the packers packed that too) I had to make an emergency yarn purchase here after dinner. It was a lot colder than we expected and the packers had packed up Evan's hat.
Friday
Kentucky (the rest of it) I missed Churchhil Downs though. :(
Indiana -I got pictures of the Evansville signs.
Illinois-
Missouri -We got pictures of the Gateway Arch.Had a yummy lunch in St. Louis at a barbarque place called Bandana's (or something close to that) Then we stopped at Pete's for the night.
Saturday
Missouri- We left the snow behind (no one expected that!) and drove west.
Kansas- Kansas is a long state. We stopped in WaKeeny. I asked at the front dest of the hotel about dinner places and was told to try the Western Kansas Steakhouse. It was good. Just down the block from that was an F-14. Yep, an honest to goodness Navy fighter jet.
Sunday
Kansas -We are planning on getting pictures this morning of the fighter jet. I'll try to remember to post what the waitress said about why they have it later.

Colorado (we should be stopping at Jer's tonight.)
Other states that we will be passing through are (in no particular order)
Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington. And there is 1 more. I counted before we left that we were going to be going through 13 states but here I only count 12. I'll find out what the next one is later.

more yarn

There was a sale. I couldn't help myself. I bought 3 skeins of Sugar and cream, 2 skeins of a really neat verigated yarn and 5 skeins of thread. I know why buy more thread but it was mostly white with silvr glitter. It will be perfect for snowflakes. Now I just need to get more patterns that I like for snowflakes.
I finished my yarn stash spreadsheet. I am counting even the little tiny bits of yarn as skeins. If they are big enough to make yo-yos with at least, I will be counting it on my stash. That is why my stash is 237 skeins now. But lots of them are little scraps.
I am working on a blanket for my youngest for his stroller. I am going to try to make it smaller and with straps to tie to the stroller. I just finished 1 thing for my hubby. He is a big paintball player and I make him stuff when I can. He needs a cover for his hopper and 2 covers for the air tanks. I just finished 1 of the tank covers.
Need to run to work on the blanket now.

Finished Projects!

I finished the baby blue granny rectangle afghan and even better...
I finished the sweater for Tristan! I've only been working on it for at least 9 months. I haven't had the chance to take a picture yet but I will this weekend when I put it on him.
Right now I am working on some snowflakes for my CAL and then I am going to try to knit a hat for my cousin in Iraq. Then if, or when, the knit hat drives me completely crazy, I'll find a crochet pattern for one instead.
Off to work on more snowflakes now.

more stuff

You will notice that I bought yet more yarn. I know that I said that I wasn't going to buy more but this one skein should let me finish the sweater for my son. Besides, I used 3 partial skeins for yo-yos so my total is going down. That is always good!

WIPs
Sweater for Tristan
Blue granny rectangle baby blanket
Yo-Yo afghan
finish up my spreadsheet of yarn stash (yes, I am a geek)
WIMs
2 scarves with Bernat Matrix
Knit sweater for me
Flashlight and drink holder for Tristan's bed
CALs
Snowflakes - 10
Yo-Yos - 100
Yarn Stash 154 skeins
bought 1 skeins used 3 skeins total 152 skeins
Need pics for Grandma B's shawl. I also need to get other pics up here.

Updates

WIPs
Shawl for Grandma B - finished
Blue granny rectangle baby blanket
Yo-Yo afghan
finish up my spreadsheet of yarn stash (yes, I am a geek)
WIMs
2 scarves with Bernat Matrix (that new yarn that I couldn't resist)
Knit sweater for me
Flashlight and drink holder for the toddlers bed
CALs
Snowflakes - 10
Yo-Yos - 58
Yarn Stash no change
Stash 154 skeins bought 0 skeins used 0 skeins total 154 skeins

Regarding the Yo-Yo afghan, I decided that I going to try to make all the yo-yos and then when it is time to put it together I am going to just randomly pick out ones from a bag and join them. It should be nice and wild then!

More Crocheted Things

I have been trying to locate a lot of pictures of some of the crocheted things that I have made. Unfortunately, I really can't find too many. I will be posting them soon. Tonight thought I will be posting some WIPs (Work In Progress), some WIMs (Works In Mind) and info about my stash. My yarn stash that is. I would buy yarn that looked neat but not get to do too much with it. Or I would store it under the couch and forgot it was there and bought more of the same color. We got a new couch so we can no longer store anything there so it is all in storage now. Or at least a lot of it is. It is almost embarrassing to say that I counted 150 skeins of yarn. A bunch of them are small skeins of fun fur or other eyelash yarns.
I promised myself that I would not buy any more yarn until I had made a significant dent in my stash. That is why I went out and bought 4 more skeins today. But in my defense, they are usually $5-$6 a skein and they were $1 each today. I couldn't resist that! Besides they will make a nice scarf.

I am on http://www.crochetville.org/ and have a blast with the swaps. I have just joined in two of the CALs (Crochet-A-Longs). That is where someone is doing something and sees if anyone else wants to join them with the same pattern. That way people can ask questions if they are stuck or at least have some motivation to continue. The ones that I have joined at the Thread Snowflake CAL and the Simple Yo-Yo Squares Scrap Afghan CAL. I am not sure how many snowflakes that I have already but I will see about finding them all and posting a count here. I do have 23 yo-yos done already in cotton yarn.
Below is a list of my WIPs, WIMs, and CALs. Any my yarn stash counter.

WIP
Shawl for Grandma B (need some help with this, it's too long)
Yo-Yo afghan
finish up my spreadsheet of yarn stash (yes, I am a geek)
WIM
2 scarves with Bernat Matrix (that new yarn that I couldn't resist)
Knit sweater for me
CALs
Snowflakes - 10
Yo-Yos - 23
Yarn Stash
Stash 150 skeins
bought 4 skeins
used 0 skeins
total 154 skeins