Night Time

The only time they slow down =)
Time to get to work crocheting....
Did I mention Chris is starting on the Christmas lights? See I needed to find a hobby of staying awake while he is climbing all over the roof.

Motivation

Little known fact....
I only completed one (yes 1) crochet project (a small pillow..tiny tiny like 2 x 2 inches) when I first learned at eight years old.

If I began anything else I ended up unhappy with it and ripped it out, balled up the yarn, and started over with something else, ripped it out......

So you could say I just needed the right motivation to complete something. =)

Here is M. modeling the new purple/gray scarf. She's just so darn cute to me I can't stand it. And it seems she LOVES to let mommy take pictures of her.

You can find this scarf by clicking here to go to the Etsy store.

This scarf took me about 4 days. Stripes are ohhhh so fun but they leave a lot to fix. Also B, her friend and myself had to take time out to do some bike riding.Before a great scarf comes the work in progress....

Video Save (D laughing)

Nothing more magical than baby laughter...they should find a way to bottle this stuff up! Fortunately our house did not turn sideways, camera phones can be challenging to operate...seriously....stop laughing =)

D does love his daddy. Lights up when he is around.




A scarf in the development stages. I'm fascinated with fall today and especially the colors! Nice chilly air absolutely PERFECT for a nice scarf. As much as I enjoy making them to sell for Chris, I make them for me too. I apparently need an arsenal of scarves to survive the winter. (That is a completely true fact).

Chris has gone above and beyond by looking at each of my scarves and giving his opinion. He also did not complain about the trail of yarn around the living room.

Informing the Family and Friends

Hello everyone enjoy this bit of news.....
Almost a year ago Chris said he wanted a cochlear. It's possible at the time he was just trying to say sorry for our fight. I didn't take him seriously. Then a few months later he told me again he wanted a cochlear and I replied that's great do you really want that? He said yes but again I let more time pass.

Almost a year passed and he was still saying he wanted a cochlear so we went for testing and confirmed he was an excellent candidate for surgery. Then we got a quote on how much surgery would cost. Not impossible but it would require more patience and saving on our part. (It's around 3500 to 4000 out of pocket). I checked out scholarship opportunities but nothing really exists for a 30ish father of three. So I decided Chris wasn't getting any younger and neither were our kids. If he wanted to hear then I wanted him to hear all the great, weird, funny bits that come out of our kids mouths (the screaming parts too).

So here is my attempt at fund raising. It will be a long journey. If you are not familiar with a cochlear basically they enable hearing for the deaf by inserting a long skinny tube into the snail like part of your ear called the "cochlear." It changes sound into electronic stimuli for your auditory nerve to transmit to your brain. It is an outpatient procedure.

We will raise the amount little by little. I have started a blog so you can sign up to follow and see our progress. and an etsy store where all the saving happens!

blog: http://dirtcomesclean.blogspot.com/

store: www.dirtcomesclean.etsy.com

Please visit both and share this journey with us. Say prayers!!! Leave comments, suggestions, words of support. Our journey will not end with surgery as this will be a whole new experience for Chris. The cochlear device we are looking at is the cochlear 5 (which comes with a remote I might add...evil grin...just kidding....but Chris wants to hide it from me anyways).

More to come!
Kim =)

Video Save

It will take some time to get a cochlear. In the mean time I think I should save some video for Chris to watch after he gets the cochlear. So I archived some D sounds while he is still little.

Please ignore the annoying woman (yes that would be me) obviously trying to get the little man to say something. =)

Special Delivery

Designing packaging for my scarves has been exceptionally fun! As fun as making the scarves. I am using recycled materials. Can you guess what this blue one is made out of?

I have just started selling them so we have a longgggg way to go to raise our portion of the surgery. All in all we can expect to pay around 3500.00 to 4000. That includes paying for the surgeon and the hospital portion. It will be an outpatient procedure but must be performed in the hospital. Not to worry I'm all for that!!

I mailed out 3 scarves today. In total we have sold 5 (thank you very much). Our journey continues with each crochet stitch.
For those of you who can't read my chicken scratch (grin). Here is what the note says:

This is just a simple scarf
But it has so much work to do.
Keeping your neck warm
And making you look great too!

Yours was just a simple purchase
But your gift has so much to do
It will give the gift of hearing to a man,
a father, a husband too!

Thank you for your purchases and I hope you enjoy these scarves for many years to come.




Please leave comments on what colors you would like to see or what kind of scarves (long,skinny, short, chunky) below, at www.dirtcomesclean.etsy.com,
or email me at dirt_comes_clean@yahoo.com

As always thank you from Kim =)