Doug's Oral Surgery

Well Doug had all four of his wisdom teeth taken out on Tuesday August 14th...in the last two days he has only gotten about 1 hour worth of sleep!!! I finally took him back to the oral surgeon today and he was in the beginning stages of DRY SOCKET!!! He has a pretty high tolerance to pain and with him complaining we knew something had to be up. When they tried to pack it he could not take the taste of it. I think he got that from me. When I had a root canal done and they packed my tooth before filling it I had an allergic reaction to the stuff they put on the packing. I just glad it happened while we were still at the doctor's office!!!

My 1st doTerra Training...

Today was such an AWESOME DAY! Thank you April Ranard!!! I went to Greenwood for a doTerra Essential Oil training that was so informative!!! Peggy Smith a Diamond consultant came in from Utah to lead us!!! These oils have done AMAZING things for me....I can hardly believe the benefits that I am getting.

Here is a link to my doTerra webpage!!! http://www.doterra.myvoffice.com/julierouton/

March 10, 2012~Sample Scarf Complted

Here is the completed scarf from the pattern we got at our second beginning knitting class. I got the pattern on January 30th and completed it on March 10th. Now I did not get the yarn right away so it took me just under a month to complete.

This scarf was make out of Hobby Lobby's I Love This Cotton Yarn in the colorway Passion Flower...I think???

January 23, 2012~Knitting!!! Here I come.....

THAT’S IT…..!!!!

I am going to try to learn to knit AGAIN!!! Several people throughout the YEARS tried to teach me how to knit. Starting with my grandpa Reynold Carlson’s sister in law Great Aunt Helen who was married to his brother. She even tried to teach me tatting with a shuttle. Then when we moved to Florida my best friend Beate McCurdy tried…I just held the needles way TOO TIGHT and gave up. I kept dropping stitches and could not get the needles to pull the yarn through the loops.

Since I was having troubles seeing the charts for my counted cross stitch from having surgery the month before…I thought maybe I should try knitting again. So I talked to some friends here in town to see which yarn shop I should go to for to take my class. After much deliberation and remember has the Yarns Unlimited shop treated people when they visited their store & the horrible parking I decided to go to In A Yarn Basket. They were located where the parking was ample and you did not have to pay to park and fight for a parking space…PLUS I do not and probably never be able to parallel park very well.

So off I went to In A Yarn Basket to sign up for their Knitting Beginner Class taught by Kathy Shewmaker. WOW…! It was GREAT! Kathy was able to get it through my head this time. The class I was in was one that Kathy was absolutely AMAZED at how fast we picked up on it. The class was a 2 hour class and in the first 30 minutes she has all the stitches and cast on taught. She said I am going to have to find something for our next class for you all. She had a sampler scarf that used to be used for the beginner class but found it was too much…and new knitters wanted to see their results faster so she changed it up to be just washcloths. 

Here is the first thing we knit in class:

I had completed the 3 washcloths that she had given to us to be able to practice what we had learned on the first night. Here is my wash clothes I had finished.

Close up of the last one I knitted...I see mistakes but that is how you learn to fix the mistakes!!!

The discovery of knitting needles with a sharper point is what made all the difference for me……..

Here are the pictures of what I did in the two classes…