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Now for something yarny and handknit. My last pair of socks for 2011...I'm always in the process of knitting socks but I don't think I'll finish another pair this year.

I made them shorties mostly because I'm lazy, was in danger of running out of this leftover yarns so I stopped. Still they're really cute although I'm gifting these to a dear friend. Lots of yarn in my bins so much more to follow...

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And here is the big brother of B (from previous post). He is quite a character and has some great expressions.

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What's a family gathering without some adorable pics of the youngest members of the family? This is B, our nephew's little girl. She was really enjoying this sweet treat with powdered sugar and I happened to be nearby.

Actually, the kids made it pretty easy for me to photograph them. I sat in a spot near their momma and they'd come by. I had lots of fun and hopefully soon, I can set up another time to take more pictures of them and practice.

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Still here, recovering from that nasty cold but much better. I'm trying to keep the kids entertained and sequestered from us sick parents and in a week, we will see how our efforts paid off.

I'm still behind in posting and hopefully I can get caught up soon.


We celebrate Christmas Eve at my SIL, Lupe's house and here she is, relaxing with a glass of wine. She does a great job letting us come to gather and be loud.

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Wishing you Happy Holidays!!

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It's 12-28-11 and I'm battling a nasty cold that knocked me on my butt. Hector now has the same thing but it seems worse and we're trying to keep it away from the boys. Our holidays were very good considering we are sick.

I'll post some pics now but hoping by January I will be back to normal.



Just some of the food that we had Christmas Eve....

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We were at Polliwog Park yesterday and while walking back from the big duck pond, I noticed this shadow a large chain on the wooden footbridge was casting. I remember one of my original themes for this 365 project was shadows so I pulled out the camera to try my hand at it.

I like it and it goes to show you the best camera to have is the one you're carrying. Or something like that!

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Took a break from the hubbub and headed on down to the Toyota Sports Center to see the new head coach of the LA Kings. The kids weren't too excited about that part but they hung out on the seats and chatted while Kat & I discussed various aspects of hockey. :)

Made amends with the kids by treating them to lunch at Denny's and fun time at Polliwog Park.

Ready to turn this season around.

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Following the Christmas season theme...



This is at my mother's house. She doesn't have much room for a Christmas tree so she has some little ones around and this one is on her dining table.

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Second event from the party was the dance contest but in the style of musical chairs. Music begins and kids can dance but must freeze when the music ends. Josh enjoys dancing and here is how he froze. :0

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In Saturday night, we went to Hector's work party and they had some fun events for the kids. This one was the money drop where a bill is dropped about 4 feet in the air and the child has to try and catch the bill with one hand with their finger and thumb. Hard to do! Tyler managed to catch one though!

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Tis the season...for me being late again.
On Saturday, I set up the tree with the boys' help and Josh helped with the ornaments. I pulled out this little sweater ornament which looks so festive and cute. That reminds me I need to make more of these for Christmas tags.

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Boy, it's so easy to get behind in posting but I have a good excuse. These couple of days have been filled with winter parties and today art class. Then the kids will off for 2 weeks for which they are thrilled beyond belief.

Purple

It still is very chilly by our usual standards so this purple flower gives some brightness as I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Ha, who am I kidding! There is still so much to do with Christmas around the corner. I should be able to go out with the kids and shoot more. :)

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Okay one more today which I believe will bring me up to date with posting.



This Flyer Cap has been lingering off to the side waiting for me to find some buttons and attach the front flap. Well, today is the day! The roses aren't too much, are they? I thought they were interesting, cute and definitely different than your typical buttons. :0

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Here is the picture of the latest hat I knit for Josh because he wanted something that wasn't too childish. Waaa, my baby is growing up!  I can still knit for him and found the perfect hat that he can grow into.

A nice manly color too, blue gray to suit his maturity.

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Oops, funny how things can get out of hand quick! I last posted on Sunday and here it is already Wednesday! My apologies but I did  finish a couple of projects and wanted to wait until the rain disappeared to get some photos.

In the meantime, you can enjoy the photo of my youngest son.



As usual with second children, he doesn't have the vast amount of photos as a baby but I'm sure getting lots during his childhood! :) Plus he is  easy going and tolerates the camera in the face moments.

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This will get your appetite revved up...some tasty Provolone cheese toasted on French bread. I made this for breakfast and it was delicious! It was the last of the bread and I want some more...

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Telephone Pole

Not very exciting, I know. A subtle ode to my hubby's former job.

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I went to the LA Kings vs Wild last night and was disappointed with the Kings loss 4-2. They were erratic but very physical too but putting the puck into the net was difficult for them.

I started to lose interest in the game because this guy's sweater was distracting...

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Winter Leaves

The temps have dropped really low for us here in SoCal and here is what I believe to be frost damage. I honestly don't know for sure since that doesn't happen here.

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Another post to make up and today is our new water dispenser with yes, 3 water temperatures. I'm not sure why there is a room temp spout but there it is.



It is much improved after our old one which was very noisy but everyone uses it.

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I finally started drinking coffee about 3 years ago because my early morning Diet Pepsi wasn't cutting it any more. My friend Kat gave me a Visa card for Christmas and I got this Keurig and some coffee pods. It still works great and I love the smell of it with my flavored creamers. Yum!

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It has really gotten downright chilly here in the last few days. The house is cold just as much as it is outside. So I was surprised to see this little bee going about his business as usual when all I want to do is sit with some nice knitting by the fire.

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This morning I finished helping with Josh's classroom and pass by the park on my walk home. I liked how the swing's shadow looked so I snapped off a quick shot.



I have a busy day with a nice lunch planned with Sherri at the Cheesecake Factory which I'm looking forward to and I'm starving!! :)

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Fun weekend with a bowling night with the family. Got a great shot of Tyler which is sometimes difficult because of his ever changing moods.




He looks happy and he is growing into a handsome young man. :)

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Of course I finished my Green Waffel hat yesterday afternoon and now here it is. I hadn't photographed little A in a long time modelling my knitwear so here she is too. Pretty soon I won't be able to call her little A since I've known her since she was a baby. :)

Green Waffel

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Okay, I've totally abandoned my original plan with the themes but I have made a better effort to take a picture a day. Here it is already December and even though I contribute during the year to my Christmas gift pile, I find the urge to knit more during this time. I need to go through the gift pile and figure out if I have enough. It didn't help that I got 3 more knitting books that I'm sure that has sparked the knitting fever.

Anyway, here is a hat OTN that is almost done. It is the same Waffel hat pattern that I made a week ago but boy, I'm getting bored with it so I need to finish it and get on to other projects.



The hat is a bright tonal green and so far seems very stretchy so I think it will fit a variety of head sizes (maybe even mine).  I have a cool stitch marker that I picked up at the fiber festival in Torrance earlier this month.

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We had some gusty winds last night that didn't seem to cause too many problems in our area but it did knock down our neighbor's Christmas decoration.

He doesn't look damaged and should be up again in no time. :)

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I completed Joshua's socks today and here they are.




Nice self striping yarn in cool, boyish colors. This is the first time that I used a 'forethought' heel to get the neat bulleye's effect which is more noticeable on one of the socks.
I should have knit the foot just a tad longer because the socks fit perfectly so that means Josh will be growing out of them pretty soon which will be a shame.

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Woo hoo, I'm on a roll! :) Back to my regular scheduled program because it's Monday and the kids go back to school. Josh walks to school (his own personal salt mine).

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So much for our cold snap here in SoCal; the temps rose to near 80* this weekend so my pasty white legs were back in shorts. My guys are always in shorts so it was their usual attire.

I'm sure the flowers/plants/trees are confused too with the weather change.



I know this pic isn't in B/W but it's my 365 project and I can do what I want to which doesn't bode well for the rest of the year! ;P

There are only a few trees that change in the autumn so these bright cheerful flowers caught my eye this morning. Yes, I'm behind in posting but I'm catching up now.

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Today is as good as any to kick start my project...

Kevin Westgarth #19

I went to Toyota Sports Center to watch the LA Kings practice. They had just come back from a road trip and this big guy Kevin Westgarth scored his 1st NHL goal against Dallas which is very exciting and the whole team was almost as excited as he was. It will be nice to see him score more this season!

Introduction...

Hi my name is Debbie and I am a SoCal (Southern California) native. I am in my 40's, married 15 years to a wonderful guy, Hector and 2 wonderful sons, Tyler and Joshua. I'm a SAHM (stay at home mom) after spending about 15 years working as a pharmacist. I enjoy being with my family/friends, reading, travel, cooking & good food, reading, snowboarding, NHL hockey (LA Kings), knitting and photography.

 The photography part is the most important especially to this blog since this is how I share and document all of  these other  items that I've mentioned. I shoot for pleasure mostly but recently in the last year, I've been wanting to challenge myself to take better pictures. To do this, I thought I would try the 365 photo challenge and post 1 photo a day. I looked at other 365 day projects to get ideas and what I've learned is that anything goes. Some will take a self protrait daily, some just take a picture of whatever but the idea is to post a photo daily. This will be a huge commitment on my part and I will try to shoot daily although I know that there will be times when I can't. So I was thinking of having themes on a monthly schedule. For example, I can have the theme of  Vehicles take dozens of pictures on that subject and post a photo a day along with the story behind it. Some of the themes are very broad so that will be fun in how I intrepret and share it.

So far I've come up with 17 themes and I figured that I can get myself going at this years end so I can work out any kinks in my project. I will try as much as I can to stick to the month's theme as possible and post a photo every day. If I do miss a day due to life I will post the photos as I am able but I do want to commit to this.

I will just go down the list and begin posting December 1st.

Here is my list:

 December 2011: B/W I need to ease myself into this

January 2012: Movement

February: Portrait

March: Vehicles

April: Macro

May: Doorways

June: Flowers

July: Play

August: Architecture

September: Shadows

October: Animals

November: Feet

December: Colors

Feel free to join me on this challenge and let's learn something new! :)