Melissa Sue’s Craft Corner

My parents really surprised me this year for Christmas.  They got me a digital camera.  It is a Nikon Coolpix L3 - maybe not the best on the market, but wow I have a camera.  I seriously became annoying yesterday during the gift giving.  I opened the camera and started taking pictures immediately.  So immediately that I did not realize that there was more in the box with the camera.  I missed completely the camera case as well as the memory stick.  Not a big problem as the camera was saving the pics to internal memory, but a big problem because my dad had thrown away the box and then had to dig it out (not that bad as he always uses fresh bags for wrapping paper/boxes).  I felt kinda stupid, but my brain had just zeroed right in onto the camera.

My parents had gotten my sister and her husband a video camera which caused some tension between them as he would not let her play with it, but in the end they worked it out.  My mom was the only one not surprised by her gifts as she had already figured them all out.  My dad was surprised and pleased with his gifts.  So overall Christmas was great.

Here are those photos I have been promising since I started this blog, taken of course on my brand new camera.

The Sunset Seraphim - I am currently on row 62.  On this one I will be doing at least one set of 12 rows extra as I want it to be extra big.  I am hoping that this is enough, but since I have an extra skein I can add more if it is needed.  I think what I will do is dry block it out once I finish the number of rows I have planned on.  I will then measure it to see how big that is and then hopefully I can figure out if it will be large enough.

The Christmas scarves in the following order:

1. My sister’s - Cha-Cha in Hippie & Yarn Bee Frosting in Iced White



2. My friend’s - Fun Fur in Red



3. Maire’s (my friend’s daughter) - Cha-Cha in Wlatz & Be-bop

At least that is what my boss thinks I am.  Since Thanksgiving she has been scheduling me so many hours that if she is not careful I will have to be changed to a full time employee.  I made the mistake of volunteering to come in at 9 pm on the 10th and working through the night to 5 am even though I had already worked from 6am to noon on the 10th.  Since we got so much done that night she decided that in order to catch up with the backlog of freight that we needed to work through the night on the 11th, 12th, and 14th.  Well, then we had a corporate visitor and our store did not get that good of a grade (I think it was a D) because of all of the holes in seasonal and the frame shop, plus the holes and overfull cap shelves in our regular merchandise shelves.  So, needless to say I have 4 night shifts this week along with one day shift.  I worked midnight to 8 am this morning, I go back in at 11 pm tonight and work through 7 am tomorrow.  Then I work either 10 pm to 6 am or 11 pm to 7 am on Monday (it depends on when the morning manager is scheduled on Tuesday). Then I have off until Thursday when I am scheduled as a cashier from 11 am to 4 pm (yay a normal shift) and then one more night shift Friday.  This makes for some awesome paychecks, but since I am sleeping during the day and then working at night (never realized how had stocking for 8 hours was) I haven’t had much time for blogging if I want to get my Christmas presents made.  The one good thing is that I have been offered a permanent position as a Front End Supervisor (which includes a small raise) as long a my background check comes back okay - which it should.  I have never been in trouble with the law, but it also includes my credit report due to being responsible for all that cash.  Since I have an ex-husband (who seriously messed with my credit) I am hoping that it is okay enough for the job.  I have managed to repair most of it since my divorce, but there are still a few negatives from some medical bills that didn’t get paid on time.

On to Christmas gifts.  I have finished the scarf for my friends daughter and am just waiting to mail it until I have my friends done.  I finished my friends necklace and only have about 5-8 inches on the scarf (depends on how much I lost when I accidently pulled the needles out).  Then I have about 35 inches on my sister’s scarf.  Since I have bought her something as well I have decided to put her scarf off until I finish my dad’s cross stitch.  I figure that as long as I tell her the scraf is for myself that I can work on it even after she gets here.  This leaves from now until the 22nd for my dad’s cross stitch and I am going to need every minute I can get as I miscalculated how much was done. 

Well, need to go - Survivor comes on in a few minutes.  Once that is over I need to get ready for  work.

Hopefully I can update again tomorrow, but it may not happen (depends on how tired I am after work).