Mummas Christmas.

I have been working away crazy on this bad boy for my momma for Christmas. She had told me how my grandmother and gone over to my mums house and she had this HUGE infinity scarf and she was SO jealous of it. So I trekked over to Michaels and I napped this awesome yarn. 

Just to give you an Idea on how truly long this guy is! Soo long but I love it. 

I made it long enough so that you can loop it up twice and it will be super duper chunky.

I REALLY actually want to keep this so badly but I don't want to make another one so close to Christmas. 

I love how chunky this is so nice!

And here we are getting all wrapped up in  a Christmas box for mum and dad. 

Christmas Ornaments

I actually found these ornaments with a how to on pinterest. Glitter Balls

These are the supplies you will need, I looked all over the isle for the one in the first tutorial but I had no luck, but thankfully this floor polish was practically the exactly the same. 

You want to squirt a bit of the polish into the ball then let it drain out., usually the bubbles will come out if you let it drain them out but if you don't feel like holding the ball upside down for longer than a couple of seconds, just swab them up with a qtip.

I then took an envelope and took a quick little snip off the bottom so it would be just big enough for the glitter not to spill everywhere. So I popped the top off the glitter and dumped some into the ball. I did a little swirl around and then dumped the rest out. I loved watching the glitter swirl around and coat the ball.

How awesome and simple is that!? Then all you need to do is pop the little tops back on!

I absolutely love these!!

Hair Practical Exam

Weeellll, personally I feel like I flunked the exam but my mum, my grandma, and the hubbs thinks I did just fine and that I passed. As I was walking out of the exam room I just had this sinking feeling in my stomach. I mean My men's taper looked like the picture they had sent me from the government, the perm looked pretty decent except for the one or two on the left side, the color demonstration went fine, the layered haircut went fine, but then the last part of the exam was catastrophic! I mean we were told to do a wet set of rollers and pin curls, I was the ONLY one who practically did a whole head of pin curls and everyone else did practically a whole head of rollers. Plus one of the markers pushed my hood dryer down lower on my model, smooshing my pin curls and making the front roller practically fall out, I know that they looked at my set and thought it looked like a joke and I thought that it looked like a joke in the end there. SO I suppose that only time will tell if I get my license or not hopefully only the 10 days it usually takes to get the results instead of the 30 days it can take! I feel like biting my nails and I am NOT a nail biter!

A New Crochet Project

I decided that I had wanted to step away from the scarves that I have been working on for the last month, and I had found a pattern for a slouchy beanie. So I would have to learn to 

a) double crochet 

&

b) crochet in a round

NOW, let's just say that after about 15 attempts I did get a little frustrated since I did not want to pull it all apart yet again, I started feeling a little disheartened. 

This was my first attempt.

My second attempt

My third attempt.

Although my third attempt is not looking all that pointy, as I started getting longer and longer in the rows, it started to look like a tepee! Oh well I think I just need some more practice!

A Snow Storm and a Weeks Catch Up

Sorry that I have been MIA for the last week? I've been so stupidly busy, I've been prepping for my exam which will be on Monday, I've been crocheting and we got a complete dump of snow on us which was a foot in a day! The roads were so bad I actually called my father to drive me to work on Friday. Since 20km/h was too much for my little Mazda3 in ice ruts. 

This little girl got spayed on Wednesday.

I've been pumping up my workouts, and well this happened today at the gym. 

I came home last night and found this gem in the hallway.

I also wrapped some presents for Christmas!

I will try not to be such a stranger from now on!

Sickos

We are SICK in this house right now, the kit kats are sneezing like mad, Mathew has the flu, and I have a mean, mean head cold. It was a good coincidence that I got sick yesterday because 3 months ago I called my doctors office for a physical. Well I showed up, and my doctor saw me in the hallway and laughed, she said what good timing you have Leanne! Well thank you. 

Wah wah wahhh. 

I've been downing liquids like there has been no tomorrow, and yet I am still SO dehydrated. It stinks. 

I also had an appointment for my tattoo touch-up, but I am seriously contemplating breaking up with him, since he is always such an ass to me and everyone else. He didn't want to do my 5 minute touchup because it's free... well hello I am sorry that I can see my skin through the blue! 

Also, I stink at getting blood tests. I mean I have passed out before, tattoos are SUPER fine, but blood tests, nope nope nope! Keep me out of that crap, I cannot handle it. I used to only need one vial taken but now I need THREE. It's horrific for me, but I figured if I had my tattoo done today I can get my blood drawn today. I am certainly feeling it today though. My arm is sooo soo sore, the girl was such a sweetheart though, she told me she saw me getting pale so drew the blood as fast as she possibly could. Then grabbed me juice and a cold compress. I'm a sissy on so many levels.

I also have a confession to make, we put our Christmas tree up... on October 27th. I know what a lot of people are thinking about that, it is disrespectful but in all honesty, it is jammed in a corner where only we can see the tree and none of the construction workers can look up and see, and we certainly did not get any trick or treaters with living in an apartment condominium.

This little munchkins going to be a cone head as of tomorrow. 

Ridonkulously Excited

I am so redonkulously excited, my ring came in from getting sized yesterday and I have not wanted to take it off since. It fits perfect at the moment but I did notice when I went for a run my fingers do get super duper swollen, and then when I walk into the snow it feels a little looser. I guess I never really realized how much your fingers fluctuate from the weather.

Yes, I painted my nails in preparation for this photo!

We also went to visit our favorite little shop owner here in Edmonton, Gayle from the Wishlist and we got a tree topper for our purple tinsel tree. It was 50% off of 100$ and it is NOT Christmas at ALL but we are quite Gothic, and our house reflects that A LOT. Our tree topper is actually Halloween not a Christmas angel.

A skeleton bride, she's perfect for us. 

I also decided to dress in some of the comfiest clothes I had today because I needed to run to get stuff for my practical exam on the 19th, and I ended up looking more like a lumberjack than anything else.