Getting Ready for the Week

I've posted more pictures in the Bay Window's Bears Photo Album. I took a few minutes to actually look at the album this morning. WOW! What a selection of bears. Each have such distinct personalities and some of them are real characters! It's amazing how 1 pattern can produce such a variety of bears. I love how creative everyone was with their bears. I also love the fact that I wasn't the only one filling up my bears with lots of love.

So many children of the knitters making the bears got involved. From being the official Huggers (is that not the cutest picture in the world?) to learning about Jamaica to wanting bears for themselves and learning about the kids in Jamaica not having much and wanting to send all of THEIR toys to them. It's been a great experience for me to help organize the Bears. Thanks to everyone for knitting and sending me so many wonderful comments. Heres' a comment left by the Ladies at the Bay Window.

you guys are so wonderful! we just got a new delivery of bears today. they're arriving by the armful, each with his/her own personality. we get goosebumps everytime we open a new one. all of you knitters will go with mary and the bears in spirit. we can't thank you enough. truly your generosity is overwhelming! we'll get a picture of us and the bear brigade on phyllis' site soon. we're having a bon voyage party on march 31st here if any of you are nearby and can come please do. we'd love to meet each and everyone of you!!! thank you,candy, mary and nancy

I am loving Purl. However, some of the formatting for posts just isn't working well for me. I think I might need to do a little searching around to figure things out. Like HELLO, where is the spell check? I can't spell, I can't find it. Really need to get that one figured out. AFTER I clean up the office.

This week I must organize the home office and make the stash get back in the closet. I started a cute pair of socks on Saturday. Maeve and Carol got my toes going for me. Carol is so very patient and kind to me. I did something with my provisional cast on and ended up needing help with "unzipping." I will use cotton next time. Amiee knit a good portion of my first sock while I did the casting on and short rows for the second toe. Now, before you give me a hard time. Amiee was there with no knitting and she really didn't want to choose and have to cast-on for a new project. I was HELPING Amiee, really. Honestly. And she'd never knitted a sock with DPNs. I'll post pictures once I figure out where I put my camera.

Happy Knitting! I am off to knit my socks, clean up my office.

Comments

[Sue]

Thank you, Phyl, for bringing this to our attention! It really was a joy to be a part of this project. In fact, if they decide to make a second shipment of bears, please let me know and I will gladly make some bears!

[Carol]

Sucking up will get you everywhere. And you helped Aimee learn the valuable skill of knitting in a circle on DPNs.

[Anne]

What a wonderful thing you've undertaken, Phyl, with the bears. You have an amazing heart and spirit!

[Niki]

I was going to tell you to switch to Firefox, and Shanit beat me to it! The Typepad WYSIWYG function does not work in Safari or Explorer. Also, Explorer will no longer be upgrading its browser for Mac. As a rule, use Firefox for browsing.

[Shanti]

Phyl, give me a call tonight and I'll help figure out the formatting issues. Also, switch to Firefox as a browser if you haven't already...it's way better with the typepad software than either Explorer or Safari.