WIP's, Computers, Weather & Willow

As I promised a long while back, here are some WIP's!

I am working on the City Wrap pattern by Patons and I am using their Decor yarn as suggested in the pattern. It is worked up using 2 strands of yarn held together. I love the color of this yarn and the colorway is called Secret Garden and it is 75% Acrylic - 25% Wool . It is working up really fast. I started it the night before last and only worked on it for about an hour yesterday. Click on the picture to get a better look.

And this is what I am calling Green With Envy. My oldest daughter loves the color lime green and she wanted a funky scarf to go with her lime green ski jacket. It is almost complete. I am using size 13 needles. The yarn is Lion Brand Fancy Fur in the Spring Garden colorway and I'm using 4 skeins. I cast on 18 stitches using the long tail cast on and I am just working it in garter stitch.

And here is the Irish Hiking Scarf I started a while back. I made a bit more progress on it but not much. This is a project that requires a block of time to work on because of the cable pattern. Its not like the other projects that can be put down in mid row so it is slower going.

My hubby surprised me this morning by telling me he was going to order me a laptop for my birthday. He let me pick out the features with his help (since he is the computer expert in our household--he builds desktops from scratch for a hobby.) We were on Dell's web page putting it all together and when we were finished we clicked on the order button which took us to the order screen. We were just about to click the finalize order button when I noticed there was a place to put a coupon code. I said "Hold on, I think I have something on my blog that takes you to a list of Dell coupon codes." So I checked my blog and sure enough there was. So I clicked it and low and behold there was a coupon for the laptop we were ordering. The coupon code gave us $400 off the laptop! My hubby was really impressed and excited with the fact that he got to save $400. So if anyone is in the market for a new laptop and are going to make a purchase from Dell, just look on the right hand side of my blog and scroll down to where it says "Look Who's Watching" and click on the Dell Coupon Code link.

This is what it looked like when I got up this morning. Pretty to look at but not enough to keep the kids home from school. We are supposed to get more snow this evening. The weather service is predicting about 1-3 inches of snow for this evening.