Playing Around

Hi!

Here I thought I was done for the night.  Then I remembered it was Sunday night, the one night of the week I get to stay up late!  So I got to playing around with this site, and thought I would try out a different scheme.  For those that have been here before, leave me a note to let me know which layout you like better, this current one or the first one ever for me.  (if you remember what that one looked like! ;p )

Re-arrangement

Hi Everyone!

Hope you all had a good weekend.  It sure turned out to be a nice one once the rain stopped on Saturday afternoon!  We took Missy-Boo and some friends to the local orchard that had a HUGE (5 acre) corn maze set up.  Of course we went at night where flashlights were needed.  Out of the five we took with us , only two ran out of batteries.  Whew!  The kids had a great time finding clues and making rubbings on their "maps" at the clue sights.  We even managed to find our way out after a couple of hours wandering.  Then we went for fresh orchard made donuts and cider!  Yum!

I have the Picture Gallery re-arranged a bit to include a section called "My Designs".  And it now includes a better picture of the design on the Cabled Scarfy Shawlette that's a part of CrochetingwithDee 's drive for 60 Scarves in 60 Days.  I I hope you enjoy looking at them!  

Have a good night.  :)

Passing it on

We decided it was time to rip up the old carpet in the living room two weeks ago.  It's been there for the last 14 years, and I'll tell ya, that berber sure held up to a lot of traffic and construction goings on!  But it was time.  When we bought our house, calling it a handyman special was an understatement.  And by the time it came to the living room, we had run out of time, so we washed the oak flooring with a bleach solution, then applied a couple coats of sealer.  This time around, the floor was properly (yeah right!) stripped down, sanded, stained and poly-ed.  PEEEE-yuuuuu!  Good thing the weather has been pretty decent so we could have all the windows open and fans sitting in them sucking the air out of the house!  Of course, one thing always leads into another - we decided to get the walls and ceiling painted before the NEW rug gets installed tomorrow.  Another PEEEE-yuuuuu and more opened windows.  What a shame, too!  The floor looks so wet and shiny from the gloss.  Boohoo!  But when my daughter, Missy-Boo, gets a lot bigger and older than she is right now, and the carpet needs to be taken up again, maybe we'll be ready to leave the flooring exposed.  It sure looks good right now, tho!  lol

I also just finished up a project that was to make two coin purses with a pretty thick yarn, one crocheted in a rib stitch, and the other one knitted in seed stitch.  Now I am NOT a knitter.  I can do the basic garter and stockinette in squares or rectangles.  I was told the seed stitch was easy, knit 1, purl 1, then alternate the stitches on each row afterwards.  So I looked on the internet to see if it looked like what I thought it would and found a good picture of that stitch.  So I started on it, but something wasn't right - it was coming out like ribbing instead of a little bump, little recess.  I'm very glad I saw Margaret at the Book Signing tent at the Sheep and Wool Festival.  She took a look at what I was doing and picked out what was wrong right away.  (She's so smart with all this stuff! )  Work it over an odd number of stitches said she of the magic fingers.  And viola, it was working wonderfully!  Then she told me I had to teach two people something about "stitching" to pass it on.  What a neat idea.  Kind of like paying it forward.  Hmmmm.....

Thanks for visiting.  :)

More Festival

OO, OO, did anyone else see the fudge man hiding in the back corner besides me?!?!?  I tried to be good and leave some for any others who may have come along later, but the deal was too good to pass up - buy 4, get 1 free.  Of course all the mint chocolate came home with me, along with the Irish Creme and Orange Sherbet!  With all those yummy flavors, who needs just plain ole chocolate?!?!  lol  Good thing it wasn't one of those VERY HOT days!  I would have had fudge soup.  Something tells me it wouldn't quite taste the same.  hmmm...

OO, OO, (or should I say ow, ow?!) did anyone else see the HUGE Jolly Green Giant-sized spinning wheel?!?!?  Could you imagine being the one who had to do threading and treading on that thing?!?!?  Just glad it's not me!    Okay now I'm going to see if I can remember how to do this, and post a couple of pictures of my daughter practicing her spinning, and a close-up of the drop spindle that followed her home.  Wish me luck!    Ok, here's to success!  This is the spindle that came home with us.   It would be real easy to make one yourself at home - 2 CDs fitted with a rubber grommet in the center pushed onto a narrow dowel, with a small cup hook screwed into the top of the dowel.

                    Practicing her "fingering" like an old pro.

 Up high before winding new yarn.                         

And on that note, its time to go.  Supper, school and work things to do.  Play time is over. 

Have a good night.  :)

Sheep and Wool Festival

Wow!  What a sight - all that yarn just "itching" to be made into something!  Thin to chunky, lots and lots of beautiful colors.  Sometimes I really wish I had won one of those huge lottery jackpots just for days like this! 

I saw some of my fellow guild and chapter sisters today, learned a new knitting stitch (still can't believe I'm learning to knit!) and lots and lots of yarns I was drooling to take home with me.  I was looking for some yarn of a particular color for a sweater I have in mind for me. ( the first one ever I plan to keep for me anyway. lol) Didn't matter what color family it was from, it was going to find me and say "Hey, I'm right here, come take me home."  Unfortunately, I ran out of time before I got all the way through the displays and booths.  Hubby had to go to work.  Boo hoo!  But my daughter did learn how to use a drop spindle, and boy, was she tickled pink when the nice lady asked her if she wanted to take one home with her to practice with!  After just a few minutes of "practice", my daughter was going fast enough that the lady was having a hard time keeping up with her to set the spindle a'spinnin'.   The spindle was pretty neat and easy to make at home.  Just a narrow dowel using a couple of CDs with a rubber grommet to hold it on the dowel, and a little tea cup screw hook on the top.  Very ingenious.    She wanted to practice her spinning all the way home in the car.  And to think I just shipped my spinning wheel off to a friend since I didn't use it anymore!  Ahh well, whatcha gonna do?  lol

Have a good night.