Amazing...

truly amazing

that's all I can say................................
about how much JUNK I collect!

first off, son needed to use the closet in their room....the closet that WAS my craft closet...well remove it all, sort sort, holy cow where did THAT come from, get rid of, give away this and that and OMG what is that!

..And off to storage unit with a bunch of crafty stuff.
and then.

External hard drive. 80 gig. Full.

Went to open photos folder to find a photo of bears I make..cannot open, folder corrupt WHAT!!!!!!!!!! Oh no, that's 5 years worth of photos!Long and short, figure out a fix, get the files backed up to another drive and to online storage place. Whew, thank heavens.

HMMMMMM What on earth is all the rest of this...
ohhh Paintshop Pro tubes and stuff. LOTS ....OHHHHHH recipes! LOTS!! hmmm old programing, nope trash. lots of Incredimail letters......unnamed word documents, text documents (what was I thinking!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!)
Dear sweet hubby bought me a new external drive for Valentines. 500gig.such a small pretty sleek black SMALL box...start moving stuff to it, since 80 gig being a pain. move move...delete don't need that move move delete.
Amazing what you collect.

yarn cakes

Hubby working on new swift

testing.

Hubby bought me a yarn winder and then made me a Swift. so I have been busy making Yarn Cakes!

I have stashes of yarn, lots of it. most came from other people, and most have been wound into balls. While this may me ok, I dont like balls rolling all over. So, I am making cakes. They stack neatly, and make it easy to see what yarn I have at a glance.

Very first Yarn Cake


I'll be at this a LONG time!

Feeling Blah

Yes I am feeling quite Blah today.

Betty received her box in the mail of the market bag and other items, she loved it. I am so glad.

I made a hat for my Daughter in law. The pattern is a Members Only pattern from JPFun.

She seems to like it, and her co-workers do to.

Now to decide what to make next. it isnt that i do not have yarn, because I do, and I have more patterns than anyone should have, but nothing reaches out and says "Make me".

Far behind on Coupon group stuff, and at the moment having a hard time even caring if it gets done. I know it needs done, just do not feel like working on it either. almost 5000 coupons available for members to pick from already. probably that many more to finish scanning and typing up.

Almost forgot

Sunday hubby and I went to ACMoore. I wanted to find a Yarn Winder, but they did not have one. What I did find was a mess. Yep a mess, a big tangled up mess.
They had a table full of yarns, funfur and other. and in everyone moving it around and such a big portion of it was tangled up.
We stood there and untangled quite a bit of it. Then i asked one of the folks that worked there if I could buy that entire tangled up mess cheaply. They thought I was nuts. But they sold it to me, $5.
This is what it looked like when I got it home. a big tangled mess.

Hubby and I sorted, and coaxed and rolled, till it was all untangled.

This is what all was in that tangle. The blue is 2 balls of very soft funfur type yarn, do not know what it is for sure. the smaller furry grey had a pricetag of $8 on it. Lots of new to play with!

Sick

Yuck. When you teach your children to share, I do not think it should mean illesses too.

Granted my son is no longer a child, but 24...and shared his lovely cold with me. So for the last couple days, and probably the next couple days too, I will be on the sofa. Hopefully crocheting between sleeping and freezing.

On a side note. I had to take our truck in Monday for an oil change and a repair to the window seal. They said an hour wait, so I took along a couple balls of yarn and a hook. Busy hands are not bored hands.

It was amazing how many watched me while I worked. I was starting a market bag, and I do not use patterns, I just make them up as I go. One lady kept watching me and asking questions. Of course I kept crocheting all through the chatter, got about 1/4 of the bag done before they said my truck was done.

I was surprised at how many men, as well as the ladies, were watching what I was doing.

Jo

Finished and Mailed!

I finished and mailed the gift for my friend.

I do hope she likes it.

In the package to her i also enclosed Crochet dishcloths, Crochet butterflies, a couple plastic canvas ribbon bookmarks and this:

it is an old shadow box. Full of very old crochet pieces and hooks.

I know she will treasure it.

Time Flies

Time sure does fly.
Seems like 2008 had just started , then it was over.
and I feel I got very little done.

I am learning Hairpin Lace thanks to a wonderful Lady named Judy that lives in Florida that took the time to meet with me while I was there on vacation. She showed me how to do Hairpin Lace and even gifted me a loom. I have been steadily working at it, but feel I am getting no where. But atleast I am trying!

Am working on a surprise for a dear friend of mine. She is a lovely lady, always so caring and considerate. So i wanted to do something nice for her.

Will post photos of what i make when I get it sent!

Otherwise I havent got much done. or don't feel like I have anyway. I made a pile of Crochet dishcloths and such, but thats about all.

These 3 afghans were made for a Charity auction for a little girl that is very ill.

Tickets were sold to raffle these off at $2 each (for each blanket) and each blanket had well over 100 tickets sold!!