Crochet Critter #2

I was so pitiful last week. Usually my mom has to tell me to stop crocheting but all she did was ask me "When are you going to start on another project. I'm usually a crochet-aholic. I guess I just started to get down in the dumps when I realized I was really cutting it short with the teeny-tiny balls of yarn I had left. Luckily for Valentines Day my grandmother sent me some money. So today I get to go buy some more yarn for the tunic I have been wanting to work on. Also from my last post I made clutch purses here is a link to the instructions . Below are pictures of the things I have accomplished.

Bracelet

Scarf

Head Band

Head Band

MasterPiece Theater: Which Character Are You

You are Anne Elliot of Persuasion! Let's face it; you're easily persuaded, particularly when friends and relatives try to use "the Elliot way" against you. But this doesn't mean that you don't have conviction. Actually, your sense of duty is overwhelming. And though you won't stick your neck out too often, you have learned to speak up when it counts. To boot, you know how to handle sticky situations. You love deeply and constantly.

(Older movie version of Anne Elliot)


(This is an updated picture from the Masterpiece Theater series now playing)

Take the Quiz here!

Crochet Critter

Lately I have really been spending all my time crocheting. I have only finished four projects so far but I'm working on my fifth. I have posted my projects below. The first project I started on was terrible. The pattern was cool but the instructions didn't seem like they were correct or maybe it's just me.

I am a little fustrated because after I finish this project I don't have enough yarn for another. So I will be on a crochet break for a while (sigh).

But enough chatting, take a look at my work below.

Coin Purse and Scarf

Different View

Crochet Belt

Clutch Purse

Clutch purse w/ unfinished Scarf

Different View

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Masterpiece Theater

Okay I am just asking so I can verify with you all and make sure I'm not mistaking. Isn't ETV suppose to be a young child's educational channel?

Well I thought so too until I started watching "Masterpiece Theater" two weeks ago. This series comes on every Sunday at 9p.m. It's mini shows that act out the different books by Jane Austen.

In my opinion they do a great job. They only part I was very disappointed about the first time I watched it was the amount of romance there was. I admit I had to turn the channel a good number of times.

If you look past that the shows are great. I still watch them although I record them on our DVR first so I have the option of fast-forwarding past inappropiate parts.

The Gift of Homemade Gifts

This year our family decided to make homemade gifts for the holidays and birthdays. I'm making crocheted or knitted belts, purses, jewelry and bath salts as gifts. I found some really good websites for the bath salts and belts.

Our main goal is not to spend a lot of money. We'll only spend for the things we need to make the gifts. I have also signed up with the "Blogger Craft Club".

I think that is a great way for me to stay focused and continue making my gifts, without getting sidetracked. Staying on track with my gifts was one of my New Years Goals.

“What Is A Blog”?

Last week I watched NCIS with my dad. Their suspect was the younger sister of one of the NCIS colleagues. During one of their interrogations the girlfriend of the victim was questioned. She explained that the suspect disliked her because the victim used to be the suspect’s boyfriend and now she had him.

She went on to reveal how the suspect had released her anger for the world to see by trash talking her on some “blog”. The interrogator then responded,

Interrogator: What is a blog?
Victims Girlfriend: You know a blog.
Interrogator: No, I don’t know.
Victims Girlfriend: It’s a place where losers waste their time writing about their life and trash talking other people for the world to see.

Later the interrogator asked one of his colleagues “Do you know what a blog is”?

Colleague: Isn’t it something to clog the sink?
Interrogator: No, I mean the blog on the internet.
Colleague: I thought that was what a blog is unless it has another definition.

I found this hilarious. My dad and I thought about my mom and burst out laughing. I don’t think my mom is a loser for blogging because I blog too. Although she spends excessive time reading other blogs and updating her own. I guess it’s one of her “hobbies” if blogging is considered one. Before my mom began blogging I might have answered that question with a similar answer.

It surprises me that with the millions of blogs out there, if you were to walk up to someone and ask them “Do you know what a blog is”? They most likely would have no clue.

Time Does Fly Doesn't It?

THIS SHOULD EXPLAIN EVERYTHING!!!!!!!

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests:
I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check left. My extr a checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke I'd been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The Coke is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need water. I put the Coke on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.
I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.
Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do. At the end of the day: the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter, the flowers don't have enough water, there is still only 1 check in my check book, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day, and I'm really tired. I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail....
Do me a favor. Show this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember who I've showed it to. Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!