It's that time of year.....

I just finished my first Christmas Stocking for 2009. And it's not even Halloween yet.
Can you tell it was made for Steve? I've added it to my projects list on Ravelry, a pretty cool on-line knitting and crochet networking area, if you have checked it out I recommend it.

It's getting so I have to set the alarm on my watch when I sit down at the computer. Between Facebook, Ravelry, Etsy, blogging and e-mail I can lose half the day and not even notice it. Obviously I'm not the only one afflicted, one of the recent posts I saw on Facebook was the bemoaning of lost time on-line. Think up a way to prevent that and make a fortune.

But I did make the time to go out and take a couple of photos. When the rose bush finally blooms in late October you should get a picture of it.
When I mentioned that the rose bush had finally bloomed I was told by an acquaintance that roses like cool weather and bloom better then. I may have missed something in the translation but I remember turning my air conditioner off in mid-September because the summer here in KC has been so mild this time around. If roses like cooler weather then shouldn't it have been blooming at least once before now? I'm afraid this may be the last hurrah for this rose bush. Hope not, I like the color of the blooms.

Time for Scarves

So I'm packaging up the gray scarf to send off to the Red Scarf Project. And starting on another scarf, this time with a lace pattern. The flash on the camera really washes out the lace pattern but since I was doing this at 2am I couldn't use natural light very easily.


I'm so messed up on my sleeping patterns right now. This menopause thing is continuing it's inevitable course but it's playing hob with my sleep system. Not that I was all that regulized anyway but now it's unreal. I'll sleep for 3, 4 or 5 hours and then I'm up for 14, but I could fall asleep in the chair I sit down in and be down for an hour or two.


Course, considering what some women go through with their hormones out of whack I'll take the sleep disruption until the cycle runs it's course.

That meter is so lying on me...

I have knitted and crocheted and done little jewelry bits too.....I just haven't updated the meter. Guess it's not high on my priority list.

If you want to see what I've been working on, check out the n2 Imaginations Etsy shop. Not as many items in there as I'd would like but I've had other things to do, walking dogs, pet sitting, maintaining the house, etc. But I am proud of the cat hot pad for the kitchen, I think he looks rather handsome.

I'm working on a crochet necklace right now to go with the snoods I've been making and found this really great book as a reference 150 Crochet Trims: Designs for Beautiful Decorative Edgings, from Lacy Borders to Bobbles, Braids, and Fringes
Some really yummy stuff in there. May have to come up with some other projects for some of them. teehee, like I need any more encouragement.