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.

Onward

I'm almost done putting the latest batch of Workbaskets onto a duplicate Workbasket list. I've already got some for sale at Etsy but there's a lot more that I've received since then. And I'm trying to abide by Etsy's request not to change a listing after it's been listed to save myself 20 cents. As useful as that site is I can't see how someone would do that to save themselves a couple of bucks but they're everywhere, on all levels of society, either on Wall Street or in the local website, 'gimme, gimme, gimme' with no regard for others.

Ooops, my bad, this is not a political soapbox, I mean it could be since it's my blog but I don't want to do that. As a firm believer in the Law of Attraction I don't want to attract more ills of the Universe by concentrating on the perceived ills around us. Karma will come home to visit those that cause misery to others as a natural course and considering some of the ills these people have caused they are going to have a major bill come due.

So I've finished the Spiderman afghan for the friend's nephew. This is going to be his big Christmas gift and I'm pretty proud of the way it turned out. If I thought I could get the $$$ for the time you have to invest in it I would put it out on my design page as a special order. Actually I should do that anyway. You never know when someone will contact you and absolutely NEED to have one of those. I still get requests for the Space Invaders sweater even though I've done as the lawyers asked and 'ceased and desisted' putting images out on Etsy. As usual, lawyers are not a lot of fun. But it was interesting having been picked up by the viral Internet, was that my fifteen minutes of fame?

More Workbaskets

Hooray! The latest purchase of Workbaskets has just arrived. I'm a bit disappointed in the condition of them. The description said that the seller hadn't been through the magazines to determine completeness and even just looking at them you can tell pages are loose from a page having been torn out. There's one born every minute. Just have to remember not to purchase from that seller again or question her closely on condition if I ever do.

So the magazines are in, out of 56 that I purchased there are 12 that I don't already have. I'm at that stage where the big pieces are complete and now I'm trying to fill in the corners and bits and pieces. Which could get expensive, or I could just reference the other Workbasket indexes out on the web for the years that I still don't have. Most of them are the early years, yeah, big surprise there. But the 90s magazines are in short supply also. Must have been cutting back on the production runs as subscriptions ran out and weren't renewed.

So I'm back to updating the Workbasket Index, take a look and let me know what you think if you're into that kind of thing.

After that I compare the duplicates against my existing library, keeping the nicest one for my reference. Guess I should put a link onto the index page offering my duplicates for sale. There's plenty of good use in these magazines, they are a treasure trove of patterns, ideas and recipes. I've tried some of them and those cooks knew their business. Come to think of it, I have some leftover chicken in the fridge now, wonder what they suggest. Off to do research....