fairy name

Your fairy is called Gossamer Moonwitch

She is the moon goddess's messenger.

She lives in spiderwebbed wonderlands and insect grottos.

She is only seen in the enchanted moment between sleep and waking.

She wears tiny black spiders on her dresses. She has beautiful blue butterfly wings.

Get your own fairy name here!

more on character changes...

I almost forgot about a biggie for me: on my journey to find and finally get my hands on Holly Hobbie! (Which wasn't as bad as the journey to get the original Strawberry Shortcake). I won a cross stitch pattern book(let) on eBay a while back now. Funny though I thought I had posted about it here and didn't, anywho.... This is her now. Just not for me. I prefer the original.

care bear where?

Looks as though they have "fixed" a character again! The Care Bears Have had plastic surgery, and I am guessing will have attitudes to match. They did this to Strawberry Shorcake, now the Care Bears. Eee-gads, let's hope they don't touch the Smurfs!

:)

September?

It's September and it's 88F- with the humidity it says it feels like 90F. And the real kicker is that we will have the heat on in a few short weeks.

October

I am looking ahead, into next month as to what October has for Awareness events. It frustrates me that the focus is always just about
breast cancer, when they are so many others to highlight as well. So here's a few other ones to share.
Screening for Mental Health
Down's Syndrome
Lupus with another link to check out as well- blogger.
And for bracelets marking awareness this looks pretty neat.

not so productive

I stitched for many hours last night on the Bookmark Exchange for the Flossmom forum(during yeah Heroes!, and beyond) to come to a conclusion. I just don't like the design. So having found another "back up" design I am going to cut yet another piece of fabric and restart. Later, maybe during Craft Night, I will spend the 3 or so hours frogging the first two starts. Mustn't waste valuable fabric!
So back to the drawing board. Another floss toss... Then start stitching again. But I think I will stick with the grey Monaco I was using.

Hey!

Guess what today means?

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And it's at least 70F, and sunny with beautiful blue skies today. Not your typical weather here in Maine at this time of year.
By now we would normally be wearing jackets!

bad me....

This is what I had for a result just now. Pretty bad. Suppose I should bone up a bit. ;)

my new blog

Well this one is not new, but it sure looks like it! I have cleared out a bunch of things to neaten it up and make me happy. I couldn't find the right green I was after to load through my photobucket to make the background all fancy, so I decided to cheat and go through the regular templates.
My favorite part? The drop down box for the many blogging links.
What do you think?

mental exercise

Now, for a little mental exercise you can Place the States on a US map. Geography is not my thing, and here's the proof!

Quiet, huh?

Looks like I am officially a Sweetheart!

Tomorrow is big time cleaning day. Not really sure what to start with since I was supposed to do my job shadow then. But, in reality it works out because I can clear up things in preparation for our weekly Craft Night. I am making this one completely, 100% kid free! The kids have had to be around at different houses, on and off. This time I want it "stitchers only".
So job shadow Friday morning. As soon as the kids get on the bus I am hopping in the van and heading over to S's school. Wish me luck!

Harry Potter

How cool are these?

Harry Potter crocheted bookmark

Harry Potter crocheted Wizard Scarf

A little this and that

Well I have been on, I swear. We can watch those YouTube videos now! Hello, enough old cartoons and drum solos to last for hours of enjoyment.
I am still sorting out the activation with Roadrunner. And seems that I can't comment on Blogger, it sort of hiccups, but, I can zoom around the internet now!

Let's see, in crafty news, I have done:

A little shopping for my flosskid Poppy. :)

Knitted all the parts for a baby sweater, as of now it isn't assembled. I need a little help from my neighbor Knittykitty.

Knitted, ripped out completely, restarted, ripped out a row, and now pausing the matching baby blanket. Seems I am goofing the purling somehow and I just don't trust myself to try it later at night. Maybe I can squeeze some time during the day. *cough, yeah! Maybe!

I have received the name to send to for the exchange going on at EMS. It's an exchange to start your Christmas stitching. Sounded like fun, especially since I can just buy stuff and send than stitch....

Started cross stitching the piece I wanted to do for the bookmark exchange. I made the mistake of starting it on 14ct aida, and simply put I hate it. So I will still do the same design I had started, just on another piece of fabric. I haven't decided yet which type or color fabric, just that it'll be at least a 28ct piece.
No pics yet, just seem to be eating camera batteries lately.....


Oh and wish me luck. I am job shadowing on Thursday morning. Not a clue what to wear just yet.

explanations

I am not sure who has noticed what, but, I am still wrestling with my internet connection. There are days that I can't access anything. Others when I get halfway through something, then, "Poof!", bumped offline. Then what I try to get right back on it says that the line is busy (yes, it's dial up), and I have to more or less reboot and purge stuff to be able to get back on. And when I am about to head out for this or that , like van appointments, I just can't afford that time to do that.
So if you happen to notice I am not around much, take heart, I am trying!

I have pushed the send out deadline for the Bookmark Exchange to October 13. I couldn't even access flossmoms for a couple days at all and then after that only for a few minutes here or there. So I thought this was only fair to the stitchers.

Hear that?

It's the crickets chirping!

August, in a blur

I was here, I swear. Just not much in an online sense.
And I have no idea where to begin!
The Stich'n Bitch (aka Craft Night) has continued on. This week we are meeting on Thursday night as Knitty Kitty's house. I plan on working on the baby sweater that I started the gauge for last night. Starting the matching blanket would be even better then, meaning that the sweater was already done, but I won't hold my breath. Life always has a way of changing the plans we make. I am not making it for any particular person. I just wanted to make something besides the several dishcloths I have made so far. I thought that making a full sized sweater (*cough, my size) would take a long, long time. So, making a smaller one still gets the process down with making the pieces and then putting them together.
*update on the sweater- the gauge is "close enough" and I have begun the first piece, the back of the sweater. I am also going to learn how to do both sleeves at once I think. *grin.
Our little private road has turned into quite a crew! We have spent many an evening or afternoon with our many neighbors. Cooking out, horseshoes, pool(s), wiffle ball. This year has been the best of them all. The kids were riding their bikes to each others' houses and having games of "Manhunt", wiffleball, kickball, and many more. It was neat to have so much going on. My two would complain about the busyness of the week only to ask on the Saturday, "Can _____ come over? Or can I go see what they are doing?" One day Knitty Kitty and I took 9 kids to Dundee Park. You should have seen the faces on the beach as they saw out huge group walk up. It was great. Hubby and I have other couples to hang out with.
We had our first successful yard sale. By successful I mean we made more than $20 after sitting out all day. This time we set up with two other neighbors. Which draws more people and makes the time pass by so quickly. DH and I took in about $56. And it cleaned out the house a bit. Now we will continue on. Cleaning things out and possibly have another sale. If not, Goodwill and the Salvation Army will make out very well.

Knitting news:
I have knitted up two practice dishcloths.(pink and red)




Then I played with some soft yarn with the same pattern. (in blues)


Then I bought some pretty cotton yarn and made this one. I think I will keep it for myself. I don't use them as dishcloths. Instead I use them as potholders, like for bowls of soup, to protect the table.

I ordered two books for my collection:
Crochet for Dummies
Knitting for Dummies
The crochet one was recommended by a fellow Craft Nighter. Just couldn't beat the price so I got the both.
Another I think on my to-get-in-the-near-future is one called Knitting for Peace. I took it out from the library and think I may "need" it for my collection. Yeah, I usually get things through the library first, then decide from there what I want to keep on hand or not.


~Now for the Van Rant:
I blew a tire Saturday night while in the Subway parking lot. It was about 6:30PM and I had both of the kids with me so they could use their free meal certificates for participating in the Summer Reading Program. Anywho, it blew, and I didn't have the cell phone on me, which I almost always have on me so it was odd. Never changed a tire in my life and as I was starting to tackle it, a passerby stopped and helped me. It wasn't long though before we realized my spare had rusted on the underside of the van! So by about dark I was able to reach DH and have him come down to tackle it. Still stuck. So DH took us home and drove out with a pump to get the tire inflated enough to get home.
Lucky for me, VIP was open on Labor Day. I didn't bother Sunday since I have been fighting this cold for about a week now. So I have a spiffy new rear driver side tire just in time to get down to get the can inspected and have it fail. Why you ask? It needed new tire rod(s) and stuff in the front. Bad, bad van.
Then tomorrow a.m. I have an appointment for the two new tires in the front, now that the original problem is fixed. *Sheesh!
So what does that bring me to? Um, $567 spent at a quick count on the van in under a week.
*sigh
~End Rant~
OH and 5 appointments this week between the van (four) and my dentist appointment. Yeehah!


And for fun, this is the sunflower I started from seed indoors. It's over my head now (which isn't saying much ;) )

SBQ! Oh my!

It has been ages since I answered one of the SBQs. But, I think you all understand. Right?
From mid August:

SBQ suggested by Jennifer and was:

"How did you get started stitching?
Was there a person that inspired you?"
I was taught shortly after I was married by my stepmother. Must have been 1996 or 1997. It was a small kit that I started off with. Too bad I can't recall what it was exactly.
Inspired? Um, not really. I saw what she had done and thought how I'd like to do that.
Sort of like how I got interested in starting to knit. I say "starting to knit" because I was always interested in watching people knit and crochet, I just hadn't been hit with the urge to give it a shot myself. I was at an appointment waiting for what seemed like ages. There was a woman across from me, her fingers flying with knitting needles making a scarf. It was beautiful. I asked her a few things about it. Then maybe 6+ months later I think it was I dove into the knittyland. *smiling