Beautiful Iris!

I am not even sure where I got this iris but I just LOVE it! I think it is the most beautiful one I have ever seen. I never even thought about it till my husband mentioned it but it has the coloring from our wedding. I swear I have to take a picture of it ever year it blooms for me!

This is one of the coolest things I have seen. I guess this is whay you do when you have an ugly tree or a cold tree :-)

THE CONTESTS ARE OVER!!!

WELL WE HAVE 2 WINNERS... THE WINNER OF THE BEAD GUESSING FOR THE BLUE YARN IS........BETTINA WITH A GUESS OF 1397...THERE WERE 1348 BEANS IN MY JAR

AND THE WINNER OF THE NEEDLE CONTEST IS........JOYB WITHAN ON THE NOSE GUESS OF 73! WAY TO GO. sHE GETS THE YARN WITH THE BROWN TONES.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS.

Nature's Beauty

Isn't this a beautiful sunset we got to view the other night?

Christmas Puma & snow dog

I guess my kitty thinks he is a Christmas present...I think he was actually just wanting some sleep away from the dog :-)

And with awaking to about 6" of snow, when Riley went out to go potty he would come back with snowballs in his fur.

WHOO HOO another contest!

Ok Here is another contest to go check out. These are wonderfully made looms....I have 2 of them myself. On this conset they have made a new loom and it needs a name. I tried to add my coment but I would always get an error page, so I am having to go this route...anyhow what I think it should be calles is :The Super Loom" as in Superman & Supergirl and I actually think it could jump a building with a single bound.
Check it out. http://daloomsblog.typepad.com/blog/2008/11/name-the-loom-contest.html

ohhh a contest!

I came across this think from another blogger but sounds interesting. All you have to do is vote which one of these bags of started projects she is going to finish. and then you need to post the link on you blog...so that is what I am doing. Here is her link:
http://www.nauticalknitter.com/

MY ORNAMENTS NOW HAVE THEIR OWN PAGE!

I spent 3 hours this morning make up a new web page for just my ornaments I make from burnt out light bulbs. I was selling them to earn enought to buy a laptop which I had always wanted and since in June I was able to fullfill that wish...I need to set a new goal of what to buy! Maybe a new fancy sewing machine...hmmmm makes my mind wander all over the place :-) Click on the title of this post and it will take you to see my babies I have created. I hope you enjoy the trip.

I got to meet fellow knitter Stephanie!!!

Over the last weekend my husband I went to visit family in Rufus, Oregon and on the way home I made arrangements to meet fellow knitter Stephanie in Hood River. When I called she was just heading out the door but agreed to come meet us in the Wal-Mart parking lot. She had said that her son had joked about "look for the tourist" well little did he know he had the right idea. We moved our car to be close to the front of the store, put up 2 chairs under a tree for shade and waited. We told people were were trying out for to become the new greeters. We had a nice visit (about 1 hour) despite the wind which actually did feel good after the heat of Rufus. I got to show her the purse I am making which she said was so much better in person than the pictures and to top it off I handed her a box, she opened and when she saw what it was...let out a squeal! That made my day!!!! I had brought her an Eeyore Lightbulb Ornament...which she had said was her favorite. Our meeting was the third person from the groups for both of us.

WHOO HOO I earned my laptop!!!!!!

Back in January I posted that I was going to sell my ornaments to earn $$ for a laptop as I wanted one not needed it. Well WHOO HOO last night I was able to get one as the first order I got was for two of each of the ones I make (I have posted pix of 10 but I do now make 11), and then I restored a computer for a neighbor...I was abl be to hang onto the $$ which was a big feat for me and then hubby did some overtime. I am SOOOOOOO excited!!!!!!!!!! I bet you couldn't tell. I can now stop the internet search for one and get back to crafting and genealogy research.

Blogaversary

WOW I have been at blogger for one whole year now and have I ever had fun. I guess I should have celibrated in a more fun way but alas it will have to be in just telling all of you who come see me here :-) I have been trying to pull myself in three diffent directions lately: 1) being on the computer way too much as I have finally gotten high speed internet for about 3 weeks now and been having a ball visiting all the sites I had wanted to see but to painful on dail-up; 2) trying to do more knitting on the looms and my next attempt is a pair of gloves; and 3) trying to gather up pictured and post of the different ornaments I paint out of dead light-bulbs. I am hopeing to earn enough to buy me a laptop...not too fancy of one but still portable. So I hope to get that posting up SOON! Thanks all for visiting and check back later.

it's Yurtle the turtle

I made this turtle in loom class...I think he came out nice. Now I have to make his friends, the ladybug, frog and monkey. You can see the original at this address: http://guppylovesshark.wordpress.com/ I think she does quite well, don't you?

LOOM KNITTED THEME ORNAMENT

Every year I make an ornament for my girlfriend and she sends me one (this year she did make one) but the one I make is out of an old lightbulb...I am making one and will post pix of it when done but then I found a cool one online that I had to tweak just a bit. You can find the original ornament at: http://www.crafts-for-all-seasons.com/knitting-basket-ornament.html And here is my version.

SIAMESE Kitty Quilt

Well I finally got around to making the Siamese Kitty quilt. I had been stock piling the colors of materials for a while and I like how it turned out. I made this for a special friend who likes and has Siamese kitties for real. I hope she likes it. Now that it is done I can get back to knitting and I need to as I have a "Midge" scarf to make for a scarf swap I joined.

candy corn bag

A few days ago I started this candy corn bag but I finally got one panel done but now I have to make another one for the other side. I am going to line it with some candy corn material that I actually already had and turn it into a cute purse.

If you like this you can find the pattern here on Isela's site: http://isela.typepad.com/looming_crafts/2007/10/candy-corn-insp.html

I got sidelined :-(

I have not been doing many crafts with repainting my kitchen, laying laminate flooring. I did get me the neatest cat at of all places a yard sale. His is about two years old, pinkish in color(the research I found calls them beige tabby and I always called the color navy bean...since it is the light pink color of the beans) and he has 6 toes on each foot. They named him Lincoln but I did not like that. I told him he has feet the size of cougars and so that is how PUMA got his name. Here are a couple pix of him including his "Cat-scan"!

Arellis' bracelet

Can you believe that you can actually loom using beads? I really like these very much but it takes a while to sting the beads and then I have not perfected the tie off. I need to make some more to get the practice. You can find the directions to make these at: http://isela.typepad.com/looming_crafts/2007/06/arellis_bracele.html

The first one I made for my love of ladybugs and the secone is sort of a mother's bracelet...sapose to stand for Topaz and opal for the parents and the larger bead is the child, a pearl.

Baby sunflower bonnet

This is a baby bonnet I made and not having anyone to fit it I gave it to my neighbor's newest granddaughter. I just thought it was the cutest thing and was easy.





I also had no one to model it for me so I used a fence post and my dog...isn't he cute!

Felted Rose

Well Brenda at
http://loomlady.blogspot.com/
did it again. I made her felted
rose. I have never worked with
wool which I always thought
was something scratchy and
I had never felted anything
(on purpose). This is really
easy to do and all I have left
to do is the leaves but have
to wait a few days to get to
town. What you will need to
do is make a row of triangles
and then turn to make the rose.

QWACKA directions...FINALLY!

WOW It has been over a month since I have posted anything and finally figured that I had better finish up writting out the directions for this little fella before I don't remember what my directions I wrote as I made him meant. The directions are on the right hand side.

QWACKA

QUACK...QUACK...QUACK...Hello my name is QWACKA and my mama just created me in time for Easter...what ever that is, but she tells me I will fit right in.

WHICH CAME FIRST< THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG?

Well they always ask "which came first the chicken or the egg"? I guess I will have to go with the egg as I made the eggs first :-) This is again a pattern I got from Brenda Myers...isn't she talented? I have a couple more of her patterns I want to try but have not sat down long enough to do any knitting lately. You can find Brenda's site by clicking on the link :http://loomlady.blogspot.com/

I had to make another one and this time she sits on a nest.