Giveaway over at Jenni-Mac's!!

Jenni-Mac is having a giveaway of a wonderful cookbook -Williams-Sonoma Thanksgiving Entertaining. It looks to be a wonderful cookbook full of lucious food. Check it out!

Post of the Crochet Kind

Ok.....I have several pics to show you. A couple of my wip's and a couple of fo's. :o)

I am working on a ghan for my son. The pattern is from Pammy Sue's Good & Plenty. Mine is of the blue persuasion. It started out rumpelly but I think that was my fault. I tried to make the foundation chain loose but I guess I did a poor job of it. It's coming along slow but nice. I do at least a couple of rows a night. (I have to divide my hooky wip's up each night for variety)

I made a hat for Kylie's noggin. Actually I had just whipped one up and thought it could be for one of Bella's babies but discovered it fit Nellie Noggin perfect. :o) So it found a home. Whatcha think about Nellie's little smiley friend? I made that for my sister to put in with her birthday card when I sent it, but I changed my mind. I made her a little fishy instead and stupid me didn't get a pic of it before I sent it. Oh well.

And....don't laugh.......well ok, go ahead and laugh....look at the butt on that doll would ya??? I know the pic is bad but that was the best I could do last night. I have made this doll from scratch, no pattern, just me and my hands and trusty little hook and pink kid's yarn. I'm stuck with the legs right now. I'm bummed because one leg is smaller than the other. And I think I know why but I am NOT going to tear it back out. It's for Bella and she won't mind. Until she gets older and notices.....hey....why is that leg bigger than the other???? LOL. But I had a heck of a time from the butt to the legs. It shouldn't have been complicated but it was.

And last but not least.......the purse I made for Jen. I looked for the pattern last night....I must have stuck it somewhere because I couldn't find it. It's called a Flower Burst Bag. The yarn is Bernat worsted. I love the color, it's a dusty purple kinda. That may be the name of the color but I'm not sure. Thank you Yasmin for sharing this lovely pattern. I love it! I may make another one. It was pretty simple to make.

So it's Friday Eve!!! I'm hoping tomorrow is quiet here at work. This week has been a horrible, stressful week for me. I was about ready to lose it this morning but went out to lunch and came back feeling better for having gotten out in the world for a little while. I didn't need to spend the money on lunch but the renewing of my sanity made it worth it.

I hope your day was one of contentment and happiness. Here's to a million just like that! :o)

TTFN

Kat

xoxox

Veteran's Day

I will do two posts today. First and most important is to thank a veteran today. Thank ALL veterans today. We are able to enjoy freedoms that we so often take for granted because of our military, our veterans, from all of the branches. They and their families sacrifice so much for the rest of us. Some sacrifice their lives.

If you do nothing else today take a moment to think what it would be like, or could be like, if we didn't have these men and women looking out for us. Collectively they do a job that helps keep our country safe from terrorists. Just think how it would be without them. There would be so many 9/11's and our country would be in chaos. I shudder to even think about things like that.

When you see a person in uniform shake their hand and say thank you. Just that simple little gesture means so much to them. It makes what they do seem worthwhile to them. That's not so hard to do is it??? I don't think it is.

To all of our service men and women - THANK YOU!! I appreciate you and what you do for our country. You are my heroes!

xoxoxo

Kat

Cold Friday

Brrrrrrr.....it's a tad chilly in GA today. The rains went through yesterday and now it's clear and cold. My heat was definitely on this morning. And it's supposed to be in the low 30's this weekend but I bet out at my place it'll be in the high 20's. And I still haven't brought in my plants yet....I don't know what I'm going to do. It's always colder out in the country than it is in the city. I'm amazed at the flucuation of temp from the city to the country. It's anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees difference.

I have started crocheting on a doll for Bella for Christmas. The head is done and I have stuffed it and moved on down to the shoulders. I had an idea, one of which I hadn't seen done on any of the dolls or amigurumi's. After I did the neck and started graduating out to the shoulders I did 3 sc in one stitch and when I got to the other side (directly across from it) I did another 3 sc in a stitch and just kept going with sc. After 3 or 4 rounds I had this hump on either side that when pushed out from the inside out looked just like regular shoulders! So then to even them out and keep on sc'ing the body, I came off of the shoulder and did a row of hdc over to the other shoulder, crocheted sc around that shoulder until I came back around and then did that row in hdc so that the row around was back even all the way around again. Has anyone done that do you know? I've looked at a lot of patterns and don't recall this happening in any of them. I meant to take a pic of it last night but it got late (7:30) and it was time for bed. But anyways, I crocheted the hdc as tight as I could so that the fill won't show, but I may try my hand at making some clothes for this doll.

That will be a first for me, making doll clothes. I wanted to try to put some breasts on her but I think that may be a bit too much. I think an easy dress will be the order of business as far as clothes go. But I am liking how she's turning out so far, even though she's not even half done.

I have also started (another wip) crocheting a motorcyle. I emailed Gudrun for her pattern and oh man....it's 26 pages, very detailed. Of course I started off with the tires as her pattern starts off and came to realize real quick how hard it is to work with black thread. I should have known because I have a hard time with black yarn too. I can only work on it so long and then I have to put it down because I get a headache squinting, trying to see the stitches. And that's underneath a light with my readers on. (Have I said before how I HATE growing old??) I am determined on this one though and after it's all done this is one project I am not giving away. It's going in my curio cabinet. :o) But check out some of her other stuff. This woman is a talented individual.

Well I guess I will sign off of here for now. Have a wonderful weekend where ever you may be!

TTFN

Kat xoxo

PS/Up top is a bib I made for a friend's grand baby and a little bit of my desk eye candy. I have quite a bit of hooky goodness around my desk area. One of these days I need to take a pic of all my desk eye candy.

Geeze Louise

They're back...phew. All of a sudden, just like when they left, they are back.

I don't know about ya'll but I read all of the blogs I follow and catch up when I've been away for a while. I love each and every one of them and feel like I know a little bit about each person. There are a few that I'm really partial to that I don't like missing at all. Sounds like I need to get a life huh? :o) I have a life, believe me, I just like to get lost from it, from time to time. What better way than to see what others are doing in their little world?

I sometimes feel connected, or disconnected, as the case may be. I feel like I am not the only one out there who feels like they do. It makes me feel better when someone is like me in regards to one thing or another. Then I know I'm not so weird after all! :o) lol....I think we are all weird in our own little ways. Ok then, idiosyncrasies (I had to look that up and I had misspelled it with an i instead of a....I just knew it didn't look right). I love dictionary.com.

So....hooky wise I have been working on little things here and there. I made a purse for my daughter. Sorry I don't have a pic of it but I will do that soon and post it. It turned out really nice, I was surprised. I did follow a pattern. And don't you know that I tried to cheat and leave a row out and it came back to bite me in the butt crocheting the handles on it. And I knew right away what the deal was, why it wasn't right. GRRRRRR....I was mad with myself.

I am trying to design my own purse but guess what? It's not coming out like I had imagined. So I don't know what I'm going to do. I put it down for the time being. And the thing is that I actually had written each row down as I went. Figures huh? I have like 15 rows done on it.

Pammy Sue (Scotty's Place) has me intrigued on a blanket she is doing that is supposed to be quick and easy. I'm anxiously awaiting her pattern on that so I can bust out some of my stash. I was thinking I have way too much and need to get rid of some. What better way than to make a blankie? My blue/purple/green tub is overflowing with color. I cannot fit another skein in there.

Yea, I have tubs color coded. Like I said, I have a blue/purple/green tub with all shades of each. I have a red/pink/orange/yellow tub, a white, cream, brown, black tub, a variegated tub, a thread tub, a cotton tub and last but not least a softee tub. That's all my softee yarns. The bottom of my closet is filled with yarn tubs. Yea, I'm a yarn ho........so??? lol

Anyways, I better get to doing something here......what I don't know cuz I'm all caught up. I do want to say one thing..........GO VOTE! Heaven knows we need to try to pick someone who will do US in the US some good. I'm really tired of all these crooked politicians who only care about themselves and not the people who put them where they are. Don't they realize that when we are taken care of that they in turn will to be taken care of?? It's really not that hard is it? I don't want to get on a tangent here but geeze Louise, all this money they raised for all of the negative ads they put on tv and radio and roadside to torture us with.........why can't they put that money to GOOD use and put people back to work, pay down our deficit, pay our troops better wages for the sacrifices they and their families make........on and on and on. I don't know about you but I'm damn sick and tired of listening to their crap about this one and that one. They are ALL CROOKED!! Every last one of them. They all have the wherewithall to fix our country and put people back to work. Why can't they JUST DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

K.....I am off my soapbox now. I hope you have had a great day and that your evening will be better, filled with love and laughter.

TTFN

Kat xoxo

PS/I kinda stole that pic....well not really......he sent it to me a long time ago but we aren't friends anymore. But that's why you see the big c in the circle. I still love the pic...he absolutely knows his way around a camera now. The pic is one of serenity.

Screaming at the TOP of my lungs

Not really but......Ok....I don't know what's up but all of the blogs I follow are missing in my dashboard. What's up with that??? I filled out a form. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon.

I found it when I went to add one. :o(

A Give Away!

Check out April Cottage Ramblings. She has her anniversary give away going on!

I need to check my anniversary, I didn't really pay attention to when I started in the blogging world. It's funny too because I had heard about blogging a long time ago, when it first became popular. And it didn't even interest me at that time. Now look at me. Although I don't blog every day, I do my best. It's just that some days are so busy I don't have time.

The pics above are some I took at work. I carry my camera in my purse, you never know when you'll come upon a situation that you can get a beautiful pic.

I stalked a heron one morning. You can barely see his head in the one pic, it blends in with the water. And check out those mushrooms will you? I took a bunch of pics of them but didn't want to inundate you with them. In the one pic it looks like something was munching on them huh? Or maybe that's just the way they grew?? Shrooms are pretty weird fungi. They come in all shapes, sizes and colors. I had some in the spring that came up that were yellow and looked like little penis' in the pot!! I kid you not. I'll have to look and see if I can find the pics I took. I was astounded at them when I saw them.

I just tried to find the pics, I must not have labeled them as such so I'll have to browse my puter at a later time to find them.

Anyways...I hope your weekend was wonderful and that your week ahead will be good as well.

TTFN

Kat

xoxox