Drum Roll Please!

And the winners for the Contest for a Cause are……….
Christie and Carrie!
Grand prize goes to Christie and runner up is Carrie. Ladies, I will be contacting you privately for your prize selections. Congratulations!

When It Rains, It Pours

This is not turning out to be a good day. I want my nice, boring life back where everything was stable and there weren’t any surprises.
I need to take a few days, possibly a week off from blogging. My boyfriend came home today. He was promised a raise by someone in the corporate office, a [...]

The “C” Word…

Before you run away, before you let it intimidate you, before you judge it as something only little old ladies do, take a look at this…..

Yes, this is crochet. That “C” word. It’s not terribly difficult to do, and it can be quite beautiful in it’s own right. Crochet was my first love many years [...]

The Park

First of all, thank all of you for your sweet comments of support, links for patterns and offers of other help. You are all the best! I really appreciate it but just haven’t had the chance to reply to everyone as of yet. You should hear from me in the next couple of days. Tomorrow [...]

Got the Blues….

I wasn’t going to post today as I am in a down mood. Yet, I have to get this out and I need to ask for a bit of help.
This has been a bit of a rough year for me. Last February I lost a dear friend to complications of pneumonia. She had spina bifida [...]

Bullseye!

Every now and then, there is something that happens that was not intentional. An accident, by definition. Sometimes they are something to be dreaded, and other times, they are a pleasant surprise. Imagine how I felt when I took this……..

and knitted some of it into this!

I did not anticipate the placement of the dyes or [...]

Pet Peeve (that doesn’t involve pets)

It has been said, on more than one occasion, that I am a stubborn, headstrong and opinionated woman. I have never argued these observations, but pointed out that I am also a fairly mellow and relaxed person not given to pursuing perfectionism even if I am a perfectionist. There are however, a few things in [...]