finished green fuzzy thing

Well, between working, t-ball, coach pitch, ballet, sleep, and life, I somehow finished another project! My green fuzzy thing. There is a picture of the pattern in the book and the finished product.

AND... I got my Annies Attic order today! YIPEE. I got my set of three crochet on a roll hooks, Top Technique & Special Stitch Afghans, and Baby Christening Sets. Then I went shopping and found Total Crochet Fashions at Wal-mart of all places for $15! And then off to Walden Books where I found the popular Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker (<-- Video interview with author Debbie Stoller). Next project? I bought the thread to make the christening gown. It'll be my first attempt at filet but not my first christening gown. I made one a few years ago and it turned out wonderful but took for-ev-er. My mother-in-law has it, I need to get some pictures. This should keep me busy on my trip to vegas! ONLY 2 MORE WEEKS!

Happy Mothers Day!

To all of the wonderful mothers in my life, my own mother, my mother-in-law, my sisters, my friends, my family, and all other mothers that I have had the privilage to know. I love you all.

<--My mother and a coco loco! San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico

I never realized that I don't have any pictures with my 3 children and myself. I guess I'm always the one behind the camera.

WHAT THE HELL???

You know what? People are ASSES! Pardon my language but I just received about 30 emails to my account from the infamous "mailer daemon" that I'm sending out SPAM??? REALLY? That's news to me. Some jerk with a web crawler (thank my husband that I even know the term) picked up my address and decided to use it to send their junk. I am soooooo on an anti-people kick right now for several reasons and this just adds to my belief that we HAVE to stop over populating our planet with stupid, malicious, and just plain mean people. I mean really, what happened to natural selection? Darwin had it right except the fact that our species encourages stupidity. We bitch and bitch about Illegal aliens "taking our jobs" when if you look at corporate America and you realize that we don't need them to take our jobs, we're sending the jobs to them! Shit, they don't even need to leave their own country any more to have our jobs. Outsourcing? Who's brilliant idea was that? GAS PRICES... OOHHH MY GOD... GAS PRICES. Idaho has has the nation lows on gas prices, for that I feel a little lucky. I work for a major fuel company as low man on the totem poll and do you realize that their stocks DOUBLED last year. DOUBLED!!! Do you know where that money goes??? It sure as hell doesn't trickle down the ladder. nope... it stays right at the top while the base line employees, the ones who deal directly with the people buying their product, get screwed. Little by little they take things away. When I started 10 years ago we got little things, stock options, christmas party, decent benefits, a little bonus hear and there, free meal on shift, if you didn't take benefits you got 60% flex dollars, so on so forth. Now? NOTHING but a paycheck and shitty benefits. We don't even get a turkey for Thanksgiving any more. And they want to micro-manage. They give you less and less and want you to work more and more. The bosses come in and they tell you what you want to hear but eveybody knows they are sitting in their cushy little corporate offices and writing all these "rules" that are sooooo unrealistic. What happend to working your way up the ladder?

WOW, I feel somewhat better. A little. Maybe if I wasn't working so much I could actually do some crocheting to write about huh?

Famous pinup? ME?

You are Bettie Page

Girl next door with a wild streak You're a famous beauty - with unique look And the people like you are cultish about it

What Famous Pinup Are You?

HAHA, that makes my husband proud!!! Now if I could just get him to pay for the boobs!

Thanx for the idea Karen!

story with pictures

AAUUUUGGGGGGG!!!!!! So here I am, still in my sweats and tank top (or wife beaters, as they are called) and I decide I'm to lazy to actually crochet a pocket for my diaper bag. WAIT A SEC... I have a square piece that I intented to use as a wash cloth that would be PERFECT!!! okokok, I need a yarn needle...... I look... HERE

This is MY corner that also tends to accumulate things from every other member of the family. As I'm tearing things out (I know I have at least 5 yarn needles) I keep running into things I forgot I had... look at those cool beaded purse handles there on top under the round looms. Speaking of the knitting looms, each of my kids has a project going and they keep getting stuffed and tangled in MY UFO's! How rude!

You know? I think I need to organize my scrap yarn, it seems to be growing together into one large ball of...well...yarn.... HEY, is that ANOTHER unfinished project? Forgot about that one.

Don't scream in horror... please... no... really, Maybe I'll just buy ANOTHER set of drawers! yeah, that's it. Maybe. Use the yarn? Possibly. But, remember that pretty green fuzzy two ply stuff I bought?

Gotta use this first, I only bought 6. ;-P

something in the water

Is it just me or does everybody you know get pregnant at the same time??? My poor parents have 4 grandkids turning 2 this year... yes... 4. One of them is mine. It was very evenly distributed, 2 girls two boys. It makes for interesting get togethers.

Now we're having ANOTHER baby spurt... NOT ME!!! YAY!!! 3 of my friends are pregnant. SOOOOOO, what do you get them? Well, I look in my big bag of goodies and find I only have one blanked all crocheted up, gonna have to make some more. I bought some Peaches & Cream 4ply cotton yarn, (love the stuff) to make some wash cloths and small diaper bags that I'll fill with some store bought lotions and stuff. I'm almost done with one set, I'll finish them up today or tomarrow and take some pix.

I also bought some super soft and fuzzyish green 2 ply... stuff. Have to figure out what to do with it now. Maybe I'll take it with me to Vegas and actually take the time to finish a little something for myself.

What do you do with your finished projects? Most of the time I just start something with nothing in mind for it and end up giving it away as a just-because gift.