just my yarn

don't look back

2007-02-19T06:09:00.000-08:00

i have this new blog- they made me switch to the new version and i did- the email said that the switch was successful...but alas on the dashboard, there was nothing. it is a miracle that i could even get back on to this one to tell you that after countless frustrating hours, i just started a new blog- so go here and see my new and not necessarily improved blog.
don't look back...

scrap a rama

2007-02-08T11:46:00.000-08:00

so, here's the next thing you all need to buy- a punch that makes a 1.5" square- the greatest! punch out an assortment of valentine-y papers and glue the squares on a 12x12 sheet of paper-it looks good if you leave some of the bkgd. paper showing- cut the 12x12 down into atcs and voila! a fab background-easy as 1-2-3.

teen fun!

2007-02-04T05:00:00.000-08:00

like soup and sandwich...

2007-01-29T18:08:00.000-08:00

this work of art (!) just fell into my hands- an old photo and a piece of type from "For 2cents Plain" by Harry Golden.

part of the treasure trove.

2007-01-28T17:28:00.000-08:00

lookie, lookie- my mother sent me these photos and a ton of others- also, i got what is no doubt the only original left of my great-grandparent's wedding invitation- they got hitched in 1910-i'm in heaven...

ooh la la~

2007-01-28T17:04:00.000-08:00

52 ain't so bad.

weird times six~

2007-01-26T18:11:00.000-08:00

i've been tagged by the queen for a day- see link to the right- not sure how much of this weirdness i want to put out there for all the world to see- but here are some of the more tame weird things
1. i have very odd toes. not just ugly, but as my mother would say, "we can tell you were descended from the apes." i have a very large space in between my big toe and my second toe, i am double jointed in my big toes and can flip matchbooks off my big toes (this could be a really great stupid human trick), all of my toes bend backwards and touch the top of my foot and if that isn't gross enough, i can put my baby toe on top of my fourth toe just by thinking about it-
2. i love tote bags and shopping bags and purses. i must have 100 of them and i can't stop buying them. (actually, ditto for office supplies, crafting stuff, jewelry, books...)
3. i have been told that this is weird- but to me cottage cheese, ketchup and corn mixed together are divine.
4. i used to HATE cats. absolutely HATE-now i let my own cat sleep in my personal space in the bed while my legs are all folded and crippled up so that i don't waken the little darling from his slumber.
5. when i was in 6th or 7th grade i was a nixon girl at a republican rally. the father of one of my friends was a big republican back then and he asked molly to round up some pals to greet the candidate-i actually bumped right into tricky dick while he was coming down the aisle of the convention center.
6. i love people magazine and sappy movies. just pop in a tom hanks and meg ryan-anything with a happy ending video and i am in heaven- throw in a people mag to read while the movie is playing (no need to pay attention, since i've already seen them all about 25 times) and that would be utter heaven.
angelica, how about you?

just in case you were wondering-

2007-01-25T13:26:00.000-08:00

the arrow is pointing to the area of my kitchen floor that squeaks- a squeak indicates that there is a weak spot in the floor- this could be where the lowlife last owners of this home tried to fix the squeak and banged multiple nails into nothing rather than the floor joist which i had an opportunity to view from the basement this morning-hence, i have no new kitchen floor because they won't install it because it may crack the tile where the floor "gives"- so this is why i never do anything to my home- we all know that it is never simple-one thing always leads to another and another and another-just in case you were wondering-

(way cool)

2007-01-23T04:53:00.000-08:00

a few things that are mega-cool-(in my humble estimation)
this flap hat that i made for the daughter
this mug
and that everyone who put their names in the pot (see prior post) gets something from my stash (be a little patient, i'll try to make the goodie bags on thursday or friday when i'm home)

use up your stash-

2007-01-20T06:01:00.000-08:00

so- i have this whole stash of greeting cards, a whole stash of cabinet cards and charms and yarn and you know- just like the rest of you, i have more crapola in this kave than i could possibly use in a normal lifetime. you just never know what is going to happen- make all the fab plans you care to, but we all know that anything can happen at any moment. so i'm gonna use up all my stuff- no more of this saving it for best, or tomorrow-no more copying things to save the original- i already know that if i go first, my kids are going to either ditch everything outright or have the world's greatest garage sale...so leave me a note and you'll get put in a hat for a really great prize- from my stash. and just for the heck of it- throw some paint on an original today!

unbelievable joy~

2007-01-13T15:00:00.000-08:00

2 things i made in honor of the safe and miraculous return of ben ownby and shawn hornbeck. simply incredible.

please...

2007-01-11T04:54:00.000-08:00

just when you think it couldn't get any worse...we're talkin' worse than knitting with red heart yarn in a color not found in nature-go wghs! just when you think it couldn't get any worse- worse than going out to eat and having young children at the table next to you- way worse than all of that is when you find out that adults (or at least adults chronologically) can be the most poorly behaved of all... is it the cell phone thing, the blue tooth thing, that makes us live in a boundary-less society? How can two adults sit out in the open at Border's and conduct a full-on break up- complete with the f-word? I don't get that- not to mention I could barely concentrate on my Red Heart knitting because I was sitting (as the bf rightly pointed out) 2 feet away from them. Please, if you are going to break up in public for all the world to see and hear, please at least take it outside.

answered prayer.

2007-01-07T17:31:00.000-08:00

you know what i always say-"whining pays." who remembers me dreaming of a treeskirt for my poor stunted xmas tree a while back? well, look what miss heidi, queen for a day gifted me with on saturday- all it needs is a slit up the side and a circle cut out and we're ready to celebrate in style. also, get on over to left bank books in the central west end- they still have fab 50% off xmas and chanukah! oh yeah and dig the photo- product of my new photoshop program. major excitement.

thank you sarah~

2007-01-03T19:12:00.000-08:00

look what came in the mail today from my one skein angel...not only is the knitted hat just perfectly beautifully knit in the softest yarn ever, but if you look on page 20 of this book, you will see that sarah designed the hat! thanks for all the goodies- it was well worth the wait.
becky

calling all valentines~

2007-01-02T18:03:00.000-08:00

valentine's day preparations are already in full swing here. i red glittered these cheesy muffin tins- and glued in some geegaws. not done yet. but the glittering worked like a charm sharon- thanks! and here are 2 musical angels (!). just thought i would throw that in.

2 daughters.

2006-12-28T07:29:00.000-08:00

babies are cute and cuddly but grown up kids are so fun. i would embarrass myself if i divulged to you how many times i wet my pants this week from laughing, how many times i felt like i would drive off the road from laughing- thanks little girls for making my week a joy. and btw, your SEcreT is safe with me.
love, mom

pure joy~

2006-12-25T08:26:00.000-08:00

my girls- kelly and emily.

the true meaning of christmas~

2006-12-21T04:05:00.000-08:00

who doesn't like a wonderful gift? so here are two gifts that i received from a couple of friends this christmas. more than the felted acorns, the vintage decorations, the handmade fudge, such a fab present i cannot even begin to tell you- but more than all the things was a lovely, sweet handwritten note from lesley that really said it all. and the wrapped package below, well something from judy that i have not even opened yet, cannot bear to open because she let a little girl at the mall wrap it for her for a small donation. this child was so proud of her handiwork and judy's gesture was so sweet (20 minutes later she came back to get the wrapped book) i have to tell you- i am not sure when i'll open it. so thanks lesley and thanks judy for reminding me once again what this is all about.

have yourself a merry little christmas-

2006-12-20T03:28:00.000-08:00

so, little richard at the cubscout lot at the masonic temple assured us that this specimen was the most charliebrown-esque of all. his able bodied cubscout pal in crime even snapped the top barren foot off the tree for us so that it would be 5 rather than 6 feet- at a whoppng $5 a foot, really who would want to pay for a barren branch? so chas in hand, (and btw, richard's mother told us it would only be $20) we went home ready to put up our fab tree. little did we know that this pathetic thing would become even more brownesque- last nite we had to saw off another foot in order to get it into the stand! on top off which it lost about a quarter of the needles as we schlepped it from the indoors back out to saw off another portion of the trunk. so here he is in all his glory- and the bonus is- it only took kelly about 3 minutes to wrap the lights around this prize winner. one of these days i'm going to invest in a tree skirt- the beach towel definitely detracts, doncha think?

beef of the moment-

2006-12-17T05:36:00.000-08:00

anyone who knows me ( and lucky you are) probably knows by now that i always have a beef with something- don't ask me where i got this self-righteous sense, but at my age, i'm thinking this is here to stay...at any rate, i have to say- just because it is small does not make it a stocking stuffer! in my (i guess) miserly world, a stocking stuffer is like dollar store crapola or a chapstick-not a $35 eyeshadow trio or a $15 dollar multi-bit screwdriver. once you get past the $5 range or so, it is a bona fide wrappable gift. so, this is my holiday message to all you folks out there in retail land who make a living trying to convince us that we need more, more and much, much more- just because it's small, little, miniature, minute, tiny, petite, wee, undersized or even infinitesimal...

it's beginning to look a lot like chanukah~

2006-12-14T04:13:00.000-08:00

gingerbread jewess struts her stuff.

2006-12-12T04:58:00.000-08:00

thanks heidi- for a fab get together. i'm adding this new found talent to my resume!

a little something for mother-

2006-12-10T05:53:00.000-08:00

her birthday is dec.14-shhhh.

this keeps me outta the mall-

2006-12-09T21:22:00.000-08:00

oy.

2006-12-09T08:24:00.000-08:00