Queen of the Needle

Blind as a bat

Okay, so, one of the things that occurred this summer is that I have officially begun the rapid decline into middle age.  After having perfect vision FOREVER...I now am the proud owner of bi-focals...bifocals that I cannot stand to have on my face.  They literally drive me nuts.  I've decided to make a pretty case to carry my old lady glasses around in.  That way, when they really start to drive me crazy, I can take them off for short periods of time just to give myself a break.

Here's the pattern:

Here are all the fixin's:

I'm just going to take baby steps...Monday night I simply pulled everything together.  Tuesday night my goal is to cut out all of the pieces and do the prep work.  Seriously now...baby steps...I can't do much more than that right now.  Believe me, this is great progress considering the fog I've been in lately. 

Let's see what tomorrow brings...

The Great Pumpkin

So...one thing I focused on this summer was having a small container garden.  I grew up in the country and worked in our fairly large garden with my mom every summer.  Because the soil in my yard is so incredibly awful, I thought it would be best to go the route of containers...gosh...it was a huge success!

I planted 6 tomatoes, 3 cucumber, 3 pumpkin and 6 pepper plants on Memorial Day Weekend...

And...this is just a bit of the bounty I brought in almost every day:

I actually had enough to share with my neighbors several times. 

And...here's what I think I'm most proud of...THE GREAT PUMPKIN:

Next year I'm going to do even more!  So...while there wasn't much in the way of crafting going on inside my house...I was being crafty in another way.

Enjoy!

Time to catch up...

Wow...has it really been 6 months since I've posted to this blog?  (Other than the minor political statement I made earlier today, that is!)  Life just seemed to become too complicated and there just wasn't enough hours.  So...I will not focus on the Blog 360 program for this blog...just focus on jotting down random thoughts and ideas.

It has been a tough summer.  I lost my best buddy in the world...my sweet Felix passed away rather unexpectedly 2 weeks ago.  I have been heart broken.  He was was the sweetest cat...actually, I really did not look on him as a cat.  In some strange way he was my partner, my buddy.  He helped me so much every day and taught me more in the 3 short years I knew him than I think I've learned in a lifetime.  I pray his sweet gentle spirit will stay with me forever.

With that said, I've lost a bit of my creativity of late...depression has a way of zapping me good.  But, I'm forcing myself to at least start thinking about it again.  So...I've actually been contemplating pulling out the old sewing machine and seeing what I can put together.  Of course, that would require me to remember where I've stored it away.  Probably in some God-forsaken closet.  I will get to it, though...today I made the first step of going through all of my old patterns and trying to figure out what I might want to work on first.  We'll see...

And the list of unfinished projects in the knitting and crocheting realm has continued to grow...Lord help me.

Just wanted to let you know that I am still here, alive and kicking...battered a bit and terribly heart broken but I'm still here trying to plod through each day.  I can't promise when I'll post again but I will be back and will not allow it to be a 6 month hiatus.

Have a great week!

Community Organizer...

Yes, Mr. McCain, I will gladly vote for a community organizer before I vote for the Governor of Alaska ANY DAY...