Holiday hiatus......

Thats where I am at the moment.
I am making gifts, ornaments, planning days off and walking the dog:)

I have big plans for a different blog, maybe moving over to Typepad and eventually setting up my ETSY shop.

Until them my mind is mush and I just havent had the words to write on here.

Way to distracted by good and bad things(NO not those things!), blah!!

November SPC challenge week 4

Well lately you can find me in my trusty side kicks........................................ my newest pair of Converse that is!! I just cant be without them. Once you got them to where you want them, all nice and broken in you never want to remove them.

In mad dashes out of the house I just slip them on. They have seen rain, sleet, city streets and country sides.

They hide wear and tear, they are like Timex because they take a licking and keep on ticking(well in their case, walking:)

I will have these sneakers 3 years from now. By then they will be like an old friend. They will be retired and taken out for comfortable wearing when new ones are still getting broken in.

For now they are pretty much the only shoe my foot doesn't complain about!

The following images were in a mirror that was straight across from me while taking a break from a crowded comic book convention last weekend.

I just liked the image and captured it.

"Sneaker reflection"

Patty makes a scarf!!!!!!

I finally made a second one for myself. This is in between making ones as gifts and just taking an all out break from the knitting world. Ive had this yarn for a few weeks now and I really wanted to make myself something with it, I loved the colors which were brown, orange, pink and yellow.

It is just a simple scarf that I added a button to so that it stays put and I also stitched on a few felt stars. I think I will be making more with the sewn on felt, I love how it looks and how it personalizes it even more so.

Next I need to learn how to knit more then just scarves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Latest addictions......

My newest addictions are as follow:
This website and all of the podcasts that are up and yet to come. Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood at Craft Sanity interviews different inspiring crafters and artists alike each week and you are more then welcome to listen to it via browser or download it onto your I-pod. I just recently listened to the podcasts for Amanda Blake from Soule Mama, and Hiedi Kenney of My Paper Crane.
I just couldn't stop listening because they both were extremely interesting and they gave me the itch to keeping knitting and get going with other projects.

I highly recommend this site!!!

And of course the two women mentioned above both have wonderful blogs that I frequent allot as of lately:

My Paper Crane
Soule Mama

Now if they don't get you rev ed up to be creative then what does???

SPC week 3 November

I have so much I really want to post, one of them being my extra fun weekend(that just past) that I had with a friend. I have many a pictures from a really cool old museum that is all about collecting. I don't want to get into details about it on this post because this post is about my SPC challenge week 3 for November. I was contemplating even participating this week and here I am on Wed adding my link.
Its kind of an oldie but goodie. It has to do with a locket my boyfriend bought for me which at the moment is misplaced(I will find it though, mark my words)
It is very special to me, and as soon as it is rediscovered I will wear it every day. So here it is!

"Heart locket"

SPC week 2 November

OK so in the last post I told all of you how I don't wear dresses. Well maybe it was a tiny lie because I dont but yet I found one that I love to wear here and there.

Sometimes I am drawn to wearing this one summer dress that is very light weight and has a retro inspired pattern. Since it was to cold out to wear it how I usually do(over a bathing suit or just with flip flops) I wore it with a yellow thermal, some jeans and a pair of my favorite converse and let me tell you that it was the most comfortable Saturday attire for being lazy.

I am not good at snapping pictures of myself unless its from the chest up because that's all I seem to get in unless I have a timer on. AND me being a klutz can never get back into position properly before it goes off and always wind up falling down in my pictures.

This week I decided to capture the view down and I loved the way it came out. You can see my dress pattern and then a blurry view of my jeans and sneakers, but you get the point of the outfit.

I will call my attempt for week 2 of November's SPC challenge......................

"The view down"

eye candy from Halloween 2007.

Well its alllllllllll over, until next year that is:)
I thought we would have to much candy and it turns out we wouldn't have enough! They get alot



of kids here in the development and I was bombarded by groups of them ever 5 minutes. There were some kids who were just taking candy from the bowl without asking and they may have helped contribute to the loss of much needed candy.

I myself wore simple devil ears and an exaggerated drawn on black curly mustache. I also did all of Julia's makeup(the girl I nanny for) I happen to think that her costume was pretty darn cool, not because I made it up but ya know.



















I made sure I took pictures of my much loved jack o'lanterns before they finally kick the bucket and their all a glow with candles.
































It was a good night.