tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35457906540454228752024-03-21T00:52:19.872-05:00dmnh's creative endeavorsLive. Love. Laugh. Make a little magic while you're here.
You will find a lot of rambling stories, art and a lot of pictures. Enjoy!Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06121998319968124939noreply@blogger.comBlogger564125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545790654045422875.post-82290210394544755672018-04-02T02:36:00.001-05:002018-04-02T02:36:45.161-05:00back in the saddle<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello Readers! </div>
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Long time no see! If my hands will hold out typing long enough without giving out on me, we'll remedy that no see business. I've a lot to show you today.</div>
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None of it will be in order and I'm sure I'll leave a few things out. </div>
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At any rate, let's get with it!</div>
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I don't know that I have a lot to show today despite the fact there are a ton of photographs...</div>
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go figure....</div>
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Let's get on with it and I'll give the show and tell today!</div>
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I had to go to Alma, Nebraska to a dr.'s appointment late in November. I missed that appointment by a couple of hours and there were folks that were not happy with me at that time. That's all straightened out though and no one is unhappy with me at this time. While in Alma, Ma and I went to the thrift store there. I spent about $12. Can't remember exactly what I bought but among the loot brought home were a boatload of seed beads in various colors that I dropped $6 on at the the thrift store. I put some of them to work adorning bracelets. Bracelets and more bracelets. And then a few more thrown in for good measure.</div>
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Seed beads weren't the only beads available to me for making bracelets. Not too long ago, few months maybe, I bought a pound of glass ebeads in an array of colors. </div>
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Trust me when I say, I am flush with beads!</div>
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The purple one is a zodiac print on heavy cotton with glass ebeads wired to the form.</div>
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This one is sparkly pink tulle wrapped with pale pink satin ribbon and gold braid. I didn't think this one needed any beads.</div>
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This one is wrapped with print silk fabric from a shirt and wrapped with ebeads and copper wire that came out of a washing machine.</div>
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This one is exactly the same as the last one with the exceptions it has more beads and the wire work is a bit more fancy.</div>
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This one is satin fabric from a coat lining wrapped with embroidery thread and blue bells sewn on.</div>
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This one is cream colored woven fabric from that coat where the satin came from with ebeads sewn on in a random pattern.</div>
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This one is the silk shirt with floral wire and ebeads.</div>
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This one is cream colored fleece with orange acrylic yarn wrapped and purple shades of seed beads sewn on.</div>
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This one is the satin fabric with seed beads, ebeads and bugle beads sewn on.</div>
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This one is seed beads sewn to cream colored satin in a pattern around the outer edge.</div>
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Terrible picture but this is what it looks like close up....all wonky like! </div>
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This one is again the silk fabric with copper wire and ebeads wired on all willy nilly.</div>
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This one is cream colored linen from a pair of pants with plastic perler beads sewn on. </div>
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I got a lot of use out of some of that silk shirt and that copper wire. I still have tons of that shirt fabric and miles of that copper wire!</div>
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This one is black t shirt fabric wrapped with copper wire and ball chain. I like this one the best of them all.</div>
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Heavy cotton material with ebeads wrapped with floral wire. </div>
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When I got my car in July of 16, there was a blanket bag full of fabric in the trunk. This purple zodiac print came from that bag.<br />I need a sewing machine.</div>
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This one is black t shirt fabric with ebeads and floral wire wrapping. </div>
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If you want to make your own bracelet...or a boatload of bracelets...here's how it's done.</div>
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You'll need a thick piece of wire or a cable tie. You'll want to wrap it in masking tape or something similar so it will keep its shape somewhat. How do you know if it is the right size? If it fits your wrist, it's the right size.</div>
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Then you want to take some 1-2 inch wide strips of fabric, any old fabric will do....and wrap that bracelet till you think it has enough fabric on it. Then either sew things to it, wire things or whatever you want to do to it. And you'll have yourself a bracelet. </div>
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And of course, beings I'm stuck in my chair more often than not...I've done a bit of crocheting as well.</div>
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Bag made with macrame cord and crochet cotton. Handle was crocheted into a spiral rope with crochet cotton thread.</div>
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This one is made with acrylic yarn.</div>
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This is the bag shown in the last post before I completed it.</div>
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It has a lot going on. The main parts of the bag are crocheted with acrylic yarn. Nothing special. The round pocket on the front is lined with sweater material. </div>
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Behind the fabric beads is lined with gray fleece from a sweat shirt. I dragged the big plastic button out of my button jar.</div>
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There's a fish on the long side pocket that I embroidered on felt back in September. It is sewn to the pocket of the bag.</div>
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I made crochet cotton tassels with white pony beads to go along the bottom edge of the bag. There's a bit of crocheting in black crochet cotton along the edge as well. The fish emblems are crocheted from acrylic yarn and crocheted to the edging. Each fish has a short length of silver chain attached just to give it some movement.</div>
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The handle or strap of the bag is made from a white belt that I embroidered stripes onto and then crocheted to the top of the bag with some black nylon cording. It's a sturdy and hefty bag. Everyone who has seen has commented favorably on it. It will go to the gift shop at the Art Center in Lucas.</div>
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This one isn't anything special really. Crocheted with some skinny nubby yarn in an ombre pattern of sorts. There really wasn't a pattern. All of these bags come out of my head. I make it all up as I go.</div>
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I braided the handle of the ombre bag and used two d rings to attach it to the bag.</div>
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Seems to me I made more bags than this in November...I know there is at least one more finished bag and 2 more in the works still.</div>
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There's one of those unfinished bags beneath this crocheted hair net for my sister who is a lunch lady. It's an experiment. I've never made a hair net before. I'm waiting on a package in the mail that contains a long elastic string needed to finish this experiment.</div>
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It is made from stretchy sock yarn I picked up at Hobby Lobby on the clearance wall for $1.79 some time back.</div>
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I've been working on some paper mache projects.</div>
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This little white truck with blue windows is no where near done. It will have wheels that actually turn as soon as I figure out how to do the axle for them. It's just a cardboard box built out of chipboard from other cardboard boxes all taped together with masking tape. I can't even really call this paper mache. I didn't put any layers of paper on it. I will get back to it eventually.</div>
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At the moment I am working on Benjamin J. Hohrner, World Traveler-Seeker of Knowledge.</div>
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I didn't start taking pictures until he was already taking human form. Humanish form. He started out life as an empty coffee creamer bottle minus its lid. I jammed a 2 inch styrofoam ball onto the neck of the bottle, put four holes in the bottle to accommodate his arms and legs and covered everything with masking tape. His arms and legs are pipe cleaners fattened up with layers of scrap fabric. </div>
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His nose is hard to explain so I won't. It grows from here anyway. His hands are going to change a lot from here as well.</div>
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His club hands are now gone. I cut them off. Snip with the scissors I went and he was handless for a few moments. I built him some new ones with masking tape and fabric scraps. I also bulked up his limbs and feet and crocheted him a jaunty orange fedora. He will not stand on his own yet. This is his backside.</div>
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As I said. His nose grew. REALLY grew! He has eyes now. You can't see them at the moment but you'll get to see them soon.</div>
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He doesn't need a mouth. This will be explained shortly.</div>
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His legs were a little weak so I made them sturdier with a bamboo skewer up the backside of each leg. Helped tremendously!</div>
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Time for some clothes for old Benny Boy. He can't be running amock in his birthday suit.</div>
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He's a little long in the waist, I fear, but onward I plunged nonetheless. His shirt is a sleeve from a woman's lightweight t shirt. His pants are black velvet with burgundy roses printed on it. The roses are on the inside of his pants. They're just black. I wish I had gotten a good picture of his boots but I didn't this time. They are doll shoes with little black laces. They look like combat boots. Those little boots have been hanging from the ceiling in my deskroom for the last 12-13 years, just waiting to be put to use other than hanging around. </div>
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I really wanted to make his hair and beard from real fur. I have a mink collar around here some freaking where! But as is the usual....I can't find things when I want them. I looked. But did not find the mink collar. Instead I came across a huge fake fur coat in my closet that I've never worn. Benny got some hair and beard! He has a rubber band around his mustache to hold it on while the glue dries. Poor old guy had rubbers around his head several times! </div>
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His eyes can see you now. I removed the masking tape from them and gave them some definition. </div>
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Notice also, his arms are mighty short! We're gonna do some surgery.</div>
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Benny got new forearms and hands. I had to give him the illusion of an undershirt cause now his shirt sleeves were too short. </div>
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I crocheted him a messenger bag and sewed him a backpack.</div>
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These are his new hands. The one on the right is how the hands came. I shaved off the red fingernails and the warts on both hands before covering them with masking tape and attaching them to the arms. I had to trim his old hands but I kept them on for length. Now his arms are much more proportioned. His legs are always gonna be short unfortunately.</div>
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I added a couple more rounds to the brim of his hat before putting a shiny silver woven ribbon hat band on. There's a tiny gold buckle on the other side of his hat band. The crossed keys hat pin is an actual hat pin. Benny holds the keys to the universe. There are two keys: one to open minds and one to open hearts. There's a master key somewhere but Benny misplaced it on his travels.</div>
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His backpack was easy to make once I figured out the straps. There's a little glass cross sewn to the corner of his backpack. Everyone should travel with Jesus.</div>
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On his messenger bag is a little stone powder horn with a copper chain. It was once a pendant on a necklace. Benny has a necklace too. His is a wire wrapped stone marble hanging from a ball chain. There will be a cloth drawstring bag hanging from that ball chain as well. The bag will hang from a ring up higher on the chain.</div>
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Hanging from his back pack on this side is a length of chain and a gold carrot charm. There might be a few more things hung from that chain. Not sure yet.</div>
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His hat has, since this picture was taken, evolved some. I took a walk around the front of the house on the hunt for a proper stick and some chicken feathers this morning. Those are tiny wren feathers in his hat in this picture. There are three chicken feathers with them as I type.</div>
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He has a bright blue bed roll atop his backpack now. It's made from a scrap of blue sweater material, tied up with a length of gray leather thong. </div>
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Inside his messenger bag is a handmade sketchbook and his ID card. There will also be a tiny blue pencil, a tiny seashell and some fake coins.</div>
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I found the perfect stick this morning on my jaunt so I had to do surgery on his left hand again. I took the hack saw and sawed off his fingers so I could warp them around the stick so he could hold on to it. It looks a little weird! I'm thinking he needs a bird, a snake, a critter of some sort to sit on that hand to hide it a bit. </div>
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I'm working on his ukelele that will be slung over his shoulder. It's made from a cardboard box, some chipboard, embroidery thread, tiny eye screws, glue, balsa wood, leather and tape. We'll see how that works out when I get it strung.</div>
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Thanks for hanging in there to the end! </div>
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How the heck did it get to be November already? Seems like yesterday it was just January....</div>
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At any rate, I'm back again with more projects to show and a bit of rambling on like usual.</div>
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I showed you all the fabric beads in this bag in the last post. The bag is crocheted with eyelash yarn. I didn't, but should have, lined the bag. At least lined the part behind the beads. I may still do that. I'm not totally in love with this bag but I'm not the one who should be saying whether it is any thing of beauty or not. It was fun to make and to me, that's the most important part of it. If it isn't fun in the making, I don't usually get it completed. That goes for just about anything I make.</div>
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This bag isn't quite finished yet. The white belt laying atop it will become its handle/strap eventually. I used some more of the fabric beads on this colorful bag but I lined the bag only behind the beads. The round medallion on front of the bag is a lined pocket. You'll see this bag again once I've embroidered on the belt and attached it to the bag. It doesn't look like much at the moment.</div>
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This bag is made from the seams of a few different garments I destroyed to use the fabric for other projects. It is crocheted with three different colors of crochet cotton in the coil method of making baskets. In other words it is one long coil formed into the bag by crocheting instead of sewing as one would do to make a basket if one were following the rules of coil basket making. I've never really followed rules in crafting. I just make it up as I go!</div>
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Garments destroyed included a leather jacket, a soft pink acrylic sweater, a velvet jacket, and a couple of cotton shirts. </div>
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This bag is rather large and would make a great market bag. I gave it long handles made from poly rope covered in the pink sweater material. I first haphazardly sewed the fabric to the rope and then wrapped black crochet cotton around the length of the handles before crocheting them to the bag with black tshirt material.</div>
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This is a much smaller bag made from the same technique and materials as the previous bag. I made the handles from the poly rope but wrapped the sweater material around them instead of sewing it like in the last bag, making the handles much thicker. I'm not crazy about this one either but it is what it is. </div>
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This bag is made from a grey sweat shirt material and a fuzzy white sweater material. The leaf was already embroidered on the sweat shirt before I destroyed it. This one has lined bottom piece made from corrugated plastic. I braided the handle out of the gray sweat shirt material. It is all hand sewn, no machine involved. Though I really do want a sewing machine and some day I may just get that wish granted.</div>
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I made a book a few days. I forget what kind of box I used as the cover. I'm thinking it was a mac and cheese box, but I'm uncertain. At any rate, the cover is covered with died paper towels.. I got a new set of Dr. P.H. Martin's inks some time ago, like a couple years. I played with those inks shortly after I got them and dyed a bunch of paper towels. This is the first project I used any of those paper towels in. The book is about 7x4 inches or so. I didn't measure, just eyeballed that measurement.</div>
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It has four signatures of 12 papers each of different kinds of paper. It's a junk journal more or less. I sewed it with bright orange friendship bracelet thread in the pamphlet stitch. </div>
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Here's a sneak peek at the bird and nest that will end up on a light pole in Lucas, Kansas. I will deliver the little guy sometime next week probably. The nest is crocheted poly twine. The bird is a conglomeration of a kid's rubber ball, a lot of polyrope, some bottle caps, a couple of googly eyes, an aluminum can, some chipboard, some aluminum foil tape and a boatload of E6000 to keep it all together. There's also a bit of sewing thread and a whole bunch of plastic grocery sacks to fill the ball to keep it solid and round. I cut a hole in bottom of the ball before transforming it into this silly thing. After the bird came to life, so to speak, I put the plug back in the bottom of the ball after filling it with grocery sacks. You can't tell too well, but the bird has wings as well.</div>
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I was asked to draw a chicken on this big chalkboard. The chicken is about 20x20 inches...didn't measure this one either...I drew it in chalk pastels. I realize his head is a bit flat. He's a flat head chicken. Least that's what I call him. I could have probably fixed the rooster's head but my sister-in-law loved him as is. I really need to practice using those chalk pastels!</div>
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Here is the front of the envelope I sent to my EAU partner for October. I didn't even put October and Halloween together until I was done with this envie!</div>
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I'm a little slow in the thinking department at times! The fish are drawn with markers first, then details were added with my new nail art pens. Then they were given a coat of dimensional magic. The dots on the background are nail art pens. </div>
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You all have heard of paint pens. Well, these nail art pens work just like the paint pens but they have a much finer tip than any paint pens I've ever seen. I got my nail art pens off ebay. I'd have to go into the other room to make sure, but I think these pens are called I heart nail art pens. They're made by Sally Hansen. They cost about $6 each if you buy them in the store. I got 22 of them for $24 off ebay. </div>
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I was gifted a giant stack of these magnetic school schedules from the past. They measure 4x7 inches. I put some in a pan of hot water and soaked the paper layer off the top of them.</div>
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I then drew some pictures and voila we have decorative magnets!</div>
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The ball point pen bled a lot! Gonna cover this one and start over again.</div>
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I'm working on another bag, some embroidery and still working on the granny squares for the newest blanket. Always something going on here.</div>
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Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06121998319968124939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545790654045422875.post-41698788108995536712017-10-25T04:45:00.000-05:002017-10-25T04:45:49.700-05:00Long Time Coming....<div style="height: 0px; text-align: center;">
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You all know what that means if you are a regular reader....there will be lots of pictures and a lot of rambling on about the pictures and all manner of subjects.<br />
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I have no good excuse for my absence. Life happened. The computer died leaving a dead hole for the blog. I got a new computer in April I do believe. I'd have to go back in my paper diary to see when it was purchased. I may be totally off track here and I had the new computer already the last time I was here? At any rate it has been a fair amount of time since the last visit.<br />
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This is the newest artwork in my world. It was done a few days ago. An ATC done in nail art pen on chipboard. </div>
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I was down visiting my son the whole month of September. While there I got ahold of a nail art pen out of Terah's nail polish stash. I only borrowed it while there. I liked it so well I did a quick search on ebay and found a whole lot of them for a good price. The pens individually cost about 5 dollars each. I got 14 of them for $24 US. They were waiting on me when I got home! They were a good buy. I wish I could tell you the brand name of them. Sally Hansen is the maker but I've no clue what the devil they're called. They work exactly like paint pens. Paint pens generally have a pretty good sized tip. These tips are very fine and make excellent lettering instruments.</div>
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My ATC isn't anything special. I had fun playing with my new toys though.</div>
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While at son's house for all of September, 8 yr old Annie and I made paper mache critters. The beast is one of those critters. He looks exactly the same today as he does in the picture that was taken sometime in the third week of September. I was going to send him through the mail to my weirdy mail partner for September. That plan changed in mid beast. He needs a few more layers of paper and some paint. I intend for that to happen soon.</div>
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A bead making bug bit me since I was last here. I made these from paper tubes, straws and pen barrels cut to length. The straws worked wonderfully but the paper tubes, which I happened to have on hand. worked even better! I went through a phase a few years ago, making paper tubes. I made a few baskets out of a lot of them but there are the first tubes made still hanging around that were too thick to make baskets from. I have hundreds of them. I used three or four of them in this boho bead making trip.</div>
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I used some of these beads on a couple of crocheted bags I haven't taken pictures of yet. You'll get to see them the next post.</div>
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Bracelets lead to beads.</div>
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They are made with a thick wire core, taped together. I put tape all the way around the wire before wrapping with fabric strips. Then strung ebeads on with thin wire while wrapping. You can either sew or glue the end of the fabric strip to keep it in place. I sewed mine.</div>
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The purple bracelet is strips of cotton quilting fabric.</div>
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This one is tshirt material cut into strips.</div>
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I wrapped the wires a little different on this one.</div>
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All in all I have 19 bracelets needing some beads or whatnot to call them finished.</div>
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I've hidden them from the new kitten though. He's a thief! Kittens are wont to do just whatever the hell they want to do. This one is no exception. You will meet him later in the post.</div>
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Bracelets were all made last week.</div>
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Whenever I go visit my son and his gang I have a lot of 'down time'. I made good use of my downtime in Nickerson this trip. </div>
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This one started it off.</div>
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I always take my bag of felt and some embroidery thread with me on these kidnappings because it is a good sewing environment. </div>
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This one ended up on a bag I crocheted while there too.</div>
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This one ended the larger skull phase. I didn't take a close up picture of the third skull. </div>
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I tired of skulls by the fourth day and made this fish. </div>
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The embroidery is done of recycled sweater material as the backing and felt for the pieces of the design. The fish is about 6.5 inches wide. The skulls are comparable in size.</div>
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This is the bag I crocheted. Annie is my model.</div>
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Yes, that is a Christmas tree in background. Yes this was taken in September. Yes that tree has been standing there since Christmas last year. It gets decorated for other occasions on occasion. On this visit it had wedding things in it, including 4 pairs of shoes. </div>
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My children are wierd. What can I say? I taught them well?</div>
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Paper mache was a hot commidity during September. It was Wierdy mail month over at AFA/EAU. The Beast above turned into a fish instead. The fish seemed like it would be an easier sell at the post office when it came time to mail it. So I opted out of the beast and went all fishy on it. </div>
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It swam right through the postal clerk's assesment and made it safely to Washington State from Kansas. The mail clerk even smiled as it he handed it off to his co-worker. </div>
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Fish is made from a cracker box, two styrofoam plates, a bunch of masking tape, newspapers and elmers glue.</div>
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I painted him black and took him with me to my sister's house to paint him and decorate the back. Sis lives in Hutchinson and I am expected to visit as often as possible while down her way. She has nice toys to play with! That pretty greeny gold color was from her stash. As were all the other colors!</div>
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I drew his eye on plain white paper with markers and glued it down to the bump I'd made by layering up circles of chipboard ending with the smallest of three sizes on top.</div>
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The fins are chipboard shapes thickened up with layers of wadded paper taped tightly into shape.</div>
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To make his body, I trimmed off the lip of the styrofoam plates, cut all the trimmings to fit inside the paper plates, stuffed it full of crumpled newspaper to fatten it up a tad and taped it all together nicely incorporating the fins and tail as I taped the plates together. Then it was all covered in couple of layers of newspaper. Three layers, if memory serves me correctly.</div>
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I put a copper ring in his nose end before the layers of paper were applied. A length of wire formed into a ring with ends sticking out to attach to the fish. That way it is strong enough to support the weight of the fish without coming loose.</div>
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The address side of the fish is flowers drawn on plain white paper with markers of various types. I cut them all out separately and glued them to the fish with plain old white glue.</div>
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I've started another blanket. I'm not even sure if you all saw the finished blanket. I entered it in the state fair after I had entered it in the county fair. I got a red ribbon at county and nary a ribbon at all from state. I really didn't expect a ribbon from either fair so my 2nd place at county made me quite happy!</div>
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These are tiny beads made from strips of shredded US Currency. They are addicting little buggers! I've made near 400 of them in the last two weeks. That sounds like a lot of beads. You hear 400 and you think wow that's a stack of beads! No. It isn't. </div>
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I sit here in front of my pc watching Cold Case Files or something similar while rolling the money beads. They really are addicting.</div>
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I had it in my head that I needed a bead rolling machine. I saw a really nice one, that looked like it would work really well. They wanted $25 for it. I talked myself out of it by ordering a parcel of eats from nuts.com instead. I'll stick to rolling beads on a bamboo skewer. It works great and costs nothing. And I like snacks. Especially those roasted jumbo peanuts that should arrive tomorrow.</div>
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Annie and I made birds. These poor dead looking birds need some new legs. I took the wrong wire with me to Annie's house and their legs aren't strong enough to hold the fat things upright. Annie kept three of the four birds she painted. I swiped one of them. It is the black one in the top left corner. She helped with forming the birds but she was of little help when it came time to get all gluey. She liked the taping part though and did help with it.</div>
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My sister's husband is a custodian at the high school. He brought home 16 packages of pastel chalks in fall colors that he found in the dumpster. They are well worn pastels, but with still a lot of life left in them. Each package had 12 different colors in it. Sis gave me half of the stash. I gave Annie 3 packages of my stash. And then we colored on the patio. It rained after we colored. Here is my picture, all wet. I think those drawings will be there for a very long time!</div>
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When I am at my son's house my phone is usually on the charger and I am either watching youtube videos or listening to podcasts while keeping my hands busy and ignoring my son's father in law. It's hard to see in the picture, but I made myself a phone holder out of wire and masking tape to replace the last phone holder I made. It was made of cardboard and a thick rubber band. The wire one is an improvement in design. You can see my string bag there as well. I made about 50 granny squares while there. All string snippets are saved. Until I made boho beads I had no clue what to do with all those little strings! I used some for stuffing in tiny stuffies and some on fish pictures. I put a dent in the string stash after making some beads.</div>
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I entered an ATC swap over at AFA--TTMI Swap to be exact. I made my TTMI into four flowers.</div>
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And again I played with my new nail art pens.</div>
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We had to use the totally tacky mystery item in some way. I also used the book page that came with the TTMI and the inside of the envelope they were sent in also.</div>
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I added some book pages I had laying around too as the single book page I got with the items was not large enough to cover all four ATCs. Sent these off yesterday.</div>
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Here is a much better picture of The Beast. You see how his feet are pretty much white and the body is covered in color? That's a good trick to know to keep track of how many layers of paper you have put down. I sometimes write the number on a layer and cover the number last so I know what layer is next. Using different types of paper for each layer helps to keep track as well. Here I used only newspaper and alternated between black and white print and color. His ears are shaped from chipboard and taped to his head before paper laying happens.</div>
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Along with this beast and the bummed legged birds I also have three paper mache bowls added to the other bowls needing finished. I had a request for the three new bowls. They need stars and a varnish still.</div>
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Here is the paper mache octopus I made back in August. It was entered in the county and state fairs also. It took a blue ribbon at county and red at state. 1st and 2nd </div>
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State Fair was good. I got some ribbons, ate some smoked turkey, hung with my people and had a great time all around! I barely went to the county fair so I don't about how rousing of a time that was. I did OK with my entries in the county fair. </div>
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This isn't what I thought it was when I added it to the download. I thought this was the netting for my pole art in Lucas. It isn't though. It is a crocheted bag with pony beads that still needs its strap finished.</div>
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I will take some pictures tomorrow to get myself caught up with the goings on in the creative department. I have so many irons on the fire right now, I may never get it all figured out.</div>
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The pole art is pretty much finished. Another session of glue with the bird critter and he will be done. The nest netting is already done. has been for better than a week. It looks a lot like the beaded bag in the picture. It's a lot bigger and whiter, but similar. </div>
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I need to do a fitting on the pole out front to make sure no adjustments need made before it gets installed on the pole on Main Street that has my name on it. Well, it doesn't really have my name on it, but it is designated as mine. Will be cool to see it on the pole sharing space with all the other poles with artwork on them on Main Street. </div>
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I promised you a kitten greeting.</div>
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I don't know what possessed me to bring home a terrorist from my kidnapping but bring one home, I did. Meet Gimpy, born sometime early April 2017. He's an ornery critter!</div>
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He's a pretty good kid when he's asleep. He does quite well sitting in my lap while I'm sewing or crocheting. He seldom chases my strings. He goes after my bracelet instead. He likes to sleep in my lap. He has somekind of deformity on his back end. He doesn't walk quite right. He slithers and lurches across the floor in a sideways gait. When he gets going really fast, and he can get up to pretty good speed, he always ends up facing the way he was coming from when he stops abruptly. That rear end swings right around! Doesn't seem to slow the fella down much at all except that he can't go great distances until he has to sit for a minute to get going again. He loves to play. He loves to eat! That cat will eat anything you put in front of him! </div>
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He was an outside kitty at my son's house and I was convinced a coyote would eat him if I didn't bring him home with me. I pissed the old man off when he found out I was taking Gimpy home with me but he got over it soon enough. Annie was a harder sell but she was cool with it. </div>
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Toby gets along well with all the cats.</div>
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He was cool with Gimpy from the time he met him. They slept all the way home from Hays together in the front seat of the car while I drove. They've been buddies ever since.</div>
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Dennis isn't impressed with Gimpy. Dennis is a tad grumpy these days for some reason. Mo keeps beating him up for some reason too. Mo has been beating up everyone in the neighborhood! He beat up my brother's cat Mica, the other day too. I guess Dennis has reasons to be grumpy what with Mo's attitude these days.</div>
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Gimpy already had his name when I got him. I really think he should be called lurch. He sure has a cute little face though! He undoubtedly begging for scraps in this picture. I'm probably not even eating anything but as kitten has to make sure, just in case...</div>
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Whoever can guess which of the people in this picture is my son will get a surprise in the mail. </div>
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They watch...Toby and Lola. They are watching me eat a sandwich. That Lola cat won't even eat human food, but she likes to watch me eat it! Toby will take whatever you're handing out usually. </div>
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Toby and Moses taking up space on my bed when I'm fixing to climb between the sheets. I really don't know what has gotten into Mo to make him want to beat everyone up. Lola is the only one he hasn't beat up that I know of. He didn't wollop the kitten too badly but he did cuff the boy and hissed at him. He hisses at the boy all the time. So does Dennis and Lola. Gimpy does alright though. He's a happy little cat who stays away from the big guys as best he can. He loves playing with the yellow felt fish hanging from the edge of the coffee table. He stole the four unfinished bracelets I had in a basket on work table. He tried to eat the basket after he knocked it on the floor. I retrieved two of the bracelets before he did a number on them and the basket was saved as well. He essentially helped himself to new cat toys disguised as bracelets.</div>
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I had some bug encounters in September besides that bead making one.</div>
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I was sitting in my chair at home, minding my own business with crochet when along comes this grasshopper, hiding from a cat. I really like bugs. They're fascinating creatures. This one did meet his demise at the paws of a cat. Lola to be specific. A good grasshopper is a dead one though. They are destructive pests. Really cool bugs though.</div>
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This little fella, a nymph of some sort, a juvenile beetle, showed up on the glass top picnic table at my son's house. He stuck around for his photo shoot and then crawled away. Cut little bugger, ain't he?</div>
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Then some days later I met up with this preying mantis while filling the cat's water dish outside by the water faucet.</div>
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You'll have to click on this one if you want to see the buzzards flying the blue skies above Stockton, Kansas in late August of 2017. I believe by now they have begun to move to south. It is getting colder and colder at night already. We've had frost warnings two different nights now in the last six days or so. It's chilly this morning (4am). </div>
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I got up around 5am on Saturday morning and had this thing made by 7:30 or so. Basket coil style with acrylic nubby yarn over macrame cord. I wish I would have had a light color of that nubby yarn, but I only had burgundy. The black is just regular 4 ply acrylic yarn. This basket is about 12 inches tall, 8 inches across? I'm guessing on the measurements,</div>
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Another basket made since I was here last. This one is about 8 inches wide, 5 from front to back and maybe 5 inches tall. Again, I'm making an educated guess. This one is crocheted from tulle netting.</div>
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Medium size bag crocheted from three different yarns. It's about 15 inches from the top of the handles to the bottom of the bag, 9 inches wide or so. I am not real crazy about this one. I am glad that fluffy pastel variegated yarn is gone now. this bag is extremely soft to the touch...</div>
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Medium sized bag crocheted from tulle netting. This one is about 12 inches from top of handle to bottom of bag, 8 inches wide? I'm itching to drag out the rest of the tulle and make another basket out of this stuff. I have other things to complete before I can do that though.</div>
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I finally finished this little cotton thread bag. I started this one back in April when I was last at my son's house. It is 6 inches x 5 inches. The handle is crocheted and sewn to the bag with glass beads accenting the sides. </div>
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Another granny square bag, medium sized purple and white acrylic yarn. Each square is 5 inches.</div>
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This granny square bag is HUGE. It would make an excellent bag to take to the beach cause it will hold a lot of stuff! The squares are 6 inches. Acrylic yarn.</div>
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Granny square bag, medium size-squares are 5 inches. Acrylic yarn.</div>
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and the last bag in this post.....another granny square bag. This one crocheted from wool 4 ply and wool crewel embroidery yarn. This one has 5 inch squares also.</div>
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Crazy Granny Blanket</div>
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I showed you all a sneak peek at this blanket the last time I was here. I've since then put a row of double crochet all around the outside edge. I'm rather pleased with the result even though I can see all the booboos and the wonky lines. A good many of these squares are from the 365 Days of Granny Squares Project. The smaller ones are me just winging it, as is the large square at the top. Others are either made up by me, are just simple granny squares or other stitches I already know.</div>
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I had about 30 granny squares leftover from the stash of granny squares I began making last November. I will make another granny square blanket when I get enough yarn stock piled so I have a good selection of colors. At the moment, I don't have enough different colors. I do make a granny square every once in awhile and add it to the stash.</div>
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I will probably work on the next blanket when it turns cold this winter. I 'sewed' this one together when it was 103 degrees outside. Was a rather warm endeavor so doing it on a cold winter day will be much better!</div>
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Stay tuned! There will be another granny square blanket eventually.</div>
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Junk Journals are generally started with nothing but magazine cutouts. Then I draw on top of it, </div>
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glue things on top of things,</div>
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doodle with pens, markers, and paint</div>
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there are still a lot of pages that need work in the Junk Journal. These will be sewn into signatures and bound whenever I get done with them. This is an ongoing project. I've been working on it for a few years now.</div>
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I taught myself the basics of needle tatting a couple weeks ago. I made a bunch of doodads for FP 21. You'll see its progress in this post.</div>
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I have a lot of practice to do with needle tatting before I become anywhere proficient at it! The tatted strings with beads make a good texture for the fish pictures. It's a little of everything....acrylic yarn, cotton string, embroidery thread, ect.</div>
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There are two bowls in this picture. The large green one is sitting atop a smaller black one. These two are painted with acrylics.</div>
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Two small bowls. The bottom one you all already saw some posts back. It has a sun in the bottom of it. The polka dotted one is green, brushed with gold on the inside. These two are about 4 inches across the top.</div>
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Two more bowls in the works. The top one is 7 inches across and the bottom one is 8,5 inches across the top. I used a crock cereal bowl lined with tinfoil for the 7 inch bowl. And I used a ceramic mixing bowl lined with plastic wrap for the larger bowl. These need a few more layers before I take them off the molds. Yeah and there's me in the mirror behind the desk. That mirror is there so I can see down the hallway behind me. Not that I can see a whole lot when it is dark outside. The hallway is dark as can be!</div>
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Post card. Markers on drawing paper. the circle the bird is drawn on was a separate piece of paper. I glued it on and then drew the lines with markers. It needs a backing. It too is a tad flimsy for a post card.<br />
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Chinese symbol for elephant. Not real crazy about this one either.</div>
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12 x 12 inches. It's coming along. I intend to do some more to it tonight. I have adhered the tatted pieces in place and added some spackling compound to the bottom edge for rocks and painted it all green and blueish. There will be another layer put on the rock shelf and a few fishes here and there before it is done. What color do you all think the fishes should be? I haven't really thought the fishes through yet. </div>
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Something that won't be getting done anytime soon are the paper mache birds. I've given them all legs and painted some of them.</div>
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A few of them still need wings and legs. I know there nine of them when I began this project weeks ago. I found all but one of them....A cat stole off with a few of them one day and I found them scattered in the kitchen under the table. I've no clue where the other one got off to.</div>
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I must put the paper mache--birds and bowls--on hold till after September. None of them are pressing at this time and that's OK. I have tons of other art projects that are pressing and I must get those done before Fair season begins. All of it must be done no later than the end of the second week in August. That ain't very long from now!</div>
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All the fur kids are fine!</div>
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I gave the turtle away this morning to a 14 year old boy and his mother this morning. I am sure he's in good hands.</div>
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I'm just gonna dive right in to this and get the show on the road, so to speak. It is 6am Saturday morning. I have been awake since about 11 am yesterday so it's past my bedtime. I mention this because there are bound to be typos and a bit of nonsense probably as well.</div>
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I spent yesterday afternoon working on my granny square blanket, which you will see later in this post. But I spent the bulk of the evening and the wee morning hours putting marks on some of the pages of my junk journal. I've been working on this junk journal for going on three years now. I do believe this is the first sneak peek anyone has seen of it. I worked on 14 different pages during the dark hours but there are six times this many pages in the book. </div>
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I started out with a composition notebook that I glued magazine cut outs into. As time progressed other marks were added. Paint was applied...It is nowhere near done. I'm rather liking it though.</div>
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I took the composition notebook apart by cutting the string it was sewn together with and separating the pages from the binding. I then collected them into bundles of seven or eight pages, and will sew the book back together into signatures. It will have a totally new cover when I finish it.</div>
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There is no rhyme or reason to what ended up in the book.</div>
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Lots to do to these two pages still.</div>
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I really like this green spread. That lady needs a beard and mustache. Cause everyone in these pages has a beard and mustache. Why? Cause I can.</div>
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I used markers, acrylic paint, shimmery watercolor paint, oil pastels, india ink and a paint pen. There may be other things on there I'm forgetting at the moment. I did mostly painting on it today.</div>
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That blond has been transformed into a man with glasses, a very long beard and fancy mustache, wearing a black suit with a white shirt. </div>
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And this concludes the sneak peek at my junk journal progress.</div>
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I've done some sewing since the last time I was here.</div>
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Little ellie stuffie made from the fabric from a pair of pants. He's about 5 inches long, 4 tall. there abouts. I didn't measure him. He still needs a saddle and some bells.</div>
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Morning Coffee. </div>
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The paper mache birds are progressing. I'm not crazy about the color scheme of these critters and I probably will change that up when the painting muse hollers at me again. There are three more of these birds. I found two of the lost birds under the kitchen table. There is still one MIA. I'm sure a cat helped themselves to my birds. </div>
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Stay tuned. The birds will be done soon.</div>
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I crocheted this bag early last week. It still needs some handles. </div>
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Another work in progress. A small crocheted bag done in cotton string. This one has been in the works since late April. It will be done eventually as well.</div>
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There are a couple other crochet projects in the works that I have yet to take a picture of. There's a few fabric bracelets that need some more sewing and baubles added. A couple more crocheted bags in the works. And we can't forget Fish Picture #21 either. I bought some spackling compound at the lumber yard today so progress will commence on it soon. I've been asking after styrofoam packing for a couple weeks now and I hadn't located any so I bought the spackling compound to move forward on it. It must be done no later than August. </div>
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Thunderstorm brewing at sunset.</div>
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I like these two pictures of the thunderstorm.</div>
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A shot of the yard, looking off into the wheat field north of the house. I see the marijuana crop is growing nicely. I should more likely refer to the wild cannibas growing in the yard as hemp, as smoking it will get you nothing but a whopper of a headache. </div>
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I made paper mache bowls while the birds were being made as well. </div>
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I used magazine cutouts to embellish the bowl inside and out. The bottom of the bowl is an original doodle by me on text from a magazine. That was done in markers.</div>
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I painted the bowl inside and out with acrylic paint after the paper mache had dried sufficiently. Then the magazine paper was adhered with gloss medium. I wanted the bowl to be shiny. That may have been a mistake, using the gloss medium. It has been well over a week since this bowl was finished and it is still tacky to the touch. It sat on the front porch for two days in the sunshine and even that did not help dry it. One would think 96 degree weather with sunny skies would have done the job.</div>
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I'm really uncertain as to why the gloss medium did not dry. I use pva glue as an adhesive when making these bowls. 50/50 water and glue. And some kind of paper to form the bowl. Truth be told, any paper is fair game for paper mache. I like to use different colors or even totally different papers for each layer so I'm sure I've covered the whole of whatever I'm making at the time. I didn't think there would be any trouble between the pva glue and the gloss medium but I may be wrong about that. If the bowls, there are three of them, don't dry soon, I'll have to give them another coat of some other kind of varnish so they aren't sticky.</div>
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As I said earlier, I did some sewing since the last time I was here.</div>
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Party Ellie made from an old sweater, a red purse and scraps of yarn.</div>
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She's made from an old sweater too. Both of them have tails made with the braiding disk.</div>
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I got a new set of pens from Dollar General a couple weeks ago. I decided to break them in by using only the 8 markers that came in that pack to produce my June envie for EAU over at AFA. Link up in the corner... this is the back side.</div>
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I'm still working on the 365 Days of Granny Squares. I'm up to over a hundred of the buggers. I decided to start 'sewing' some of them together. They're not really sewn together. They are crocheted together. It's just easier to say sewn together.</div>
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I moved that cat three times and three times he was back again before I could snap a picture. So beings he wasn't cooperating... you all get to look at that sweet boy, Moses along with my colorful blanket that is still in pieces. Three pieces at the moment. In the last two days I've crocheted all of the little squares you see along the edge there and some other filler pieces that I don't see in the picture. They're underneath I guess. Most of the squares are different patterns. All are in different colors. I did resort to the simple granny pattern for a number of the squares, but the majority of them are all different. A few of them are patterns I made up on the fly as I was working on the squares themselves. I started this project back in November, if memory serves me correctly. One that I made up as I went is the large square in the upper right corner. When the blanket is done, I'll make my bed and put the blanket on a flat surface before I take its picture. </div>
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It truly matters!</div>
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What better to do in the throes of a thunderstorm than finish this blog post I started some days ago.<br />
Hopefully the electricity won't go off while I'm sitting here. This storm looks pretty wicked on radar but 15 minutes into it, all it's done is blow and spit rain. It will pour down rain, maybe a little hail with it too, before all is said and done! I do love me a good thunderstorm!!!<br />
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Dennis didn't come when I called him, before the storm got here. He showed up at the front door, hollering his fool head off, covered in a fine mist of rain and wanting someone to open the door! Then he took his sweet old time coming inside because he had to make sure Lola cat wasn't anywhere around. They got into fisticuffs a few days ago. Looked to me like he won that match but he acts like he didn't. He gives Lola a wide berth these days!<br />
I was headed to the back door to shut it when the storm wasn't quite here yet. The wind kicked up in a big hurry. Lola about bowled me over in the laundry room. She was heading in from the back porch.<br />
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I hollered for Dennis and Mo when I shut the front door. Mo showed up about two minutes later. Johnny on the spot! Dennis has a mind of his own and doesn't hesitate to use it! They are such silly critters!~<br />
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Cows for Mel! </div>
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The day lilies bloomed. This is the first year for more than a few blooms. They've been in that same spot for about 15 years. The trees got beat up pretty bad a couple years ago and we lost some shade. This is the reason the day lilies have decided to start blooming. I miss the morning shade, but the lilies are pretty for a week or two. Day lilies blossoms and buds are edible, I'm told. I've not attempted that myself though.</div>
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I really think this tree needs a vignette of a troll at the base of it. This water filled cavity is at the base of said tree in the front yard. There will be no vignette though. This tree must be removed before a huge wind comes along and blows it over....this would not be good. to me, it just looks like trolls should live here.</div>
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Wild garlic. Grows in the back yard where the propane tank used to sit before the house burnt 12 years ago. The heart shaped leaves belong to bindweed. A noxious weed. The garlic seems to be strong enough to take the bindweed's crowding. </div>
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I picked a couple of bulbs 4 or 5 days ago and put it a pot of spaghetti. Those bulbs in the picture are garlic sets. You don't eat those. Those drop to the ground and grow into new garlic next year. Each plant has a bulb underground with a few cloves. The two I picked had 4 on one and 6 on the other. It's a lot more mild than the garlic you buy at the grocery store. I suspect it would be quite tasty roasted....it was great in spaghetti.</div>
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The wheat field one day before they cut it.</div>
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And the big red combine cutting the wheat field. I was so very thankful the wind was blowing from the south when this was happening! The last time wheat was harvested out of the field north of the house, the wind blew to the south and all that wheat chaff and dust blew right on the house. I think there may still be remnants of that harvest embedded in the carpet of the livingroom...</div>
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I'm going to have to take the old blue beast out one of these days and locate a sunflower field close to home so I can take some pictures when it comes bloom time. That should happen mid August I think.</div>
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I'd love to watch a field of sunflowers from planting the seed to harvest. How cool would that scene be with it covered in bright yellow sunflowers???</div>
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I made Toby a dog tag for his collar from a key chain. I have about 500 of these key chains.</div>
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The clear part pops apart nicely if you're careful about it.</div>
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I drew an ugly pink dog in markers on one side and Toby's info on the other. </div>
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The pad cactus bloomed. Five flowers, means I'll get five fruits. I will eat those if the bugs don't beat me to them.</div>
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This is the rock garden where the day lilies live. It's not really a rock garden. It's a garden with a ring of rocks around it. That green bug is made of rubber. It's about a foot long. </div>
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This girl went home about two weeks ago. Here she is puttering around Rooks County on the chalk roads in my old blue beast of a car. He mother said she hasn't gone driving at all since she's been home. I think that is more on her mother than on herself. I didn't have any problems with her not wanting to go driving. Her mother is just not of the right disposition to be guiding her girl when it comes to driving. Some folks aren't cut out for it, I guess.</div>
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Not a whole lot to show in the art department today. I've been busy with driving lessons instead of doing art. That and the old body doens't want to do art these days. I'm trying to enjoy going out everyday to do the lessons but making art has suffered because of it. Nine more days of driving lessons and I'll be back on my own again. </div>
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I like my solitude. I've liked having my 18 yr old niece Allison here since around the 28th of May. We've had some adventures! </div>
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Lets get busy with this and let me ramble through the pictures which blogger put up any ol' way they wanted. It will seem somewhat disconnected, but go with the flow! I find 'going with the flow' is sometimes the sanest option.</div>
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I was digging through a box the other day and came across this unfinished little blank book. What you see there is the caterpillar stitch done very badly. It still looks really cool tho! I need to finish sewing the caterpillar on the cover, through the page block and on the back cover. This actually appears to be the back cover so just reverse everything and you get the idea. This book is about 4 inches square. The cover backgrounds are painted newspaper on game board. It has copy paper pages. I'll show it to you all again when I get it finished. Whenever that is.</div>
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It has been awhile since you all saw the wheat field. It's the yellowish patch in the far distance. I have no clue what kind of trees those are, except for the one in the foreground that you see a tiny bit of its trunk. That one is an elm three. I think the others are hackberries but don't hold me to that. </div>
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The big clump of grass is pampas grass. The clump of unmown 'grass' left of the pampas grass is a stand of wild garlic being taken over by bind weed. You can't see it too well, but dead center, about a fourth of the way from the bottom is a baby evergreen tree with a wire fence around it. My brother, who does the yard work around here, has been babying that little tree for going on three years now. It has a cage so he doesn't run it over with the mower is what he says. I'd think knowing it was there for as long as he has known it is there, he wouldn't need to cage it. I could be mistaken though!</div>
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This picture was taken a few days ago. I'll get a picture off the front porch in the next couple days and show you how it's slowly changing from my favorite green color to a lovely shade of golden yellow. They'll harvest this wheat late June/early July. I hope the wind is blowing north when that happens! </div>
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This is Dennis, the Bulldozer! He's a huge boy, sweet as treacle, quite entertaining and a mess of a cat! You see him here on the tote I use as a table when I'm sitting in my recliner. He's cleared the top of all the big things in his way and snoozing quite comfortably.</div>
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I found him laying on the keyboard the other day, stretched out like he is in the picture. I pulled the keyboard out from under him and he barely budged. Look at the monitor. He's managed to turn everything on the monitor upside down. I gave him a good talking too....not that it helped in other areas, but he's not been back to sleep atop the keyboard again. </div>
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He plays the lava game. You all know the lava game, yes? The floor is made of lava and if you touch it, you're dead-out of the game. Dennis wins the lava game! One cannot be mad at Dennis for long though. He loves cuddles, headbutts and talking. He has a lot to say! Anytime he hears someone talk, whether you're talking to him or not, he will have something to say. </div>
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He learned headbutts from my youngest son, RW. It is rather sweet when Dennis wants a headbutt. He'll get up in the your face and stick his forehead on yours and bonk you gently. He's a funny boy.</div>
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Mo and Lola have mostly come to terms that Dennis isn't going anywhere so they might as well stop fighting it and just embrace the new addition. Dennis acts like he doesn't even hear Lola's low growl as he walks by nonchalantly. Mo has decided he doesn't mind another friend even if he is a little indifferent to it all. So long as Mo gets his fair share of pets, he's happy. </div>
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This granny square bag is the only artful thing I've done since the last post. It is the smaller of the two granny square bags I've made thus far. I ain't overly crazy about it myself. It was an easy project and I already have another one this size in the works. I have 7 granny squares out of 13 in various stages of completeness. The new one is red white and blue. I ain't crazy about it either. It will get finished in the next few days or so.</div>
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Driving lessons are a chore. I volunteered to be the instructor and I have given it all I have to give most days Allison has been here. We had to take a week off when the hose in the engine blew and grounded us. The longest lesson lasted almost 4 hours. We average about an hour and a half each session. Her driving doesn't scare me usually. She takes direction pretty good and gets away from the edge of the road when I tell her to. We've not driven in town at all yet. Not Stockton anyway. She's driven Woodston a couple times. They have wide dirt streets. She didn't do so great on her first drive in Woodston, but we made it out alive and no new dents on the old blue beast. She drove #9 highway from Woodston to Kirwin yesterday and did a darn good job. She needs to work on her parking skills,stopping and starting, keeping her speed steady and perception. She needs lots of practice with making corners. She does better with left had turns than with right hand turns.</div>
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That big hill, not the one in the picture, about done me in. There were huge ruts on the downhill side and the girl hit every stinking one of them! I thought the car was going to fall apart! She bonked her head on the roof, I held on for dear life while hollering, Hit the brake! Hit the brake! She did a good job getting us out of that mess. She refused to drive much farther after the fact though. She knew I didn't know exactly where we were and we'd had a nail biting experience with a tanker semi on one of those roads 15 minutes earlier. So I drove until we found Plainville. Then she drove us home on a road we'd visited several times.</div>
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Here they are with their first second coat of newspaper and glue, waiting for their wings and tails to be attached. The wings and tails are cut from dog biscuits box chipboard. </div>
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All but three of them have wings. They all have their tales. The painting muse hasn't shown up to proceed with these. As soon as she arrives, the last three will get wings and the others will get some paint. And everybody will get legs.</div>
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It's the first of June.<br />I got a no seat belt ticket in Plainville on Saturday. Dang it! He caught me red handed. It is the law to wear your seat belt in Kansas and I do understand the reasoning as to why it is law. No one WANTS to peel someone off the roadway. I don't like wearing my seat belt. Had I been wearing my seat belt when my eldest son and I rolled four times through a barbwire fence, I would not be here to tell the tale. Therefore I sometimes don't wear it. I'll pay the $10 and try to remember that I could of used that $10 for some new art materials instead of being obstinate!</div>
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I truly wouldn't be here had I been wearing the seat belt on Christmas Eve of 2000. There was nothing left of the front passenger's side of that Bronco. That's where I was sitting when the boy, he was 17 at the time, hit black ice on the highway and we went spinning into the ditch at an intersection to a dirt road off the highway. We plowed through the stop sign, over the culvert, hit the grass, rolled, taking out seven fence posts and landing on the wheels, much worse for the wear. I remember rolling four times, might of been more. I was in the back seat with my head stuck halfway into the plastic panel on the back passenger's door. Knocked out. I came to with the boy hollering, "Mama! Mama!" cause he wasn't sure where I was. I could not move at all. I was face down on the back seat. He held on to the steering wheel for dear life throughout that terrible ride. He was on his feet, but he was hurting. He had dislocated his shoulder not a week before. A car came by quite quickly and RJ flagged it down. The lady was a nurse so I was in good hands till an ambulance arrived, along with the fire department to cut me out of RJ's mangled, beloved Bronco. They were 14 miles away. We were about 75 miles from home, on our way home from dropping the other son off in Oberlin. RJ wasn't badly injured, but I wasn't doing so well.</div>
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I need to stay out of Plainville. I've only gotten 2 tickets for driving in my entire life and both of them were handed to me by a Plainville policeman. The first one was for speeding, I was doing 40 in a 30 at 6 in the morning. I was late for work, not cause I got a ticket, but because I slept through my alarm that morning. I would have made it on time if I hadn't had such a lead foot that morning. That happened almost 20 years ago!</div>
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I got a couple of new pets since the first of May. Another will be arriving in a few days. Toby is coming to live with me cause he's not a city dog. He is way too protective of his people and RWson is afraid he will end up getting into trouble with his over protectiveness. So he's gonna live in the country with me instead. Toby is a cross between a beagle and golden retriever. He's a sweet boy and should do fine with me. He's always been a country dog.</div>
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This is Little Turtle. His name was Donnatello when I got him. He has no name at the moment. I think he might actually be a she though. At any rate, I now have an aquatic turtle. He's a red slider. He's about 3 inches from front to back. I acquired him while at my eldest son's house one week ago. He was in need of a new home so I said, "Sure. I'll take him home." He came with all the equipment needed to keep him healthy. I hope he stays healthy. I've never owned a turtle before.</div>
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This is Dennis. He and Toby know one another well. Dennis came to live with me for the same reasons Toby is coming to live with me. Well, except for the over protective attitude. Dennis could care less who shows up. He's always been a country cat and RW didn't think he would do well in the city. And besides that, they have two other cats and another dog. Darlie is a tiny little Chihuahua. She'll do fine in the city.</div>
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Dennis is a big lush. He likes giving head butts, sleeping on my keyboard when I'm not using it and sleeping on the empty spot on the shelf behind my desk. He and the other two, Lola and Mo, have come to terms and the yelling, yowling, bitching and moaning have ceased. Everybody gives everybody a wide berth and they seem to get along just fine. Dennis hasn't earned a spot on my bed yet, but I am sure he will claim a spot eventually. </div>
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I found the picture of the baby spiders leaving the egg sack. I do hope the majority of them survived.</div>
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I made 8 little books yesterday.</div>
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Matchbox book with accordion pages.The pages have cancelled postage stamps from around the world with animals on them. Both sides of the accordion folds have a stamp on them. I painted the box with gesso and then sprayed it with two different colors of dye.</div>
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I had never made an accordion folded matchbox book before. I made another one with flower stamps. The box is covered with flowered duct tape.</div>
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this one is made like the one below, with sewn pages. 18 pages in each of 3 signatures. The book cover is made from chipboard and scrapbooking paper. Along each edge I put some copper foil tape. </div>
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Allison filled all the pages in this one with pencil drawings. 33 little drawings.</div>
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I chose a few randomly to show off.</div>
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The matchbox books are tiny things. They fit perfectly in the matchboxes though.</div>
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This book is about 4 inches square, though it's a tad taller than wide. This one and the next one were made from boxes that prenatal vitamins in. The mustaches are duct tape. It wouldn't stay closed on its own so I sewed on a plastic gold button and some skinny elastic.</div>
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This one is exactly the same as the mustache book except it has painted newspaper scraps for its cover decoration. </div>
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I made another one from a box that smoke bombs came in at Independence Day, back in July. It's roughly the same size as these two, but it has green glitter tape and copper foil tape on its cover. I forgot to take a picture of it.</div>
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Twinchie on cardstock. Feather</div>
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this was supposed to end this post! The north field at sundown a few nights ago. The wheat is growing nicely. I had hoped the late snowfall in early April wouldn't kill it. The farmers were a tad worried about that snow storm. The wheat was at the stage where the heads start growing and a hard cold spell could have been its demise. Thankfully it wasn't. The loss of the midwest wheat crop would have caused baked goods to go sky high. </div>
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I'll take a walk out there tomorrow and get a picture of it close up so you all can see what wheat looks like when it's almost done growing. Harvest will start in about 3-4 weeks.</div>
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I crocheted some. this is one side of the hot pot holder I gave to Ma this morning.</div>
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Here's the other side. I crocheted this a couple days ago.</div>
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Another hot pot holder. It's the same on both sides. Gotta have two layers of acrylic yarn if you want a hot pot holder that will not burn you while in use. I crocheted this one early this morning.</div>
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After I finished the pot holder, I made the beginnings of some paper mache birds. I see only 7 in this picture but there are 9 of them laying on the table on the front porch covered in newspaper strips and watered down glue, drying overnight. Tomorrow, they get wings and tails. And maybe their legs too. I forget if I should put the legs in before painting or after? Saturday, they get painted.</div>
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Thanks for hanging in there till the end.</div>
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it matters!</div>
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Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06121998319968124939noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545790654045422875.post-60490050352206950842017-05-29T20:49:00.000-05:002017-05-29T20:58:36.236-05:00happy new yearK<br />
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Hello Readers!<br />
we are almost half way through 2017 already and I am just now getting around to my first post. There is a good reason for this. My computer died early December and today I buckled down with the determination to get a post done.<br />
Let's try some pictures. <br />
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I somehow succeeded in publishing this post from my phone on the 2nd of april this year. Today is 29 May 17. <br />
I have a computer but have yet to figure out where the hell I can find the pictures I think I downloaded earlier this afternoon from my phone.<br />
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Lets see if we will have any pictures today or not. Cause you all know pictures are essential. They cut down on my useless rambling somewhat and as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words.<br />
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This appears to be the only picture downloaded on the new pc as it is the only picture that showed up in the pictures file. I will have to figure this picture business out soon as I have to get busy with the etsy store again.</div>
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This picture was taken this afternoon, shortly after that crop duster scared the bejesus out of Mo Cat. We were dead asleep in the bed, Me, Mo and Lola. I heard that airplane buzzing over the house. When I first heard I thought, "Oh man, the Russians are invading!~" and then just as quickly I thought, "Don't be stupid. That's a cropduster." As I was having these thoughts Mo was patting me on my closed eyes to let me know there was something big going outside and I better get up and figure out what it is. </div>
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He was flying low! He was spraying the field just west of Ma's house. Bout a 1/4 mile from my house. Moses and Lola both ignored that plane after I got up from my nap. He buzzed the house a dozen times or so.</div>
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Ma and I went to Plainville around 5 this evening and saw two more crop dusters out spraying the fields.</div>
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OK. I figured out the picture business, I think...I found them once, but the true test is can I find them again! lol</div>
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I got a new cat since the last post back in December. He's quite the hunter! He's cleared the house of mice...thank you, Moses! He's trying real hard to clear the yard of skinks aka little striped lizards.</div>
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This is the last known picture of my Murray cat who keeled over dead sometime back in March. Never lost any animal the way Murray went. She followed me to the bathroom, like she always did, cause everyone needs an audience to do their business. She sat on the little cabinet and meowed at me and followed me into the bedroom. I kept going and when I got a few steps to the coffee pot in the kitchen, she let out a horrible yowl and by the time I got back to the bedroom, she was dead on the floor at the foot of my bed. RIP sweet Murray.</div>
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You all will meet Moses in this post. I got him a few days after Murray died.</div>
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The crop dusters were out hot and heavy today. This one came buzzing the house about 1 o'clock this afternoon, waking me from a deep sleep. That Moses cat helped the buzz of the little plane to wake me. He was patting me on my closed eyelids when it came buzzing over the second time. I wasn't quite enough awake yet to realize what it was. He buzzed the house a dozen or so times. I just like this picture. I'm not sure why that blob of light is in this picture. The sun was already high in the sky and shouldn't have been where that blob is at 1 in the afternoon. I shouldn't have been able to even see it out the front door. It's a cool looking picture. I like it.</div>
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Miss Lola, looking pretty</div>
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practice makes perfect, or so they say...I think I need more practice.</div>
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One of the MANY bags I've made since last I was here. This one is about 10 inches tall, 11 across and probably 3 inches front to back. It's crocheted out of quarter inch satin ribbon.</div>
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Son called me one day end of March and said Annie had requested I make her a book with lined pages. This one is made from a cake box, notebook paper and whole lot of different tapes. The closure is a braided string of embroidery threads, a pink button and a plastic rock. The inside is covered with the pink tape, closest to the spine with kitties on it. </div>
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This book is the reason I have a new computer. In a round about way at least. I hand delivered this book about a month ago. A kidnapping that was supposed to last 4 days (cause that's all I packed for) ended up turning into 11 days. I am not complaining! I like kidnappings!</div>
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I've been back to son's house since the book was delivered. Another kidnapping that lasted a few days longer than I had planned.</div>
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I have no clue what the name of this plant is. It's a ground cover that grows nicely around the propane tank.</div>
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The garden spider egg cases have me perplexed. They haven't changed a lick since the spider constructed them back in September. I thought they would have hatched by now. I'm still keeping an eye on them, hoping to be in the right place at the right time to witness the birthing of a herd little spiders!</div>
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I tried to find the picture I took of the babies emerging from the egg sacks but for some reason it is not in the file with the rest of the pictures downloaded off the phone a few days ago. So I guess there won't be a picture of the babies. There were hundreds of the little guys! Pin head sized little yellow spiders. I hope the bulk of them survived.</div>
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A little bag I made. I don't have a finished picture version, but its done now.</div>
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New chickens, I think the red one out front is Henrietta, she's not a new chicken. The new chickens came from youngest son, RW. He's moving to the city and can't have his menagerie where he's going. He gave Sammy all but 4 of his chickens and a black duck, I think RW gave Sam 3 or 4 ducks too. Sammy didn't want the black duck cause it"s a boy.We already have a boy duck. RW's chickens were truly free range, they either come home at night to the coop or they slept in the trees in the woods. Four chickens were missing the evening they gathered them all up to come home with Sammy. Not to worry though. All chickens and ducks have a found a home!</div>
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making crazy birds with Annie</div>
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I'm not sure where this picture was taken. I like the scene though. Must of been dusk, but where? Your guess is probably as good as mine. Somewhere in Kansas. </div>
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I found some tulle on clearance at Wally World after Easter. I bought quite a few rolls of it and made this basket and started another one while at my son's house last month. Yes, that is the Christmas Tree still standing in the playroom at son's house in the middle of April. It was still there the second week in May too. DIL says she's not going to take it down this year. I told her she should decorate it for each successive holiday. That hasn't happened so far though. It was naked through Easter.</div>
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Watching the Junior Varsity Baseball team play a game in Nickerson back in April. </div>
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Cottonwood tree seeds on the tree at my son's house. I don't have a cottonwood tree in my yard but there are tens of thousands of them along the riverbank less than a quarter mile from my house so there will be days where it looks like it is snowing once the seeds pods pop open and release the cottony seeds within. I'll try to get a picture when that happens.</div>
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Prairie dogs at the mall in Hutchinson. The mall sits in the middle of town but all around it is open ground where the prairie dogs live. Thousands of vehicles enter and leave that mall on a daily basis but very seldom does a prairie dog become a victim to a vehicle. They are pretty good about staying off the roadways. Right now is baby season and there were tons of little ones but I didn't get a picture of any babies.</div>
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No clue what this is either. It's a pretty cool picture though so I thought I'd show it off. Says AIR on that right lower corner. Might of been taken in a car? I really don't know what it is.</div>
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Rain at my son's house.</div>
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Fluffy Frank! </div>
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Still working on the Granny Square project.</div>
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I have somewhere around 120 of them completed at the moment.</div>
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One of Moses' gifts to me sometime in April. Don't know what species this little fella is. He's not a six lined skink like the other lizard in this post.</div>
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Lola showing off her belly.</div>
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Another photograph with an annomoly. There was smoke in the air the day this one was taken but the smoke was not thick in my back yard. You can see the column of smoke in the distance but the blob of smoke over the tree wasn't there when I took the picture.</div>
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We had wildfires in my neck of the woods back in early April. This is out by the State Lake. That's a homestead on fire. Every building on that place burnt to the ground. Thankfully there were no injuries to the folks who lived there.</div>
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A longer view of the same fire as in the previous photo.</div>
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I don't remember how many acres burned then, but the fires burned for a few days before they got them all extinguished.</div>
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Sitting at the only stoplight in Stockton, Kansas.</div>
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They closed Hwy 183 heading south out of town during the wildfires. You can see the hills just south of town ablaze. </div>
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Large market bag crochected with vinyl tablecloth yarn. The handles are made from the sleeve seams of a fleece jacket over crocheted with acrylic sock yarn..</div>
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this picture was taken the end of January on my way home from a Dr.'s appt in Wakeeney. My youngest son, RW, was driving. We counted 16 deer crossing the highway right in front of us. The herds of deer aren't usually quite so many individuals. It isn't uncommon to see 8 or 9 in a herd, but 16 is a lot. Though I have seen a herd of 22 in the past. This was on Hwy 24 out by Webster Lake.</div>
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This one was taken the same day as the deer herd above. The big tree in the middle of the photo is a cottonwood tree with a band gnawed around the bark. That band of missing bark killed the tree. That's the work of a beaver. Beavers usually go for much smaller trees than this huge cottonwood. I couldn't put my arms all the way around this tree, it's that big. I didn't actually try to put my arms around it, I didn't even get out of the car to take the picture....but it's a huge tree for a beaver to try to fell. Just out of view to the right of the photo is a branch of the Solomon River. It was a cool find and not something you see everyday so I shared it.</div>
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Another failed picture that I think looks pretty cool. It's a picture of a crocheted plarn bag that did not turn out as expected. I've no clue what the red thing in the bottom of the bag is. </div>
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this is part of a farm implement. Someone took it off the wall above the old sofa it's sitting on. The wall behind is the west side of the burnt house. It has hung there for several years. It's a pretty cool piece of iron. I got it at a junk yard on a foray into mischief some years ago. I wish I'd of taken more than one. They've all been shredded and turned into something new by now. </div>
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It's been quite some time since I've shown the field out north. This one was taken way back in late March. It's planted to wheat this year. </div>
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I made some CD weavings. There are probably this many and more in the paper sack by my chair where I put them when I finish one. Something will happen with these eventually. I've been rather remiss in keeping up with the creative endeavors thus far this year. I hope to change that.</div>
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Ralph. The jumping spider who over-wintered in my livingroom. He's about a half inch long. He earns his keep by killing flies and other undesirables. </div>
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Lulu, one of the mama cats at son's house.</div>
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And here's Lulu again with the kittens. Not sure where Midge was, shes' the other mama. There are 8 little kittens. Cute little buggers! I can't have another cat though....</div>
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I got a new one yesterday. Late in the evening, Dennis came to live with us. He's a cool cat. My youngest son is moving to the big city of Hays and Dennis has always lived out in the country so RW figured he'd do much better at my house than in the city. He's a big ol' lover boy of a cat! Lola hates him, but that, I expected. Moses doesn't like him either but that, I too expected. There was a lot of yelling and hissing and general 'stay the hell away from me' noise throughout the night, but there were no spats that turned into fisticuffs so I think the three of them will figure out the hierarchy and all will end peacefully.</div>
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Long time, no see! Time to catch up! </div>
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My last post was made on November 8. My calendar says today is the 14th of December. If you read regularly you will know there is gonna be a lot to see today. Better get yourself a cuppa something before you dive in if you intend on reading my commentary along with looking at the pictures.</div>
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I have been away so long because my old body rebelled big time against my wishes! I had a major attack of the gout for 8 days and three days later I threw out my back. Doc says I have arthritis in my back. I don't want it. Take it back!</div>
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At any rate I'm doing a lot better today and this blog post needed to be written. </div>
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I'm still working on the granny square project. Crochet will show heavily in today's ramblings. It's not hard to crochet with your feet up, laid back in the recliner. There were no youtube videos but I have gone through a fair number of podcasts while sitting in my recliner over the course of my absence.</div>
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At the moment there are 58 granny squares made from the <a href="https://yarnutopia.com/365-days-of-granny-squares/" target="_blank">365 Days of Granny Squares</a> </div>
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I couldn't tell you which of these are number 57 unless I really studied them. </div>
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Some of them need blocked more than others. Blocking will occur when it's time to put them into a finished project.</div>
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My color choices are a bit weird in some of the squares...</div>
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and in others the color combos work quite well.</div>
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I use what I have.</div>
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It will all work out in the end once they're sitting side by side and on top of one another. I do think some of them will become a throw for the sofa. </div>
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Here it is....number 57</div>
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and again, #57</div>
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I'm not sure why I thought I needed to do two of them. It was an easy square to make. </div>
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So now there are 60 and one half granny squares made. I got one laying next to me that is half finished. I screwed up round three on it and haven't figured out how to make it work yet. </div>
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I've made a few bags of one kind or another since the last post.</div>
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Market bag made from plarn. The plarn is made from plastic door covers and vinyl tablecloths. The tweed looking parts are door covers. Blue and green are tablecloths.</div>
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This one is a smaller market bag. More purse size. The orange is halloween pumpkin bags (kinda like trash bags, but a whole lot thicker!) and the tweed looking part is a halloween vinyle tablecloth. I spent 60 cents for the materials in this bag. Halloween clearance!</div>
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Market bag. door cover and tablecloth</div>
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Market bag. Made from Halloween door covers. The door covers had either a gory door scene on them or day of the dead skeleton. The skeleton one was mostly purple. It's used in the bag above this one. This one is made with the gory door covers. I should of taken a picture of them before I cut them into strips for plarn. But alas, as you all know by now, I did not think of that. I really like the way the door cover plarn crocheted into this tweed looking material.</div>
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Crossbody bag made from vinyl tablecloth plarn in orange and blue. I have a boatload of orange plarn from Halloween tablecloths acquired in the Halloween clearance aisle of my local Dollar General. I was in there the week after Halloween and scored all the door covers and tablecloths that were in that clearance bin for a whopping 4 dollars and some change. Everything was perfect for my needs AND my budget!</div>
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There is a bag somewhere in this post made from the same yarn as this dish cloth. My mother says it's too pretty to be a dish cloth. Cotton yarn remnants. It is dish cloth/wash cloth size.</div>
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Market bag made entirely of vinyl tablecloth plarn. I do have to admit that I have invested a few dollars in vinyl tablecloths to turn into plarn. But at a dollar a piece, they are cost effective as one can get about 150 feet of plarn from a 54x108 inch tablecloth. Some of them are bigger than that. The round one I accidentally bought got a bit more than 150 feet. </div>
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close up of the Halloween door cover crocheted. This is the gory door cover.</div>
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This isn't finished yet, still needs a button. </div>
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This little coin purse/pouch is crocheted from white acrylic yarn. I spray painted it with fabric paint and dripped acrylic ink to make the spots. I couldn't get the black sprayer to work the next day when I went back to spray the other side so I changed plans and used purple instead. I sprayed the string used to sew it together as well. I intend to fasten a black or silver button for a closure. All depends on which button I can find to fit through the loop.</div>
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Here are a few of the plarn balls made over the last month. </div>
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A whole grocery bag full of plarn balls.</div>
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Some tablecloths cut into strips. The strips get tied together to make the plarn. </div>
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Murray, the crazy one! She looks pretty tame in this picture but 2 seconds after I took this picture, that cat was attacking the arm of the sofa instead of sitting pretty like she appears to be doing. Feel free to use Murray as a model for drawing or painting.</div>
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I sewed together this little felt brooch last night. I've lost track of how many of these little brooches I've made thus far. Over 2 dozen of them.</div>
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The north field, planted to wheat. This was taken Thanksgiving Day. It was gorgeous out that day. Upper 70s, slight breeze. Lots of company, good food and a few good laughs as well. Oh, and a road trip too! That road trip to Hays was fruitless. We had intended on meeting up with a bunch of others at the Golden Corral for Dinner. The parking lot was PACKED full so we went to Wally World and gathered an untraditional Thanksgiving Dinner and took it all back to my brother's house where everyone else had been instructed to congregate once we called them and snuffed out any idea of eating in Hays. It was a nice little road trip with 2 of my sisters and Ma.</div>
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And then it snowed. Week before last I do believe is when the snow fell. We didn't get very much snow, couple inches at the most. It was all melted a few days later.</div>
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It did snow heavily at times. You can barely see the bright green wheat on the other side of the fence out there. </div>
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This crazy cat really wanted to go outside that day it snowed. She's not a happy camper because I will not open the door and let her out.</div>
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Here's another picture of Murray that you may use as a model for drawing or painting. She takes good pictures.</div>
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And I leave you with this sad looking Miss Lola who has absolutely no reason to be sad. She was begging for treats. That sad little face did get her some treats too! She won't mind if you use her for a model, so go right ahead!</div>
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Thanks for hanging in there to the end.!~</div>
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It matters!</div>
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Peace</div>
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Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06121998319968124939noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545790654045422875.post-77785829268276656982016-11-08T20:58:00.001-06:002016-11-16T21:58:44.222-06:00I've Been Playing with String Again...<div style="text-align: center;">
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I changed the header the picture to show off the north field. It sure is green! There's a possibility it will get some snow (gasp!) Friday or Saturday. It's gonna get chilly in my neck of the woods. But as you can see in the picture, it was a gorgeous afternoon today. Got up in the higher 80sF. </div>
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You'll see another picture of the north field later in this post.</div>
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As the title suggests I have been playing with string again. Mostly that play has involved crocheting with said string. I'm plowing ahead with the granny square project. You will see a good number of them. I am working on number 51 of 365 at the moment. I had to run off to a birthday party and visit my former cat, Tommy, who is now named Jack so that one didn't get finished in one sitting like all the others. I've actually made 52 granny squares in total. I started the granny square project on the 8th of November this year. I whipped one out without a pattern day before yesterday. It turned out pretty decent for having winged it.</div>
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Anyway, if you don't care to see all these granny squares, just scroll right on past them and you'll see playing with string also involved some sewing of felt. Oh and there's a drawing down there also. There would be two drawings but I forgot to take a picture of the card I drew for my sister's birthday today.</div>
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Here are the granny squares along with a few words about some of them.</div>
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Some of the them look a tad wonky but once they've been blocked they should be more square.</div>
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This one I need to do a do-over. I didn't do this one exactly right. It will work, but would be much better done correctly. </div>
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I really like this one. I wouldn't want to make a whole passel of them for a blanket though. Those petals took a bit of time to crochet. It is a very nice square though.</div>
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This one above is the one I winged it on. No pattern. I was just happy it turned it out square!</div>
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This is another one I wouldn't make a bunch of for a blanket. Those bullion stitches were bigger pain than the flower petals! This granny has taken the longest of any so far. About an hour.</div>
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Does this look like a heart to you? Yeah, me neither! I got into February and there was a week of heart squares. I didn't do so hot with some of the hearts. I call this one the blue blob square.</div>
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Another heart shape that isn't quite heart shaped. I call this one Ameba square. </div>
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This one kinda resembles a heart. Almost. Looks kinda like a blue kidney bean too though!</div>
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Well you made it through the granny squares. </div>
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There will be more granny squares in the next post. There are four of them in the stack I did today that have yet to be photographed.</div>
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I sewed some more brooches. </div>
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I gave this one to my sister for her birthday.</div>
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Yesterday was my oldest brother's birthday and in four days it will be another of my sisters' birthday.</div>
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These little things are addictive! I cut out all the pieces for these over the last three days. I sewed them all together in the last two days. I finished them up early afternoon today.</div>
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Ma liked the mushrooms the best.</div>
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I'm kind of partial to the fishes from this batch.</div>
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Three of these brooches have a large safety pin instead of a lapel pin like the other two. Does anyone know what the devil I did with that box of lapel pins? I seem to have hid it from myself.</div>
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I did this postcard last night. </div>
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Markers on mat board. The other side is blank at this moment but I intend to do something on it. </div>
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Here's a nice picture of a sleeping cat. Feel free to use Murray as a model for practice drawing. She won't mind at all.</div>
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This is the north field on the 14th of November.</div>
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North field 16th of November. </div>
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I took a stroll out to the field to take this one. I didn't actually go out in the field to take this, but close. I didn't feel like getting my sweater covered in dried out weeds so I didn't venture passed those. There are still no cow sightings, unfortunately. I might traipse out into the field if there were cows. Pray for cows! LOL And pray some show up in the north field in the near future. I think cows could be entertaining.</div>
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Ma and I went to the Dollar Store before we picked up my sister Susan at her house to go to sister Elaine's birthday party and I noticed the Co-op had covered that giant pile of milo you all saw in the last post. They covered it with a huge sheet of plastic and then vacuumed sealed it to the pile somehow. There's another pile of milo, much smaller than this one, on the other side of this pile that is also covered in plastic. Guess it will sit there until they truck it all off to where ever it is milo is trucked off too. That's whole lot of truckloads of milo!</div>
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This is the best I could do sitting in Ma's truck in the parking lot, across the street from the Co-op. </div>
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My sister Susan had a stroke last week. You might include her in your prayers too. A mild one, but she's still a bit wobbly. She's going to physical therapy twice a week and getting better day by day. Doc says a few weeks and she'll be doing much better. I hope so. I had to drive her car to Phillipsburg to the birthday party cause the three of us, Ma, me and her, wouldn't all fit in Ma's truck. And my car was still dead at the time. Susan couldn't drive. Hell, she can barely walk! Though she does alright so long as she uses the walker. She keeps trying to fall over. The walker helps. She says she will graduate to a cane in a couple weeks. She wants me to fancy up her walking stick so she can be hip like me! (I use a fancied up cane myself.)</div>
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My car is not dead as I type. I bought it a new battery today. It's been dead for a few weeks now. People been on to me to get a new battery so I have wheels. I really didn't care about having wheels.<br />
Looks like I'll be headed to Nickerson for Thanksgiving. I really don't know what the plans for Turkey Day are. Maybe I'll just sleep through it. I've been in long sleep mode for a few weeks now. I'm babbling now...</div>
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Alright! You all have seen enough of me today!</div>
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Thanks for hanging in there to the end!</div>
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Remember...</div>
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be kind, be good to one another.</div>
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It matters!</div>
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Peace</div>
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Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06121998319968124939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545790654045422875.post-10174771323299091852016-11-08T20:58:00.000-06:002016-11-08T21:33:40.452-06:00Crochet, More Crochet and a bit of Glue<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello Readers!</div>
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Did you go out and vote today? Excellent! At the time of this writing we don't have a new president just yet. I only hope the right candidate wins, though, regardless who takes the reins, America is in for a hell of an awaking! I'm in high hopes we get our first woman President. That would be cool. If the orange idiot becomes president, I don't even want to think about the consequences of that happening. Tomorrow I will deal with the election when I know the outcome of the election.</div>
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For now, I want to catch up on all the projects finished since the last time I was here and to show one new project in the works and maybe another also.</div>
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Lets get on with this...</div>
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You all saw this one in a previous post before it was completed. It's now done. </div>
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Acrylic yarn with a mother of pearl button. It measures about 4 inches wide and six inches long with a long strap braided on the braiding disk.</div>
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Nothing special. Probably isn't even done yet. Just a tiny basket crocheted from silk cord. This basket is about an inch tall and 2 inches across. I wish I had a boatload of this cord. This stuff is a dream to crochet with! This little basket was an experiment as I had never worked with this type of string before. Don't know what I'll make out of the rest of the ball. Probably a small amulet bag.</div>
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bags have been heavy on the muse's mind of late...</div>
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This basket/bag (could be either) is about a foot tall, somewhere around 14 inches square on the bottom. It's crocheted from acrylic yarn in pink and purple, two strands at once.</div>
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This thing took about three hours start to finish. And that's exactly how I made it, in one sitting. It could have been a tad taller.</div>
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The plarn market bag is finished. It is about 14 inches tall, a little over a foot wide and is about 4 inches from front to back. You all will see more plarn bags in the future.</div>
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I seldom buy yarn/string to crochet with but I was in Hobby Lobby last week and they had this raffia yarn on sale for less than 2$ a ball so I bought the three colors, one ball of each, and less than two days later this bag materialized out of thin air! This bag is about 15 inches across, 4 inches front to back and about a foot tall minus the handles. I ran out of green at the tailend of the last row so I will have to figure out how to cover that up. Maybe some flowers crocheted from cotton string? Ma says it is fine just how it is, but I don't think it is. I could just take that last row of green away and end it with blue but I really like the green as the end.</div>
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This is a bag made from a couple of crocheted panels that came with a bunch of yarn someone gave to me. I couldn't find the ends to revert the panels back to yarn so I made a bag out of them. It still needs a handle and the ends sewn in. I think it will get a white leather strap for a handle so it can be worn like a crossbody bag. It's big enough to hold a laptop.</div>
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Here's the glue part of this post.</div>
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A little paper mache bowl with the sun and moon inside.</div>
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I drew the sun and moon separately from one another, then colored them with markers. I drew them on sheet music. I cut them out and glued them to the inside of the little bowl.</div>
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these paper stars will be glued to the outside of the bowl.</div>
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The bowl measures about 4 inches across and two inches deep. I used a small pyrex bowl covered in tinfoil for the mold.</div>
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I have another bowl the same size in the works.</div>
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I woke up at 4:30 this morning. By 5 I was busy crocheting. I found a 365 project to work on. </div>
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<a href="https://yarnutopia.com/365-days-of-granny-squares/" target="_blank">365 Days of Granny Squares</a></div>
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I started at the beginning...the first one was posted January 1, 2016...I made 11 of them today.</div>
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All the granny squares are made with yarn remnants mostly. There will be many more colors involved before it's all said and done with the granny squares.<br />
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That's all I have for now on the creative front.</div>
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Lotty the possum is still coming round. She had one and a half pieces of peanut butter toast for supper this evening. She was just finishing up her sammich when I came through the livingroom, passed the front door. She saw me and decided the porch wasn't a good place to stay. She didn't leave in a great hurry, just fast enough that my old brain didn't get the camera going in time to get a good picture this evening. Perhaps tomorrow!</div>
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I'm gonna sign off with a picture of the giant pile of milo (aka sorghum) at the Co-op in town. </div>
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It's pretty,isn't it? It's multicolored like that because of the different varieties of sorghum. Apparently they pile it all together. </div>
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I'll get an update of the wheat field in the next few days. I was going to do that this morning but I put one socked foot on the front porch and did not proceed farther out the door as the rug was sopping wet. It rained all night long. So picture of the wheat field today.</div>
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Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06121998319968124939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545790654045422875.post-57801566156182705072016-11-03T21:50:00.001-05:002016-11-04T02:47:18.602-05:00More Brooches, a Lesson on Plarn, Some of this, Some of that<div style="text-align: center;">
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I went on a Brooch making spree again. I'll show the newest ones in the batch and I will tell you how I make plarn in this post. We will also see a few bags and a stuffed elephant.</div>
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Sleep has been a major part of my life for the last few days. The fibro takes hold and I do a lot of sleeping. And when I'm not sleeping I make things. I did get the laundry caught up in the last few days as well. Laundry is an easy chore...doesn't take a whole lot out of me to put clothes in the washing machine. The hard part is transferring the wet stuff into the dryer. That wears me out! </div>
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At any rate, I get a lot of things made some days. Other days, not so much done.</div>
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For some reason these little felt brooches have taken over my life for the last week or so. This is a picture of all but the four bird brooches that started this whole felt brooch making spree into action. I have a couple more that are cut out and ready for sewing. I quite sewing though to do some crocheting instead. I will get back to the brooches though.</div>
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Blue bird brooch.</div>
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Green Fish Brooch</div>
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This started out to be another bird brooch but that green shape looked more like a fish than a bird so a fish it became. The outside edge is actually yellow, not the same color green as the fish. </div>
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blue and orange birds</div>
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I figured if one bird worked, why not two?</div>
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purple bird brooch</div>
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I really like the colors on this one! </div>
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I don't really think about what color goes where when I'm cutting these out of felt scraps. I'm aware of the colors, but I just let it flow and however it turns out is how it turns out. </div>
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No pattern, just snip, snip, snip until it comes together.</div>
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This guy really needs a tiny button sewn into the center of his eye! Those sequins took a bit of time to sew on. This one is about three inches long.</div>
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All of the brooches have lapel pin backs. Some have two prongs, most only one.</div>
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I found this little bag the day before yesterday in a plastic jar where I stored it while it was being made. I kept all the components in that jar and totally forgot I had even made it till I saw it again. It's about 7 inches wide, 5 inches from top of bag to bottom. It's crocheted out of some nylon yarn that was packaged with instructions to make a pair of slippers. It wouldn't have made very comfy slippers! It's scratchy and not at all nice to touch. The flap is a piece of cow leather that was once the covering of a reclining chair. It has a woven leather button and a long strap crocheted from the same yarn as the bag. I call this type of bag a crossbody bag. </div>
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Another crossbody bag. This one is about 8 inches tall, 6 inches wide? I don't know, I'm totally guessing on the measurements for all the things in this post. It is crocheted out of acrylic yarn. </div>
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The strap is braided on the braiding disk.</div>
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I totally forgot about this bag too. I had this bag started before I went to my son's house at the beginning of September. I took it with me and finished while at my son's house. I was emptying bags I had brought home with me from that trip yesterday when I came across it. It's a huge bag! About 16 inches tall, 14 across the bottom...It's a round bag. I crocheted acrylic yarn in various colors around macrame cord.</div>
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This is a medium sized market bag. It's about 14 inches tall, 10 wide. Acrylic yarn.</div>
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Another find from my unbagging a few days ago. I was in the process of making him when I went away to RJson's house as well. I finished him early in my 19 day stay. Someone will get this fella in the mail some day. His body is made from a wool coat, his tail is jute cord braided on the braiding disk, his tusks are felt and his saddle is felt also. The bells are aluminum. He's about 8 inches long?</div>
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This bag is in progress. Acrylic yarn in shades of pink. Pink, except for that rust color. It works, but it ain't pink. I actually paid attention to the colors when choosing what colors to use. That rust color isn't pink though and I initially wanted to dispose of some of that pink yarn with this bag. That will happen with some of these colors, like the darkest pink color and lightest one. And the rust color will be almost gone when this bag is done also. </div>
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And as you all know is always the case...I have other things in the works too.</div>
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I've put a few rounds on the plarn bag you all saw last post. We will talk about plarn in a bit here.</div>
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There's a market bag in the works being crocheted out of rafia yarn in three colors.</div>
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I started a paper mache bowl the day before yesterday</div>
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and I've crocheted half a bag with purple yarn, tore it out and rolled the purple yarn into a ball. </div>
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I have four huge skeins of that purple yarn and have attempted to crochet two different things from it. Both got tore out and rolled into balls. I'm not sure what will become of the purple yarn. I may use it as a main color for the scrap yarn bag that will eventually be made from all the tiny balls of yarn that are building in my stash.</div>
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Sometimes my muse is running in fifteen directions at once!</div>
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Mel asked if making plarn was easy. In my opinion, yes. It is easy to make. </div>
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All you need are some plastic bags and a pair of good cutting scissors. There are a few different ways to make it. You can use what I call the tunnel version or the ring version. I prefer the ring version for larger bags and the tunnel version for smaller bags. ANY plastic bag can be turned into plarn. In the picture above:</div>
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yellow is Dollar General bags</div>
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pink and blue are trash bags</div>
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all the others are dog waste pickup bags</div>
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I cut all these bags using the ring version. I'll go find a video that shows you what I call the ring version of cutting plarn.</div>
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This <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPuraY_XSGo" target="_blank">video</a> will demonstrate the ring version. She calls it the biscuit method.<br />
This is my preferred method of making plarn. I let it pile up on the floor for awhile before I wind it into balls.<br />
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I use the tunnel version mostly when cutting bread sacks into plarn. I use more than just bread sacks though. Ice bags, bagel bags, potato sacks, ect. These bags are just easier to cut using the tunnel version. Potato sacks have small holes all over them so the potatoes can breathe. In using the tunnel version you end up with one long string from the bag. Using the ring version you end up with a bunch of rings of plastic that you have to then connect into a two stranded long long string of plarn. You can't connect the potato sacks together like that because of the jagged edges that the holes leave. But those jagged edges just disappear into your work so the tunnel version works best for the potato bags. And the bread sacks are long and skinny which makes it easy to get your whole arm into the bag once you've started the cuts. </div>
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I will find a video showing how the tunnel version is done also.<br />
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It will amaze you how much string you can get from one bag. </div>
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I cut my plarn to be about 1/2 to 3/4 inch wide. You can cut it smaller or larger and accuracy in thickness isn't all that important. You just don't want a lot of variance in the thickness. Different bags are of different weight, but they are usually close enough to play nicely together. The yellow plarn in the sample above is much thicker than the other bags. It still works though.</div>
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Yesterday I cut a plastic tablecloth into plarn.<br />
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ANY plastic sheet or bag can be turned into plarn. </div>
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I hope this was helpful. There are many videos on YouTube demonstrating how to turn plastic bags into plarn. The one's I have shared are only one woman's demonstration of the many, many videos I watched when I first started making plarn. This lady shows you clearly how to make plarn. It's really not hard. Good luck!</div>
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I will leave you with the North Field. Green as it can be! No cows in sight, yet. Ma says it may be too early to put cows on the wheat. I'll keep my eyes open for cows!</div>
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The white circle in the picture is of a combine harvesting milo in the next field over. If you click on the picture (or any other picture in the post) it will get bigger. We had our first hard frost early last week. Once it does that it is time to harvest milo (aka sorghum). If I'd been thinking when we went through town yesterday, I'd of taken a picture of that giant pile of milo sitting on the ground at the Co-op in town. But as is usually the case, I didn't think of it till now. Sorry...:( Maybe I'll get my act together soon and all these photo ops will not be lost on me? :) Who knows!</div>
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Winter is definitely on its way in! </div>
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The sand hill cranes flew over last week. They announced their arrival and were still squawking as they flew out of sight! Noisy critters! I never get a close up look at them, as they are high in the sky and flying south to warmer parts when I see them. Love hearing them fly over though and I always go out to look even though I can barely see the flock as it flies over head. My guesstimate of the size of the flock is around 30 birds.</div>
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The vultures vacated the Co-op grain bins in the center of town a couple weeks ago. They too have flown to warmer parts. I wish I could fly to warmer parts but alas, I cannot so I will just have to hunker down and stay put for the winter! </div>
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Lotty the possum was back last night, like every night now, to see what tidbits were in the bowl on the porch. She doesn't like cinnamon toast. She licked the bottom of that bowl clean of the dregs of cream I poured from the empty carton and the remnants of my baked potato had vanished as well. Lotty will fare well for the winter. </div>
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I gotta remind brother to turn the heat lamps on under the house so the pipes do not freeze! Lotty will appreciate the heat lamps! Yeah, Lotty will fare well for the winter! I only hope she doesn't have a herd of friends join her in her cushy pad beneath the house. Hopefully she will heartily defend her catered meals and not let anyone muscle in on her luxurious lifestyle. I can't afford two possums! Thankfully the youngster hasn't been seen again. Possums pretty much hang by themselves and don't live in large groups. </div>
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I'm sure I'll be back sooner than later with more art and crafts to share, probably a tale about a critter or two and who knows what!</div>
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Thanks for hanging in there to the end.</div>
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Remember...</div>
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Be kind to one another!</div>
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It matters!</div>
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Hello Readers!</div>
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I've had so much to say today, this is the second post of crazy. Crazy is good though! Keeps you on your toes!</div>
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We're going to talk about art and other things in this post.</div>
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Apparently I've been busy again! </div>
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Let's do this....grab a cuppa something, settle in, enjoy!</div>
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You all saw this little bag in a previous post. I finally got the handle sewed on.</div>
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It measures 6x2x5 inches...somewhere in that range. I didn't actually measure it. It is crocheted from plastic bags made into plarn. The little silver rings are acrylic.</div>
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It was a fun little bag to make! There are rings all along the length of the handle as well.</div>
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You all saw this bag in the last post when it was only a few rounds tall. </div>
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These are its handles before they actually became handles. The green tubing is oxygen tubing. Rope. Any flexible plastic tube would work. I taped three 1/4 inch lengths of tubing together and crocheted a cover that would fit.</div>
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Then I sewed those covers to the tubing. I'm not crazy about these handles but they do work. They're kinda fat for a handbag. They'll work though.</div>
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I've stalled on this project at this point. I cut some corrugated plastic signage to the size of the bottom of the bag and gave it a stiff bottom. The plastic was covered in dark blue polyester fabric and then sewn to the bottom edge of the bag. Doing that gave the bag nice structure.</div>
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I am going to attempt to put a zipper in this bag. Only one side of one handle is actually sewn to the bag at this point. I'm thinking I should probably put the zipper in before putting on the handles. I've never installed a zipper before. We'll see how it goes as soon as it happens.</div>
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This is my newest crocheted market bag. Still in the works. Going steady and smooth. Should be done in a day or two.</div>
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I finished the cotton thread water bottle bag. It was waiting on that braided handle to be done for better than a week. I like the braiding disk. </div>
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It's big enough to hold a 20oz bottle with a bit of room to spare. I crocheted it out of crochet cotton thread in various colors, plus purple. </div>
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I made a few brooches earlier today. This one I finished yesterday. The green and purple dog. He kinda looks like a reindeer. </div>
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Another dog like brooch. Dogs are not my animal. I make awful dogs more often than I get them right. Dog though.</div>
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Bird brooch.</div>
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One eyed cat brooch.</div>
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Purple cat brooch.</div>
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All of the brooches are felt applique sewn with embroidery thread. They have lapel pin backs.</div>
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Crochet has happened a lot here of late...</div>
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This chicken pot holder no longer exists. I messed it up something fierce! It was a practice run. I don't generally follow any pattern when I crochet. I can read patterns, I just prefer to wing it most of the time.</div>
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I tore it out and tried again.</div>
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I was aiming for a pair! :) Goal met!</div>
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I'll be giving these as a Christmas Gift. I got them right on the first try the second time!</div>
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Cute little devils aren't they??? You can go to etsy and buy the pattern or you can go to youtube and watch one being crocheted. I went the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrdh-Nv0t9A" target="_blank">video</a> route. It will point you to etsy if need be.</div>
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If you know how to crochet, these are pretty easy to make and they are cute as can be!</div>
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I found this little basket in another basket earlier this afternoon. I was looking for the loom flowers I made some months back when I found the little basket. I didn't find the loom flowers, just the looms.</div>
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I crocheted this little wire basket months and months ago. You can see from the crappy picture of it in my hand that it is a tiny little basket. I need to drag out those spools of wire and crochet 11 more of them in 11 different colors. I don't know what else that wire is good for. I thought it was something completely different than what it is when I bought it. It wasn't too hard on the hands crocheting with that plastic coated wire. It's like very thin plastic clothesline wire. </div>
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You all saw the colorful plarn market bag in the works in the last post. I finally got around to making another ball of bright yellow plarn to finish this bag and mark it off the list! That might happen in the next few days as well.</div>
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I have a few other projects in the works too though, so who knows what will happen! The yellow bag is ready to have its strap sewn on. It also needs a button of some sort as a closure. </div>
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The little green man climbed out of my felt storage bag when I was gathering supplies for the brooches. I haven't seen him in at least six months! Now that he's back in the light of day, he might get his hair finished and some clothes one of these days.</div>
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I started the blue bag yesterday. It's the beginnings of a crossbody bag sewn together in a coil with blue acrylic macrame cord and gold crochet cotton thread. It's coming along nicely. </div>
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There are some little crocheted and embroidered bumble bees hiding under the wips also. Three of them in various stages of completion. There will probably be a whole swarm of little yellow bees with black stripes and netting wings to hang on my Christmas tree. There will be at least 3 at any rate.</div>
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I leave you with the north field, planted to wheat. Five weeks and four days into its growing cycle.</div>
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The leaves have already started falling off the trees. That's an elm tree to the right and I'm not sure what that little tree on the left is. The chickens have cleared the underbrush from the marijuana growing along the trench. It is dying out for the year. It's wild ditch weed, I didn't plant it. If I were gonna plant some weed, it would be weed worth smoking! </div>
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The wheat field is looking wonderful to my untrained eye! That is my favorite color of green in the whole wide world! Always has been! </div>
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I haven't seen any cows yet, but the possibility is there that cows will show up. </div>
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Stay tuned!</div>
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You know there will be art and crochet and all manner of things handmade show up here, might be cows as well! I like cows.</div>
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Thanks for hanging in there for a two parter! </div>
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Whew! It's over!</div>
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Remember though....</div>
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Be kind to one another!</div>
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It matters!</div>
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Peace</div>
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Today I'm going to talk about opossums. </div>
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In a previous post, might of been the last post...? ...anyway in a previous post I told you all about that fool opossum that thought my painting table was a good place to explore in the kitchen. He's a she and she has a friend who is a tad smaller than she is.</div>
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I've only seen her little friend once. I found that one on the kitchen table as well. </div>
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And once again, I have only myself to blame because possums don't know any better! You leave the door open and they think it is an invitation to come right on in and wreak havoc if they're so inclined.</div>
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I got busy ....not really busy...more like engrossed on somethings or another on the world wide web the other evening and lost all track of time despite there's a clock on this screen. It was dark outside before I closed the front door. It is hard to see outside in this room so I hadn't noticed the sun had gone down.</div>
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I was headed to the kitchen to fill my cup when I realized, too late, that it was dark outside.</div>
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I closed the door anyway cause I really didn't want possums in the house. Still don't want possums in the house!</div>
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Just because I prefer they stay outside, doesn't mean they will when I give them opportunity to come on in and make themselves to home! This one was considerably smaller than the one that sat in the basket on the shelf where paints are stored. That possum is a nice plump specimen! This guy was little in stature, not skinny, just little and stank to high heaven! Unlike the one caught in the paint basket, this one did not grin at me. This one snarled and growled and raised his hackles at me. Then it promptly knocked a container of odds and ends tools off the table, across the kitchen floor! His mama taught him well, put up a fight! But his little spectacle didn't really concern me too much. He only did it once and he really didn't have his heart in it!</div>
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<br />I went on through the kitchen, right past that belligerent youngster, into the laundry room to turn on the light and open the back door to give Junior an escape route.</div>
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I shooed him off the table with the bristle end of the broom and herded him toward the laundry room. He threw a few more things on the floor on his way down to the floor. Graceful, possums are not. Do you think he went straight out the back door? Heck no. That would have been too easy! No, he hid behind the laundry hamper and refused to be herded with the broom. I shut the laundry room door into the kitchen and left that smelly possum and Lola in the laundry room. He eventually made his way out of the laundry room and down the back porch steps into the great outdoors where he belongs.That cat is of no help at all in getting possums out of the house! She's no help in keeping them out either!</div>
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This little possum has appeared to have moved on as this is the only encounter I've had with it. And I do not have pictures to show you....darn! This happened four or five days ago.</div>
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The other one though....yeah she's sticking around. There's free grub on occasion!</div>
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Last night she had leftover rice with ham chunks and bell peppers. I wasn't real crazy about the combination either! That's why Lotty, that's what I've named her, got it. She took her sweet old time eating this stuff. She came back three times that I know of. She runs whenever she sees me walk past the door and if I'm not quiet about walking through the house, she runs when she hears me so I only see the back end of her going down the stairs. I dumped some oil from a can of tuna onto that rice when she wasn't looking. She wasn't on the porch at any rate...It must have improved the taste as the bowl was licked clean by morning. Except she didn't eat any of the green pepper. Those chunks were scattered all over the rug. No biggie, really. I just swept them onto the ground and the chickens came along and cleaned them up. </div>
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Don't try to take pictures of a possum on a dark porch, through the front door glass while you're sitting in the dark as well. Especially don't use the flash. It makes that table top look like I haven't dusted in 20 years! And it makes possums turn into demonic looking creatures. </div>
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Course, if that's the look you're going for....well, that's how it's done apparently.</div>
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That's Lotty looking all devilish, eating a bowl of leftover scrambled eggs and zucchini. She doesn't like zucchini any better than she likes green peppers.</div>
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She's a bit of a messy eater. The porch always needs swept afterwards.</div>
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Are cookies good for possums? Probably not.</div>
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But look at that little face! She loves cookies. Linda was right about that! </div>
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Linda is my sister. She is the one who provided the white chocolate chip cookie to give to Lotty. </div>
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Linda used to have her own resident possum. His name was Tony and he lived on her front porch. She generally fed him cat food but Linda's husband used to go to the store specifically to buy Tony Oreo Cookies. He lived on their front porch in a small dog house Linda had put there for the neighbor's cat who wasn't allowed inside. Tony moved in instead. He stayed for a few months and then moved on on his own accord. When I told her about the possums she said Ma had already told her. She offered up the advice that I MUST feed them cookies! "They LOVE cookies!" she said. She gave me the cookie, I gave it to Lotty. </div>
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She munched and munched and munched! She was so into that cookie she didn't even realize I was right at the door with the camera. The porch light was on and I was using the flash. She didn't care. She just kept eating.</div>
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And when we pan out to see the entire scene... Lotty has a spectator. Miss Lola had checked that cookie out right after I put it on the porch and deemed it not to her liking. She didn't need that cookie! Look at the size of that cat! She must of been on the porch when Lotty came to visit. I doubt Lola arrived on the porch after the possum. </div>
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Lotty has snarfed down every crumb of that cookie and is now washing her face with her front paws. She has fingers on her front paws much like a raccoon. She licked all her little fingers clean and then washed her snout. Lola watched from the porch railing.</div>
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When Lotty finished her bath, she snuffled around the perimeter of the front porch, presumably to check for additional cookies. Upon finding nothing of interest she ambled on down the stairs.</div>
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I know Lotty is a girl because when she went down the stairs, I could see the underside of her belly. She has a pouch. Boy possums don't have pouches.</div>
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If I continue to offer her leftovers, she will probably stay through the winter. But she's a mind of her own and I'm sure what I want or think really doesn't matter to her. </div>
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I will enjoy her while she comes around and be happy she chose to stay as long as she does.</div>
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I do want her to stay out of the house though. Opossums are not allowed in the house. Under the house is OK, but not in it.</div>
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Thanks for reading about Lotty and the Juvenile Delinquent. I am in hopes JD has moved on and won't return. I think one resident possum is plenty. But if he does come back, I guess he and Lotty can fight it out where it works for them. I don't know that JD is a boy. I just know he's a youngun.</div>
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I'm sure there will be more chapters in the saga of The Possums Who Come to Dinner. </div>
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Be kind to one another. </div>
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It matters!</div>
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Peace</div>
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I'm just sitting here listening to Bad Company and contemplating a blog post. </div>
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<strike>I really don't have a great deal of stuff to show you today. I've been busy making plarn and crocheting mostly. </strike>Better start again after having looked back at all the photographs you will see shortly. I really haven't accomplished a great deal since the last post. That was a week or so ago? Making plarn takes up a bit of time. While making plarn I sat in front of this pc watching Forensic Files, Divorce Court and Street Food videos from around the world on YouTube. I guess that beats the heck out of wasting my time sitting in front of this machine playing useless games. I do that enough on my phone!</div>
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I did get a bit of crocheting done since I was here last. I try to crochet in front of the pc but it always goes astray and I end up playing those useless games instead of crocheting. I listen to podcasts on my phone in the livingroom while crocheting. My phone updated itself almost two weeks ago and my podcasts wouldn't play, nor could I listen to NPR. Last Wednesday I went to the nextech office in town and had the girl behind the counter set it right again. They don't call those things smart phones for nothing. Mine's surely smarter than I am in a lot of areas!</div>
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A lot of these photos are of stuff I made weeks ago and forgot to include. </div>
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I was certain I had taken a picture of the north field since the last post but there were no new ones to show. I will try to keep up with the field throughout the growing season, which will not end till next July. I suspect, no, no, I HOPE we get some cows to look at during the winter. The field is as green as it can be right now. Growing like crazy! Grazing cows would be a nice addition. </div>
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I'm sorry to say I've missed a few photo opportunities in the last few days. </div>
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Mr. Possum came for a visit at 5 o'clock this morning. I was sound asleep when I heard a noise in the kitchen. I thought it was the cat climbing on stuff she shouldn't be climbing on. I hollered at Lola to get down from there! A bit later I heard a bigger crash and came fully awake. I got up to see what the hell that cat was doing. Wasn't the cat at all. She was sitting in the livingroom right outside the kitchen when I came out of my room. Mr. Possum was on the shelf beside the table where I do painting. He was sitting smack dab in the big basket of craft paints that sit on the second shelf up from the floor. He had knocked my strategically placed piles of projects in the works....right on the floor scattered everything on the table and somehow managed NOT to spill the paint water. How he got on the table, I don't know. He was awfully quiet about it all as it happened. Remember I was asleep until the crash happened. </div>
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He sat there, just looking at me as I calmly asked why the hell he was in the house. Then he bared his teeth at me as though he were smiling. Looked like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Possums aren't aggressive in the least. I wasn't that close to him. He had knocked a ball of yarn off the shelf onto the floor along with a boatload of other stuff. I picked it up and threw it at him. He seemed not to care. I couldn't do anything but wait for him to leave. Lola was having nothing to do with this circus. Murray was MIA. She didn't even bother coming home last night. I went back to bed. Shut all the lights off and crawled back between the sheets and left Mr. Possum to his own devices. I'm sure he filled his belly with cat food while he was here. I should have taken his picture but I wasn't thinking. I was half asleep. After I had gone back to bed, five minutes later I heard him leave. I got up to make sure he had indeed taken the route out he'd taken in. He was headed down the front porch steps last I saw of him. It's about that time of year, I won't be leaving the front door open at all hours. I have only myself to blame for the kitchen mess. Possums don't know any better! </div>
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I stepped out on the porch in the grayness of dawn to see Mr. Possum on his way. There was a thick fog all about. It was still dark at 5:22 a.m. but light enough to see with the light of the moon and the yard light. It was almost as pretty as the moon was last night. It was chilly this morning, in the lower 40sF.</div>
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At any rate. You all won't be seeing those sights unfortunately.</div>
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I do have a few things to show you though, so we better get on with it!</div>
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Enjoy!</div>
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Last post I told you all the things I forgot to take pictures of that you may see in a future post. This post contains some of those things. I think I missed one or two....</div>
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At any rate these are all 4 x 6 inches. Markers on colored writing paper. I don't know if they'll end up being postcards or book covers. Or something entirely different than that. Who knows! </div>
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I am pretty sure I had all these pictures oriented correctly before I added them here. What's up with Blogger changing things up like that? </div>
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This eyeball was going to be the eye for a cyclops cat but the eye is all that materialized so far. It's a little less than two inches across. Markers on book page paper. (end papers) I did the eyeball three or four days ago. I don't know, they all run together sometimes.</div>
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I am not fond of the color pink! I have a boatload of pink yarn and a boatload of white as well... I decided to make some backings for mug rugs. I'll do applique on felt with felt and sew them to these instead of using felt like I usually do for mug rugs. The bottom on is a bit big to be a mug rug so it will be a hot pot mat instead. I made these earlier today.</div>
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Actually I've spent most of yesterday and today doing little more than sitting on my backside crocheting. I started this plarn bag yesterday. I ran out of yellow plarn so will have to make more before I can finish this bag. It needs a couple more rows of each color. It's a bit short at this point.</div>
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When I ran out of yellow plarn I started crocheting with acrylic yarn. This will be a small market bag within a day or two. The colors look totally off on my monitor. They are dark blue and a grayish smokey blue color. I've no idea what size hook I'm using as it had been rubbed clean of that information when I acquired the hook. For some reason someone scratched it off. I use this hook a lot with acrylic yarn.</div>
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The day before yesterday I dragged out my scrap bag of felt and made some felt brooches for the swap instead of the ones I showed you all the last post.</div>
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They're all in the 2-2.5 inch range.</div>
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I don't know if the lapel pin backs are acceptable per swap rules but they were done by the time I thought to check. I wrote my info on a sheet of white paper and colored it with markers to match the brooch. I then glued those little papers to the brooch.</div>
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I used some of these metal lapel pins for the innards of the bird brooches. I have a shipload of these lapel pins. Some of them are worthless as far as monetary value. They work great for this application though. I also have big safety pins that would have worked but the lapel pins were on the shelf six feet away. The safety pins are way off in the kitchen, pinned to the inside of my wool bag that I sometimes take along when I leave the house.</div>
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Either way, I'm set for the swap. I really like the bird pins the best. I'd trade the others. Though I really do like the purple bells. </div>
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This will eventually become a little brooch too. Dog made with scraps of felt. I'll sew him together with embroidery thread and put a double pronged lapel pin inside him.</div>
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This is about as Halloweeny it's going to get around my house. This little rubber skeleton hangs from the ceiling in my deskroom year round. He's about a foot tall. He's hung in that spot for years!</div>
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Yes, that is a Grow a Boyfriend and a scorpion in acrylic. All kinds of weird crap like this on the walls of this room where all writing takes place. The fella with the deer is Jimmy Johnson, says so right on the picture. My youngest son brought me this photograph maybe 10years ago. He said he got it at the bait shop in town. He's a stinker of a boy, used to be a bigger stinker of a boy when he was younger. He didn't come right out and say he swiped it, but that's what he did. He doesn't know who Jimmy Johnson is anymore than I do. "But look at that deer, Mom!"</div>
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I drew the abstract behind the skeleton shortly after I moved into this house, so about 11 years ago. <br />I got the Grow a Boyfriend from my sister for my birthday a few years ago. Best kind of boyfriend to have! Just keep him locked up in his packaging so he can't give you no shit! I haven't heard a peep outta this one EVER! LOL </div>
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I'm pretty sure one of my sons gave me the scorpion. I have several scorpions.</div>
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Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06121998319968124939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545790654045422875.post-64429049276606911622016-10-09T10:06:00.001-05:002016-10-09T12:18:33.976-05:00Let's Do This!~<div style="text-align: center;">
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We are going to jump right in with both feet for this post. There's a lot to talk about and a lot to show. </div>
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September flew by in a whirlwind of activity. </div>
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The Kansas State Fair was the highlight of last month. I entered Five things in the fair in various categories of competition.</div>
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FP 19 wasn't complete yet when I was here last so here's a picture of the finished canvas</div>
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hanging with its competitors at the fair. The abstract to the left was not in the same category as the fish picture and the other two.It took the blue ribbon! </div>
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Here's another picture of it finished. It's leaning up against the shelf on my desk in the living room at the moment where the lighting isn't so good. </div>
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Mr Spider, whom you've all met before took a red ribbon.</div>
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little turtle you can almost see who beat out mr. spider for the first
place ribbon. I personally thought my spider was better executed than
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I was completely and thoroughly gobsmacked that my plarn crocheted market bag got a blue ribbon.</div>
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journal category. I think journal and automatically I think blank book.
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The last entry into the 2016 KANSAS State Fair is Bert.</div>
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At any rate, I did pretty good in the fair season this year. Goals were met.</div>
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I had a great visit with the kids for sixteen days. I didn't take a whole lot of pictures while down there. I always kick myself for not taking pictures after the fact. And I showed a few pictures off on instagram while they were occurring. Feels like cheating for some reason, when I share them again on the blog. </div>
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This is the grand champion pumpkin for this year. I weighs upwards of 650 pounds. I forget the exact weight. Somewhere around there. This wasn't the biggest pumpkin at the fair though. There was another that wasn't in competition that weighed 970some pounds. It was a direct descendant of last year's record breaking heaviest pumpkin in the state. That one weighed 1034 pounds. I don't have a picture of the 970 pound beast but I do have some seeds for its parent that will be planted come spring! </div>
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As far as I know, there has never been a giant pumpkin at the Rooks County Fair. We may have to change that! I'll keep you posted about the giant pumpkin experiment once the experiment begins.</div>
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My son and I went to the hardware store while I was away from home one day. I discovered this cool storm drain cover in the sidewalk.</div>
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The boy and I went on an adventure to the big city (Wichita) and spent a couple hours traipsing around the salvage yard in the rain. My old body didn't enjoy the experience as much as my mind did. I love digging around in junk. We were on the hunt for a few things. We bought two sun visors. One for my old blue beast and one for the boy's wife's car. It was a lot of fun! Even the rain couldn't dampen the enjoyment. I did pay for the excursion the following days with lots of aches and pains. I've recovered since though. Ready to do it again.</div>
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There were baby pigs at the fair. These little guys were only a few hours old. Pigs are my favorite critters at the fair! These were in the birthing barn. The veterinary school at the University of Kansas in Manhattan runs the birthing barn at the fair. There were lots of farm animals in the birthing barn. Cows, pigs, goats, sheep, chickens, ducks...all of them somehow associated with the beginning of life. Little kids love the birthing barn. I guess big kids do too... </div>
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Olivia with an ear of field corn she retrieved from the corn field next to where the kids live.</div>
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Vegetable eating dog. The kids have two such dogs.</div>
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She's a very friendly dog who loves to have her picture taken. That's the other vegetable stealing dog on the sofa behind us. His name is Half Pint. </div>
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This cat missed me terribly if the way she acted when I came home is any indication. I just like this picture of her feet on my flowered dress. </div>
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Before I went away on my trip I had a flurry of crochet going on. I still have a flurry of it going on but that just means progress is being made!</div>
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Same bag in both pictures. It's made with acrylic yarn. The handle/strap is two lengths of aluminum chair crocheted together lengthwise and then sewn on the bag. This one is about 6x8 inches or so. I didn't measure any of these when I took the pictures.</div>
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Same bag, just showing you how it's put together. I crocheted the bag itself. The flap is woven and the handle is braided. It's all made from the same fabric. And it weighs a ton! The fabric is from cashmere sweaters. It's a pretty good sized bag. </div>
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I started this crocheted basket long before I ever went on the September trip. I picked it back up a few days before I left to go down to Hutchinson. It was almost done when I left. I finished it when I got back home. </div>
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I love how it looks on the inside. It is made from a cereal box cut into string. I crocheted cotton string around the chipboard string to form the basket. It's not a very sturdy basket, but it is a cool one! You could put light stiff in it, don't get it wet though or you'll end up with a big ol mess on your hands!</div>
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This market bag is crocheted with tshirt yarn. </div>
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Fabric bracelet. I made this one while at my son's house. It's made with the seams of the cashmere sweaters the bag you just saw is made from. I added other seams from other sweaters and lots of different strings and whatnot. It's sewn together with embroidery thread. </div>
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It isn't exactly my style, but I was on a roll and made another one.</div>
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This one is made from felt scraps and snippets of yarn all embroidered together. I like this one even less than the first one. It isn't for me to decide if it's any good or not though. That's up to the one looking at it.</div>
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This is a little green coin pouch made from plarn. Plarn is made from plastic bags. These plastic bags are marketed as dog poop collection bags. They make excellent plarn! It is about 4 inches wide x 3.5 inches tall or so. It has a plastic pearl button as a closure.</div>
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A messenger bag crocheted from two types of string. The pink is acrylic yarn and the green color is crewel embroidery yarn.</div>
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Crossbody bag crocheted with sock weight acrylic yarn (orange) and crewel embroidery yarn(green). The chain was too long for the strap so I crocheted the chain into the bag all around the top. This one measures somewhere around 8x6 inches.</div>
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Another bag. This one a small market bag. It's a nice soft bag, roomy. Crocheted from fuzzy thick acrylic yarn. </div>
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I very seldom buy yarn. People give me skeins of yarn they no longer want or have found somewhere and thought of me when they came across it. That means I have little control over what colors of yarn I have to work with on any given project. I just go with the flow and hope it all works out alright with other people's choices of the colors. So far, so good.</div>
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Back in July a box came in the mail that contained 1000 pipe cleaners of various colors. When I ordered the pipe cleaners I had a basket design in mind. That design didn't work out and we ended up with this instead. I kinda like it. Yep. Liked it so much there are three other baskets farther down the list here. I think you'll only get to see two of them though. The shallow one didn't turn out all that great.</div>
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I go from crocheted baskets to woven baskets to coiled sewn baskets.</div>
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I really like the wonkiness of it. It is a big sturdy basket that will last a very long time.</div>
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Same basket all three pictures. I cut up a leather coat some time back and saved all the seams, thinking surely they could be used for something! Well this coiled sewn basket is the result. I sewed the coils together with white crochet cotton thread and then crocheted the coils together with jute cording. I also sewed some of the jute in. </div>
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I believe this to be the best basket I have ever made. </div>
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Water bottle bag crocheted from acrylic yarn remnants.</div>
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Pipe cleaner basket pencil cup.</div>
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pipe cleaner basket. this one is about 4 inches tall x 4 inches wide.</div>
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Crocheted purse. Acrylic yarn and textured yarn (tan). The strap is chain braided with the textured yarn on the braiding disk. Won't be doing that again. It worked out alright was just a PITA to get it done!</div>
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Another water bottle bag. Acrylic yarn remnants.</div>
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Water bottle bags were hot and heavy on the radar. Acrylic yarn remnants. Most water bottle bags have straps/handles braided on the braiding disk with the same colors of yarn in the body of the bag.</div>
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I did a few drawings since the last time I was here. </div>
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ATC - markers on cardstock</div>
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ATC markers on cardstock</div>
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ATC yellow crocodile's kittens</div>
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markers on cardstock</div>
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handmade book with a crocheted plarn spine. The spine is yarn made from dog poop bags crocheted onto covers made from plastic signage. Book measures 5 x 7 inches and has copy paper pages numbering around 50 pages.</div>
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3x3 inches drawing paper--markers</div>
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ATC mandala</div>
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markers on canvas paper</div>
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Works in progress... Couple of bags...the pink/white one is acrylic yarn. It needs a tassel made for the point on the flap of the bag and the handles tightened up with a few more stitches where they're attached at sides of the bag. The green one needs the handle/strap sewn to the bag. I'm still debating if I want to take the time to give the green bag a lining. I'm very pleased with the way the green one turned out. It is covered with those little silver rings in the bowl, as is the strap. I could easily sew a zipper and lining in it. The little green roll is a roll of dog poop bags. They come three to a package for $1. That plarn is so soft! I have some black ones, some black and white striped ones (think zebra) and some white ones with purple bones. And I found some other plastic bags in pink and in blue that work into plarn that is very similar in feel to the green stuff. There will be more plarn projects in the future.</div>
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I got some new pets. Bunch of guppies. Too many guppies! Ma got them for Mother's Day from my sister Susan. Ma didn't really want fish to begin with and she was just tired of having to take care of them. She was going to give them all to Carrie to feed to her goldfish in the pond in her sunroom but I said I'd take them. The cats might find them entertaining. Her cat, Charlie could have cared less about those guppies. Murray thinks they are pretty cool! She sits on the stool by the table where they sit and watches and watches them. Carrie will get some of these guys to feed to her goldfish as there are way too many fishes in this tiny tank. And some of the girls are fixing to drop babies any day now. </div>
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This thing turned into a pouch. It was originally the bottom of a bag that I was about halfway done crocheting when I decided I didn't like it at all! The whole thing would have reverted into yarn had I been able to find the right end to pull to get this to revert back into yarn. I couldn't find the end though so I turned it into a pouch. </div>
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Last, but not least, another water bottle bag. This one is acrylic yarn and crochet cotton crocheted together. </div>
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I entered a fabric brooch swap over at AFA. I forgot the brooches are to be made of fabric. This one has a base of fabric, but the fabric doesn't show at all. Aluminum bells, plastic button. I might just keep this one. </div>
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Burlap and lace brooch. It also has a yellow plastic disk and a plastic button. That's not really burlap. It's crocheted jute cord.</div>
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This one isn't exactly done yet. I still gotta figure out what to dangle off that ring. This one has a plastic disk with acrylic yarn and green plastic plarn braided on the braiding disk and then sewn into this shape you see here. </div>
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Crocheted acrylic yarn and plarn. The yellow is embroidered acrylic yarn. It still needs a pin put on the backside.</div>
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There's a little doll trying to be born. No clue what will happen here. This will be a tiny little thing whatever it turns out to be. that paper its laying on is a 3 inch square.</div>
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Crocheted fabric yarn rug. Ok, it's not really big enough to be a rug. It's like a rug though. I'm using it as a pad in my chair. </div>
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I've been practicing drawing faces. I think this one will get painted and turned into a magnet. I do know I need lots of practice before I can say with any certainty that I know how to draw people. At the moment, I do know how to draw people. I just don't know how to draw people well. Lots of practice is needed.</div>
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I know I am forgetting a few things. </div>
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There's the two headed mermaid postcard I didn't get a picture of. Some of you saw it over at AFA. I forgot to steal Gem's pictures of it. </div>
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Annie's kitty book is finally done and in her hands. I sent it to her in a colorful altered envelope in honor of her seventh birthday. She was thrilled with getting a colorful envelope. I didn't get a picture of it either.</div>
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There are five or six postcard size drawings done in marker that are sitting on the desk here in front of me that I neglected to photograph. Perhaps you'll see them next time.</div>
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For now....I leave you with a brand new field of winter wheat.</div>
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It was planted on the 22nd of September. Sure didn't take long for it to sprout! Looks like we will be keeping an eye on a wheat crop this year. Let's hope for better luck with wheat than he had with soybeans last year. </div>
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Thanks for hanging in there till the end!</div>
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Remember....</div>
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Be kind to one another!</div>
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It matters!</div>
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Peace</div>
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We'll just get right to it today. I've been working on FP19 and progress is afoot! </div>
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After two days of making and putting all this stuff on the canvas, fish picture 19 is well on its way to complete.</div>
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I'm going to ramble on for a little while here about all the stuff on the canvas if you are interested in the process of how this came to be.</div>
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As is always the norm with fish pictures, there isn't a picture of the canvas before I started.</div>
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I painted the canvas green after I had covered it in two layers of book pages. Just plain old acrylic wall paint. I painted the darker green, let it dry for a bit and then drizzled a light mint green all over the dark green. </div>
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Hopefully your monitor is showing the background as green. On mine, it looks more goldish than green. At any rate, it's green. Everything is green just about.... I took some puff paint in two different shades of green and 'drew' some vertical lines resembling seaweed. While everything was still a bit wet, I sprinkled a dusting of dark green glitter over it all.</div>
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Once that is done it is time for some rocks.</div>
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I usually use styrofoam chunks for rocks on the fish pictures. But time was of the essence in this matter and there was not time to do styrofoam rocks. They must be painted numerous times in different shades to make the styrofoam magically turn into rocks. So I went with the next thing I could think of and used a few different types of paper for the rocks.</div>
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I selected four or five different varieties of paper from my stash. I tried to keep them all in the green/yellow family as I had decided this fish picture would be green.</div>
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I wanted them all to be coherent to one another in their color so I smeared some chalk pastels all over them and waded them into balls of appropriate size.</div>
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And glued them to the canvas in a random pattern along the lower half of the canvas. I was a little heavy handed with the white pva glue. I ended up with a puddle of glue, filled with dark green glitter, on the kitchen floor when I woke up the next day. No biggie. It will come up.</div>
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I would have used the hot glue gun, but I couldn't find a hot glue gun that would work properly at the time I was gluing the paper rocks on. </div>
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I had to find a hot glue gun if this fish picture is going to get done!</div>
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These are little paper balls that will go into nooks and crannies once we start adding things to the rock shelf.</div>
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Making the components for the reef is the most time consuming part of this. I don't know how to tell you how I choose what will end up on a fish picture other than I generally decide on a color scheme and I usually stick pretty close to it. I went through my stash of strings...yarns, threads, things of such..and took out all the green stuff. The stuff in the picture above is cording that is sewn around the edge of a decorative pillow. I took some copper wire and wound it around a length of the cording. The other thing is a piece of satin cloth that does have a bronze sheen on it, but it is green. I formed it inot an organic shape and wired it together.</div>
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I sit in front of my computer watching YouTube videos while I make these things. This one is some scrap felt that I wired into a plant like shape and added a green plastic bead to it. I made three of these for the canvas. </div>
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Most fish pictures have several different crocheted things. This is satin fabric from a vest that I cut into thin yarn and crocheted into these shapes. I did six or seven of these but only a few made it onto this fish picture. The others went in the box of fish picture parts for a future fish picture. These are actually a very very dark green color, not black.</div>
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You all are thinking, 'what the devil is that?' More felt plant thing-a-ma-bobs. for some reason when I was on the pickle kick sometime back, I cut out a bunch of peanut shaped felt pieces to sew into pickles. That only happened with three of the pieces, and that pickle is still not finished. I sewed the peanut shaped pieces into these things. 3 of them</div>
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Beads are always a part of fish pictures. These are strung on copper wire. There's another crocheted domahickey, some loose beads and a woven ball made from the beginnings of a reel of 8mm film.</div>
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I haven't shown you ALL the components I made for fp19. You'll see the whole shebang in a bit.</div>
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Here I've started adding things to the rocks.</div>
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I found a glue gun out in the storage shed. That glue gun sucked! I used it until I just couldn't stand it any longer. I drove to town to the Dollar Store to see if they had one. The Dollar Store was my best bet for what I needed. They did not have any glue guns that I could find. </div>
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Ma saved my hide! I stopped at her house on my way home from town and she had a brand new one in the cabinet out in the garage that she gave me. It came with a glue pot as well! Bonus! Not that I used the glue pot. I didn't, yet.</div>
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Some more things for the canvas. The light green 'sticks' are cardstock cut to that shape and then painted green. There were twice that many of them. I didn't paint the others this color of green. they were painted a darker green and then covered with the stuff in the little white box. That stuff being scraps of embroidery thread, yarn and the like. I always save the thread ends. I went through that little baggie of thread snippets and dragged out all the green and the white ones. Along with the green and white ones came a few other colors too. Just enough for a hint of color once I cut them all into tiny little snippets so I could glue them to the chipboard.</div>
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The white and gold things up at the top are christmas balls for floral displays. I used a few of the white ones. Cut the wire off and hot glued them on.</div>
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The light green fabric is a scrap of silk. It got cut up into a few pieces and stuffed into the rocks here and there.</div>
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I didn't use the bronzy green strings. That's the same material from earlier though.</div>
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A mushroom box full of some of the stuff used. The white things are crocheted beaded organza trim. </div>
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The light green strings in the lower right corner are seams from a tshirt I cut into yarn sometime back. Little paper rocks, the pillow cording and a crocheted doodad. The green and white strings in the upper left corner are crocheted baker's twine that I did not use on this fish picture.</div>
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These are origami units from a bucky ball I made a few years ago. The bucky ball was about the size of a soccer ball. It collapsed because of the humidity. The paper used to make the units came from a university year book from 1973. I slapped on some green ink so they weren't quite so white. Some of them already had green from the year book pages on them.</div>
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I didn't use the stringed pearls on this fish picture, though I had intended to if need be. They'll show up on a future one, I'm sure.</div>
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These are the sticks with the cut up thread glued to them. The other thing is the cut offs from cutting out the chipboard for the fuzzy sticks. I gathered them all together and wired them. Then I slapped on some green ink.</div>
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And after a few hours of putting this here and that there and rearranging and fiddling with things, we have this.</div>
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I'll be back soon....like later today....with another installment of fish picture 19 progress. The fishes are done as I write this. All that is left to do is adhere the fishes and a few more strings and I will call this done!</div>
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Thanks for hanging in to the end!</div>
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Remember...</div>
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Be kind to one another!</div>
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It matters!</div>
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Peace</div>
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Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06121998319968124939noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545790654045422875.post-32441813162509240432016-07-29T06:36:00.000-05:002016-07-29T06:36:37.520-05:00Art Critters and Other Things on My Mind<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello Readers!</div>
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Better get a cuppa something, I have a lot to say today. Most of it will be of little importance, but may be entertaining nonetheless. I've been busy with projects, as is usual. I've apparently been very busy with projects if all the pictures I edited for this post is any indication. </div>
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I'll download the pictures and then ramble on about them....enjoy!</div>
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I've been crocheting for about a week or so, making baskets and bags. This orange basket is about 6 inches tall, 6 inches across the top. Made from textured orange cotton yarn (it has inclusions in different colors. Not black like it appears to be on my monitor) crocheted around macrame cord.</div>
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You all saw some crossbody bags in the last post. Well, there are a few more added to the series. This one is fuzzy champagne colored yarn crocheted around yellow poly rope to form the bag. The flap is just yarn, no rope. The flap has a metal medallion that was once part of a belt sewn to it to keep the flap shut. It has a curb chain handle that was once part of a belt as well. It measures somewhere in the range of 6 inches across, 5 inches tall. I didn't measure any of them. It's all an educated guess. They're big enough to hold what you need for a night out, or a shopping spree.</div>
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The colors on this one are way off according to my monitor. The color is pastels blue, pink, yellow and green in very pale tones. It has a heavy alloy butterfly button to help keep the flap closed. The handle is reclaimed curb chain from a belt. It's probably 6 inches tall, 4 inches wide.</div>
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This crossbody bag is crocheted out of acrylic rug yarn. Then I appliqued the cat in felt directly to the bag. This one measures about 4 inches wide, 6 inches tall. Again, I didn't measure. I sent this one to my sister to use as a pouch to carry her phone around in while she's talking on the phone. That woman can talk for hours and hours if you let her! I think our longest session ever on the phone was upwards of six hours. Sometimes we have a lot to talk about!</div>
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This crossbody bag is crocheted out of the same yarn as the basket that started this post. This one is about 5 inches across, 6 inches tall. There abouts. The front flap stays closed because I sewed lead curtain weights onto the backside of the lower corners of the flap. </div>
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This bag is a bit different. It is a draw string bag. The fuzzy champagne colored yarn is crocheted around yellow poly rope to form a round basket shape and the tan yarn was added to the top to form the draw string. The handles are reclaimed chain from an old purse.</div>
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In the last post I showed you all the fence out front with the license plates on it. This time I present the fence behind the garage dedicated to fan blades of all sorts. There are a couple dozen fan blades along the top of this fence. I didn't show you all the entire fence line, cause I don't think brother wants me advertising what all is behind the garage. </div>
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This is the altered envie I sent my July partner over at AFA in the EAU group. It is markers on regular envelope. This is the front...</div>
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and this is the back. </div>
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I don't remember if I ever showed you this finished paper yarn basket or not. So here it is. About 9 inches square on the bottom, six inches tall or so. I think a crossbody bag or two will be made from the remaining paper yarn.</div>
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post card made on a paperboard photo frame. The daffodil is markers on drawing paper.</div>
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An 8 inch chipboard fish. The flowers are nail polish on black acrylic paint. I added glitter to the fins and a big googly eye as well.</div>
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I got a couple of new sets of pens and decided I would do an alphabet on 1.5x2 inch cards of cardstock. I already have one set of ATC size alphabet cards hanging in the hallway. I thought I needed a set made my hands too. this project will be ongoing till the whole alphabet materializes. The going might get slow here in the next 10 days as I am embarking on a fish picture making session and FP19 will take my entire attention until then. My deadline is the 6August16 to make good on getting FP19 done and out the door by then. You'll see some of FP19 here in a bit.</div>
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Crocheted mesh market bag made with acrylic yarn. This is the only bag I have ever made where I followed a pattern. I'm not sure I nailed the pattern perfectly, but a bag did materialize. A bag that would be quite useful for hauling home your groceries. </div>
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Another crossbody bag. This one is crocheted out of 1/4 inch cotton twill tape. It's a nice sturdy little bag, but rather plain at this point. I do believe this one will get some beading of some sort, just to jazz it up a tad. It is about 6 inches across, 5 inches tall or so.</div>
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Another work in progress, put on hold for the time being because of FP19. This will eventually become another drawstring bag. I am fairly certain this one will have leather handles with a leather string as the drawing mechanism. That all remains to be seen right now though cause the muse may change her mind and something entirely different will happen for the handles. </div>
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I was playing with the camera microscope the other night. This is the little Bic guy you find on lighters and ink pens. Here he is 30x magnified. Just in case you needed a close up look at the little fella.</div>
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4 stoned cats.</div>
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going clockwise....Fluffy Frank, Lola, Obee and Murray. I had given them all a dose of catnip. You all saw Frank in the last post. He's settled in, though I can't say he's settled in nicely. The vet has confirmed, Frank is a crazy cat, messed up in his head! I declined the medication suggested to try to make Frank less crazy as I don't think he's THAT crazy that I can't live with his craziness. He may end up being an outside cat again as I may give him back to my grand daughter. We shall see how he behaves in the next 10 days as to whether he goes back to his life as an outside cat or he stays with me and lives inside. I'm giving him 10 days because that's about how long it will be till I see my son and his little family again.</div>
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You all haven't met Obee unless you follow me on Instagram. You'll hear more about Obee later in this post.</div>
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Another crossbody bag. This one is about 5 inches across, 6 inches tall or so. It is crocheted from some fleece-like material that I cut into yarn and darker blue acrylic yarn. The knob on the front of the bag is a hollow ball crocheted from the fleece. I'm not crazy about this bag's handle but it will suffice. I am not the judge of these things. Those who want them are the judge.</div>
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And yet another crossbody bag in the works. This one is just a pouch right now. It needs a handle. I have yet to figure out a handle for it. I would like to put chain on it for a handle but I am flush out of curb chain for handles...waiting on a package to arrive in the mail that may contain some chain that will work for this bag. The knob on the front of this one is a button 1.5 inches across that I crocheted around. This one is made from fuzzy tan yarn, green and blue acrylic yarn. It is about 6 x 5 inches, there abouts.</div>
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Playing with the microscope some more...this is textured foil paper from packaging.</div>
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Crocheting was hot and heavy on the radar...this is a hot pot mat crocheted with nylon cord around macrame cord. I didn't really think that through....nylon cord for hot pots? This one is about 7 inches across.</div>
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I've been working on the cover of Annie's Kitty Book also. My deadline for this is looming also. I put out a call for kitties back in March of this year and there were tons of offers for kitties! The cross stitched kitties on the cover were done by xstitcher over at AFA. She contributed more cross stitched kitties than this piece. Thanks to everyone who contributed kitties to the book. I plan on incorporating a page in the book to acknowledge all of the people who so generously contributed. </div>
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The inside pages of the kitty book are almost completed. I still need to do another flip through the book and add some tiny kitties here and there to fill up empty spaces. I'll be working on the Kitty Book while waiting for glue to dry on FP19. </div>
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I made lime jello the other night and promptly made the box into a book cover. I even cut the pages for the book. The kitten is drawn on drawing paper with markers, cut out and taped to the front cover of the book. The stripes beneath the kitten are washi tape of various colors. It will be at least 10 days before I will have time to sew the book together.</div>
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Another work in progress... a beaded market bag done is crochet cotton with wooden beads. This one will take awhile to complete. I shall pick it up again later. </div>
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You all saw these fishes last post also if memory serves me correctly. They are done now except for the magnets I will slap on the backside once the gel medium dries completely.</div>
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I could have sworn there were 14 of the little devils when I started this project weeks ago but all we end up with is a dozen of them. They are fishes, drawn in marker on fairly stout chipboard, then glittered to make sparkly fishes. They measure 1 x 1.5 inches. Sorry for the crappy pictures! That is what we get when I decide to take pictures at 3 o'clock in the morning....</div>
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Mr. Spider is finished as far as I am concerned. I made a few mistakes with his fella. He has no fangs! I should added fangs before I glittered him. I should have painted him black before glittering him. He was masking tape tan before I glittered him and the black glitter needed three rounds of touch ups before I actually got the majority of the tan covered with black glitter. His eyes are tiny plastic flat back gemstones that were originally purple and red. I painted them bronze colored with some fingernail polish. The white spots on his knees is also fingernail polish. Other than him having no fangs, I'm pretty happy with him. </div>
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If you want to follow along with the making of FP19, this where we will start. I forgot to take a picture of the canvas before I started on it...always happens...I get it covered and remember I forgot to take a picture. All canvases for FPs are reclaimed/recycled. This one had the words "Welcome Brasilian" on it along with a rendition of what I presume to be the flag of Brasil. All done in marker of some sort.</div>
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It is a stretched canvas, 16 x 20 inches. I covered it in a layer of torn paper from a catalog and then with torn pages from a paperback novel called The Cat Who Went In The Closet. I'll let this all dry overnight or until its completely dry....it's awful humid these days, I'm hoping it dries quickly. I may have to help it along with the heat gun.</div>
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Fishes are an important part of a fish picture. These guys materialized earlier this evening while watching serial killer documentaries...or was that during the junk yard videos? At any rate, I have some fish going. these were drawn on chipboard that was once a box that held plastic baggies. I cut them out and</div>
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I sometimes wonder why I go through the bother of editing my photos when blogger just does whatever it pleases with them anyway..... I painted these fishes with some wall paint in a nice subtle yellow. No clue where we'll go from here. Glitter probably. But that's aways down the line yet.</div>
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I guess there will be no more pictures of Obee Cat in this post as I didn't edit any cat pictures except the one you've already seen. I will tell you about Obee Cat though. He showed up in the burnt house on the 15th of July. Brother brought him in my house cause he knew I'd want to at least meet the boy. Oh my goodness, that cat was skinny as a rail! Skinnier than he is in the picture with the other three. He was such a sweet boy too. He was in bad shape, but friendly as he could muster. I pulled 11 ticks off his face, 1 off his hip and found 2 more in the coming days on his tail and in between the toes of one back foot. The kid needed some TLC and some groceries in him! He came home from the vet this afternoon minus his little balls, dewormed and antibiotics in him to combat that snotty nose he has. I really wasn't wanting two new cats but Obee was in dire need of a loving family. Lola cat hasn't decided if he's worthy of her love but I think she will come around. She is positive, at this point, that Fluffy Frank is not worthy of her attention, let alone any love! She snarls and hisses at Frank every time he comes anywhere near her! Murray isn't fond of Frank but she seems to care less one or another about Obee. Obee has put on some much needed weight and has made himself to home in my cutting room where he sleeps in the deepest recesses of the closet he can get to. </div>
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I gave the chickens some watermelon rind the other day and sat out on the back porch to watch the show. Chickens are quite funny creatures.</div>
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One of the chickens got hit on the highway out front of the house day before yesterday. Chickens are not smart birds at all. All of them go out on the highway. I don't know what the draw of the road is, they have almost three acres of grass to explore. At any rate, Kyle is no more! Poor Kyle! He was a gimp young pullet when he arrived a couple months ago. We weren't even sure if Kyle was a rooster or a hen at that point. He wasn't old enough to tell yet. He could barely walk when he arrived. Brother and his wife nursed Kyle back to almost good. He was walking again when he met his demise.</div>
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Keeping Kyle's head for the experiment was prompted by the find under the back porch the day I took the pictures of the chickens enjoying the watermelon. Brother and I were sitting there shooting the breeze when Brother looked under the porch and discovered a bird skull. We weren't sure where it had come from nor what kind of bird it was from. It was a nice perfectly cleaned bird skull. Right up my alley! I have LOTS of animal skulls, but nothing like this one. Turns out it is a chicken skull. Probably Eric's skull. He's the only chicken to have died in the last six months. Anyway, I'm experimenting to see if we (brother and me) can get Kyle's skull as clean as Eric's by putting it in a sheltered spot and letting nature take her course with it! The dermestid beetles should show up in droves and clean the skull nicely. It will take a few months, at the least, for them to do that job. Probably won't see complete results until next summer. The next small rodent that is killed will become an experiment as well. There is money in cleaned bones. Lots of people make ornaments and what have you out of them. </div>
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Thank you all for contributing. I plan on making a maker's page to include on the inside back cover. I will more than likely add a few small kitties on my final run through after the leather cover is adhered . I have decided it will be made from the orange fake leather that once adorned the dentist's chair. </div>
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Stay tuned for another update in the coming days.</div>
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And remember...</div>
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Be good to one another!</div>
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It matters!</div>
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Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06121998319968124939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545790654045422875.post-50132808218193838222016-07-13T20:37:00.001-05:002016-07-13T20:37:13.372-05:00A Bit of Art, A Trip to Nickerson and Me Rambling on About it All<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello Readers!</div>
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I went on a 12 day jaunt off to Nickerson to see my eldest son, RJ and his gang. I forget which day I left...end of June. I came home on 11 of July. </div>
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My youngest son RW, turned 32on the 11th.</div>
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There isn't as much art as I usually show you cause art wasn't on the forefront of my latest adventure. Do enjoy what I have to show! </div>
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I'll ramble on about the trip after art....</div>
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Mr. Spider has come a ways since you all saw him last. I put the black glitter all over him before I headed to my son's house. I've been home for four days now and I haven't done much of anything to him except add some brown fingernail polish to his thorax. He will make another appearance here on the blog before too much time passes.</div>
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I was very busy with other things the 12 days I was gone. I took enough stuff with me to keep me quite busy with making something or another but if truth be known, I didn't dig any of that stuff out until the last two days of my trip. This is the only thing I have photographed that got done at RJs house. I crocheted the blue backing a couple months ago. The abstract citrus is embroidered felt. It measures about 10 inches across. I call it a hot pot mat. My daughter in law Terah, says it looks more like pizza than oranges.</div>
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These are the three bags I have crocheted in the last two days. I have another small bag similar to these that is about done that I started yesterday. It will be done before the day is out!</div>
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The yellow bag is made from some very thick, soft yarn I acquired on my trip. The green bag is made from some ribbon like yarn, and the brown one is made from thick fuzzy yarn. The brown one has a gold metal necklace tassel to keep its flap closed. Both green and brown bags have reclaimed chain for the handle. Not sure if that chain came from belts or purse handles. I got it from my sister on this last trip. </div>
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I spent two days at her house during the trip. We had a yard sale. I took a couple boxes of my junk with me to try to hawk at her sale. I came home $42 richer and minus some useless stuff, so I was a happy camper about that. One guy paid me his $8 total in gold coins. Not sure what those gold dollar coins are referred to as. I happy to take them off his hands. Coins fascinate me and these are some I don't see often. I won't spend them. They will go with the rest of my stash of coins. </div>
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I did bring home a rather heavy, large box of art fodder from Sis also.</div>
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All the drawings that follow were done a couple days before I left to go to Nickerson. All are done in markers. And none of them are larger than 3 x 4 inches except the palm tree and the blue dog.</div>
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blue dog 4x5 inches cardstock</div>
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blue snake 2x4 inches drawing paper</div>
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Sunny Coffee Mug done on sheet music</div>
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colorful zentangle on junk mail roughly 4x6 inches</div>
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I called this a duck but looking at it now I see it has chicken feet so we'll have to change that duck to</div>
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Chicken 2x2 inches on drawing paper. I'm not certain it is actually 2x2 but its close. I just cut these papers from my little papers stash, I didn't measure.</div>
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leaf, same size as the Chicken</div>
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You all saw this one last post with no color on it. Palm Tree markers on cardstock 4x6 inches</div>
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I found a tutorial teaching one how to draw strings with the over and unders correctly.</div>
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I don't know that I got it correct but I gave it several tries.</div>
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These would all fit within a 4 inch square. They are done in markers on drawing paper.</div>
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And then I cut them out with the xacto knife.</div>
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All of these drawings were drawn and colored within hours of one another except the coffee mug and the palm tree. They were done a week or so before the rest. I colored them with this batch.</div>
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And I tried my hand at this. Just shapes on drawing paper with marker. I then cut it out with the exacto knife too. I think the strings will end up in my glue book.</div>
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I took my glue book apart last night. It is in a composition notebook. Composition notebooks are sewn down the center of the book and that thread will come right out of there if you start at the right end. It was a bit like opening a bag of dog food to get that string out of there. So now my glue book is out its cover, which it was outgrowing anyway, and into 8 signatures that will be sewn back together and put back in the Composition notebook where the pages will once again fit nicely.</div>
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Gee, just what I needed. Another project! LOL </div>
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That's about all there is to the art part of this entertainment. I did finish the pink and black paper basket. I took pictures of it but the camera refused to download them to my pc. I'll give that another shot when I get something else done that needs to be photographed.</div>
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No one ran off and left me to my own devices while I was away is the reason nothing got done in the art department in 12 days time. Only 2 things finished and both were worked on the last two days I was there. And at the last moment of the last night there, Annie wanted me to make her and Bailey a braiding disk. Those two little girls were headed to bed and I was leaving first thing in the morning. Long before they would be awake. I don't know if the effort put forth with the braiding disks was successful only on my end of the deal or if the girls finished the braids I had started on each of the disks. None the less it pleased me greatly that she needed a braiding disk, let alone two of them! I will have to ask the son if she finished the braiding. </div>
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Annie and I played with the rainbow loom and the rubber bands (which I call rubbers. I see no reason to add bands. I have always called them rubbers. It sometimes confuses people when I do that, not thinking beyond what I know. So here I will call them properly!) We made a couple bracelets and I added about six inches to my fishtail string. It's maybe 12 feet long. I've never measured it. I really don't know what else to do with the 10000 rubber bands I bought for that rainbow loom other than turn them into a giant long string. I'm sure I'll show you the rubber string sometime or another. Annie dragged it out from the sofa where I sitting, across the room and down the hall passed the bathroom door. I'm totally guessing that that is about 12 feet. She thought it was pretty neat. She only plays with her rainbow loom when I come around. Rainbow loom lasted a few hours and we neither one touched our loom the rest of the visit.</div>
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These folks wore my hide out! We went here and there and everywhere! </div>
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I have no pictures from the fourth to share. That's not to say I didn't take any...oh there were many many many terrible shots of fireworks! But we won't see any of them today.</div>
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On the 5th of July...I think...it rained like 6 inches in twelve hours of time. It rained like a cow peeing on a flat rock early that morning before the sun was up and still raining come noon. The later that evening the deluge came again. This time with tornados along for the ride! Luckily I only heard about the tornadoes, I didn't see any. It again rained like a cow peeing on a flat rock for a few hours. The river came out of its banks! This picture of RJ and the younguns was taken on the 8th I think? The Arkansas has been not but a small brook running down the middle of the riverbed for quite some time! All this water is wonderful, but not so good when it comes all at once! </div>
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On the way home driving the Old Blue Beast with Fluffy Frank in tow, we discovered cow chow everywhere!</div>
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Hay bales. Wheat biscuits. Cow Chow.</div>
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I am thankful for air conditioning in a car that the windows will not roll down in!</div>
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Fluffy Frank was ready for this trip to end and at this point had only gotten started!</div>
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His name was Fluffy when I put him in the car. It still is his name when Annie comes to visit, but I call him Frank. He has some beautiful blue eyes!</div>
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It took everything in me to not bring one of these little guys home with me and Frank.</div>
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There are four of these little guys. Two girls, two boys. Not sure where the other white one was at this time. I love kittens!!! Who doesn't love kittens??? </div>
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Annie had a meltdown upon my departure. She knew Fluffy was going home with me. I had him fixed five days before I came home! She was cool with Fluffy going home with me until I woke her up to say goodbye. She gave Fluffy some lovins , crying the whole time....I gave her hugs and told her I'd take good care of him. He's settled in quite nicely and no one has beaten him up. </div>
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Ma says we have to fatten the boy up! He is skinny compared to Murray and Lola. Everycat is skinny compared to Lola though.... He's a nice boy. I think we'll keep him. The girls will learn to love him.</div>
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My fence with all the license plates attached. It has nothing to do with this post at all. I showed it someone and realized I hadn't shown it to the blog. Well there you are, a fence of license plates.</div>
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On my drive home I had a minor emergency which required stopping the car to ensure a major emergency did not occur. Mission accomplished! I'm still here to finish the story.</div>
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I noticed this big pile of wheat on the ground in Woodston. I didn't think they put wheat on the ground after harvest. Apparently the wheat yeilds were over the top this year in my neck of the woods. There is a pile half the size of this one laying on the ground at the Coop in Stockton as well. </div>
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Almost every morning there is a brief airshow at my son's house.</div>
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The man who flies this little yellow machine lives around the corner....about three fourths of a mile as the crow flies. He takes his plane for a short run and turns around above the field across the road from son's house.</div>
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Me and RJ were making yet another run into Hutch as he was flying over the house so we drove by the airfield on our way to town. Which we would have done even if he hadn't been out that morning. It cool to see. I saw the air show, as I call the morning flybys, three times while there. He usually made only one pass by the house. The morning I got these pictures, he flew by three times in a row. When we went by the airfield he was working in the engine. I hope he got it fixed good.</div>
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Peace</div>
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I've been neglecting the blog. That means there will be a lot of pictures and a bit of chatter from your's truly. It has been better than a month since the last post. Lots of things have occurred.</div>
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Better get a cuppa something and settle in for a spell. I'll try not to bore you all to tears.</div>
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It is Tuesday, 5:35 a.m. 21 June 2016</div>
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Ma turned 84 yesterday. </div>
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She and I went on a mini vacation to see my sister Kathy in Abilene for two days back around the 5th of June.</div>
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It was hotter than the hubs of hell that Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday when we went to Abilene. The cows took full advantage of their recently filled water holes. This is what is called a rainbow herd. There are cows of many breeds in this herd. I think these cows were at the junction of K18 and 181? I could be wrong about those roads...over by Bennington. </div>
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I wish I could show you all the video of the really cool dust devil we saw less than 20 miles from home. I can't do that though because I don';t know how to put video here (or anywhere else for that matter.) </div>
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I can show you all some of the art along the road to get to Abilene. </div>
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This fella sits along K18 in Lincoln County, Kansas. There are several of these metal statues along a stretch of that highway. Look at that gorgeous wheat field in the background! The 500 or so miles we traveled on our trip gave us many views of wheat fields, golden, bursting with wheat kernels, ready to be cut. I'm sure all those fields are cut by the time I'm writing this. </div>
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The combines were already on the job not far from the roadside monster.</div>
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Those full water holes for the cows were a bit detrimental to some of the wheat fields. Hail flattens wheat and those rain storms that filled the water holes dropped hail and heavy rain. Along with a tornado or two as well. Here the grain hopper is being emptied into a farm truck to go to the elevator. </div>
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While in Abilene with Sister Kathy, we were in a hot barn-like building, going through box after box of junk. Mostly just filling boxes, sorting somewhat and readying those boxes to be moved to another location. There were spiders and mud daubers to contend with. I was more supervisor than anything as I can't lift heavy boxes. I did a lot of sitting and exercising my jaws while Ma and Kathy did most of the work. It was a fun two and half day diversion. Was good to see my sis and her clan. That hadn't happened in a few months.</div>
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I came home with about three pounds of chocolate from the Russell Stover's plant in Abilene, so all in all it was an excellent trip!</div>
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I had a yard sale since I was last here. I deemed it a Make Me An Offer Sale. That worked out well. Folks would bring me a pile of crap they found among the tables and boxes scattered across the front lawn and I would ask them how much it was worth to them. I got some very generous contributions to my cause and I got some miserly contributions but all in all, that too was an excellent trip! I hate having yard sales. They are a lot of work! As I've already stated, I am a terrible worker. A lazy bum! But I'm a great supervisor. Ma and I worked our butts off for a week, out in the burnt house (aka storage shed) going through all my accumulated crap and the boys came along to help set the sale up. I ran it all by myself for the last two days. Youngest son, RW, came along and helped put it all away. This successful sale of mine would not of been possible without their help! Thank you much Ma and RW! I love you both beyond words!</div>
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I was sitting in the bright orange dentist chair in the driveway when I took this picture while Ma and RW were hauling things into the burnt house. Ma and I had got most of it boxed back up or thrown in the dumpster by the time RW showed up. That boy was in a FOUL mood when he got here but was smiling by the time he went home. His wife pissed him off earlier in the day. </div>
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If you are wondering where the bright orange dentist chair came from, I'm not exactly sure. Brother Sammy dragged it home, along with two other dentist chairs (in pieces), an xray machine and a beat up old cook stove. He said the dentist in Smith Center gave them to him. </div>
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I had a few offers on the dentist chair but it wasn't mine to sell. One lady said she'd be back to talk to Sammy but she didn't come back. It's too late now if she's changed her mind. That chair is gone! The bright orange faux leather cover is laying on my livingroom floor waiting for me to cut it into more manageable sizes. I'm thinking Annie's Kitty Book will be covered in bright orange vinyl.</div>
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I wrenched my back the day before yesterday and haven't had the energy, or flexibility, to pick the dang thing up and cut it into smaller pieces. A dentist chair has a LOT of space to cover! There's a ton of that vinyl.</div>
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I guess I should get on with what I've accomplished since the last post instead of prattling on like this.</div>
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I've been doing a fair amount of crocheting since the last post. This is a little crossbody bag crocheted from crochet cotton with little silver rings crocheted into the design. It's about 6x5x3 inches or so. I didn't really measure it other than to put a water bottle in it to see if it would fit. It did with the closure open. It has a long handle so you can wear it across your body. </div>
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I'm still working on the crocheted paper basket. I'm ready to unwind another hank of paper yarn and roll it into a ball so I can add it to this basket. At the moment I'm dealing with some blue rug yarn that is in need of untangling and rolled into balls so this basket is going rather slowly. And paper yarn is not a quick material to crochet up either. This will be a pretty cool basket when it's done. Not sure how tall it will be but it's roughly 9 inches square on the bottom.</div>
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My niece Allison asked me to make her a prop to take to a Comic Convention earlier this month.</div>
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She gave me four choices of the characters she was interested in. I chose Cactuar because he looked like something I could pull off in 9 days time.</div>
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He's made from felt, stuffed with polyester filling and embroidered with crochet cotton and embroidery thread. His antenna are supposed to be black but I couldn't for the life of me locate a black pipe cleaner in this house at the time. A few days after I had already sent him off to Allison, I found a whole bunch of black pipe cleaners! Go figure!</div>
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She was pleased with him. He's about 10 inches tall or so. </div>
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And yet another crochet project. This one is fuzzy yarn crocheted around yellow poly farm rope. I really like how this bag turned out! The rope is entirely hidden by the yarn and it's a very sturdy bag. It's quite large enough to take to the farmer's market or the beach.</div>
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I can't tell you why there's a winter scarf hanging off the back of the rocking chair when the weather outside is decidedly NOT of the winter variety! </div>
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I did some drawing a couple of evenings since the middle of May.</div>
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Blue Cat on drawing paper. 3.5x5.5 inches</div>
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not sure how big this one is...three inches by six or so. This one is done on the back side of a card that came with my electric bill last month.</div>
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Solemn Flamingo</div>
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3.5x5.5 inches on drawing paper</div>
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Funky Bird</div>
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3.5x5.5 inches on drawing paper</div>
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Gray Cat</div>
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3.5x5.5 inches on drawing paper</div>
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Snake</div>
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2x4 inches or so scrap of drawing paper </div>
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yellow lizard</div>
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same as the snake</div>
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This is a little book I'm working on. Not sure just where it's headed but onward I will plow because it will morph into something eventually. At the moment is it just one signature of a potential book. Painted newspaper on copy paper. It's about ATC size.</div>
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My spider friend isn't done yet.</div>
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I spent the last three days working on this fella. If you are afraid of spiders, I'm sorry I didn't warn you about this one. He is rather life-like except that he's silver.</div>
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His legs will be bulked out some. They're rather thin for such a big spider.</div>
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Here's his underside. I think I will cover him in masking tape and paint him black before covering him with glitter in shades of black and brown. His body needs a little bulking out to make him thicker but I think I'm onto something with this critter. Thanks to Mel for sharing <a href="http://mynameisfinch.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mr. Finch's</a> critters. That's where the inspiration for the spider came from. Though my spider looks nothing like what Mr. Finch creates! Wow! His creatures are fantastical!!! You should take a peek if you haven't seen these delightful pieces of art!</div>
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Fish #1</div>
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paint and glitter on cereal box chipboard. I covered it with a layer of gel medium so that glitter isn't going anywhere it shouldn't. This one will be headed out in today's mail as a post card.</div>
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Fish #2</div>
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This one doesn't involve glitter, just paint and a googly eye. This one will also be going off into the postal system on today's mail run.</div>
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And still more fishes. The two on the bottom are done. They are made from toilet paper tubes and painted with acrylics. The top fish needs an eye still. He's cereal box chipboard painted black with acrylics. The flowers are fingernail polish and the fins and tail are covered with glitter. It will get a coat of gel medium to tame that glitter before it goes anywhere.</div>
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I call this one Cellular Activity. It's done in markers on drawing paper. I was surfing the internet, wasting time and came across a picture of cells. My muse screamed about wanting to draw pink cells so I went with it to avoid a disagreement. I'm not particularly fond of the color pink but I seem to use those pink markers a lot.</div>
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Just a simple mug on a piece of sheet music. 3x4 inches or so. I'll give it some color one of these days.</div>
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If you look up in the side bar at the top right you'll find a link to Drawing School. I can't for the life of me remember that man's name at this moment but I drew this palm tree and the coffee mug at his direction. I will give this one some color some day too.</div>
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I've made a few balls of plastic bag yarn, cut a bunch more bags into rings in preparation of making more balls of plarn and I've got this market bag well on its way to being a market bag that is functional. I have lots of crochet projects in the works so don't expect this one to be done too awfully soon. I did a couple of rounds on it today.</div>
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A bunch of tiny fishes in the works. Not sure if these will become little book covers or magnets. They are not done yet. I still need to give them fins and whatnot. You'll see these guys again. Glitter seems to be on the muse's radar this week.</div>
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Another crossbody bag. This one crocheted from VHS tape. Six hours of cartoons! You can't really see the silver rings incorporated into the bag, but they are there. This bag will be done as soon as I finish sewing rings along the handle. I'm about a third of the way done right now.</div>
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This isn't really art yet. I put tiny screw eyes into these little doodads yesterday with the intention of making a junk necklace, maybe a bracelet. The banana is too big for a bracelet though. Putting tiny screw eyes in is not an easy task! I used my screw drill to start the holes. I need to drag out my tiny vice and I think the hole making would go faster. I got a few new holes in the middle finger of my left hand! </div>
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A run to town to the grocery store, Jmart and the post office is the only thing planned for my day!</div>
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Thanks for hanging in to the end!</div>
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I've turned a year older since the last time I was here. I've been an old lady for a long time, I just got a little older is all. I don't really feel old in my head. My body, on the other hand, thinks it might be ancient! I'm still alive and kicking though so all is grand in the whole scheme of it all.</div>
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Ma baked me a cake.</div>
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It was tasty AND cute! The picture is out of a magazine. I include it here so you know what the cake was suppose to look like. I'd say Ma nailed it pretty close. The caterpillar is suppose to have antennae on either end of him. That's how some caterpillars roll to confuse their predators. (Though if a bird pecked off the ass end of a caterpillar wouldn't it be just as dead as it would be should the bird choose the other end?) At any rate I loved my birthday cake! Three of my sisters and Ma showed up for the party. We made quick work of that chocolate chip bundt cake!<br />
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I drew these three little chickens a week or two back. They are all roughly an inch and half high by an inch or so across. They will end up in my glue book. I've added a few more pages to the glue book since the last post. <br />
I emptied the drawer in the desk in the livingroom where I throw all interesting things that come in the mail. Except for mail art, that has its own special spot--and it ain't in a drawer! I used a lot of that stuff to add to the glue book/junk journal, whatever you want to call it. <br />
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I drew some birds on drawing paper. The big sharpie I was using to draw with, I thought was black. It's actually a very dark midnight blue. This one is about 5x7 inches or so. I didn't really measure. It was a scrap of clean paper that I took out of the scrap box by the paper cutter.<br />
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Swirls of color. Markers on drawing paper. About the same size as the birds above. This one will end up in the glue book as background.<br />
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Tulips bloomed. This is the first I've seen of any yellow tulips in the flower bed. I didn't plant them there. Last year there were red tulips in a different spot in this flower bed, but they haven't even set on any blossoms this year. The yellow tulips were a nice surprise. I discovered them on my birthday. Those are peonies in the foreground of the picture. They don't get enough sun where they are planted. They haven't bloomed for a long time! Like 10 years!! I really need to sweet talk someone into digging them up and planting on the west side of the house where they'll get all the sunshine they need. <br />
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I crocheted Ma a new dish cloth for Mother's Day. She said she would use it for a wash cloth, not a dish cloth. Whatever works for her! It is crocheted with cotton yarn. It's dish cloth sized.<br />
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I played with the watercolor paints three days running. This was the first attempt at iris painting. I am rather pleased with it, though I can see lots of room for improvement. This is painted on manila drawing paper, 3x3.5 inches. I glued it to the front cover of a little book. You'll get to see that little book once I get it sewed together. I haven't cut pages for it yet. Maybe in the next post.<br />
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The next day I tried another iris. I like this one too. It is done on linen textured cardstock. 3.5x3 inches. It will go in a magnetic frame.<br />
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I drew some more fish. Markers on old sheet music. <br />
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The paper I drew these fish on was cut 4.5x4 inches. I drew the fish to up as much space as possible on the page and then cut them out.<br />
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I'm not sure what will happen with all these fish. Book covers, maybe. I just don't know at this point.<br />
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It rained like crazy late on Mother's day afternoon. There was a bit of hail, some wind, some wicked lightning and a tornado the next county over. We all fared the storm at my brother's house. I usually go next door when we are put in a tornado warning. And I always keep tabs on the weather when it looks like it might get hairy out. I don't want to be in my own house if a tornado hits! I'd rather brave it out in the basement next door like a rational individual would do. Though I have to admit, when I was a younger woman, I loved being out in the storms, driving around, seeing what I could see! I was young and foolhardy. I'm still foolhardy at times, just not when it comes to storms.<br />
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We were treated to a double rainbow after the storm.<br />
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I made a few books.....This one is made from pre-cut pieces of a kit teaching kids about different foods. This one is all about pepperoni, cheese and crackers! I don't know why you need a full set of silverware to eat cheese and crackers and pepperoni, but they came with the plate so I glued them on as well. This one is about 6 inches across. It's sewn in the japanese stab binding which I glued the plate over so you can't see it.<br />
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This one came from the same type of kit as the other one. The kits weren't to make books. The kits consist of the plate and everything on it, nothing more. I thought they were kinda cool and would make unique book covers. I should have taken into consideration I would have to cut each page separately because of the shape of the books, but it all worked out OK. This one represents sushi. It's sewn in the japanese stab binding as well but I didn't cover up the stitching on this one. They both have roughly 30 pages of copy paper.<br />
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This is the little orange book cover you saw in the last post. This is the backside, showing the closure. It's just a plastic green button sewn on with the same thread used to bind the book. It started out life as a Jello Pudding box.<br />
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It has 9 signatures of 6 pages, giving it roughly 120 pages. The paper is some old forms I dragged out of a dumpster some years back. The bee on the front is a twinchie done in markers on cardstock. I drew it back in 2012, I think. We'll never know the date it was drawn unless we take it off the book to see what it says on the backside of the twinchie. I'm not THAT interested in knowing the correct date so we will just go with my best educated guess of sometime in 2012.<br />
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I crocheted another basket. I show you the close up so you can see the specks of yellow. Yellow stars. They are quite subtle on the basket unless you look closely!<br />
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It's a cute little basket, nothing special really. It stands about 4 inches tall and is about 5 inches across. I crocheted it out of curling ribbon. <br />
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This is a UFO. I crocheted this earlier this afternoon. It will be the back side of a hot pad mat once I get the front side done. I believe this one will have a day of the dead theme. That's subject to change though once I get started on the front. It will be whatever the muse wants to do at the time. I'll applique felt onto felt and then sew it to this square of crochet. The mat, when finished will be the size of this mat, which is 10 inches square. It's crocheted out some bulky greenish gray yarn I picked up somewhere.<br />
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I finished the crochet cotton crocheted market bag. I used up a lot of half used balls of crochet cotton on this one. I didn't put much of a dent in the stash of white crochet cotton, nor in the stash of green. I did empty a few cardboard tubes of thread though. I keep those cardboard tubes that crochet cotton is wound on and use them in paper mache projects. This bag is about 14 inches from the top opening to the bottom. I wanted to reinforce the handles someway but I couldn't get that to work out for me so I just put a few more rounds of crochet on them and hope they work out all right when someone goes stuffing a bunch of stuff in it. <br />
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I did this drawing of donuts in marker on watercolor paper. Not sure what will become of it. Perhaps a book cover with some sprinkles sewn on? Yeah, I might do some embroidery on this drawing. That thought just now crossed my mind. It's a tad plain at the moment, but some glass seed beads sewn on as sprinkles would sure jazz it up! We'll see what happens with the donuts..... This one is 3.5x4.75 inches.<br />
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I've been playing with my new toys. In reality, only one of them is new. I've had the other one for a few years and didn't really know how to use it despite the fact it has its original instructions to go with it. And the new toy didn't come with instructions, which in turn led me to figure out how to use the old new toy. In case the picture didn't clue you in that I am talking about flower looms, well, I've been making loom flowers!<br />
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Lots of loom flowers! They are mostly blue because Ma saw them and wanted a few to patch up a pair of pants she has. I don't how they are gonna look on a pair of a pants but if she wants them there, I'm cool with that! I made this first batch (which are included in that picture with the lot of them) 5, maybe 6 six days ago. When I talked to her a couple days ago she said any old color would work, not just blue. So I made a few other colors since then. I made 6 of them earlier today that are included in the picture also.<br />
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I caught Murray asleep on the sofa the day I made that flower and decided I would take a picture of it next to the sleeping cat. She woke up and caught me.....<br />
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This is the old new toy. It's called a Crazy Daisy Winder. It's a cool little gadget. This particular one is older than I am, I'm sure. The instructions that came with it has no zip code on the address of the manufacturer and there's a seal on the instructions that I can't read either. I believe it is a Union seal of some sort. I'm thinking 1950s vintage. It is easier to make loom flowers on this thing that it is on the new toy...<br />
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This is the Hana Ami Flower Loom. I can't read Chinese or I would tell you the brand name. This one works on the same principle as the daisy winder. This one makes lots of different sized flowers whereas the daisy winder only makes 2.5 inch flowers. I'm still trying to master the hana ami loom and all its parts. <br />
I figured out the daisy winder in one session with a youtube tutorial. I wouldn't have bought the hana ami loom if I had already figured out the daisy winder. The daisy winder has been sitting on a shelf in my cutting room for at least four years. I didn't realize it was a flower loom until after I had recieved the hana ami loom and started researching how to use it. I ran across a tutorial for the daisy winder and light bulb went off above my head, a ding sounded in the room and I said, outloud, to myself, "Hey! I have one of those! So that is how that works!" I went and got the daisy winder off the shelf and went off making loomed flowers. I suspect there will be more of these.<br />
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I guess you'll just have to look at this one upside down because blogger refuses to let it stay the right way. This is Yellow Kitten Killer....was supposed to be Yellow Killer Kitten but I crossed the L's in killer before I wrote kitten when I was signing the backside. I go with the flow! The stream was a tad crooked at the time. Bad Kitty! Bad Kitty! That Murray cat inspired this painting in watercolor on cardstock. She's always bringing me dead critters. This week I received a sparrow, a couple of little mice and field rat. In her eyes, I am a terrible hunter and I need all the help I can get. She brought the rat in last night. I thought there was something terribly wrong when she came in from outside. She was making the most gawd-awful noise as she headed down the hallway in my direction. I got up to see what the trouble was. She dropped her catch and looked at me. Then she meowed clear as day as if to say, "I brought you something!" I tossed it out in the yard on my next trip passed the front door. It was back in the deskroom doorway this morning. Or maybe, I have gotten two field rats this past week?<br />
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Miss Lola thinks I am much better hunter than Murray does. She does sometimes catch mice, but not often! She is such a fat thing! I don't say that to be mean. I say it because it's the truth! LOOK AT HER! She's lounging in the sun ray on the livingroom carpet, looking out the front door at a bird probably. She pays close attention to those birds...not like she's caught one anytime recently though. She had just settled down after having killed that little dark blob behind her on the floor. That's a catnip filled felt fish. She finally lay down, rolled onto her back and took a nap in that sun ray. <br />
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I've added Eric the Rooster's tail feathers to my natural collection. I've added a few other things to it as well. I have a naturally dehydrated frog...tiny little frog that my sister gave me. She found it on the concrete at her Father in law's house. And there's a new snake skeleton...half a snake skeleton, it's head and maybe a third of its body. Little snake, all of three inches of it. My brother found it when he was clearing out some brush behind his house. All of those bones and such were either found by me or given to me by someone I know. The duck skull is still my favorite, followed by the goat skull with horns that hangs on the wall in the deskroom where the computer lives. Youngest son gave me the duck skull. He found it at the lake. Oldest son gave me the goat skull. One of his buddies gave it to him and he gave it to me. Eric had some pretty tail feathers! They go nicely in the collection. I almost forgot about the vulture feather Ma brought me the other day. She said she found it in the Dollar General parking lot. I didn't have a vulture feather.<br />
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And there's Ma herself with Murray who loves Ma!<br />
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That's about all I have for you all today. The old body has been in rebel mode so I've not been out of the house since Sunday. I haven't been to town since Friday. Tomorrow is a run to town day...the cupboards are getting bare and I need to get out and get stink blown off! I leave you with a view of the north field.<br />
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It appears all we will have this year to look at is an empty field. Not exactly empty...it's full of last years soybeans still...I don't know what's going on with the field. Perhaps he will leave it fallow this year. I can't remember a year he didn't plant something though. Guess we'll have to wait and see!<br />
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Thanks for hanging around till the end!<br />
Remember...<br />
Be kind to one another!<br />
It matters!<br />
Peace<br />
831Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06121998319968124939noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545790654045422875.post-80537126493493441312016-04-28T05:34:00.000-05:002016-04-28T05:34:43.216-05:00April's EndeavorsHello Readers!<br />
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It's 4 o'clock in the morning. I've been awake since 1:30 when Murray Cat decided it was high time I got my hide out of that bed and fed her. Course, it WAS high time to get out of that bed, I fell asleep yesterday evening around 6.<br />
So here I sit in the wee hours taking stock of what the heck I've done all month.<br />
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Better get a cuppa something and settle down for a spell. I've been busy, as usual.<br />
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The kids came for an overnight visit this past Friday into Saturday. RJ and Terah went to Hays for the night to celebrate their anniversary. (Hays is about 40 miles south) Annie spent the night with me and we played with paper and glue on the coffee table in the livingroom. I have no pictures of this endeavor unfortunately. It was a gluing good time! I added pages and pages to my glue book and did away with six or seven magazines in the process. Annie glued something on every page in the 20 page notebook I gave her to use as a glue book. We played with stickers as well. Her daddy gave me the 'eye' when he realized I had given the girl a big ziplock baggie full to the brim with stickers! (And didn't put a dent in my sticker stash...) We had bacon and eggs with toast for supper on Friday and then again for breakfast on Saturday. That little girl would live on eggs if you let her. Eggs are easy! She likes hers 'runny'--or as the rest of us would say--over easy.<br />
This was the first time in her six years that she has ever spent the night alone with me. It went very well. I only wish she hadn't woke up when I came back from the bathroom at 6 on Saturday morning. It was almost 11 when she finally went to sleep. She wore me out while she was here! It was a great wearing out though! They went home early Saturday afternoon.<br />
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I've seen my other boy a couple times this month also. He's gone back to work in the oil patch so he's a happy camper. RW is a flighty man. He pops in and out at all hours of the day and night. I never know when he's going to show up, but I'm always glad to see the boy. He'll be getting off work here in a couple hours. I may yet see him today.<br />
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Eric the rooster is gone. He was tasty. Henrietta is a bit confused with him gone. She doesn't seem to know who to follow. Daisy the duck and Henrietta the hen stick close like they always have but Eric was the leader of that pack. Now Daisy and Henrietta are hanging out with a bunch of young white ducks that look like Daisy. The flock now containing Daisy, Henrietta and five nameless ducks. I suspect they will in time get names. They were just fluffy yellow ducklings a few short weeks ago.<br />
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Soon there will be a great flock of fowl fettering around the yard in search of grasshoppers and other bugs. Brother Sammy has four or five more ducklings that are growing and 11 more chickens that aren't quite big enough to give run of the yard just yet. I have no pictures of the little birds. Or the ones running the yard with Henrietta and Daisy. Sooner or later they will all figure out who is the boss and life will continue on. I'm looking forward to the days when the little hens start laying. I will get fresh eggs frequently.<br />
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RW, my youngest son, had 11 laying hens. They layed all through the winter. Most hens slow down on laying when winter rolls around. RW was doing something right. The boy had more eggs than he knew what to do with! He brought me fresh eggs almost every week. He's down to three hens that are laying now. He lost all his layers to a hunting dog that showed up and decided killing chickens would be great fun! RW was fit to be tied! The fella came and got his dog and paid RW for those dead chickens. RW bought himself some baby chicks and a few ducklings to replace the dead ones. The boy cracks me up! I don't know what he traded my brother for, but Sammy ended up with 3 little black ducklings from RW. He needed something or other and Sammy had it.<br />
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It has been quite rainy for the past few days. My old body has been in rebel mode and I've totally screwed up the sleep patterns again. That means art happens mostly while the rest of the world is asleep.<br />
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It has been about 20 days or so since I was here last so there is a lot that has been accomplished. Let's get on with it!<br />
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I made another zine. I've yet to do a first printing. It's on some odd sized paper, not even sure I can print it and get it to come out right. I wrote all the haiku. I have written hundreds of haiku over the years. <br />
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I put together some books...<br />
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This one is 4x4 inches, made from paperboard beer coasters that are painted in acrylics. I did the paintings on this one five or six years ago. It is sewn together with waxed embroidery thread in the copic stitch. One inside of each cover is an envelope pocket made from envelopes from the stationary<br />
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paper the pages were cut from. This is the backside. It has quite a few pages--9 signatures of 5-- so around 90 pages. I got the stationary, 5 different colors of it, at the thrift store in Hutchinson. I used green and purple for this red bird book.<br />
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This one is made from a frozen veggie box. I painted it in acrylics and glitter paint. It measures 6x5 inches and is about an inch and a quarter thick. <br />
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I sewed it together with thin cotton cordage in the long stitch. The spine is woven. It has 9 signatures of 6 pages, giving it roughly 100 pages in total.<br />
I really like painting on the box books. Ready made book covers from boxes! I love simplicity!<br />
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This one is made from corrugated cardboard from a box of some sort. I painted it with various layers and then made the fish design in glue and glitter. The book measures 5x4 inches or so. It has various types of paper in it. Mostly scrap book paper, map paper and sheet music. It's sewn with waxed baker's twine in the copic stitch. It has about 90 pages total. It isn't one of my favorites. All that glitter makes it a very rough book to touch. I varnished it well so it doesn't shed glitter but it isn't a fun book to hold.<br />
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This is the postcard I sent to my monthly partner over at AFA in the Envie Group. He's done on an antique paperboard photo frame. I drew him on drawing paper and colored him with markers before inserting him between the two halves of the frame. The frame was then embellished with washi tape, striping tape and markers. He was well received!<br />
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Three box book covers in the making. The top two are pretty much ready for paper to be cut. The one on the bottom needs some more work. The hearts are fingernail polish painted on watercolor paper that I did back in 2014. The bee drawing is markers on cardstock. It is a twinchie. (2 inches square)<br />
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I cut a piece of tartan plaid wool into yarn and crocheted this little basket. It measures about 6 inches across and three inches deep. I still have a large piece of this plaid material but I won't be turning it into fabric yarn. I believe some plaid monsters will come into being from it instead. It crocheted up nicely, worked great for yarn, but it will sew even nicer!<br />
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You all know about the painted newspapers that accumulate from my painting at the kitchen table. I turned some remnants into feathers. Or leaves, if you like. I was going for feathers, but some of them do look like leaves! This is a box book, a jello pudding box to begin with. <br />
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I made a LOT of feathers! Another box book cover. This one a frozen veggie box. I attempted to cut book pages the night before last, but that wasn't going to well. My old brain mucked up the first measurements and I cut the pages wrong so I gave up cutting book pages at that time before I mucked up too many times. I'll give cutting another try perhaps later today. I do have a few book covers needing a page block!<br />
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These three are not painted newspaper like the rest of the feathers. These are drawn on sheet music with markers. <br />
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I like the painted newspaper feathers better than the sheet music ones. I did the designs on the feathers with a sharpie and white chalk marker. The white chalk marker is very subtle, almost not there. <br />
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I've painted a couple of fish. This one still needs his eye completed before I can say it is done.<br />
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And this one just needs to be done! I have a stack of these fishes all cut and ready for painting. They are cut from chipboard boxes, think cereal and such, and then painted with wall paint before the acrylic goes on. <br />
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And apparently the muse was fascinated with fishes because yesterday I did these spotty fellows on sheet music with markers while I sat here in front of my PC watching Dancing With The Stars reruns.<br />
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A couple of these were done the day before the day before yesterday. And there are two more that have materialized since I took pictures of these guys! They are all done on sheet music from the early 1900s.<br />
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On Saturday after the kids went home, I sat here in front of the PC catching up on my television viewing, making this striped hand on copy paper. It's an outline of my hand. It is going to end up in my glue book. I'll show you all the glue book some day. I really wish I knew where the first glue book I did is. I have no idea where I put the thing! It still has empty pages to fill too.....<br />
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Here's a close up of the feathers/leaves, whatever you want to call them.<br />
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I've worked on the Kitty Book a bit. No progress to show you though.<br />
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I've made four envelopes to send things in. I'll show you all those next time.<br />
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I drew three tiny chickens on drawing paper with markers. I forgot to take a picture of those.<br />
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I did two marker drawings on 5x7 inch paper. I forgot to take a picture.<br />
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I have not finished the crochet project I showed you all last post. Haven't even picked it up since then. <br /><br />I have cut seven fabric yarn balls out of garments.<br />
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I made a pan of peanut butter cookie bars. They were very very yummy! I will be making those again!<br />
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I guess that's all I got today! Thanks for hanging on till the end!<br />
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Remember....<br />
Be kind to one another!<br />
It matters!<br />
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