the other project!!!

While the hurricane wasn't gentle

things aren't as bad as they could have been in

Haiti

hope this time the response is of some use to those battered and bruised

people. I saw a few reports from there and the frustration and anger is

heart breaking. Why do they have to live like that? and how can we let them?

OK, that's enough or I'll go off

.........

I told you yesterday that

the resident man

was working on a project

I took photos of what is in his room

there are more pictures

but I won't bore you with all of them

there isn't enough space here anyway!!!

so,

here we have a box

that a friend gave me a long time ago

it's one of those puzzle boxes

that you have to figure out how to open

it has been

sanded and prepared to be transformed

it will be

something else in its new form

??

these are the tools and

bits and bobs

that will

transform it

into

something

else..

the UPS man and the mail carrier and FED EX

keep coming by and dropping off boxes

big boxes with little itty bitty things inside them

the cat is in seventh heaven

trying all the boxes on for size

for beds you know

cats are like that

the more places to sleep in the better

she chose the biggest box!!!!

she won't let me take a picture...

but I will

I will!!!!

this is me...... 

doing what I do

!!!

the pine cones exist because I got a request

from Svana in Norway

asking me if I could help her find a pattern for a

cone

I asked her if she meant a

pine cone or

an ice cream cone

or a

traffic cone!!!!

(not really)

while I waited for her to answer

I found a pattern for a pine cone.

The reason I thought it might be a pine cone, was because she had posted a photo,

on Flickr, of three little owl ornaments she had recently acquired

and

me being me

said how sweet they would look on a pine branch

on her mantle

!?!

so of course

I made one to show her what it would look like

the lighter one above

well

she wanted an ice cream cone

OF COURSE  she did!!!

so now I have pine cones for

MY MANTLE!!!

Then I just had to play with the pattern and add my most favourite

bobbles on the ends of the darker one

if you want to make a cone

of any kind

just write cone in your search box and you will be met by many a pattern

I think I used the one from

Planet M

or something like that

it takes five minutes to make one

didn't make an ice cream cone

I don't like ice cream!!!!

This is the new scarf on the needles

much prettier

much easier to see the pattern

no excuse to mess it up

and

no it isn't for the man

a trip to the store is still on the books

he owes me an apology

for the

beige comment

so I'll take a trip to the store

instead!!!!

this is the other one

frogged

OH

I forgot to tell you

I am getting a

yarn ball

winder

from Knitpicks

it might be here...

TODAY!!!!!!

I dreamt of winding the other night

all night long

I was exhausted the next morning!!!

It was the cheapest price for one of these

and

I

am

 always

frugal

in

 my

purchases

unlike

others!!!!!!

If the winder comes

don't expect to hear from me

 until the very last

little bit

of yarn

 is

WOUND

!!!!!!!!!

:)