watcha doin' wednesday?!!!

I am still looking

with chin on table

at the photos and videos of the destruction

caused by that

storm

now to add insult to injury

I got an e-mail from a friend

whose husband is a linesman

(he works on the power lines)

who has come up to the area to help get the power back on

and he and his co-workers are running into trouble with the locals

and having to stay in flea bag motels and pay the tolls on the way up

and now the men are

not sending them out on jobs or being very co-operative

the unions are stopping the jobs from being shared or given out

and the power isn't being turned on

I don't know what state he is in

or I would say

so if you were there you'd know

and maybe do something about it

what a way to treat people who have come to help

the power companies here are the pits

not ours...ours is the best ever

but the big ones further north

always down always making excuses and always late

it's a shame and a disgrace

:{

I had all those plans to make doilies while the wind roared

but it didn't turn out that way

something was off and I coudn't do it

one of them was tiny and completely useless so

it got frogged

and the other one I showed you

maybe had a mistake in the pattern because no matter how many times I tried a certain row

it was off

 so I

frogged it

and turned to this  new block that  I showed  the link to

much easier

faster

and

prettier

:)

and I found some extra balls of white cotton

so I whipped up a new table mat

like one I made a while ago and sent to someone

which I had forgotten about

 and searched hi and lo for

isn't it nice to be able to just make something you want

and not have to wait to go out to buy it

or order it online and wait

I think it is!!!

:}

and this is to say that I got a note from someone today asking me to stop identifying them or saying how they are made

as this person wants to sell a pattern for them

I don't understand this

 as this is a stitch

that has existed for a long time and no one knows the first maker of it

and if you make it in a certain way

you get a

flower

we all know this

we all can make this

and if you string them all together

all sorts of things can be made with them

so why should I not say what they are

it's still a matter of who owns what I guess and I don't want to get into a mess over it

so the fact that my description was removed

is all that I'll say about it

but I can show you them and tell you what they are

here

on my blog

if I want to

and if you want to know what they are and know how to make them

ask me

and I'll tell you and show you

for free.

:)x

don't you find this pattern interesting and think it would make a great pillow or blanket or hat

?????

:) :) :)

I do and I bought it because I saw the pattern in yarn

wonder how one would go about figuring it out

neat huh!!!???

I cleaned the kitchen yesterday and sorted things out and washed them all

some by hand and some in the

dishwasher...I changed the table cloth and djzzujjed up the planter

found the fake berries and stuck them in there

love

djzzujjing

sister how do you spell it?

:)

while I was browsing through

pinterest

and yes wasting time because I didn't want to put the big mess I had made back

and I was waiting for the dryer to finish and the dishwasher

you know the feeling

anyway

I came across a beautiful turquoise lamp base that has been

drawn on so I just happened to have my sharpie's handy because the husband needed one the other day

and grabbed a jar

and doodled

I didn't know you could draw on glass with

sharpies

did you 

?

well now we do

so if you have a sharpie and an old jar hanging around

give it a try

it's really neat

useless

but

neat

all the same

link to the real one