last day...

found these on the camera

completely forgotten

but not too late to post

no more days left in

2012

tomorrow is a new year

again

so we'll go out with what's left of Christmas for this time around

and see how long it takes to get to the next one

'coz this one came around awfully fast!!!!

hope you had a good one

xxx

last Friday of 2012...

one could almost say good riddance

BUT

along with so many horrible things

there were so many wonderful things too

so we'll call it even 

and hope wonderful wins out from now on

I continued to make doilies..

well I have finished now but have made a couple more..

I tried using a bigger hook the other day

and after the small steel ones

 it felt like I was hooking with tree trunks!!!

so I'll have to take a hooking break and get the thin feel out of my fingers!!!

I found this one at the bottom of a drawer

all bunched and crumpled

so I blocked it

because I can

!!!!

and that is an old photo album from Egypt

that we've had forever

it's older than me so 

it's

really really reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeealy

OLD

maybe one day I'll show what's inside

if there is anything left!!!

we haven't had this view for a while so maybe it won't be too boring to see it again

if you look in the  middle there

you will see a baffle headed duck

swimming with the Canada Geese

if I had a zoom it would have been so fabulous

there were others but they were all under the water

but in this you can see a bit more clearly what they look like

sort of

the sparkles were beginning to appear too

but with these overhead they weren't quite as bright as they get

big storm on it's way ...again

big storm...

ooffaa!!!

here you can see a few more baffles as they swam off 

with a lighted wake to their rears

I couldn't help but make

putt putt noises

and then I got very very sad

husband handed me an envelope and said

hmmm...seeds from Norge

I know only one in Norway...

so I opened it and this is what I found

smashed to a million pieces

I'm so sorry S

Her Majesty would not be smiling if she knew

I'm not smiling either

but it is the thought that counts it really is

and it smells nice!!!!!

(I hope mine made it in better shape)

Takk fyrir S

♥

 

all safe and sound...

another disaster averted

thank goodness

how long does a 

baktun 

last???

let's see just how much we change this time around

I'm not holding my breath.....

I found myself doing some 

cross-stitch yesterday

and I liked it!!!!

the last one.....

(http://www.bestfreecrochet.com/2011/01/05/010511-fp320-shell-suncatcher-free-crochet-pattern/)

nothing to report....

I think I'm done with the flakes and stars for this year

I've seen just about every one out there

and if there are more

I don't want to know!!!!

I made this one yesterday afternoon and evening

it's supposed to go on a brass ring

but I don't have one so it is starched and blocking

we'll see how it turns out

making the curlykews was fun

like those pasta pieces

corkscrews

....that's what they're called

I want to write reams about Connecticut but I can't

I just want it to change and it to stop NOW 

and  for commonsense to return

if brave women and little children can stand up to that horror

let those on the Hill

 up the road from me

stand up to those who have brought this about

we say enough

let them say enough

let it end

and 

stay ended

.

doily and such

I finished the doily I showed you bits of the other day

it's washed and blocked and I like it very much

a real granny doily..but nice!!!

and some more flakes...I found some in a jar and a couple I just had to make

I think I am over them now...

♥♥♥

husband had to go to the big hardware store the other day

so I tagged along because I wanted to see if they had old fashioned string...

had an idea pop in the old noggin.....

but they didn't

:[

and while I was there

                     

I helped myself to a couple of pretty plants

cyclamen

**********************

and husband .....
well he couldn't leave without this


vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

a big-ass Texas-sized humongous ivy and poinsettia pot!!!!!!

excuse my French!!!!!

it's sitting on the kitchen table 

coz it don't fit nowhere else!!!!!

I think I'll string some fairy lights in it and just light the whole dang thing up...

y'all!!!!!!!

I was making coffee when the whole picture taking thing came over me....

it's grey and cold and drizzly out so I thought some colour might help

and even tho' it isn't a partridge and this isn't a pear tree

 there's room for a bird

 :) :) :)

and the other day before all the horror

I made a little tree out of a very old book I found sitting on the bottom of my bookcase

it was falling apart so I just helped it along a little

I've seen these around for years and always wanted one

so now I have one..

...

I'm trying to be festive but it isn't working

is it...

so I'll go and clean up the mess I made

well, I'll start with the closest one ...

and soon it'll be tea time so I better get to it!!!!

see ya!!

♥♥♥♥

may they find a peace to exist in

nothing....

even when you're not watching TV

the news gets through to you

and today it is the worst kind of news

it makes you feel sick and your blood runs cold

but your first reactions are getting dull and routine

in this country we hear of shootings all the time

just a couple of days ago there was a shooting at a mall on the West Coast

( I still don't know what happened there

 because I didn't watch or read anything...

like so many other things I don't read or watch)

you listen to the story on the news in the evening

you shed a tear

and then you go on...

another shooting in America

next....

that is exactly what happened today

I was finishing something that I had to do for number two son

which was frustrating because the phone company I was trying to deal with

doesn't show the number you're supposed to call to deal with them

you have to go looking for a number

I found one and did what I had to do...

then I did something else and another thing or three

and when I sat down at my computer and logged on

 the news showed up and said

school shooting in CT...

I told husband,  like I tell him it's going to rain...

then I read a little more and went to the TV

CNN was still gathering info and MS NBC was talking about guns and who should have them

in my opinion NO ONE....

I don't do Fox!!

I went back to what I was doing and a little later walked back  through the room
and saw

26 dead

18 children
 and 8 adults

gone just like that

18 little ones won't see Christmas ever again

Christmas will never be the same again for the parents or the children in the school or the teachers

 or the town

the policemen looked shattered

big huge men with big huge guns

crying in the parking lot 

of the school 

that this morning opened up and welcomed the kids

and planned on a day at school...

a few days before Christmas means they must have had parties to plan or gifts to make

secrets to keep

plans for the break that will come so soon

but now

nothing matters

nothing

except trying to explain to the little ones who made it out of 'Hell' that it won't happen again

and that the others have gone to'Heaven' to be with the 'angles'

and yes 'Santa' will still come

nothing matters 

nothing

but explaining to the parents 

why ...

we don't know who did this

we will soon

and his/her name will go down with all the other monsters who have done this so many times 

one worse than the one before

but this one

this one is one that should change everything

18 children died today

at the hands of a mad man

with a gun

don't care if he was as mad as a hatter

or ex-anything

or if he had lost his house and his car and his job

he did something you just don't do

you don't kill kids

you just don't...

 'we' do it

or the governments do it in our names in other countries and we call it 'war'

 we don't cry or yell about it

well, not very loudly we don't

and when it happens to OUR kids

it's the same thing

hours of mulling it over on TV

lots and lots and lots of talking

half on one side.... half on the other side

of gun control etc.

finding out every little detail of the monster

and then

it will go away

and the children will learn to live with it and the parents will cry themselves to sleep ( when it comes) for evermore

and no one will be able to tell anybody

why....

other than 

he could

because sane men and  mad men can buy guns

 and use them on a Friday morning at will

and end 26 lives 

just like that...26 people gone

I feel sick

 but more than that

sad, so sad

because nothing will change

nothing

poor babies...all of them.

time flies when...

...

you don't pay attention

here it is Thursday

...

tomorrow it's Friday

again

( aren't I just the cleverest )

remember when half an hour seemed like

FOREVER

yeah

THOSE days are long gone!!!

:) :)  :)  :) :)

I have had this little number in my files for ages

and thought that as I have the teeny tiny hooks out and the

 thin cotton

I may as well give it a

whirl

the written pattern is in French

but there is a chart so it's easy peasy

I can never understand why people say they can't read the charts

it's stitch for stitch    row by row

laid out right there for all to see

I have trouble with the written patterns now

especially when they aren't very clear

(like the ones I do)

some of the translations are just nonsense!!!!!

I'm almost done with the

blizzard of flakes

a few more and I never want to see another

snowflake

ever

never 

ever

ever

just kidding...

come next 

this time of the year

again

I'll be back at them

one flake after another

hope those of you who got it

 are enjoying the big snow

it looks very pretty and fun for the kids

but please

 keep it

all of it

please!!!

oh   and well done us for making it through

12/12/12

now sure why they kept mentioning it

and that people don't know that there is no 

13/13/13 next year

DUH!!!!

so now we have to hold our breath

for

12/21/12

do do do do

do do do do

 dooooooooo

ciao for now

y'all

forecast for more flakes...

everywhere you look

in the roomontheleft

you see

snowflakes

in various forms of being

or signs that there were flakes there

once

and some have even made it to the other side

and

ARE!!!

and the sound of a 'potty mouth' is around too...

if you want to make your flake stiff

!!??!!

use old fashioned

liquid STARCH.....

'K?

'K!

:)X

a table mat is done...

just silliness

but you can see how big/small 

the mat is

it's a lot less bunchy than it was

and to answer the question about

if you wash it do you have to block it again

the answer is

YES...

yes you do

but if you're a spoilt brat

 such as moi

you can do it again

and some things just need blocking

and you don't actually have to have anything other than a towel and some pins

and 

a lot of patience

don't sweaters and such have to be re blocked when they are washed

I guess the secret to this is

don't get it dirty

and you won't have to wash

:) :) :) :)

sorry about the really lousy photos of late, 

but it's the light...

it's the light 

it is the light

I tell you..........................

plus the photographer is pretty rubbish too!!!

so....
la nappe est sur la table
along
with.....all together now.....
la plume de ma tante


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MWAH!