Ta-doooone....

bubbles....I love bubbles....

I know there's a gap in the curtains the heater clicked on just as I snapped

I know

you're sick of seeing it

well ....it's done now... so this is the last time

promise

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just one more peek....  :}

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and we're gone

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done...doing...will do...

done and being blocked

already on the hook

and almost to the woven/crisscross bits!!!

interesting...

just the first two rows on the hook...it's still a maybe, 

maybe 

Happy Spring!!!!!

almost there...

just a couple of rows to go and we'll have

a doily -that- had -to- be

I got the thread

more than enough because running out is the pits

but who knew I was going off on this doily binge

certainly not I

  now I have a stash to bust when the mood hits and with all those delightful doily doings out there ....

we won't be running out again!!!

so with a fresh cup of coffee beside me on the desk

and less heavy questions on the radio

I've decided I'm going to finish this 

today

now

in a minute

coz I have some fabric to play with next

while the doily gets blocked

......

see ya!!

:)

expletives deleted...

so...while contemplating the eternal question on the radio

who put the bop in the bop she bop she bop

or more to the point... the ram.... in the ram a dam a ding dong

heavy man ....heavy!!!!

I continued with the 

doily -that- must -be

only to be confronted by the other eternal question

WHY???????????

do we run out of thread when things are going so well????

I guess a quick trip to the useless craft store is not a question

it will be a fact

damn and blast!!!!

may all your questions of the day be answered

♥

few words on a wednesday

just kidding I don't hook with it!!!

not such a puzzle anymore!!!

the sun came up this morning and has stayed out most of the day

but it's windy and still chilly 

so I opened my window a bit until the breeze found it and it got nippy

but I had work to do

HAH!!

and I picked up from where I left off yesterday

I had such a headache by the time I got the message from Elaine on how to solve the puzzle that I put it all down and walked away

yes I was using the magnifier...the copy of the pattern is none too clear so anything helped

as you see I am on my way and hope to have it done later today or for sure tomorrow

it's a very easy pattern and so it's going fast

the other two are the mint green and yellow ones I made before I started the

puzzle one

so happy Elaine saw it and figured it out

sometimes the more you look the less you see

so I'm off to get a cuppa and continue unraveling the

puzzle

MWAH!

puzzle for you...

it isn't a very clear picture to begin with so sorry for the fuzz

well for those of you who can read a crochet chart

I want to make this doily

it has been calling me for weeks now and as I have finished the mint green one and only have one more on the hook

I need another

I know you know what that means!!!

anyway

the puzzle is right there in the very centre 

there are dc's that don't belong to anything as far as I can see on row 3

we have

12 trdc in a magic ring

then we have a row of 3 ch and a sc

fine that works

but then we come to row 3 where there are dc's that stand alone, 

that aren't attached to either the row below or the one with the dc ch 3 dc  into these strange stand alone dc's

can you see them?

please say you can.....

what am I not understanding or seeing??

it is driving me crazy and cuckoo because I know if one of you can see it or knows how to do it

it will be the simplest most sensible answer ever

how can you have stitches like that?

I really hope you an see what it is I'm talking about....coz if you can't then 

I am royally

•  "attached to another object by an incline plane, wrapped helicly around an axis".

(screwed... 

for those of you who don't watch the big bang theory!!!)

it is such a pretty doily and I so want to see it made and have it and stare at it in the flesh thread

look at it... reclining on the chair in someone's bathroom.... like it's normal to have a doily on the chair in the bathroom for no reason whatsoever !!!!!

like it's normal to have a chair in the bathroom...my bathroom barely has room for the bath!!!

 :):)

but that one thing is stopping me

I have started it and looked at blown up pictures....I've tried to make a dc on top of a dc but it doesn't work

so please...

pretty please with a cherry on top

♥♥♥

can someone help

please

before my head explodes

:) :) :)

edited....Elaine came through and figured it out ...it's more or less a loop attached to itself   I almost had it ...someone else's head is always better than one's own... big huge sigh!!!

the need for...

...colour

can be fulfilled in  many different things

bright red poppies on a new purchase

mint green thread worked into a new doily

almost done and ready to be blocked

or your crazy cuckoo crackers christmas cactus confused by all the wacky weather

so it blooms a few days before easter...

but what colour!!

.... keeping the hope and dream alive for this 

delicious doily

when reality looks like this!!!!!

I HAD to make it

look at what it's called

.....

feathers are everywhere 

inside and out

 one last look at Virgil

he's gone from here

the sound of dripping is only interrupted by the sound of the birds

chirping and trilling for all they are worth

calling Spring to come back

and warm their little feet

the bird feeder is full and very very busy

til the next time...

oh hang on just a sec husband has arrived from the mailbox to

 theroomontheleft 

with one of those expressions.

a

 IboughtyousomethingandIhopeyoulikeitcozit'sforyou

I told you he buys me presents

his latest whim

Pez dispensers

old ones

and not so old ones

because Nemo isn't so old

but he's 

so cute

and he's got

COLOUR

no feathers here just fins

thank you husband...

now

 where's the candy to fill his tummy 

oh

...........................

all of it

?????

when it's spring again....

merry freekin' christmas

and for those of you across the big pond

SNAP!!

ladies and gentlemen meet

VIRGIL

our new named storm of 

2013

as was said many moons ago

"oh god it's pretty again"

all is fine

all is well

it's already melting and falling off the trees

and it is very pretty

but we'd like the other kind of pretty

the kind that involves

COLOUR

:) :) :)

no shimmy

there will be no egg shimmying
like your sister

Kate..

or any one else's sister for that matter...

just thought you might like to know

!!!!!

 

:) :) :)

a feather on friday foolishness.... :)

some of you will know Mr Bluebird....

he lives with bunnie fufu and the desktop bunch

over on another page in another blogo'sphere

he looks a little different here... 

but that's because we change as time goes by

(well that's m'story and I'm sticking with it)

anyway ...:)

he had been lamenting the downturn in the economy quite a bit last we saw him

but as previously and very recently said

things change

sometimes for the better!!!

his house has been updated a little

(even tho' we don't point out to Mr BB that wallpaper goes INSIDE the house  not outside)

but being a bluebird we want to keep him happy

if you know what I mean

he is very chuffed with all that has been accomplished

but like most 

nearly all

 the majority...

basically each and every one of us

he'd like a little more...please

he was sitting on his front po erch

 pondering  to himself quietly  but loud enough for the others around to hear

...I need to feather my nest a little more

a tad....a smidgen....a soupcon (?!!!)...

from across the corner...

over there where one can see the ocean that doesn't actually exist 

came a soft voice on a breeze that also never actually blows

BUT

the soft voice said

a feather just happened to have floated in this morn on a piece of drift wood

and it's up for grabs should anyone anywhere desire it

oh that would be just per-fect

squealed Mr Bluebird

no, we didn't know they could squeal either

if we all blow together we could get it over to you 

said the owl and the very clever fish who has learned to live out of water

so they blew with all their might

 and the feather flew through the air

 and

(there was no one around to actually capture the flight)

it sailed over the space and landed next to 

dick the chick

who then blew it down to

v

the snow people on the shelf below

they in turn...

and we do all take turns around here

because it is only polite...

blew it with all of their might

(which is not very much at this time of the year

as it is spring and snow persons don't last much lon  ....

no we will not speak of sad things here)

the feather whooshed up and blew over to 

hooty tooty

who spends his time counting buttons

making sure there will always be enough should he need new eyes

coz counting buttons is hell    heck  on the eyesight!!!

and down it fluttered onto the level where

Mr BB 

resides

(next to a house in much worse shape than his... as it has very large holes in the roof

and

 he is beginning to suspect...

is empty and abandoned 

but he doesn't say anything coz he doesn't want 

"the man" 

coming around sticking his big nose in ordering the house demolished

 and making a comment about the outside wallpaper affair

plus he likes the tall stand of trees next door

(we know they aren't actually trees!!!)

so an elated and very chuffed  tiny little bluebird 

 with all the strength he could muster

 feathered his house  nest

and called it a good day's work

the end

(as soon as I find the instructions page again I will link you up to it and you can make your own feather

should the mood hit you)

hope you find a feather for your nest!!!

xxx