friday in a flash....

 

have a great weekend

will you wind my thread for me?

merry chrisuary...

it wasn't supposed to snow until tomorrow

but it decided to surprise us and arrive today

we took a trip up the road to get vittles for the rest of the week

because the great arctic vortex is coming again and we wouldn't want to be caught short

would we

??

the three above are phone camera

snow and movement make for blurry photos

but you get the gist

.....

the ones below were taken with fancy shmancy camera

cold fingers and blowing wind make for blurry photos

but you get......

the drift

right before the movie

we snuggled down and decided to watch a movie in the afternoon!!!!

"Gravity"....

when it was over

so was the storm 

and this is what it looked like

half an hour after the movie...movie was 90 mins!!!!!

told you the weather was playing silly buggers

backwards....

after two or three days of

springlike weather

we're back to 

winter

...

guess the old groundhog was right

damn him

!!!!!

squeeeeeee!!!!!!!

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/39969515417237244/

I miss my baby girl so much....

found on the pinning place!!!!

new pattern...old yarn!!!

♥♥♥

♥♥♥♥♥

had 

pinned this

a while ago and found it again a couple of days ago

so I had a go yesterday

and look what happened

 yarn in the stash that needs to be used

Caron Country which I loved

but it's been discontinued so I don't have a lot to use

 I played with the colours 

with this stitch

"Leaping Stripes and Blocks"

that comes from 

HERE

looks different because I used so many colours

and I changed the dc (US) to a half dc

there is a wonderful video to help you  do it

and it's a lot easier than it looks

so

gather all those bits again and have a go

I made it with thicker cotton too

and it worked in a "messier" way...

I liked this tighter denser version

the weather continues to be completely crazy

it's playing silly buggers all over the place

we were under tornado warnings and watches yesterday

and in fact a tornado touched down on the other side of the river in Maryland, 

it reached almost 70 F ( 14/15 C)

today will be the same

and then it's going back down....way down next week 

with more snow

grrrrrrr!!!!

damn you pinterest!!!!

with all your pretty pins

pinned by pinners

pin after pin

of pretty this and prettier that

page after page of

ohh's and ahh's

and Oh I could make that

or

so and so would like that

or 

god forbid you go below the photo and find that endless list of

"you may like these"

pins

you could end up in

timbuktooooo

and not know how you got there

or who you are anymore

and heaven help you if you come across a new page

or 

BLOG

or

magazine

or yarn company

you aren't even safe in your own

room anymore

behind your monitor

 screen

tablet 

 phone android or not

lap top

millions of us have now squeezed and pushed and shoved and forced

a bzillion pins onto one place

and 

damn if we don't try to see all of them

I think we have a problem 

houston

so

wind  'em if you have'em

get that ball winder out

get those dusty bags full of tangles and mess

and bits and pieces and oh's and ahh's started and never thought of again

knot it all together

and make some 

fresh tightly wound balls and have at it

pinterest ain't going anywhere.......

and

neither are we!!!!!

:)