Secrets REVEALED!!! ;o)

As promised, I’ve come to share some photos of (some of) the secret projects I’ve been working on over the past year. There’s more photo editing to do, so there will be at least one more post like this in the future, but since my previous post mentioned (and linked to) some of them, I […]

2012: The Year of the Afghan

I don’t believe it was a conscious decision, but 2012 has turned out to be the Year of the Afghan for me.  (g) Let me count them up… I started the year by finishing an afghan begun the year before– the Very Vintage V-Stitch-Ghan (which I’ve been using and loving a lot this season). I’ve […]

Ah, Sweet Freedom! ;o)

Well, almost.  There’s another family get-together– but my gift-making for 2012 is finished.  There was one little something that I’d originally planned to have done in November… then hoped to finish by Christmas… and then gave up as a lost cause.  I’ll finish it sometime– whenever.  It wasn’t important– just a little trinket– and the […]

Crafty Resolutions

(It’s a little early, but…) I’m not one for making (and sticking to) grand New Year’s resolutions, but I think all of us feel that occasional (or maybe frequent, though ineffectual) urge to resolve to do better in various areas of our lives.  (Exercise?  Healthy eating?  Getting the jungly portions of the yard back under […]

Things 1, 2, 3 & 4

First: Ack!  Headache! (I shouldn’t complain, because I don’t get them that often. *knocks on wood*) Second: I am bad.  I… I started another scrap afghan.  (Should I pretend to hang my head in shame?  No, I already have a headache; that’s punishment enough. ;o)) I couldn’t resist.  After crocheting (and not weaving in the […]

Chitchat

I actually have two finished projects that I could share here (meaning that they weren’t secret projects), but I have yet to photograph them– and with today’s overcast skies, it’ll have to wait. In the meantime, though, how about a little rambling chitchat on a variety of completely random subjects? Gold or Platinum Embroidery Needles– […]

Victorian Ornaments Afghan

Here’s one of those projects I won’t be starting anytime soon.  ;o)  (Even after the Christmas stuff is done, I will deny myself the fun of starting any new afghan project until I’ve finished the “Gypsying”/African Flower one already in progress.  One must have some self-control. (g)) But if I can’t make it right now, […]

Where Are You, Christmas?

I am fighting the urge to start a new project that will be mine, mine, all mine.  (Even though I already have a few me, me, me projects in progress…) I really– no, I mean really shouldn’t start something new.  I have a Christmas gift that I’m still crocheting, another that needs a polymer clay […]

WOW.

Maybe I’m late to the party and everyone’s already seen this before… but for reasons of my own ;o) I was looking at photos of Amineko cats on Pinterest and was absolutely stunned to see a human-sized one sitting on the couch beside his creator. Chester is an example of what Alison Willcocks calls “Extreme […]