So the reason I haven't been on here since my last post about the pumpkins is because my Internet decided to take a vacation from ME! I've had my son come on over several times to try and fix the nefarious offending thing... but alas I'm still having problems with it allowing me to view my stuff! Sorry for the inconvenience it may have caused... I'll get back to you when the silly thing gets well. :O(
Hope you all have a Happy Holidays! ~ Joyce
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Christmas Projects...
As I sit here crocheting potholders for my daughter's Christmas present - I realized that this is a nice Christmas activity for anyone that can crochet even a little bit. So I decided to share with all of you. Here are the instructions:
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Crochet Pot Holders
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I like to use a solid wool color yarn and a variegated color of mixed fibers that are less likely to melt with excess heat like cotton or acrylic with wool mix, etc. It works best if yarns are close to the same weight so one isn’t way thinner than the other. I’ve made them over the years with all cotton and I’ve made them with all synthetic and I’ve made them all one color, but now prefer the two color with wool and mixed fiber ones. The Yarn I mostly like to use now is: Patons Classic Wool- black; and Red Heart- Fleck, for instance, in varied colors; one skein each.
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I use a size G/6 hook. Chain with first color: 47 for approx. 8½ inch square potholder (depending on how tight you crochet). Chain 41 for a smaller potholder and 51 for a bigger one. You get the idea – odd number for smaller or larger ones; start by using first color.
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I like to use a solid wool color yarn and a variegated color of mixed fibers that are less likely to melt with excess heat like cotton or acrylic with wool mix, etc. It works best if yarns are close to the same weight so one isn’t way thinner than the other. I’ve made them over the years with all cotton and I’ve made them with all synthetic and I’ve made them all one color, but now prefer the two color with wool and mixed fiber ones. The Yarn I mostly like to use now is: Patons Classic Wool- black; and Red Heart- Fleck, for instance, in varied colors; one skein each.
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I use a size G/6 hook. Chain with first color: 47 for approx. 8½ inch square potholder (depending on how tight you crochet). Chain 41 for a smaller potholder and 51 for a bigger one. You get the idea – odd number for smaller or larger ones; start by using first color.
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Continue First color: Single crochet (skip the first chain stitch) around both sides of the chain making a circle: o - Crochet three complete rows around of the first color – making a total of a six row strip.
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Second color: Tie off with a square knot in yarn to first color, just past the curve in the six rows leaving approx. 1½ inch thread. Single crochet the second color around to starting point, plus a couple stitches to form a triangle at ends. Double crochet same color around once, then single crochet around ending at edge where the triangle is forming. Tie off with first color again in a square knot leaving a 1½ inch thread.
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First color: Again single crochet around six rows; tie off with second color as above.
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Middle Second color: Double crochet around once, ending just past the triangle that’s forming at the ends.
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Tie off with first color then single crochet around six rows.
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Top second color: Single crochet around once; double crochet around once, then single crochet around once again ending each row just past the triangle making it a full triangle; tie off with first color as above.
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First color: Single crochet around three times making a total of 31 rows counting double crochet rows: Chain 12 to make hanging loop. Measure yarn loosely three times length of finished rectangle for sewing shut… cut off.
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Turn rectangle right side out now – leaving all tied off ends inside of rectangle. Now pull sides of rectangle together forming a square instead of the rectangle, with 12 chain loop at top. Tie off loop and continue to close the hole with crochet hook and “sewing” the long measured yarn through each side. Tuck/pull remaining ends inside the potholder with crochet hook.
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Continue First color: Single crochet (skip the first chain stitch) around both sides of the chain making a circle: o - Crochet three complete rows around of the first color – making a total of a six row strip.
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Second color: Tie off with a square knot in yarn to first color, just past the curve in the six rows leaving approx. 1½ inch thread. Single crochet the second color around to starting point, plus a couple stitches to form a triangle at ends. Double crochet same color around once, then single crochet around ending at edge where the triangle is forming. Tie off with first color again in a square knot leaving a 1½ inch thread.
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First color: Again single crochet around six rows; tie off with second color as above.
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Middle Second color: Double crochet around once, ending just past the triangle that’s forming at the ends.
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Tie off with first color then single crochet around six rows.
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Top second color: Single crochet around once; double crochet around once, then single crochet around once again ending each row just past the triangle making it a full triangle; tie off with first color as above.
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First color: Single crochet around three times making a total of 31 rows counting double crochet rows: Chain 12 to make hanging loop. Measure yarn loosely three times length of finished rectangle for sewing shut… cut off.
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Turn rectangle right side out now – leaving all tied off ends inside of rectangle. Now pull sides of rectangle together forming a square instead of the rectangle, with 12 chain loop at top. Tie off loop and continue to close the hole with crochet hook and “sewing” the long measured yarn through each side. Tuck/pull remaining ends inside the potholder with crochet hook.
~Done~
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Author Tina Scott of totallytina awarded me the lovely blog award. Thanks for thinking of me Tina! It's taken me a while to get it posted but I appreciate your thoughtfulness in selecting me.
In order to accept this award, I have to share seven random facts about me. Here they are in no particular order:
(1.) I've been married to my sweetheart for forty-seven years.
(2.) From that union we have seven children and twenty-three grandchildren.
(3.) I paint oil paintings, sew & crochet and have written and directed a play.
(4.) I started writing poetry years ago, then children's books, but am now working on writing a two-part suspense/romance novel.
(5.) I'm a licenced beautician (retired).
(6.) Besides Arizona, where I was born, I have lived in Anchorage, Alaska; Spokane, WA; Torrejon, Spain; Umatilla, OR; Hermiston, OR; Willamina, OR; El Centro, Calif; and now Maricopa, AZ.
(7.) I have two dogs, Daisy & Spidie; a cat named George; and five fish - Plat, Plat JR, Greaystokes, Frankie & Gordo. (Two fish, Bugs & Cali died and became plant food.)
Below is a list of seventeen other lovely blogs. I hope you'll take the time to visit each of them.
1. www.cottoncandy4thesoul.blogspot.com (Jennifer Griffith)
2. www.karendupaixwrites.blogspot.com (Karen Dupaix)
3. frespafan (Anna Arnett)
4. blogs and blurbs (Cindy R. Williams)
5. www.myliteraryescape (Andrea Smith)
6. 365babystepstovibranthealth (Heather Horrocks)
7. anwa (ANWA's Founder & Friends)
8. chilly'sworld (Chilly)
9. DonnaHatch
10. SarahM.Eden
11. hauntshaven (Joan Sowards)
12. aviewfromtheothersideofthehill (Laurie LC Lewis)
13. mydeartrash (Laura Lofgreen)
14. www.RachelRager
15. www.theblessingsoffamilylife (Valerie J. Steimle)
16. www.whenIgetup (Tamara)
17. www.writerinthepines (Marsha Ward)
Now in order for all of you seventeen lovely blogs to accept this award please do the following:
copy, cut, & paste the above award and put in your pictures folder. Then paste in preferred design format of your blog. Answer the seven random facts about yourself and post 15-17 new blogs that you think are deserving of the award on your next blog... wallah, you're now a lovely blog recipient! Congratulations!!!
In order to accept this award, I have to share seven random facts about me. Here they are in no particular order:
(1.) I've been married to my sweetheart for forty-seven years.
(2.) From that union we have seven children and twenty-three grandchildren.
(3.) I paint oil paintings, sew & crochet and have written and directed a play.
(4.) I started writing poetry years ago, then children's books, but am now working on writing a two-part suspense/romance novel.
(5.) I'm a licenced beautician (retired).
(6.) Besides Arizona, where I was born, I have lived in Anchorage, Alaska; Spokane, WA; Torrejon, Spain; Umatilla, OR; Hermiston, OR; Willamina, OR; El Centro, Calif; and now Maricopa, AZ.
(7.) I have two dogs, Daisy & Spidie; a cat named George; and five fish - Plat, Plat JR, Greaystokes, Frankie & Gordo. (Two fish, Bugs & Cali died and became plant food.)
Below is a list of seventeen other lovely blogs. I hope you'll take the time to visit each of them.
1. www.cottoncandy4thesoul.blogspot.com (Jennifer Griffith)
2. www.karendupaixwrites.blogspot.com (Karen Dupaix)
3. frespafan (Anna Arnett)
4. blogs and blurbs (Cindy R. Williams)
5. www.myliteraryescape (Andrea Smith)
6. 365babystepstovibranthealth (Heather Horrocks)
7. anwa (ANWA's Founder & Friends)
8. chilly'sworld (Chilly)
9. DonnaHatch
10. SarahM.Eden
11. hauntshaven (Joan Sowards)
12. aviewfromtheothersideofthehill (Laurie LC Lewis)
13. mydeartrash (Laura Lofgreen)
14. www.RachelRager
15. www.theblessingsoffamilylife (Valerie J. Steimle)
16. www.whenIgetup (Tamara)
17. www.writerinthepines (Marsha Ward)
Now in order for all of you seventeen lovely blogs to accept this award please do the following:
copy, cut, & paste the above award and put in your pictures folder. Then paste in preferred design format of your blog. Answer the seven random facts about yourself and post 15-17 new blogs that you think are deserving of the award on your next blog... wallah, you're now a lovely blog recipient! Congratulations!!!
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Book Review of: Wrong Number...
This summer while I was in the mountains camping I got to spend a lot of my time reading. One novel I read was: Wrong Number by Rachelle J. Christensen.
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With this book, Wrong Number, Rachelle J. Christensen had the ability to grab my interest at the beginning of the book and keep me captivated until I turned the last page. In fact I liked it so well that I read it a second time.
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Wrong Number is a story about a pregnant young woman named Aubree. Running late for work Aubree finds that she had forgotten to charge her cell phone during the night. When she rushes off to the office with her husband‘s phone, and answers a call that inadvertently was sent to her husbands phone by accident - little does she know of the tragic and life changing events that such a simple act will bring.
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Rachelle J. Christensen’s book, Wrong Number is a book with suspense, romance and twists and turns in the plot that keep you riveted to your seat.
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In Wrong Number, before Aubree Stewart knows what’s happening, she is whisked off by the FBI to the witness protection program. Sequestered and kept from family and friends, her name and identity are changed. She gives birth to her 1st baby all alone and in a hospital where she doesn’t know what to expect or even if she’s safe.
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During her time in witness protection, Jason a young FBI agent, works hard to teach her how to protect herself and now that of her daughter. When all leads into her case seem to go nowhere, she wonders how hard they’re trying to solve her case. How is it that the bad guys always seem to know where she is? Then one fateful day she hears a voice on TV that sends chills down her spine. She soon realizes there must be a leak in the FBI and she doesn’t know who to trust. She decides her only path to safety is to take her life into her own hands. She then flees the safe-house on an adventure and race for time and life.
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Rachelle J. Christensen has done a great job with this book and made me want to keep on reading. I kept wondering if Aubree would fall for Jason, the young agent, or someone else she meets along the way. Will the bad guys find her and kill her and her baby or will the FBI finally figure out who’s behind her death threat and save her from the bad guys and herself?
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I highly recommend Wrong Number to anyone that likes a good mystery. Congratulations Rachelle J. Christensen for a well written book.
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With this book, Wrong Number, Rachelle J. Christensen had the ability to grab my interest at the beginning of the book and keep me captivated until I turned the last page. In fact I liked it so well that I read it a second time.
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Wrong Number is a story about a pregnant young woman named Aubree. Running late for work Aubree finds that she had forgotten to charge her cell phone during the night. When she rushes off to the office with her husband‘s phone, and answers a call that inadvertently was sent to her husbands phone by accident - little does she know of the tragic and life changing events that such a simple act will bring.
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Rachelle J. Christensen’s book, Wrong Number is a book with suspense, romance and twists and turns in the plot that keep you riveted to your seat.
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In Wrong Number, before Aubree Stewart knows what’s happening, she is whisked off by the FBI to the witness protection program. Sequestered and kept from family and friends, her name and identity are changed. She gives birth to her 1st baby all alone and in a hospital where she doesn’t know what to expect or even if she’s safe.
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During her time in witness protection, Jason a young FBI agent, works hard to teach her how to protect herself and now that of her daughter. When all leads into her case seem to go nowhere, she wonders how hard they’re trying to solve her case. How is it that the bad guys always seem to know where she is? Then one fateful day she hears a voice on TV that sends chills down her spine. She soon realizes there must be a leak in the FBI and she doesn’t know who to trust. She decides her only path to safety is to take her life into her own hands. She then flees the safe-house on an adventure and race for time and life.
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Rachelle J. Christensen has done a great job with this book and made me want to keep on reading. I kept wondering if Aubree would fall for Jason, the young agent, or someone else she meets along the way. Will the bad guys find her and kill her and her baby or will the FBI finally figure out who’s behind her death threat and save her from the bad guys and herself?
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I highly recommend Wrong Number to anyone that likes a good mystery. Congratulations Rachelle J. Christensen for a well written book.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
A Joke For The Day...
Hey sorry it's been awhile since I posted last... my eldest brother had throat surgery again and he's been here at my house convalescing. He was released from the hospital with a feeding tube still through his nose into his stomach. So I've been helping care for him... consequently - no computer time. :O{
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My sister told me a joke the other day that I thought I would share with you...
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How do you tell the difference between a male Chocolate Bunny and a female Chocolate Bunny?
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When you bite into it, if its head is hollow its a male. :OD
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Have a great day! ~Joyce
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My sister told me a joke the other day that I thought I would share with you...
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How do you tell the difference between a male Chocolate Bunny and a female Chocolate Bunny?
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When you bite into it, if its head is hollow its a male. :OD
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Have a great day! ~Joyce
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