tired tuesday

man, this week has got me beat already....

good night!

camper crafts!

this weekend it was warm enough to sit out in the camper and  crochet a few little circles. these are for garlands to sell at CRAFT FIX.  i hang these everywhere, the bathroom(shown here), bedroom, dining room and even one on the chicken coop! they do quite well outside. such cheerful little strings of color, and a great way to use up all the odds and ends of yarn you may have.

back to work today after a very relaxing vacation. i did some sewing, and went out for breakfast quite a lot, which was nice, and watched a lot of movies. good to unwind before the bakery craziness of the holidays!

hope your week is off to a good start!

pin-spiration

 

here are some beautiful images to start your weekend from some of my very favorite blogs! i hope you enjoy them!!!

#1 and #4 from here

#2 from here

#3 from  here

#5 from here

#6 from here

#7 from here.

happy weekend!

cool blue and brown

are you familiar with joseph cornell ?

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we saw justin townes earle last night-such a great show!

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little quilt is finished for CRAFT FIX!

happy friday!

snow!

i looked out the window in the middle of the night and was excited to see white rooftops! but, the snow is very wet and will probably be gone tomorrow....so lovely though!

a good day to stay inside and read, certainly not tennyson! i just love that book cover. right now i am reading heart songs by annie proulx. re-reading i should say. i love her writing. one of my all-time favorite books by her is the shipping news, sooooooo good!

crafty post coming up soon, when we get some sunlight!

so happy, and so very proud of this state of maine!!!!!

don't forget to vote!

the chickens' water sure was frozen this morning! 28 degrees when i went out. saw a bit of snow flurries yesterday! i wish i could say how warm i am inside, but i'll get to that...

so, yesterday was a sewing day. "i'll make a bunch of zip bags", i said. i've made these bags before, many of them. i can do zippers. i can! but  yesterday, i made every single mistake possible. the first bag i LITERALLY, no exaggeration, ripped out every single seam i sewed. i made every mistake from sewing the zipper in upside down, to sewing too close to the zipper teeth so the zipper wouldn't unzip! this i discovered after the bag was "DONE"!!!!! i would've thrown the whole thing in the trash if i hadn't been using such nice fabric. by the third bag i was doing ok, but all in all a seriously unpleasant sewing experience!

so, today. i have a timer set on the stove for 18 minutes. it reminds me to dump the water out of the bowl in the basement catching the water leaking out of the furnace. i can't run the heat. every 18 minutes i dump the water, reset the timer. fortunately the plumber should be here soon.....good times.

which brings us around to today's pictures. they represent the much more cooperative sport of knitting. yes, knitting has had unpleasant days too, but those were long ago and now forgotten. right now i am embracing the relaxing, sit-on-the-couch-under-a-blanket, gentle ways of mindless knitting. these fingerless gloves are for CRAFT FIX, the fair i'm doing at the end of the month. i will post all of that info soon, maybe when the zip bags come out of craft time out...

some days you just have to blast some rock 'n roll and dance around the kitchen. it really does help!

oh, and don't forget to VOTE!