hand eye crafts

Ten Favorite Foods That My Mother Made 1.  Meat loaf.  That one thing that, even though you do everything like your mother did, never tastes anywhere near as good.  She would make it at least once every time we visited, because Briton and Hannah loved it, too. 2.  Fruit cobblers.  Especially peach.  Ripe peaches right off the tree. . . 3.  Brownies.  I think that's the first thing I ever made with her.  It would have been when I was very young, though, so I probably twirled a lot of flour out of the bowl.  And ate a lot  of the pecans. 4.  Hot grease salads.  (I know how it sounds.  I also know how it tastes.)  Leaf lettuce, grated boiled eggs, sliced carrots (except for me), green onions (double helping for me), shredded cheddar cheese, crumbled bacon, drizzled with the grease the bacon left behind.  It sizzles, and it is so, SO good. 5.  Pickled okra.  The best, hands down. ...

Another Blankapalooza color prompt? Indeed. If you've followed every prompt so far, you should have 12 squares.  Let's make it a baker's dozen;  what do you say? Square Thirteen should be THE COLOR OF YOUR FAVORITE LOLLIPOP/GUMBALL. Happy knitting!

* Do you follow any blogs that are not knit or crochet blogs? Yes, I do.  Not many, but a few. *Do you wind your yarn into cakes or balls? Balls.  Almost every attempt I've made with my swift has been a disaster.  Plus, to me, winding by hand is part of the knitting process as I learned it. *What is the longest stretch you can recall not knitting? It seems like it would be after my daughter was born, and I was getting used to being a mother-of-two.  If there were stretches after that, I don't remember them. *Do you bake or buy birthday cakes? Buy. *Do you drink water every day? Sadly, no. *Have you given up on knitting a certain garment? Several!  Some I've gotten so frustrated with and angry at that they went into the garbage can.  I didn't have the patience to frog them, the troublemakers. *For the terrifying question there are several parts: Have you ever been: stuck in an elevator? No, thank goodness.  I'm...

As some of you know, we have been dealing, and are continuing to deal, with some very serious issues in our family.  Since this is a "public" space, and I am not the only person involved, I won't go into exactly what is happening, for the sake of privacy.  But blogging is likely to be sporadic for a bit. Still, I have promised monthly reviews of products from  Chewy.com , so, here we go for April: This is Nature's Miracle Just for Cats Odor and Stain Remover.  For the very, very most part, my cats don't abandon their litter boxes.  But there have been accidents, and I wanted to see what this would do.  It is formulated for both floor and carpet, and I tried it on both.  It did a bang-up job of removing some spots on the kitchen floor: there was no sign of the "misses" when I was done.  On carpet, it worked very well on odor, but not so much the stain.  Fortunately, I'm talking about only a small spot on my hallway carpet, so the st...

Your next Blankapalooza square should be THE COLOR OF YOUR BIRTHSTONE:

The wrap I've been test-knitting was claimed as a bed by one of the cats overnight.  (Rupert is in the clear, because he doesn't take the time to claw and tangle and wreck stitches like a cat.)   The guilty feline made herself quite a little nest of what was becoming, very quickly, this: The Piret Scarf , by my friend Kelli Slack.  Although I can't be sure, the yarn in this photo looks very much like the yarn I am/was using.  It vary subtly shades from grey through pewter to a silver, and they all sort of glisten, due to the tencel in the yarn.  I was enjoying making this, as there are written instructions --- I'm hopeless with charts. I did that thing where you start unravelling very carefully, thinking, "Maybe I can save this," then move into, "I should be able to pick it up somewhere in here," to just all-out ripping .  And, maybe cursing.  There may have been cursing. Thankfully, I have both an easy  hat  and a  fa...

This ToT is right in my wheelhouse, and looking at my friends' lists has been so  much fun!  We've been asked to list ten of the albums we can listen to start to finish.  No skipping songs allowed. 1.   Main Course  --- Bee Gees My be-all and end-all album. 2.   Go For Broke  --- Ian Matthews I had never heard of him, but read a review of this album in Rolling Stone , and wanted to give it a chance.  I've gotten everything he's made since. 3.   Keeper of the Flame  --- Delbert McClinton Ah, Delbert.  You couln't have gotten any closer to perfection. 4.   Here at Last, Bee Gees Live 'Cause it's the Bee Gees.  And they're live. 5.   Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town --- Emmylou Harris Some of her best vocal work on some genius lyrics. 6.   Graceland  --- Paul Simon The beats are good, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo a wonder, but the words to the songs are absolutely re...