Sad News and Good News!!

Our youngest son was in an awful motorcycle accident 9 days ago. He was on life support for the whole time and the good news is that they have just taken him off...and he is breathing on his own...thank you so much to all for your prayers....he has a long way to full recovery, but he will recover....it is just a rough time for our home so I will not be blogging a lot for next few weeks.

Merry Christmas
and
Happy New Year
to all of my blogging friends old and new!!!

My New Project

I saw this cape and hood and couldn't resist making it. Now my daughter has seen it and wants me to make her one. So when I finish this it will probaly go to her. I am using black and gold flecked Red Heart Fiesta and Trimming it with Festive Fur in Black Sparkle. Ohhh it is coming along sooo nicely. It is much easier than I thought it might be....

Swaps Rceived

I received this package from someone??? With the daily trips to the hospital it was joy to receive a package and put a smile on face. I just love the Apron it is so pretty and also love the hot pads....Thank you sooo much!!! But who is it from? There was no note or first name on the package, so if you are the one who sent it to me let me know, as it was not my SP11 partner..














Then I got my Nov Fantasy Brown Fat 1/4 Swap Bot package..Yummy Fat !/4 I love the gold flecked one and cannot wait to make a purse with it...and I also got some pretty notecards and and terrific brown trim and ribbon too. Loved it all...

Some Cool Links

I was on my friend's blog and she had a link to a granny square room, here's a picture of a "granny square rec room" Wow now that is a lot of granny squares....

Robin has the coolest links so be sure to hop on over there...

Some of those hooks can be used for other things rather than crocheting ladies????

Oh I found a wonderful tutorial for a round Rope Rug that is easy and fun.

I also found a terrific "Cut out + Keep" blog that has all kinds of weird hints and tips!!!

Want to crochet a clock?

Monster blog has a most unique scarf???

And last but not least for this Thanksgiving why not adopt?

Come Swap with Me????

Ok now I am addicted to swaps and even run 2 of my own, but I saw a fun theme for a terrific swap and thought wow, that would be great to do but how??? So then I got this idea to put up a post here and ask my blogging friends if they would like to swap with me, no big swap, just would be you and me...the theme will be "Movie Night Out with our Yarn" [I may use this theme on my crochet swap too] anyways, what we would swap:

• a terrific "Chick" flick movie [ an older movie like Sabina, or An Affair to Remember]
• a pattern to go along with the movie theme
• the yarn and notions
• A mug and tea or cocoa

That's it, of course any other goodies is ok too, but not necessary. So if your interested in swapping with me just leave a post here and email me your addy and I will email you mine. ohhh this will be fun!!!

Contests are Fun! Who Wants to Swap?

I was checking out some of my fav blogs to surf through and ran across a few contests that are worthy of noting..the first one is at The Bag Lady and a Pros blog, Anne is having a contest to gather favorite patterns. So be sure to hop on over and enter - just make sure to note that you heard about it here and I will get another entry! Cass is also having a contest. You can brag about your favorite knit gifts or patterns! And please do tell Cass that I sent you over! Another fun one is at Meagan's blog. Just choose 1-100 of her comments and relate it to you in your comment and you might win...yes and again be sure to mention I sent you over...
NOW BE SURE TO MENTION I SENT YOU THERE

Ohhh alos check out Miz Allie Cat's Show n' Tails Weekend Game...its fun and simple...hop on over and join in on the fun and you could win a surprise gift!

Swaps Received from DaBookLady BABES

I got another swapping package from DaBookLady's BABEs swap in September and also I got my October package!!! Wow....double surprises...

Shawnee sent me not 1 not 2 not 3 , but 4 books...WOWOWOWOW!!!! I got one from my Amazon wish list, see it really does work to wish, and a terrific looking culinary mystery, a new one by my one of my favorite authors Koontz, and another intriguing looking one. They are murder, mystery thrillers for the "thriller" theme of October. Then I got a beautiful cup, Reeses, that my hubby already grabbed, cute Turkey bookmark, yum yum tea, a notepad, and a fall yummy smelling candle..thank you sooo much!!!



Next I got my Sept swap from Judy B. I got yummy yarn that I love to crochet with, a cute horsee key chain. and of course I love horses, great book on friendship, whixh was the theme that month, and cute Christmas candles and wonderful tea in a can, a nice bookmark, and a pretty ceramic cat candle holder, and of course I love cats too!!! Oh yeah and a notepad...
I was spolied this month!!!