Purse Prefelting

I love this purse pattern! Talk about easy. I have made two purse bodies and several flowers. Here's a photo of the purse bodies. The first body is bigger then the second. I think the second is more accurate to the pattern.

Here is a photo of the flower.

Here is a photo of possible flower placement on the purse.

I still have to felt the purse bodies and handles. I won't be felting the flowers.

Bee Guy and Upside Down Tomatoes

Here is Fred and Bob the Bee Guy. He took away our second hive. Poor guy! It was really, really hot that day and he had th ebee suit on. Our bees were very sweet and didn't put up a fuss. Fred misses them. I miss them a tiny bit too.

In other news, Fred has built an upsidedown tomato holder. The photos of his marvelous creation follow. Evidently, hanging tomato plants upsidedown if preferable because then you don't have to stack them and it is easier to get the tomatoes.

I Can't Wait...In Two Days I Will Have:

Creepy Cute Crochet: Zombies, Ninjas, Robots, and More! That's right! A whole book on how to crochet zombies, ninjas, robots and VAMPIRES! Woot. I'm so stoked.

Imagine....crocheting oodles of vampires and then mailing them to my former students who will soon be college freshmen. That beats a bag of cookies any day. And aren't they cute? Oh, I just cannot wait. I'll have oodles of toys....a whole creepy cute army. Not Anna's Infant Army, but still a decent army to rule the crochet world. Bwahahahaha!

Yarndoodles Is Up!

Yea! Gisah, or Yarndoodles, has finally gotten her blog on. Find her at http://yarndoodlesandoodlesofotherthings.blogspot.com/ She is an amazing crocheter, knitter and chef. I'll have to take a photo of the fantastic sweater she created for me, and the two afghans, and....Well, perhaps I can't do photos of everything, but believe me they are great!

Gardens

Fred is experimenting with peppers. He has been starting peppers from seed from Santa Fe School of Cooking where we attended two great cooking classes over spring break. I highly recommend taking a class if you are in the Santa Fe area. We took a Native American Cooking class and a NW traditional cooking class. Both were excellent. We had grand plans to make prickly pear syrup for christmas presents but the darn birds got to the crop before we did. GRRRR.

Holy Crap! My dad read The Host...

I'm so pleased with my dad! He read The Host by Stephenie Meyer
AND HE LIKED IT! Go Dad! From all reports, the book is a compelling read. Ellen has my copy. ELLEN: Finish it quickly. I didn't even know my dad would read fantasy. I'll have to ask him more questions about his reading tastes.

I've got the second book in the Leven Thumps' series: Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret by Obert Skye. I read the first one because a 7th grader (Alex) strongly recommended it to me, as in read this or I will pester you to death until you do! But in a good way. 8-) It was very entertaining. I imagine this one will be as well.

Oh, BTW, Audible is having a semi-annual, half-price sale! Woot. I bought bunches of books to listen to as I crochet. I will have oodles to read. I got a several non-fiction titles as well: Cultural Literacy, The God Delusion and The Cheating Culture. Hopefully, they will be worth the purchase price, even at half price. I'm such a weenie about non-fiction...it has to be very engaging to keep my interest.

Ava Wrap De Novo

Well, I sent off the American version of row 3 on the Ava Wrap from Vintage Crochet and French Girl Knits is going to compare it with the English version. It seems to me that they are missing a piece on how to deal with the V stitch in between the triples. I sincerely doubt it is user error! ha!

I guess I will see tomorrow. Still no bee guy. But Fred is ready to donate our 11 year old van since he now has the llama car to drive around.

Big Girls's Stitch n Bitch is this Monday at my house. My crochet peeps are coming over. I never thought I would actually write that sentence in my whole entire life! Anyway, we should have a very nice chat and nosh and hook session.

The other problem I am having with the Nico skirt I am going to take up to Aunt Helen's this weekend and see if she can show me what I am doing wrong. If she can't fix it, Gisah can. 8-)

Down with Vintage Crochet, Onward with Chicks with Sticks

I've officially given up on the Vintage Crochet book and have moved on to the felted flower purse in Chicks with Sticks Guide to Crochet. The purse is very cute and seems pretty easy so far: crocheted in a continuous round. I'm using some of the green wool I got in Santa Fe.

Eyeglasses
I am very irritated with my new glasses. They just broke. They are these very cool Italian specs from Try Change that are plastic and you pop on the stems and nose piece and can change them out. Last night, I pulled them off and they broke down the middle. Now I have to see about getting them fixed. GRRRRRRR.