Well, I love crochet too much NOT to have a blog. Where else can I really share my ideas, finished objects and pictures? So, here I am. TA DA!!!

Back to business.

I am an active member of Crochetville and love to see what people have made. Well I came across this one post about a Haekelbeutel bag. It is german for crochet and I thought, well I have German blood in my veins so this would be interesting to try. After getting the squares done and following the intructions about stitching, I realized I was so confused that I didn't know what to do. I quickly joined up the Haekelbeutel CAL at the 'ville and begged shamelessly for help. Someone actually came up with a neat trick to figure out how to assemble the bag without you trying to rip your hair out in frustration.

Without further ado, I now present my two haekelbeutel bags...

Well, after long and careful consideration, I have decided that I will no longer be running a blog. I feel that publicly posting my thoughts and feelings is not a viable option for me at this time. I do have a private journal that I will continue to use to express myself with out feeling embarrassed or ashamed of posting something to the webworld. I will continue to be a member of Crochetville due to the fact that I am a crochet addict and I will never want to give up my love of working with thread, yarn, hooks, etc. I do send out my sincerest thanks to Melissa of Catscradlecreations who designed my blog with one of my favorite items in life, Cats. Since I will no longer have a blog, I will, however continue to post my pictures online via photobucket or even on Crochetville, itself. Thank you for your time and I will now bow out gracefully.

Thank you!

Curtain closes........

Here is a picture of a teddy bear that took me only 25 minutes to crochet. I gave "Ted" to a friend of mine's 2 year old.

Here are some of my doilies that I made. I love pineapples, can you tell?

Here is an afghan that I made for my 10 year old second cousin. Her mother was having problems with her landlady about getting their furnace fixed and I really didn't want Kayla to freeze in these Montana Winters so I whipped up a twin sized afghan in her favorite colors. I used RH WW Dark Orchid, Orchid and Aran and a Q hook and the stitch is SC. I thought it was heavy like a quilt and Kayla adores it. My cat Kaleigh thought it was for her but I decided to make a granny square afghan in black and white to match her colors too.

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Well, I still haven't been able to get any of my pictures put on here or at Crochetville. I am a bit frustrated but oh well. The time will come when I will be able to do so. I finished a twin bed size afghan for my 2nd cousin for her birthday using some awesome colors and a Q hook. The colors are Dark Orchid, Orchid, and Aran. I still have some left over so I decided to join the Giant Granny Square Afghan CAL at Crochetville. I am really excited about this. My aunt, who happens to live next door is battling cancer and so I opted to make her an afghan using the colors she primarily has in her bedroom. Black and white. Simple yet the afghan will be elegant. She is really cold all of the time and has a chemo catheter in her chest so the nurses don't have to poke her all the time when she goes in every week. This is her 5th bout with the cancer. First, it was in her breast, which had to be removed, then her other breast, which didn't have to be removed, thank goodness, then in her ribs,
its in her bones AND legs. Recently, we found out that she has Uterine Cancer. Poor thing! Of course, she is in our prayers. She was told by her Doctor that she should quit smoking but she has been a smoker since she was 12. Its going to be hard but she refuses to quit. Its her battle but my uncle is suffering along with her.

I went down to Arizona this summer and had all these great plans to go to Tombstone to show my little girl where I went to school and other places that I knew. But my brother, a control freak, didn't take us around like he promised. He claimed to have a bad back. He was whiney and a pain in the neck. He wouldn't let ANYONE except his wife drive his car. He has two laptop computers. I asked to use it and I was only allowed to use it for a little bit. In fact, I was timed! The next day I asked to use it my brother told me that Lisa took it to work with her. I couldn't even BREATH on his new one. He has a jealousy problem. He is two years older than me and he hates me. Before I found out that I was pregnant in 2001, the day before actually, he literally threated to kill me. What happened was he was living with my parents and my now ex-husband and I moved back to the states and mom was complaining about my bro's laziness. Well, being the good daughter that I was, I picked a fight with my brother. He was vicious! He yelled and screamed at me in front of my mother and then he threatened me. His exact words were, I want to kill you and when I do,you the police will have to drag me off of your corpse because I am going to make sure you are dead. A few days later, I found out that I was pregnant and my brother was in the room when I told my mother (my husband left me the day before to go back to Canada because he was a big baby and didn't like how he couldn't control me) My brother looked ill and left the kitchen and stayed in the bedroom for the rest of the day with his wife. Another thing about my ex-husband. He was married before and he divorced his first wife on the grounds of adultery. But I have been curious about the circumstances of WHY she did it. After leaving him on the 20th of April for the last time, I called her in June and asked her what happened in her marriage. Turns out that he did everything that he did with me. He controlled me, played mind games with me, told me I wasn't good enough, emotional and mental abuse. Always made fun of my weight...he did the same with Sharon. Nothing either his first wife or I did was good enough to please him. That was the end for me. I saw through his final trick and when I did, he turned it around onto me telling me :what part of dont screw around with me didn't you understand?
He was mad because I didn't play into his plans and called his bluff. He hated the fact that I outsmarted him and ended our relationship. He makes me sick. Looking back on my 5 years with him, I realized how much of a mistake I made to marry him. He is a closet homosexual who is fighting every aspect of admitting it to himself and coming out with it. I feel so sorry for his first three kids and my beautiful daughter. I refuse to speak negatively about him around her or to her. She is only 4 and a half and she misses daddy. I tell her that I understand how she feels and I love her very much. So far she hasn't said much about him. I hope she moves on and continues to bond with her heavenly father who has helped me through so much. My interests now lie with God. He sees all things that happen and knows both sides to every story. I don't care if Darren, my ex, tells his version of the story. I have faith that God knows the whole truth and will take care of Darren and his destructive behavior. We both think we told the truth to our families but I know that I didn't leave anything out about what I had done and what he did as well. He has told stories and twisted things around. I am so glad that I don't have to deal with him anymore.

Well, I know I haven't posted in ages. I am down in Arizona visiting my brother and sister in law. I have been working on crochet and I am excited to say that I have pictures! I need to figure out how I can do it on my brother's computer. I am eagerly awaiting for the day I get my own home PC so I can really show off my work. I have made several doilies for my aunt but I have to take those pictures. I am working on a filet crochet sampler and a poncho for my s-i-l. I am even swearing off sports as well since I made a complete fool of myself on the superbowl. Don't worry. I am trying to behave myself and just focus on crochet when I am on crochetville.

That superbowl really ticked me off! I have never in all my life seen a game handed over like a head on a plater. My goodness! I wonder what kind of payoff the Hawks received! My poor brother, never once lost faith in Seattle and he said after watching that game, he was really disappointed in them. I guess money can really make one make stupid decisions. On the other hand, the Steelers haven't won a superbowl since the late 70's. Ye of little faith! I really wanted Seattle to take the trophy but I guess we all can't get what we want. But Seattle! You finally got your name up there in the big books with all the other teams. At least you got your championship ring! You are the NFC Champions! 'nuff said!

I have to admit I got a bit cocky on C'ville while rooting for the birds. But, hey! Who hasn't ever made a fool of themselves in their life before? I was just sharing my opinion, which is my right. But I never really ever got rilled up over the superbowl before. Never had a reason to. So I opened mouth and inserted foot but that doesn't mean I appreciate people gloating over it. What is done is done. Steelers won and Seattle is still the NFC Champions. Even in school I was always low key about things like sports. When my friends would make fun of my favorite baseball team (the yankees) I let it go. When they won the Penant and the World Series...I didn't whoop it up and brag about them winning. But the first time in my life I made a fool of myself online with a group of people whom I consider friends. Now I feel really stupid for such an action.

Now, back to Crochet: A wonderful lady is allowing me to test one of her awesome doilies. The Emerald's Song Doily. I had some difficulty with round 7 and I kept frogging it over and over for a total of 5 times. Finally, last night around 1 am I figured it out and voila! I am now on round 11 and going strong! Its a beautiful pattern and I feel honored to be able to test such a masterpiece by a crochet artist. Lately, I have been wanting to crochet doilies more than working with WW yarn. I still have to stitch together my squares from the blue squares too swap. Maybe its a bad slump but I still have YAS (yarn aquisition syndrome.) I feel terrible....I need to apologize to Elizabeth about my rooting and saying terrible things about the Steelers. I am so ashamed. I will never live this one down....

Ok, spam is really offensive! I know people like to work at home and use their PC to earn money but sending email about non important information like home mortages is just down right rude! I mean, I don't want your stinking information on my blog sight or in my email. I am not interested in garbage. That is why I put my garbage out to the side of the street every monday to be taken away. Anyway, so nothing really exciting has been happening to me so far....work is work and I finished crocheting the purse for the Crochetville Purse swap. I just haven't sent it out yet because this coming Saturday is a scrapbooking crop that a friend of mine is having and I am sorta helping out with that and I am working on a book for mom for her first child that passed away when she was 2 years old. Then payday is on the 28th and maybe then I will be able to send off Kathy's purse. I do so hope she likes it. I feel kinda silly to see people showing off my work at Crochetville when I send it to them. Compared to other FPs that I see on there, I feel so inferior. Oh well, at least I am trying and I have my psuedo-health. HA HA. This week school is out from Thursday to Monday and my daughter's class has a bunny. The teacher is going out to Billings for the comfrence and there is no heat in the school in the weekends. At the parent confrence, I was volunteered to take the bunny home until tuesday when my little girl goes back. Lucky us. I brought the thing home and was sick to my stomach because my dad is not a happy camper when you bring another animal into the house when you have 4 cats and 3 fish residing in your home. Well, the bunny (I call it Bunn Bunn) made herself at home and played with Kaleigh and Abby. Technically, Kaleigh watched it from the distance as did Abby but it was adorable to see this little bunny hopping around the living room "chasing" Abby. Sarah had a ball! This morning, I let the bunny out and Sarah went around with a kleenex saying "It pooped It pooped!" I had to laugh but I was adamant that she didn't do the cleaning up. I did that but it was funny to have her giving commentary about the bunny business. I introduced Bootsie to the bunny today. I have never seen her to attentive to anything before! She just stared and stared. Of course in the end, all the cats seem to accept the bunny. Even dad was thrilled. But this is not going to be a permanent thing at our house. I have to keep bunn bunn away from my yarn stash......