Dear Gentle Reader,

Today I have been really tired. I have a dishcloth in the works and silly me, I started up another one. I had a horrible migraine headache and so I limited my time online. I am definitely drawn to Crochetville and Yahoo messenger for some reason or another. This afternoon, when my headache was unbearable, I laid down on my couch around 1:30 pm and didn't wake up until 6:15 pm!!!! What a waste of a day! I could have been crocheting! Haha. Tomorrow afternoon, I will be moving back down to Montana from Canada. I am a bit nervous about this move but I got to make it work. Have to save my money and get on my feet. I don't know how to budget because I have a terrible habit of spending money right away on yarn, thread, patterns...etc;. I know I know! I have an addiction! But I am not complaining. My family is! LOL I am taking a U-Haul Large box with me that has all of my crochet, crafting items with me. I would be insane to leave that all up here when I need it with me. I am working a baby afghan for a friend on Crochetville, that is coming around nicely...just have to pick it up again. My squares for the swap are completed. I have 2 dishcloths done and working on another one. I volunteered to do 10...5 crocheted by me and 5 crocheted by my husband. Well, that is all for now...I will keep you posted!

Well, everyone! I just hit 500!!! 500 posts on Crochetville, that is! And today my husband is being discharged!! It is a wonderful wednesday so far. I wanted to post some pictures of my cat, Kaleigh but I have been having some difficulty doing so....alas! No pics of my baby. Oh well. I signed up for the dishcloth swap and I made my first one last night. Its a Pineapple Dishcloth and I absolutely love it!! I love anything made with Pineapples. Now I am working one a round dishcloth. Not using any pattern in particular, just making it up as I go. I am also working on a Crochet along....for Thread! I am still working on this Heirloom Table Topper in a Hunter Green to go in my bedroom. The first one I made was in a frosty green colour which actually ties in the bedspread and so its going to have a Hunter green one to accent it. I have burgandy curtains that I made hanging on my windows so its going to be easy on the eyes. I love the colour green. I haven't heard from my secret swap partner, sister mysteriosa...I hope she is ok. I worry about people. Its a natural tendency, I guess. I signed up for the Winter Scarf swap too. These swaps are so addicting...or maybe its just the buttons I'm after...LOL Who knows for sure, right? This weekend I am going to Montana to house sit for my parents but I am going to be staying there. Have to get a job and start saving up my money so I can get into a decent place there, in the states that is....I have been dreaming about moving to Tennessee for some reason. Never been there and I think it would be a nice change from being out West all my life...Well, not counting being born in Viriginia and living in Ontario after marrying my husband. Well, enough rambling. I will close for now.

Well here is one of my creations...its called a floor doily. I used three strands of yarn (2 yellows and one pink). I had the yarn left over from Sarah's "hug" that I crocheted for her. I will get a pic of her holding her hug and post it here. I made this thing in about one week because it works up fast with a Q hook. I have it in my kitchen but the only downside to it is that it likes to slip around. Sarah has a blast with it. She says she is skating. My cats, Kaleigh and Abby love lying on it. They have to give their approval on everything that I crochet. Its a good thing they are not here while I am crocheting my squares for the swap I am in. They are in Montana with Sarah while I am resting up.

I just finished reading a post at Crochetville and I just had to add this pic. Since I really don't know how to post a pic at the forum, I will just link everyone here to see Miss Abby in all her embarrassing glory. I wish I would have taken a pic of her when she was a kitten and the dress did fit her...oh well. What do you think? She really didn't mind getting dressed up for her photo opportunity. Abby wants to be a model when she is old enough...LOL

First of all, I want to send out a warm hug and thank you to all my friends from Crochetville. You really have helped me out in this difficult time. I am feeling alot better and doing much more every day. My dd is in the states with her grandparents and I have had a lot of time to focus on my crocheting. But I am missing her terribly. I have offered to help a fellow member on Crochetville to crochet an afghan for her nephew but I ran out of yarn and I have to wait until I get a check from the government to continue. She was awfully kind to ask if she could help and I really hate to ask people for money. I find it embarrassing to do so. Anyway, I have been dieting and so far I have lost 5 lbs. I want to go slow at first because I don't want to end up being in the hospital. Lord knows, I have too many financial obligations to up hold. I have been making new friends online and I am really looking forward to going to New York to visit one of them. I have been saving up for this trip and it has been in the planning stage long before dh got ill. I feel bad to leave but he ensures me that I do need to take a holiday. And I know my dear parents won't mind looking after their only grandchild. I won't be going there until after I am done housesitting for my parents though. They have to go to Washington State, to my Uncle's to spread my grandmother's ashes. She passed away back in June or July....goodness! I cannot even remember my own grandmother's passing! My age is really catching up to me now! And I am only 31! Mom and Dad have 2 cats and I have my 2 cats down there so I will be taking care of them and my DD before I go on my trip. I am so excited! I will be taking the bus so I will definitely have my crocheting with me! But before I leave, I will have sent off my secret pal's package before then.....I am so excited about all this!

This past weekend, I had a bit of an accident. While visiting my family in the states, I tripped and fell at my Grandmother's house. I was walking into the kitchen and my foot snagged the area rug and down I went, right onto my stomach!!!! Everyone was trying to help me up but I was trying not to cry. This is exactly how I miscarried the last time and I was afraid that I was going to lose another baby. You see, I have a history of being a klutz. My aunt threw out the area rug and kept apologizing to me and everything. My mind was on the baby. I was 8 weeks along before I fell. Later, that night when I was getting ready to lay down in bed, I miscarried. My DH held me after cleaning up because I was a blubbering mess. I still am. We went to the ER and there was nothing to be done because it was so early in the pregnancy and the Ultrasound showed there was nothing left behind. It was a clean SA as the nurse called it. This was my 5th miscarriage and I don't think I will be able to go through this again. I am going through a serious depression right now and I am hoping that crocheting will help me overcome this devastation. I don't know if it will or not, though.

Well, I am frustrated! I am so mad that I cannot post my pics of crocheting on here! I so badly wanted to share my work and this is disappointing. Well, I know that patience is a virtue and God is not too happy to hear me complain. wah! This is so unfair!! There, my tantrum is finished for now. My dh is working at the honey farm and yesterday, he actually brought out a comb to show our dd where honey comes from. I should have taken the wax and melted it down to make a candle but silly me, I was like a child in a candy store....fresh honey straight from the comb. That was a first for me. I am going to get more beeswax from there today for free. Then I will put my hand in candle making for the first time. I do so love the idea of making things from scratch and not having all the fun taken out by buying it from a store. I know that I have a Secret Pal out there and so I won't spoil the surprise of what I have for her. But you know, being on Crochetville really has enlightened me a great deal. To my shame, I thought crochet was a dying art and that I was catching on the tail end of it. Not to be so! In fact, crochet happens to be one of the most top fibercraft out there besides knitting. But Crochet is older than knitting, isn't it? I know the French Nuns started it and then took it to Ireland when they went over there some time in history. If I am ignorant in posting this, please feel free to correct my thinking. I do so appreciate imput from friends. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Today, on the Forum, I read that one of my fellow crocheters is suffering from a spider bite and her shoulder is out of commission, having to be immobile. I offered to help her crochet anything that she had to work on. So, she presented me with a baby blanket project for her nephew. This works for me because I will be working on a layette for my new little bundle of joy! I am thinking of a quick and easy afghan that calls for three strands of yarn and the Q hook. It works up quick and it will be cuddly too. This will be a lot of fun and I am looking forward to this project. This evening, I found out that my USB port doesn't work and I cannot download my digital camera pics to the computer. I am not happy about this. Oh well, life has its little quirks, doesn't it?

Well, back home in the Hat, my dh is at hospital for tests, my dd made a huge mess of my RH orchid yarn that I am in the process of unravelling. I had read earlier another blog where one of my fellow crocheters sister is battling Cancer of the Throat. Cancer is such an ugly disease but it affects us in different ways emotionally. But we do become depressed along with the sufferer, we hurt with them, we just wish the pain would alleviate somehow. My dd doesn't understand about Daddy being sick, she is only 3. I have found it is easier to tell her that daddy's tummy is making him hurt really bad. She is so emphatetic. When she hears her daddy vomitting in the bathroom, she looks awful worried and when he comes out she tells him, "don't worry daddy, the bug will not stay in the tummy much longer." Where she came up with that, I have no clue. Well, I sort of finished unravelling the yarn but I have to finish some more squares now. I have to get a baby layette pattern out for the baby I found out that we are going to be having in March. Both my mother and brother, not to mention my dd were all born in March. Now, our new one will join us in that wonderful month. I am so excited!

Well, I am down here in Montana visiting family this weekend. Plus the state fair is going on and so I am lucky enough to attend that. My DH is on a new medication that seems to be working somewhat but with Cancer, one can never tell. My dd is going mad over that fact that there is a fair going on. She loves animals. Everytime I pass a pasture and there are cows grazing, she demands that I honk at them. Some times, we get noticed by a bull or two but there are other times they just don't give a cud. I amuse her by some of my cow jokes, like, what do you call a cow that has no legs.....ground beef! Ok, that one was corny but who cares, cows eat corn! I better stop for now. I am driving myself crazy in this heat and trying to think and type at the same time.

Here is the doily I sent to Crafterlady46....compared to the one she sent me, mine fades in comparison

Here is a pic of my DD with the Swan doily that I received today.

Today, I receieved my doily from the doily swap on Crochetville. I was blown away!!! My swap partner made a beautiful swan doily! It was breath-taking! My own DD loved it and wants it for herself....my DH even was impressed by the beauty of it. I feel so blessed that I received this and feel like my doily fades in comparison! I found out that my DH has stomach cancer and he needs medication because he is in the early stages. His mother passed away in 2000 from Leukemia and cancer does run rampant in his side of the family. I am just praying that he will overcome this. He also goes for therapy called the Bowen Technique which is supposed to help his fibromyalgia, scoliosis, stomach pain....I believe this will alleviate some of his pain and since I do know how to do foot reflexology, I was told to work his feet at night. Well, that is the time I usually do my crocheting. But I do love my dh so I think I could juggle my crochet schedule. What we do for love, eh?

One more thought....a friend @ crochetville was looking for the pattern for this particular doilyhttp://www.therockingchair.us/runner.jpg if you know where to find this at, please please please, tell me and I can send the information to my friend. Thank you!!!

Tonight, I decided to try out Dot's little Bitty bag for the bag along. So far, I am using Wal-Mart's Mainstays blue verigated yarn for this project and it is taking on good shape. Nausea, back pain, breast tenderness, tiredness.....does this mean what I think it means????? Let's keep our fingers crossed. Its time that my dd has a sibling to have around. I really hope that I am. Its been really hot here in Alberta and with the way I am feeling, the heat doesn't really help. 94 degrees F!!!! Boy, that is relatively nothing compared to the hot summers I lived through in Arizona!!! I am so glad that I came across Crochetville! It is the only place I really spend any time on when I am online. So much fun reading posts and meeting newbies that join. I feel that they are my family, even though I haven't met them in person yet. I already have mail correspondence here for a cute afghan that was sent from Massechusetts, I sent a doily to Maine, and I have another pattern coming from Kentucky. Right now, my husband and I are working on getting his paperwork to be a landed immigrant for the US and when that is completed, we are moving to Montana. I will so be looking forward to the day that the paper work arrives!!!! We are going through a lawyer in Las Vegas, Nevada and they really get results. So, lets keep our fingers crossed for that too!

Today, I cannot figure out what pattern I want to crochet. My mind is in a whirl-wind and I wish I could think straight. I signed on to do the Bag-Along and at first decided to make the Take a long Tote using Aunt Lydia's crochet demin. I frogged it 3 times already and then tried something else but I just keep going back to the TALT. It is not working for me as of yet and I am running out of patience. I have been working dilegently on my squares but I also have to work on my dishtowel topper for my Luvs2crochet Exchange on Yahoo. What is a girl to do?? My brother is coming up this week and I am hoping that he is bringing his digital camera with him because I want to show off my crochet items I have made and am working on. Well, what is a poor girl supposed to do??? If anyone has other suggestions about a tote bag (I have been to Crochet Patterns Central) that is really simple and quick to make up and nothing too exotic to stitch, let me know.

Today I figured it was time for me to just sit and work on my squares for the Random Square Swap. So far, so good. Just now, my little girl just showed me her version of knitting....one knitting needle in the middle of cotton thread. How sweet, huh? Going back to the squares, I have 6 already done up so far, and one of them is of my own design. I have no clue how I did it but its done. 29 squares left to go. I actually got my doily sent off to Maine today and I am looking forward to receiving my doily. My WIPS seem to be getting bigger and bigger. I have an heirloom tabletopper in progress that I making for my dh's bedside table, squares for the swap, a bag along project that I need to get started on, and of course, my very first M A M afghan. Do I sound like I have CADD? Crochet Attention Deficiet Disorder?? Or is it Crocheting Additicts Decision Disorder?? LOL. Who knows, all I care about is crocheting. It really doesn't matter what it is, I just have to do it! Along those lines, I asked my dh to teach me how to knit a dishcloth. He made one up in just under a half an hour. Just add another hobby into the loop. Well, I am going back to Crochetville to be among friends, more later.

Today, I put my little girl into preschool for the first time. The class was small with only 3 other kids and a pregnant teacher. Sarah made friends quickly and I was afraid she wasn't going to let me go right away. She tried to pull me back into the class but they quickly got her mind off of me by telling her about the piano. That worked, I cried though until I got to the top of the steps and went out of the building. Time to let go...this is the first time for the both of us and it wouldn't help the situation if I made a complete fool of myself. She made her very first collage and a finger painting picture....and as soon as I get pictures, I will post these. I apologize for being slow with the pics but I just got a printer today! But, I need to get a Windows disk before I can use that. Why does my life have to be so complicated? Except crochet.....that I can handle but I have ADD and quite a few UFO's.

My husband actually seen my blog for the first time tonight and he noticed one small flaw. On my profile it said that I was a male rather than female! I just wanted him to see my new button that my crochet friend from C'ville (Veronika, thank you so much) made up for me. LOL he was really sweet about it. This afternoon we decided that we were going to take another serious plunge in our lives....We were going to get the ball rolling for his paperwork to become a landed immigrant for the United States. I went so far as to "land" in Canada for him but you know, I really miss being around things I understand. For example, I don't understand Celsius and kilometers. I was a horrible math student and when it came to metrics, I was asleep, I guess. Anyway, I went online and found a Lawyer who will do the necessary work for us for a nominal fee and we will be on our way. So, we will be in the States come October. I am so excited! I have a group of friends who have scrapbooking crops that I have been to when I was visiting my parents but I will be able to work on my books more than every few days. I am so eager to get this going. Canada is nice but I am spoiled. Its good to go back where you came from and be with the people you love, right?

Ok, this evening, I figured out how many UnFinishedObjects I have going on or formerlly known as WIPs: a mile a minute afghan that I am trying to do on my own without refering to a pattern, the Rose Bower bedspread motifs, a tabletopper for hubby's bedside table. ( I forgot to write that one down on my post at C'ville) Here beside me @ 11 o'clock at night is my sweet little girl. She is waiting for me to go to bed and I have like a zillion and one things to do. I did a mud masque facial on myself, that has to be washed off, I need to finish off the dishes, I hate waking up to dishes in the morning, I have to brush my teeth, I feel like I should crochet, but its been really hot and I am very tired, my husband is home sick tonight and I feel like I should nurse him (I am a Certified Nursing Assistant). Ok, priority number one is to get Sarah in bed. But I know myself, I will zonk out myself. Oh well, that is the way life goes, doesn't it?