Pictures promised and long overdue

I found the Camera!!!! So here are some long overdue pics.

This first one is not me, but it is funny and its an interesting use for knitting needles

A quilt square start, or possibly something else pretty. Not sure just yet.
The puzzled doll I keep talking about with her beaded bird
An embroidered dolly without a face or clothes as of yet
I have more but they're secret for now unless you know how to find my flickr. If you do you may see them. I was remarkably responsible today and I cleaned off the built in desk in our kitchen. It looks so very nice now that I'm not sure what to think of myself. I actually only did it because I was looking for the camera (which I found in my craft room under some stuff) but it felt so nice to have a clean space there wher its been a pile for quite some time. Anyway, just thought I'd post these while I was still thinking about it. Now I'm heading over to my Etsy shop to do a couple of very minor updates. Keep watching for more soon tho because I have come up with some brilliant ideas that I can't divulge as of yet. Hasta luego bambinos.

Saturdays at home

It's April 12th everybody and here in Missouri central, it is snowing. It isn't sticking, but it is definitely snowing. I can't say how I feel about this because we were kinda short of snow this year, but I love spring and all the green things too. I worry that it will kill all my bulb plants like it did last year tho and that is not a happy thought. We got our other camera in the mail today which is a good thing because I seem to have lost the good Kodak. Not sure how I managed this but I did. Anyway, getting the camera gives me the opportunity to take some pics of my swap items and my stuff that I have been half heartedly working on for etsy. I have been embroidering a doll all over, but I don't know where I'm going with it. Right now its just a bunch of random swilrs and a flower and spider web looking thingy. Strange, yes? I also have the puzzled doll that never got any further than the beaded bird on her front. I've been sidetracked by so many other things that this is kinda taking a back burner. I think I may try some other things like painting and air dry clay and such. I'm not sure yet. But my dolls haven't really gotten a very strong response as of yet.
Well shoot just turned the camera on and it appears to be shot. What the heck? Its just got a white screen with a black line down the middle. So much for that idea. Off to find the kodak.

Oh the horror

So much rain! So very much. It has temporarily stopped but it isn't fooling me. I know what lingers in those ominous black clouds. Actually I'm totally a rainy day person. I love to snuggle with a good book and be lazy as can be on the days when the heavens really let loose. And today due to crampy painful monthly troubles I am doubly inclined to do just that. I ran around the net last night gathering up pictures from SharonB's stitch dictionary so that I have some picture reference and I plan to try some crazy quilting on a doll skirt gone awry. I would have pictures for you except I can't quite remember where I put the camera. I didn't mention yesterday, but the new pics are thanks to the wonderful world of Ebay where a $40 item is $15 with shipping wonder. I'm so glad to have our Kodak 10 mega pixel camera back in working order. Now if I can just remember where I put it.....

On a funny note I found this cat while strolling around random sites last night and thought I would share it with you. Not for the faint of heart. Until we meet again my friends

I did it again!

I made it thru after umpteen tries and here I am to tell you that there is really nothing new to report. I've begun a doll with a puzzle piece shape inspired by a toy shelf in the movie Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. (http://www.magorium.com) She has a Dotee doll face because I've been dying to use one of those, and so far has a beaded bird on her front. I'd gladly post a picture but in the same week I doused my phone in water, killing the camera, and accidentally left our digital camera in Florida. Its return is pending. So no pics for a while. I'm also working on a couple more of those hanging candle holders that I have in my etsy shop but the posting of them will again have to wait till I have a functioning camera. Sucks that we lost the charger for our really awesome Kodak EZ share because I'd be in photo heaven if I had that thing running. But we haven't been able to bring ourselves to spend $4o on a new charger yet. *sigh* On the garden front I planted some tulips, more grape hyacinths, a stargazer lily, some mixed basil seed, and some tomato seed outside yesterday. I've got to get them watered today but its a definite start on the outdoor garden. I've got to wait on my dad to do the big one but I bought a lot of seeds to go in it. I'm going to have a pumpkin and ornamental squash patch along with like three different kinds of zucchini (who doesn't love zucchini, right?) and cantaloupes too. I haven't got any watermelon seed yet but I will before too long. Do I seem a bit obsessed? Well I am. Growing things is like breathing for me-- necessary. In a way its another form of creation with an outdoor twist. I love the feeling of knowing that the things that come out of my garden will feed my family and friends and hopefully cut down on our expenses just a little. I plan to learn to can and I may ask to borrow my dad's dehydrator because I'm expecting a lot from my garden this year. I just hope we don't let each other down. On that note, I'll leave you to contemplate other things, but I hope to be back tomorrow if I can make this machine work.