I'm making really good headway with Earth and Sky, this afghan is moving along much faster than the last several I've done because it's just straight forward knitting, which I'm rather enjoying. I'm not piecing things together or dealing as much with how much yarn I have of this or that color...which is often a thing for me. It is here, but less so. Currently am at 36 inches with about 12 inches left according to my striping. That would make it 48 inches...but, am not sure I'm going to feel like that's large enough (48 x 60), so might need to add something else to each end, pick up stitches on the one side...jury's out on that, but am indeed enjoying these colors together.
This made me laugh. I don't have any respect for this man, so seeing him as a toilet bowl cleaner somehow seemed appropriate. I've never in all my 68 years felt that way. He is not normal.
I've made some headway with my de-clutter calendar. I'm not going in any order though and the 3 check marks are things I've done mostly related to emptying out our entertainment center in order to get rid of it. The 2 X's are things that don't pertain to our household, as we have no toys since there are no kids at home and no grandkids. Written in red are things I've added to replace to the 2 X's.
Spotted this awhile back on Facebook and saved it, partially for a reminder. I had, or maybe still have in the basement Mason Jars, and thought I'd give this a try. Except I don't like drinking through straws...so thought I'd share as a way to re-purpose and or recycle in case any of you do.
Hello Readers! I've been away on a marvelous trip to Italy for a couple of weeks and so, haven't been blogging. I'll be jumping back in, but do have some catch up around here to do. Took me close to an hour earlier today to open and sort the mail. Am always amazed how much mail you get...even if you've got bills set up for automatic payment and do things on line. Once I got done with that, I had several inches of paper to put in the re-cycle bin.
The picture above is yet another idea of ways to recycle your paper toilet paper rolls. You're suppose to collect your lint from the dryer, and stuff the lint into the roll (tightly). One set of directions says to melt wax and pour in while the roll is standing up. Wait for it to cool, and flip over and pour wax into the other side. Again let it cool and store in a zip lock bag. The gentleman who has video's out there telling you this, says they'll burn about 20 minutes...that's certainly enough time to get a fire going inside or out in your fireplace and or while camping.
**Also found a video from a woman who didn't add the wax (assume her's wouldn't burn as long). She the wrap the rolls with newspaper (a way to recycle it as well), and using twistie's that she had plenty of wrap the two ends.
There's been no more knitting since the last post, so no new pictures to show you there.
Recently read this book on my Kindle while aboard the plane making my way to and from Italy. Read part on the way over and finished on the way back. Everytime I thought it would be a story of human triumph......Bothersome because it's a true story. I can't decide if I liked it...I don't generally like things that are bothersome and unresolved. I'm trying to decide if I'll read the 2nd book called Amelia's Destiny.
I'll be updating my travel blog soon with information, pictures etc from my recent two week trip to Italy. Swing by for a visit, Traveling Suitcase
I love lite pasta dishes. I love that you don't need lots of ingredients, and that you can do almost a one pan meal in about 15-20 minutes. Onion, mushrooms sauteed, add fresh cut up tomatoes (these are homegrown from our neighborhood market), a handful or two of mix salad greens...lightly stir, add al dente pasta ( I like the very lite angle hair for summer). Blend, add olive oil if it seems to dry (though usually the tomatoes provide enough liquid or almost enough. Season with fresh grown pepper and Italian cheese of choose.
Poppers.......another idea of what to do with your empty toilet paper rolls. Aren't they pretty! Fill them with candy, trinkets for youngsters. I also think you could wrap some gifts this way. Jewelry for example would work...maybe not all jewelry, but rings, some necklaces and bracelets, pendants. Some hair accessories would work also, ribbons, barrettes, pony tail clips.
Sorry the pictures are out of order. Here's the meal on the plate from the stove top view you saw in the first photo.
Cardiac Collage continues to grow, both in the number of colors used, as well as in the number of squares, and the size of the squares/rectangles. Below picture is quite crooked. Squares aren't perfect, but they're not as crooked as they look in the bottom picture. The square pictured on the bottom is the largest. I like size of it, and will probably add a edge here and there to others blocks to make them close to the same size. The two most recent colors added are:
The blue and the brown seen in the last square. Can add a bit of those colors to already existing squares, but don't want that to always be the colors on the edge so won't add it to all. Will start another couple of blocks with those colors. The peach color is retired, all out of that, and close with the darkest purple and one of the greens, so need to mix these blocks up to have colors throughout.
