neon yarn

This is the yarn I posted about on ravelry. I have been looking for neon yarn for awhile and I really over bought!
    I would like to find some vintage neon yarn from Red heart. I'm looking for 909 scarlet and 226 lime yellow. I'll also trade. Red heart can be partial skeins. 

    (I also have 1 skein Hobby Lobby neon yellow-sell 3.99 or trade).

    You can contact me through ravelry. Thanks, annie

Blog, Does this look like a Nanny McPhee blanket to you? Looks real good to me! This is the cover of a Japanese Craft book,

Crochet Motif Winter Goods /Japanese Knitting Book/632

Now winging it’s way to Cape Ann !!! Yea!

We are having fabulous weather and looking forward to a great 4th. Happy 4th to you all. Hugs, annie

Nanny Mcphee film

Hi, We rented the Nanny Mcphee 2005 film Sunday and I love it. We got the full screen version and I didn't see a number of images we have seen online. I'm posting one still and I apologize for having no source to credit. I think Moonstitches has done a good job of selecting similar colors.

This is a totally delightful project. hugs, annie

Summer 2011

Hi,
I'm obsessed with what I call manic crochet. I'm working on a Nanny Mcphee blanket people size. ( so right for July... lol!!!) (also dying yarn with koolaid). I'm about 6 years late on Nanny Mcphee 1. (not the 2011 'Return of Nanny McPhee'. (Both have utterly wonderful interiors). The Nanny Mcphee project allows for total yarn lust and I've cornered the market on clear plastic boxes.

I also bought a copy of 'Mollie Makes' at B&N and I'm in love! This is a delicious magazine. Someone described it as like an especially nice blog.

Blogs I'm loving right now are Attic 2, Moonstitches, others I've found by googling Nanny Mcphee. I'm also learning my way around Ravelry.

Most of my projects are carry along or do not take a long time out of the day and seem right for Summer.

I'm still running every day in all weathers ... I think it is 8 years in December.

I planted 13 tomato plants that are doing well.

Back to my hook! Oh yeah ... I got a set of pink hooks, a ltd. ed from Japan, too cool!!! Hugs, annie

Same time... same station

Same time... same station... only one year later. Opening day is this week!!! Fantasy Baseball Drafts were Saturday night.

In between we have shoveled a lot of snow! Our dear old house is like a warrior after a tough battle.

I bought these pansies (just set in the window box) ... They are living indoors!

I'm anxious for the yard sales and flea markets to begin. I love Jane Wheel! More about her soon. See ya at the flea! annie

Merry Christmas!

Hi, It's almost too cold to run. It feels like snow. Maybe it will warm up by noon. I've run in colder weather.

Why does the weather turn miserable when there is so much to do!!!

(later)... I did get out and run at noon but it was about 17. Eckkk! I've been spoiled being able to run at sunup and see the Christmas trees downtown during the recent Spring like weather.

My current doll is Una-na and I wrote about the book, Una-na (here someplace). I always take a little time everyday to play with patterns. I took the pattern to Staples yesterday and enlarged the actual doll. I'll do a paste-up of the clothes before I attempt enlarging the patterns... identifying some of those clothing pieces
will be a challenge. I LOVE the combinations of fabrics shown in the illustrations.

The coffee shop downtown is closed and I'm sad. I have gone there since we
moved here almost 40 years ago. The same family has run it and I'm not sure
they'll be back. It is funny how much a thing you take for granted can bother
you so much when it changes.

I should be baking or something... I used my Joanns coupons to get 2 Wiltons loaf pans. I must have given mine away during a phase when I decided teflon was bad. I used my other coupons to buy some Buffalo Snow for doll stuffing. I really NEEDED THAT!

Please don't let Christmas shopping and crafting keep you from paying attention to what is going in Washington, DC ... we can breathe a sign of relief when they all go home for the holidays. hugs, annie

fight for liberty

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/23/patrick-henrys-fight-for-liberty/

Wake Up!

I had hoped never to return to the subject of Socialized Medicine.

If you do not know the meaning of "statist" the term refers to a Modern Liberal. They are the 1960's and 70's radicals you may have met in college years ago. Now they are in Washington DC.

I suggest that you read "Liberty and Tyrrany" by Mark R. Levin. Mark is giving a speech at the Reagan Library tonight at 9:00pm est/6 pst and you can watch it on his web site;

http://www.marklevinshow.com/home.asp

here is a chilling article by a Canadian. This spells out the threat of Govt. run health care far better than I can.

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/health-237719-care-government.html

This explains why the Democrats are willing to throw their careers away. It is scary stuff.

New Beginning

Today is a new beginning here on my blog. Pitchers and Catchers (Red Sox Spring training is around 3 weeks away and I even heard a mention of Mardi Gras. It is veeeey early Spring. reeeeally!

I have been running every day for over 5 years and I always take my little Kodak. It is a Kodak Easy Share C533 that I got for a steal because it was a return in a torn box. (you get a 20 or 30 day return privilege). Never be a snob about this stuff. (In Best Buy and Walmarts this stuff is in a locked case near the cash registers in electronics.) I think this is our third nice camera bought this way. I have a 2G memory stick ... no port, no program ... simple. This camera fits in a small cosmetic case with my coffee shop money. I have also added a Sansa clip MP3 player that I totally love.

Maybe it is the economy but I have been back to collecting Ginny and the patterns for her clothes. She fits the times somehow.

Hi, When I began this blog I decided to let it shape itself ... so to speak. Recently I was thinking of removing the posts about tea parties but really why? ...
Today is the march in Washington, DC and I imagine there will be very many people. We considered going on a bus but it didn't work out. The price was so cheap that I had grave doubts. We will attend a tea party in the next town.

On another note we have been doing work on our antique house and made some interesting discoveries. This ia a carving over our door.

We had our roof redone several years ago and the builder assured us that we didn't need a gutter. This was a big mistake and caused a lot of paint peeling (we bought our house as a fixer upper and it needs a lot of work.) Anyways we are now newly barn red except the door and I have been walking around town finding similar carvings.

Sat, August 29

It is time to divide this into two blogs.

Today I'm going to look for several things. I want some really outrageous pens to wreck my Wreck This Journal. And maybe some tea dye muslin to make a doll.

I want a delicious cosy Mystery to take to the beach. I did get a super one about an antiques dealer in NH (kind of a low key female Lovejoy)... can't touch the Lovejoy humor though.

I may get a cook book. We are having work done on our house and meals have gone to heck.

I have to buy something to wear to a wedding late today. arghhh!

My Team Sarah Poster

Hi, Boo Hoo ... I lost my Team Sarah Poster yesterday! I doubt anyone who sees this actually found it but you can post on team sarah or on facebook. Thanks.

August

Hi, This coming weekend is the first weekend in August... time for barbeques and beaches.

The congress mercifully goes on break. Responsible people can take time to read the HC bill that is available online. I hope all the bureaucrats can find time to study the bill. And maybe the Pres. will read the bill.

How nice that they have EXEMPTED themselves from ever having to have "US National health care". They won't have to tell their aging parents that they should choose between using antibiotics for an infection or just "getting out of the way" while we will all pay to have our aging parents counseled about "end of life issues" every 5 years. The Catholic Church in Boston has said they will close their hospitals before having to perform abortions. My point is that this is arrogant, thoughtless legislation. A person would have to be crazy to support it. No wonder congress has EXEMPTED themselves.

There will be a March on Washington in early September. It is too bad our media has so few people who understand the difference between reporting news and editorializing. You really have to search for articles like this one,

http://blog.nj.com/njv_mark_diionno/2009/07/growing_numbers_at_antitax_tea.html

August and September will be busy months!

Sunday

Thank God for our liberty.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759)

chart

http://www.marklevinshow.com/Article.asp?id=1426138&spid=32364

Tea Party Photos from Boston

Hi, These photos are from early in the day. I'm guessing at least 500 people were there. There was a second tea Party from 3:00 until 6:00 pm and I imagine a lot of people combined it with going to the fireworks on the esplanade. Not bad to find a few conservatives in Boston!!!

Tea Party

Hi, Happy Independence Day!!!

I'm going to a Tea Party today! I just re-did my sign. It is a little lumpy but it will look worse after our train ride!

I'm very happy today! I like Sarah.

I can't be silent about this stuff. This is why I have comments disabled. A.

"Material Obsessions" and "Stuffed"

Hi, Another title would be "the joys of our gorgeous remodeled Joanns" ... a veritable candy store!!! Imagine a Joanns with no big black areas on the floor with thread stuck in them where tiles had been removed in a previous rebirth.

And there was the new "Stuffed" and a beautiful quilting book, "Material Obsessions". And I had 2 coupons (!!!) and conned my husband into going through the line. That makes up for all the times the darn item was on sale already! A.

Serious Stuff

Hi, I keep thinking that this blog is an opportunity to do a little more than relate my day to day meanderings.

I’ve finally decided that the best thing I can do is continue to write about the lighter moments since we are confronted by so many serious facts these days. And I'm not gifted to write about serious stuff. I do want to suggest that you read “Liberty and Tyranny” by Mark Levin. This is not a good time to be ignorant about government and unfortunately there is little dependable information from our ordinary sources.

It is thundering and pouring rain for the twelth day. I wore my winter hat when I went running. I'm just a country girl ... how is raising our electric bill (oil, gas, taxes ... fill in the blank) ... going to help this global warming ... Not to mention changing to light bulbs that don't work. A.

Good Riddance to January!

Hi, I'm sorry to be scarce. It would help if I didn't keep loosing the expletive deleted password!!!

Thank heavens January is over!

This is a hard time of year for us anyways. We always struggle
through Jan. and Feb.. We're having a lot of snow. This time of year
we end up with one car frozen in a drift and the work car (ugh) to go
and get groceries in. I try to double up on everything at the market. We
have at least 3" of solid ice in out driveway and walking and
running are hazardous.

I did get to Walmart last week end. I was thrilled! I got a new Kodak pocket camera. Imagine ... 5.0 MP and 3x zoom for 79.00! The box is damaged ... big deal! (Always look at the locked case of retutned and former display cameras if you like a bargain. BestBuy and Walmart give you plenty of time for returns.) It is
real nice to have an easy to use Kodak again! ... So brace yourself for nature photos!

I also managed to buy a third Bisou from YahooJP ... Her name is Lilly and she is just super. Her wig is not coming until after Lunar New Years but I'll post photos as soon as I get it!

My neighbor moved to VA and gave me three orchid plants that I'm
delighted with. And I do have the seed catalogs out!

Red Sox start Spring Training soon. I'm signing up for Fantasy BaseBall too.

Hugs all around!