More rag rugs and a rag bowl

I've been busy with crocheting rag rugs and I tried my hand at a crocheted rag bowl.  It was quite simple.  I just crocheted around and around adding a few stitches here and there (just like you do for the rugs) for the bottom and then when I was ready for the sides I stopped adding any stitches and the sides just kind of grew up!

And there's a funny thing with the rugs.  When I first start making them-I don't think they're going to look right.  In other words-they're a little bit ugly.  But as they grow, they get prettier and when I'm done and throw them on the floor-I likey.  I likey a lot!

Have a wonderful rest of the day.

I'll be right here

This is where I'll be today and no, I'm not sick.  (Very thankful for that!)

It's a little snowy and cold today and I have no other place I need to be.  There's really no other place I want to be at the moment, actually.  :)

But don't worry, Rocco will make sure I don't get too comfy.  He likes to go out and play in the snow for a while, then come in and get warmed up, and then go back out and then...I think you get the picture.

The stockings were hung by the cabinet with care



When I showed my small amount of Christmas decor last week I neglected to get a photo of my daughter's awesome Christmas stocking.  I remember wanting an awesome stocking for my daughter because us three girls had awesome stockings when we were growing up.  I wish I could get a picture of mine, but it's buried in the attic somewhere.  (Note to self-dig that stocking out sometime!)  They are hand made have our names knitted right into them with a Santa Claus on and his beard is really soft and fuzzy and seems to grow!  Anyhow, I knew of noone that could make me a stocking like that for my own daughter, BUT-my lovely friend Jessie B. came through with this beautiful stocking for my Hopey before her first Christmas and I didn't even ask!  In fact she made many people in our family their stockings-Patrick, Jessica, Ryan, Megan, Sammie?, Luke??  Thank you, Jessie, for this family heirloom!

The stocking beside Hope's is a granny square one that I picked up at Goodwill (of course!)  last year for Dukey.  This year it will be Rocco's!



Very colorful, and very cool!

It's a rag rug!

It's a rainbow!

It's a rainbow rag rug that I made for someone spesh for Christmas!

I'm really pleased with how it came out.

This rag rug making stuff is FUN!!!  :)

Friday miscellany

Oh, has he grown. 

Rocco (left) and his brother, Jasper (on right, in-law's pup). 

Shhhhhhh-don't tell, but I think Rocco's prettier.

Oh, I LOVE this Santa cross stitch.  Goodwill.  Last year.  15 cents. 
He was a little dirty, so I tea stained him.  (In other words, I dabbed him with a  wet tea bag.)

I really love this too.  Goodwill.  A couple years ago.  15 cents. Solid wood.  Love.



I'm really sorry if you are sick of looking at my 'grace' picture, (goodwill-a buck fifty), but I wanted to show pretty much the rest of my wee bit o' decorations.  Boxes and tin-Goodwill.  Cheap.

Have a good night (or morning)!



Winter windowsill

The empty jars on my windowsill were starting to look mighty lonely.  I thought they could use some winter berries.  I remembered seeing some reddish-orange berries along our back road.  I thought about hopping in the car to see if I could find them-then I remembered it's hunting season and I didn't feel like getting shot at today.    So instead I ventured to the basement to find some fake berries I knew I had somewhere down there.

Tada-a winter windowsill!

I thought adding water to the jars made the berries look less fake.

I think it's pretty darn pretty!

PS-It's lightly snowing here and I'm loving it.  :)

A little of this, a little of that



Today I was trying to clean up the dining room.  You couldn't see any horizontal surfaces for all the junk that was on them.  And the dust was so thick!  (It's because of the birds and because I don't like to dust!)  I'm STILL not finished cleaning this little room.  I keep getting distracted  by this here computer.

 

I never know what to put on this sewing table.  I decided to go with stacks o' books and plates.  I thought maybe they'd be easier to dust than the usual stuff I put on there, but I kind of doubt they will be.



These plates are about a third of all the ones I had in my flower garden.  I brought some up from the basement to wash for my 'stack'.  As I was washing them they smelled an awful lot like my dog.  Dirt!



I think the plate on top is so sweet.  :)

I fixed up a little Christmasy centerpiece too.  I think my girl bought me those candles when she was in elementary school.  In other words-a long time ago.  I never used them till now.  I can just hear it now, when she stops in on Friday evening-S'bout time you used those!

Normally I only light candles on the stove.  I'm a chicken and I don't want to burn my house down.

Oh, but these are so pretty lit, especially in real life.  I don't want to blow them out, but I guess I must-you know-before I burn the joint down!

I hope you have a lovely first day of December.  :)

PS-It snowed and I was happy!