3-31-07 Photo Hunt: Water

This week’s theme: Water

My kids love the pool and beach, so I have a ton of water pics. I chose this one because I like how the water is in mid-air, and Christopher's face is squinched up in anticipation of being doused. (Click photo to see it larger.)

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Have you created lately?

I came across this great quote while blog surfing.

Have you created lately?

"The woman who works with her hands only
is a laborer.

The woman who works with her hands and her
head is a craftswoman.

The woman who works with her hands,
her head and her heart
is an artist."

---St. Francis of Assisi

Another butterfly dishcloth

I finished a different butterfly dishcloth today. I'll post a pic soon.

**ETA Here's the second butterfly dishcloth I made. Again, I scanned rather than take a photo, so the image quality isn't the best.



To get the pattern, you have to join the Knitted_Kitty_Dishcloths Yahoo group. Learn more about it here.

I need to get back to my Afghan KAL. Work is starting to get stressful (my job has peaks and valleys), so I think my new knitting hobby will help de-stress me. I love the meditative quality of knitting.

My son started getting sick last night and woke up with a sore throat. He felt a little better after meds, but then threw up. Then he felt even better. LOL Now my throat is starting to hurt, and I think my glands are swollen. Ugh, I don't have time to get sick!

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Another dishcloth

I whipped this one up yesterday. I scanned it (rather than take a pic), so I don't know how well you can actually see it.

It's a coffee cup. Can you tell?

Knitted Dishcloth

I posted this on my other (less fun and crafty) blog and wanted to share here. I finished my first knitted dishcloth on Friday. I learned a new stitch: the yarn over (yo). It creates a lacey effect by putting a hole in your knitting.

I made many mistakes and had to frog (undo) many rows many times and start the row(s) over. That usually happened within a row or two of the mistake, but when I was almost finished, I realized that I made a huge mistake about 30 rows earlier. Since this is my first dishcloth, and I'm still learning and practicing stitches, I decided to leave the mistake in.

Also, I didn't have size 7 needles when I started the cloth, so I used size 8, which makes it harder to see the pattern in the cloth. So, I've uploaded 3 photos: 1) the cloth, 2) the cloth with the butterfly pattern sketched on it, and 3) #2 again, with my "mistake rows" identified. On my mistake rows, I must have reversed the right and wrong side of the cloth, or either I repeated a row and garter stitched on both sides(???).

Here's the cloth. Kinda hard to see the butterfly since the stitches are so big:




So, I've outlined the butterfly LOL:




And here, in pink, you can see the rows that I knitted wrong (oops!). I think it just adds to the charm, don't you? ;)




Anyway, I'm glad to have completed it. Now onto something else!

Bridge to Terabithia (possible spoiler)

My husband and I took our kids (6 and 8) and their friend (7 yrs) to this movie last night. The commercials and the synopsis on moviefone.com led me to believe that this was a sorta light-weight Chronicles of Narnia movie.

NOT!

I would never have taken my kids to see this had I known the plot. My husband said it was so depressing. He was depressed for a while after the movie LOL. My kids liked it, except for the ... depressing part. My son (6) was afraid he'd have nightmares, though.

I guess they can't tell too much about the movie and twists in the commercials and trailers. It just seems like the advertising is so misleading. Even the Disney channel and the interviews and the million airings of the "Keep Your Mind Wide Open" video misrepresent the film. I'll have to be more careful in the future.

P.S. 7 yr old friend said that she had seen the movie before, but she hadn't. I thought that since her mother let her see it and she enjoyed it, that we would all like it. Oops!