Oh Nuts

Just recently on Pinterest I had started saving pictures of different colored yarn to my main knitting board. Instead of letting the yarn pictures get lost in that board I created a separate board for me to pin them too. Because I had started pinning a lot of pictures of yarn, I started getting suggested pins that were related to dying yarn with kool-aid and food coloring. Of course I had to start saving all of the yarn dying pins as well as putting them in their own board. After looking through the different ways to dye yarn I picked one way that I liked and decided to give it a try. It also helped that I already had a couple skeins of white yarn (The instructions can be found here ). Because it is boring and not a whole lot is going on, I skipped taking pictures of the yarn soaking in the water/vinegar. I didn't bother taking pictures when the yarn was in the microwave either, because you can't really see anything. Since I hardly ever use green yarn for anything, I decided...

A couple weeks ago I decided to create a board on Pinterest that was specifically for photography challenges. Since I enjoy doing photography challenges every now and then, I figured it was time to start a board for collecting different kids of photography challenges. So far I have at least one photography challenge for each month, some months have multiple challenges. I also have multiple photography challenges that are for 31 days, or 30 days. There might be a few that are just 20 day challenges. I also saved a couple photography challenges that are for 20 weeks, as well as a few that are for 52 weeks. Out of the many photography challenges that I have saved, I picked out four different challenges that I thought were interesting and that I wanted to try. One of the photography challenges that I saved and printed out is called "City Photography Challenge." While you could do the challenges anywhere and at any time, I feel like this challenges would work better in a la...

In 2011 I started working on a story idea that I had that was loosely based on the story of "The Frog Prince" and set in the West during the 1800's. While I liked the idea of having a retelling of a not very popular fairy tale it didn't really take off. Then in 2012 I went to a five day writing course that was given by one of my favorite authors. My idea was refined a bit more and placed in Medieval times and based on the story of St. George and the Dragon. Currently my story idea is a combination of King Arthur and St. George and the Dragon. With a little bit of the story of Moses possibly thrown in as well. Besides the ideas for my story changing all of the time, the name of my main girl character keeps changing as well. While I don't remember what her name was from 2011 - 2013, I do remember all of the names after that. For a while, in 2014, my main girl character's name was Xiomara, because I thought it was really pretty. But after a couple months i...

Since you are probably wondering why I have become "obsessed" with knitting baby blankets I will try to explain. taken by me. As you all know I finished knitting this blanket  several weeks ago. Shortly after I had finished making the blanket, and had given it to the recipient, I heard that the wife of a coworker is expecting. So it was suggested that I make a baby blanket for them. This time I am using a baby blanket pattern that I had found and saved on Pinterest. Since I don't know the gender of the recipient for this blanket, I chose a pretty yellow yarn to make the blanket with. Even though the pattern suggests that you use circular needles to make the blanket with, I decided to make the blanket using straight needles instead. While circular needles make it easier to hold all 135 stitches on it, I can't stand using circular needles. Before I started knitting the blanket, it was suggested that I add a light purple yarn to it as well. While I like the ide...

You have six boards on Pinterest that are related to writing. The names of the six boards that I have are: Tips and Tricks, Inspiration, Prompts, WriterProblems, Grammar and Fonts, and Worksheets.   Tips and Tricks.  This board is full of links to different articles/blog posts that people have written on how to create characters, what to do and what not to do with writing a story, and similar topics. I created this board first so that I had some place to stash all of the writing related pins that I found on pinterest. Inspiration.  This board I created so that it would be easier to find all of the pictures that I had saved to use as inspiration when I am writing. Prompts.  Like with the 'Inspiration' board, I had created this one for all of the writing prompts that I came across. WriterProblems.  This is a fun board because quite a few of the pins that I save are quite true with how I deal with my writing. An example of this is: "It always sounds better...

(I was going to post this sooner, but I forgot about it.) Back at the end of May, Amanda and I decided to go and visit some Japanese Gardens about an hour northwest-ish from where we live. After we had spent some time walking around the gardens, which are very pretty and peaceful, we decided to feed the Koi fish that are there. While I was waiting for Amanda, I was looking at some of the different items that were offered for purchase in the small gift shop. One if the items was this sign. *points to the picture* taken by me Seeing the sign  was a funny coincidence since I had gotten a wall hanging with the exact same words on it a month before. Even though I didn't buy it, the words are still great to remember, especially with what is happening in the world today. And no matter where we are or what we happen to doing at a particular moment, we still need to remember that we can be brave. "Ask Jesus what he wants from you and be brave!" - Pope Francis

At the beginning of May I had posted that I was working on a baby blanket and hadn't decided on who the recipient was going to be. In that post I had said that I was going to be using five different colors for the blanket, instead I ended up doing only three colors. Pale pink, light green, and a cream/off white color that I had forgotten was in the bag. I had started working on it right away and had gotten a decent amount done on the blanket before I stopped for a couple weeks because it was getting warmer out. But I started working on it again last month and I was able to finish it, though I had to pause in my knitting "frenzy" because I had to wear a brace on my hand for a few days because of a bit of tendenitis. I was able to start knitting again after half a week of wearing the brace and dealing with the tendenitis. So without further ado here is the finished product. When I had first started knitting the blanket I was originally going to have the stripes b...