My iPhone Crashed

And burned.

Yikes.

I lost all of my photos from the last two years. I am an idiot and didn't sign up for the iCloud. DO IT NOW IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY. Simone's pictures are gone. I feel like the house burned down. But at least I sent Bimmer Man pics every day and put stuff up on Facebook. And videos... the video of her rolling over and me spilling a beer are gone. Darn. But I put stuff up on YouTube so...

They had to restore it twice at the Apple store.

And it crashed when I did the Os6 update. Grrr.... Usually it's Bimmer Man with the phone troubles.

The Catalog Has Arrived

Woo hoo!!!!! Today is almost as great as when the Ikea catalog comes!

Crochet - Dishclothes

Super easy. 25 rows of single crochet. Single crochet around to finish the piece. Weave in ends.

I have 7 that I can put in my Etsy shop. It's just a matter of finding the time to take photos!

New Crochet

I found clearance yarn at Joann Fabrics last time I was there. $1.97 per skein. But there were only 5 skeins and generally 1 scarf in specialty yarn is 3 skeins. I bought 3 skeins and now I'm decidedly regretful of not buying all 5, mostly because I could have done some sort of striped scarf with a cream yarn that I already have. Oh well. I suppose most of my scarves are unique anyway.

Late Wordless Wednesday

The Alphabet

I started off buying a single "S" and now I've been slowly adding in more letters. Eventually I want to have the whole alphabet and put the letters up on the wall above Simone's crib (high so that she can't pull them down). I have S, A, D, and an I so far.

Rusty Food

Cooked food for Rusty?!? What?!?

Yes! So when Rusty goes to Pampered Pooch we send him with cooked food because they don't feed raw. I make his food for the days he's there. Here's a recipe that even people can eat!

Beef & Chicken with Rice & Veggies

1 lb beef
1 lb chicken
2 cups cooked rice
1 bag of frozen veggies
Salt & pepper
1 tbsp olive oil

Brown beef. Drain fat. Cook chicken in oil until juices are clear. Steam veggies. Combine all.

Rusty gets 2 cups per meal. This makes enough for 6 large dog meals.

Holy Buckets!

It's been a long time and I finally downloaded the phone app! Yay!!!!

I need to tell y'all about the burglaries in my neighborhood, the panhandlers, my gardens. Yikes! Long time!!!

New Crochet Scarves

I've put a few new crochet scarves up in my Etsy shop but I'm sort of stuck in a rut. I LOVE stripes (what, have I not mentioned this before????!!!??) and yet they take so long to crochet, you have to keep dropping yarn, then weave in all the ends (which when you have stripes it means there's 4 ends to weave in, yuck) and it just takes so darn long. I still can't stop crocheting though!!

I've also been into shell crochet lately - I need to figure out how to make stripes look nice with the shell pattern, the single colors are a little boring unless you have pretty yarn. I'll have to make a few more of these!

And I have to get rid of my stash somehow, maybe a craft show? I'm not really sure I'm up for one quite yet. I've got a few wreaths to sell, some simple jewelry and probably 20 scarves. I'll have to keep an eye out for some upcoming shows and scout them out to see if my stuff would fit in.

Happy Monday!