I found a great book!

I picked up this book at the library today along with a bunch of CD's I had ordered.  If you like to crochet already, or would like to learn, this is an awesome book!  I put it on my wish list at Amazon.  My amazon wish list will probably go on my Christmas wish list!  LOL  It has step by step instructions, charts, and photos for 200 stitch patterns and projects through out the book that are modern and up to date.  I also saw on the back cover that there are other books like this one and the topics they have listed are Sewing, Paper Crafts, and Ribbon Crafts.  If they are anything like this one, you will want them too.  It is a beautiful book with wonderful photo graphs and diagrams.
I just finished making some Thin Mints, and I have a casserole in the oven for supper.  I might do some other baking tonight.  A good time to do it while it is cool.  I am sure hoping that the weather forecast changes.  It is not looking good for the flea market tomorrow.  Have a wonderful weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all of you mother's out there!  Elaine

Originals - Handcrafted cards made easy

I picked this book up at the library today and it really is a beautiful book.  It is hard cover, spiral bound so it lays flat and comes with a CD.  It has beautiful pictures of the cards in it.  The photography is perfect.  It has an easy to read layout, and has a card sketch for each card with the measurements of all the layers for you.  It is the very best card making book I have seen and I have looked at TONS of them and I only have a couple of card making books in my library as I have not been happy with what is out there.  This one is a keeper and I have put it on my "wishlist" at Amazon as I would love to own this book.  It is a great book to get the ole Mojo flowing!  I get to keep this one for 4 weeks and this one will definitely not be going back early!  LOL  Elaine

Antique Pattern Library

Hi!  I stumbled across an antique pattern library and thought I would put the link on here so that you could check it out.  It has old, out of print pattern books on line, for free, that you can down load.  All kinds of hand type work, embroidery, crochet, knitting, tatting, etc.  Check it out!  Elaine

http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/index.html

Nasty People

Happy Sunday!  This is a book that I am currently reading that I ordered from the library.  I was talking to my Pastor the other day and he recommended it.  We have had many discussions through the years about relationships, psychology, and what makes people tick.  I have watched video's that he has and they are always very interesting.  So when he recommended this one, I immediately ordered it.  This is a thin book, and it cuts right to the point.  You immediately start to learn things, it is not one of those books where you have to read 3 chapters to get to the meat of the book.  It will help you deal with the people in your life better and sometimes you will see your self in the pages and it can help you to be a better person.  Amazon has it in there used bookstore for one cent, and $3.99 shipping.  A good deal.  I highly recommend this book.

What a very long day....but fun!

Wow!  Carol and I had a marathon long day today.  We left here at 6:30am to travel to Marshfield for her appointment with the neurosurgeon.  While she was in her appointment, I was crocheting flowers and finished 15 of them.  She came out around 10:30 and the verdict is that she has to have neck surgery.  She has a disk that split off and is pinching a nerve, causing arm and neck pain, numbness, and increasing weakness in her left hand.  Her surgery will be next Wednesday, the 10th.  Please keep her in your prayers.  We decided to go to AppleBee's for lunch and she 
needed to be back to the clinic by noon so they could run tests on her and get everything done while she was there that needed to be done before surgery.  Carol thought I should take the vehicle and go shop as she had 4 appointments and wouldn't be done until 3.  So I dropped her off and went to St. Vinnies, Good Will and Hancocks.  I got back a little early and was looking at my new book when Carol came out.  I had birthday money from Lenore and Susie and I used Lenore's to buy the book and Susie's to buy the beautiful bundle of fat quarters on the left.  They are called brown works and all coordinate, in chocolate, pink, blue, and cream.  They are absolutely yummy looking and I will probably just gaze at them until I decide on the perfect project for them.  I got them with a 40 percent off coupon.  I was showing Carol the book before we left the clinic and she could not believe how stinkin' cute the pattern's are in it.  There are 25 patterns in the book for clothing for girls and boys, and accessories ages 0-5.  I decided that my up coming grand baby needs some things out of the book and I think I also will make some clothes to sell.  Any how, after we went over to the hospital to do the final paper work, we headed back to Hancock's and Carol decided to buy one of these books too along with some other stuff!  She has the cutest little grand daughter's, and it will be fun for her to make some things out of there for them.  Our last stop was Culver's drive thru for ice cream and I thoroughly enjoyed my cookie dough, concrete mixer on the way home.  We yacked all the way up and all the way back, and I am sure we still forgot to tell each other stuff!  Oh...and I almost forgot to tell you that I found a little ceramic Easter bunny holding a Chocolate Rabbit for Carol at Vinnies.  She really likes chocolate rabbits and thought it was cute.  We blew in here at 6pm...and after Carol left, I washed my face, got on my jammies, grabbed the lap top and was in bed by 6:15.  There was no way I could stay awake, and I kept dozing off, oh well.  I should sleep well tonight!!!  Thanks Susie and Lenore for the birthday gifts....I will treasure them!  Hugs!  Elaine

Scrapbook Secrets & The Quilting Answer Book

These are two books that I just finished reading that I would recommend. Especially the quilting book. If you a beginner quilter this is a fantastic reference book to have. Even seasoned quilter's might want to have this. I ordered these from the library. If you want to have your own copy, Amazon does have these in the new and used section. Check them out! Happy Reading! Elaine