Making Stitch Markers for your Looms!

As promised…a little something fun for you!  🙂

fine-gauge-loom-jewelsI’ve prepared a two part video how-to series demonstrating how to create those lovely little loom jewels that I find absolutely essential to have while working on a project to hold my spot…and they’re so sweet to look at, besides. 

 

So, please click here to go to the Twisted Stitches page and view Part One.  Part Two coming soon.  Have fun!

Bethany~

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MIA.

So sorry you haven’t heard much from me this last week.  I’ve been buried under birthday balloons, text books, and yarn.

I’ve figured that in the last 2 months, I’ve loomed approx 45,216 stitches in the aid of my good loomy friend.  Whew!  I wanted to add that up earlier, but my daughter strongly recommended that I do that after I finished the project, lol!  She didn’t want me to look at the whole elephant before taking a bite.  Smart kid.  I might have turned tail and ran, screaming from my looms, lol! 😉

I’m very extremely glad I got to participate in this endeavor, though.  I wouldn’t have missed it for the world, and I know that at least these are 45 thousand plus stitches that were taken off my friend’s shoulders.  I feel immensly grateful to have been able to be a tiny help in stitching up her whole herd of elephants…and very blesssed to have a family that would put up with me for the last 2 months of fending for heartthemselves for dinner, digging for their laundry, and not having me during game night, etc.  Thanks guys…I love you!   You’re the bestest! 

PS:  BTW, I got an A+ on my English Essay!

PPS: I’m planning on posting something fun really soon…so hang in there.  Have an excellent week!

Bethany~

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Valentine Surprise~

Hi! 😀 How was your weekend? I hope you had an excellent Valentine’s Day, spent with the ones you love most!

Mine was great…although it was kind of in a jumble over the entire weekend, as I had a lot of extra things going on, including my daughter’s 13th birthday…yep!…13! More on that later….

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Sweethearts Banquet 1987

My hubby isn’t really too big on Valentine’s Day for the usual complaints of how commercialized it all is, and how showing of affection shouldn’t be limited to just one day of the year (of which he is excellent at demonstrating personally… he’s great in that way!), and how girls just use it to hold it over guy’s heads that they don’t love them enough if they don’t buy them just the right thing. Of course, I’m not like that, lol, he freely admits, but many across the entire female gender are afflicted with this disorder, and he doesn’t feel too inclined to support the whole manic moment.

He decided this was the year to be different. We were on our way to a dessert theater Friday eve,

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Evan's Mushy 2009 Valentine 🙂

in which one of my eldest daughter’s friends was an actress, and stopped in at Costco to pick up some things on the way. We were grabbing a quick bite to eat (love those chicken bakes!) when all of a sudden he pulls out 3 Valentines! One for me and each of our girlies. He had stopped at 2 of our favorite stores to pick up gift cards for

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1988...dating for one year (3rd time's a charm!)

us too! Of course the cards were such a zany Evan type of humor (Transformers, lol!), but it was so wonderful to see that he was thinking of the three girls of his life and wanted to honor them…while sitting at the food court in Costco, lol! He’s such a wonderfully, zany, funny, super-stupdendous, supportive guy. And he’s been my sweetheart for going on 25 years (18.5 of them married, and the other 6.5 years off and on dating since I was 12 and he was 13!)

Yesterday, he took us to the stores himself so that we could pick out our gifties. It’s okay…you can say it…”awwwwwwww…” My card was for Fashion Bug (my favorite clothing store) and I hit the jackpot with an awesome sale…a lot of their clearance was only $5.95, so I was able to score 5 really cute tops and a purse! WOW! 😀

lorna-dooneA little something I picked up from Amazon that I’ve always wanted for myself: a 1948 copy of Lorna Doone….one of my all time favorite reads.

You can also see one of my new shirts in the pic, lol. All pinks and browns…mmmmm. 🙂 I found a really cute brown vest at Eddie Bauer that goes great with it!

Oh, and don’t worry that my hubby didn’t get his Valentine… I ordered him the 5th season of X-files. He has been collecting them over time and I knew the next season was top on his list of must have’s. 😉

Well…I’ve talked your ears off, lol! I’ll let you go now, with the hope that your weekend was filled with lots of love all around… (Hugs!)

Taken by Evan...

Taken by Evan...

Bethany~

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