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Mixed Media Monday 11/23/14

November 24, 2014November 24, 2014 mud&stringLeave a comment

MY OWN MIXED MEDIA aka MOMM

I’ve become obsessed with Artist Trading Cards and the idea behind them. Learn more about them here and here. I love their size, they lend themselves very well to all different types of media, watercolor, collage, stencil, stamps, you name it. I love that their size being what it is, every element or space needs to “count”, with the attitude of more bang for your buck or large works in a small space and I love the idea of trading cards with other artists, though I feel very shy about this for some reason right now. Here are a couple that I’ve completed recently.

ATC, Distress Stain, stamps, butterfly die cut, distressed edge

Corregated ATC, die cuts, key, word beads

Maybe today I’ll get more confident and sign up to trade. Loyal readers, anyone into ATCs?

CREATIVE CHRISTMAS

Christmas projects continue on the knitting front and I’ve added some of my pottery to the mix. Being Christmas gifts, your imagination will have to suffice, but I’m excited about gifting them and isn’t that what gifting is all about?

THE TABLE

What’s going to be on yours this Thanksgiving? Ours will hold a turkey, the requested every year english peas, mashed potatoes, broccoli cheese casserole and corn casserole. My Thanksgiving offerings will mostly be of the sweet persuasion, a raisin pie, something chocolate, snickerdoodle bread, and an apple slab thingy that I saw on the King Arthur Flour website that looks and sounds delicious. Ya know, we could cut to the chase and just cut out the turkey and broccoli but somehow, I don’t think that will happen. Does it show that I’m not a broccoli fan??

Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments. Talmud

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WIP Wednesday, Will It Fit?, He Has a Sensitive Side

December 4, 2013 mud&stringLeave a comment

OFF THE NEEDLES

Nuthin’. Zero, zilch, negative. Projects? Yeah, I got ’em, just none finished. The weather forecast is for a big ice storm starting tonight or tomorrow, if it happens, projects will FLY off the needles. Just you watch.

GOT A SHOEHORN??

We have an ginormous igloo style dog house that I’m donating to one of the rescue organizations here in Little Rock. Cool, right? So, next on my to do list today is try to fit this ginormous igloo into my Nissan Versa. I think it will fit if I put down the back seats. Maybe.

FLASH:

The rescue lady just called and she will pick it up in her truck tomorrow afternoon. All around good!

FIBER FLASH

This lovely stuff is from Greenwood Fiberworks, hand painted Polwarth, in Rosewood and the best part? I have four of these beauties and whatever they decide to be, it will be mine, mine, mine! I’m thinking socks, but Rosie Rosewood may have other ideas. Don’t laugh – my wool talks to me all the time.

REAL MEN WEAR PINK

Babydaddy got cold over Thanksgiving and donned the pink Snuggie for a while. I think it goes really well with the rainbow sock toe this particular pair of Jaywalker socks ended up with when I ran out of yarn and had to wing it.

The Ladies Love It!

BY THE BOOK

Here’s my current read:

So far – Awesome!

Linking today with Ginny’s Knit A Long.

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it. Old German proverb

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Exit Thanksgiving, We Love Surprises!

December 2, 2013 mud&stringLeave a comment

THANKSGIVING

I hope everyone had as wonderful a Thanksgiving as the Iknead crew did. As it happens every year, I overate, overplayed with the grands, overtalked and just all around over busied and basked in the company of loved ones. I finished the Scapula scarf (yay!) and worked on Christmas knitting when I wasn’t overdoing whatever it was that I was overdoing at that moment.

Did you know that Stuttgart, Arkansas (home of the Papoose and Sprout) is the Duck and Rice Capital of the World? Did you know that the World Championship Duck Calling Contest coincided with Thanksgiving this year? I didn’t think so. There were so many duck callers around that I expected every duck on the planet to swoop down and pay us a visit, but fortunately, that didn’t happen. There was, however, the obligatory person in a duck suit.

The grands had matching PJs –

L to R

Babydiva, the Papoose and the Sprout

Everyone played nice:

The Sprout showed off her two new teeth –

and showed what the Le Miz poster looked like live and in person

We got a photo of something other than the back of the Babydiva’s head –

And best of all…….

Babydaddy and Babymama announced that Babydiva will be a big sister next year! That’s right – we’ll be welcoming a new grand around July, 2014 and we couldn’t be more excited! Let the baby knitting begin!

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John Gardner

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Pray Tell

November 26, 2012 mud&stringLeave a comment

WHAT’S GOING ON

I’ve not posted in at least a week, probably a little longer, because I had a flare of my ischemic colitis and ended up in the hospital for exactly seven days, getting out (barely) in time for Thanksgiving last Wednesday, believe it or else, being discharged at midnight. I had pretty much prepared myself to spend at least one more night since it was so late and all, but the nurses took pity on me and had the paperwork all ready for me when the time came. It turned out to be so late because I had to have a blood transfusion (my first and hopefully only) before they’d let me be go. Did you know it takes 2 1/2 hours from start to finish with a transfusion? Yeah, a long time, especially when you don’t get started until 9:30 p.m, because the computer system was down for a while and set everything back a couple of hours. Odd feeling really, I kept looking at the bag and wondering about the donor, who they were, how old, did he/she work, etc. Because someone donated a pint, I got to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with all the grands, with parents and other grandparents in tow. The Papoose’s other set of grandparents, Grandmary and Pops, were kind enough to host our dinner on a minute’s notice, with the usual grace and sweetness. Pops and Grandmary, we’re all blessed to be part of the family. Love you so much. Shameless plug – if you are able and willing, please donate a pint of blood, it means so much more than just a little stick and 30 minutes of your day, it could mean someone else can be with loved ones on a holiday or offer a second chance after illness or an accident. When (if) I’m cleared to do so, I’ll be trotting down to our local Red Cross and doing my part, you can bet on that.

THE GRANDS

Enough of that, look at our darlings –

Babydiva, who by the way started crawling yesterday.

Babysis, seven weeks old and so sweet.

The Papoose, who kept us all in line.

Mr. Iknead and I have been consulting with Santa over the past week, good things are in the works, you’ll just have to take my word for it. Ho ho ho! We’ve heard it through the grapevine that we’ve all been very good this year and he’s making a list and checking it twice. I can’t wait!!!

WHAT I FORGOT

I had a follow up visit with one of my doctors this morning to go over tests and stuff and as of today, I’m on medical leave at least until 12/10, which is my next appointment with him. I’m not sure how I feel about this. I’ve been set to retire 12/20 and so have been eagerly anticipating that date and now, all of a sudden, it could come about before then. Part of me is OK with it and part of me is sort of disappointed, that this is not at all how I’ve planned it. What is it that they say about making plans? Something about if you want to make God laugh, make plans?

So, that’s what’s up in Ikneadland and I’ve decided to just go with the flow. Remember – It’s all good.

Keep on truckin’. R. Crumb