More Crochet

Having lots of fun crocheting. It's something that my Grandmother taught me many moons ago. I am left handed and she was right handed so of course everything was backwards to me. I know it must have been frustrating for her, maybe because she told me so, but she didn't give up and I eventually learned and now when I am crocheting I think of her. I sure miss her, what a great granny I had.

I even got my hubby to try it out. He didn't do so bad for being a beginner!

Of course I had to make something for the dogs as well.

Flowers of Hawaii

Went on a great trip with some dear friends to Hawaii in November. I decided to take as many interesting picture of flowers and foliage that I could find, and boy could I find a lot of them, here's just a sampling.....

Winter and Yarn

Well it's been quite sometime since I've posted anything. Not that I haven't been busy though. I truly despise the winter and I decided this year instead of waiting it out I was going to stay as busy as possible. I am in love with pintrest (who isn't?) and saw a pin on a crochet stitch called

the crocodile or dragon scale stitch. I busted out my old rusty hook and set out to learn it. After several (hundred) attempts I got it!! Yay! So here are a couple of things I've made. If you want to learn here is where I found a great tutorial, easy to follow http://youtu.be/lbewLEjax1I

Adrift in the Blooms

Want to come stand under a canopy of cherry blossoms? Well come on over and do just that. I wait all year for my tree do bust out with all her glory and without fail she gives us a show every year.

The new/old window

Somewhere along the line a gained a cool old window that someone had discarded. It had a wood frame and the glass sort of looked like "bubbles" I have held on to it for years thinking that someday I would make something cool and functional out of it so I did just that. Even though its not quite finished here I wanted to post it. My husband is going to hang two chains from it and I am going to hang it from my front porch. I think it will make a lovely addition.......

Shrimping Adventure

Well we made it out shrimping again this year. Seeing as though there are only four days a year to do it we have managed to make it three out of the four. It was a lovely day this past Saturday, the winds and water were calm and the sun actually made a showing too. It doesn't get better than that! Had a really fun day with friends and scored some nice Hood Canal Shrimp to boot. I made shrimp cocktails later that evening. My husband said they were good and I have to take his word for it since I am allergic to shrimp!

Shrimp Cocktail

7-10 Fresh Shrimp
3 ribs of celery
3/4 cups ketchup
1/2 tbsp horseradish
dash of worseshire sauce
fresh squeezed lemon

Boil shrimp with enough water to cover 3-4 minutes. Meanwhile chop celery finely, add to cocktail glass. Mix up the ketchup, horseradish, worsheshire sauce, squeeze of lemon, mix throughly and top the celery with sauce. Rinse, peel shrimp add it to cocktail glass, squeeze small amount of lemon on top, garnish with celery top and wedge of lemon.