Phat Fiber Sample Box: 1,000 Petals and *Giveaway*

These are just a couple of products you can find at 1,000 Petals by lotusjulie.  she caters to spinners and nonspinners! GO SEE!!!

Phat Fiber Sample Box: 1,000 Petals and *Giveaway*

Mama's Money Savers giveaway

mama's money savers is giving away this stuffed cutie, norman phartephant. who farts! i don't know how much kids will like him, but a have a husband who would love him!

How did Norman become so Gassy?
Norman PhartEphant™ is an African elephant that was adopted by a US zoo. The dietary changes in the transition caused unexpected gastric effects. There is more to Norman than just gas! 

 

Norman makes a great present!

Norman is more than just a farting plush! By giving Norman as a present, you are also giving presents to a few child-oriented charities!  Check out Norman's Story & Friends!

and enter the contest here.

phat fiber give away

yarn...beautiful yarn! if you gotta have it go to phatfiber and enter. i did! o, desert garden farm does batting too for those who want skinnier yarn.

wish list

sideshowmelody, a ravelry member, came up with 8 items. before she challenges me, i am going to see what i can come up with.

• mysy pup's hips to get better
• for charlie to be well enough for us to get back to the swimming pool!
• for the folks i am praying for be relieved of cancer, and i accept what that means.
• a vehicle that will carry my new wheel chair and me around!
• for people to realize that homosexuality is not contagious so they are safe to vote for the equal marriage act.
• for people to stop being afraid or breeding fear and start loving and teaching love.
• i could paint the things i see and have them come out the same
• the metabolism would return to all of us have become heavier than they wish (like me)

BROWNIES can you resist?

brownies...chocolate...i want them!!! so what did i do? i entered mommy i'm hungry's giveaway! at this link. i mean, can you look at these and not drool all over your keyboard. i couldn't!

pictures + critters = awwww!

thank you for saving me and my babies!
a roll in the snow is so much fun
yes we are the stars on animal planet
thanks for the new litter box...that other one was really too big!
i'm not danger now but try this in the future....
this chair is too small
mommy said to wash my hand and face before dinner
small ball in the corner pocket
what can i do, they think i am their mommy
why me!!!
new game, the bunny clap
my, what big eyes you havewe get by with a little help from our friends
i was so hungry. so full. neee sleeeepppp.....
hey, he goes faster than i do!
yawn...i am soooo tired.
would you stop following me, i have cat friends!!
remember what i look like now and you will never want to turn me into easter dinner
he is so loving, i just had to stay...great snuggler
no, no, i'm safe, i won't fall off
we are the mask marauders!
i am so shy! i pray a lot! they say you should cover your mouth and nose when sneesing

and now i am going to beat you again. lovely lady

ten things that make me happy?

another blogger, jessica, challenged me to answer the above question. this is my attempt to answer (no order):

1. my dogs make me happy.  they are so full of joy and so smart and loving,

2. yarn makes me happy...the feel, the colors, what you can turn it into.

3. clouds make me happy. sometimes they glide across the sky. sometimes they billow up. sometime they have pink bottoms from the sun.  have you ever been flying and seen a lighting strike through them? the strike casts a golden hue to the clouds close by.

4. flowers, especially wild flowers make me happy. i love to take drives out during spring and see untouched area splashed with colors from the different blossoms.

5. photography makes me happy. mine and other peoples. these were done by a couple of friends of mine. they all make me feel and think...what a good thing. kristina did the first two and chris did the other.

6. rainbows make me happy.  i have seen some that go straight up and then rise. one of the reasons charlie is so great is he understands that rainbows require watching.

7. a full moon makes me happy. especially the beautiful harvest moons! they are always so big and colorful.

8. seeing grown men hug one another makes me happy. fathers and sons and grandsons. old friends reuniting. (of course i am glad i am not a man during one of those hugs with all the back pounding! ouch!)

9. being alive makes me happy. it is so much fun beating the odds!!

10. my husband's love makes me happy.

what is a phat fiber sampler

i had to add this site to my blog list. after you read the following i  think you will understand. it is a direct copy of her words and some pictures (link):

The Phat Fiber Sampler box is a way for independent fiber, yarn and related needlecraft companies and artisans to promote their products through a tactile goodie box that goes on sale once monthly. Our contributors get exposure while the consumers get to handle and experiment with products before making larger purchases. If you would like to contribute to the box, or are interested in learning more, please contact Jessie at phatfiber@yahoo.com.

chocolate!!!!

go to this site but only if you are so in love with chocolate as i am! it's taza chocolate. just reading and looking around the site is making my chocolate desire rise to an unbelievably high level!!! and they have tea with chocolate blended. the is not a giveaway. i found it thru a tea conversation and just had to look it up. chocolate and pepper. i have heard about it but never had it. but i think i will sometime in the near future. if you have already tried this, please leave me a comment!

or go here

The Giveaway: lu kels giveaway

The Giveaway: lu kels giveaway

lu kels is a boutique. and fun. i see lots of things i would like to have.

Joolwe fun jewelry shopping

following a blog line, i found this site. it looked like it could be great fun for someone who likes jewelry as much as i. i subscribed to their email and then went to join them. i got a notice that i would be getting the emails but could not get the submit button to submit me as a joiner. bummer!

i emailed them. they emailed me back. after several of the pingpongs, a marvelous thing happened. i was joined! 

ok, why am i rabbiting on about these folks? because i worked customer support for 20 years. i know what is good, bad and somewhere in between. these folks are very good. so if you are looking for jewelry, do go to joolwe. (clicking on the name will take you to them.)

and if you have any problem, know that they will help you out! and tell um spvaughan sent ya! giggle.

give-away-historical romance novel

i like books of all kinds and i am guessing some of you feel the same way. so i want to share this giveaway.  the book is a historical romance novel called 

easterfield by anna jones buttimore. 

what if you are in 1850 england and were visited by the first lds missionaries? to find out, go the giveaway and see if you can win an autographed copy. i am!

heeeellllpppp meeeeee! please!

i think i have about got this linking thing figured out. BUT ...isn't there always...i need help figuring out how to do a blog roll or 3 to make my blog easier to find things on...maybe i need page breaks so i can refer people to different pages. i don't know. 

my brain is fried so i am going to watch some tv and crash! 

nighty night! and don't let the bed bug bite!

our little mystery

mystery pup
Originally uploaded by spvaughan

mystery puppy (aka mysypup, aka the midnight marauder) has been at it again. but not as successful as she normally is. she apparently went in search of the forbidden last night.  she found the peanut butter jar.  how do i know? it was on the floor by my side of the bed this morning. ah, but we were in luck! this time she couldn't get the lid off! she is a very talented thief is out mysy. she has been known to find some jar and get the lid off and clean up the jar's contents. on some jars, you can tell how long her tongue is. so funny. especially if you catch her. she just stops. sits. drops what is in her mouth and give you a look of "aren't i the smartest dog in the house. i got it off the counter all by myself,"

travel to fort worth

photo by susieshepherd

sometimes it is good to go traveling with a native. 

susie  shepherd,  while currently residing the the frozen north county (well, compared with the dfw area it is), is from fort worth. today she showed me her fort worth. i thought you might like to see and read her joy as well. so, go to this link and look at the listing for may 25!

buying cowboy boots

compliments to susie shepherd (this is her photo).  she is the one that wrote it up and with pictures to boot! (i made a funny)  ah the things you learn from knitting fiber farmers! link

pretties giveaway!

The Giveaway: andrea's beau giveaway

and they are pretty and would be wonderful to win when you are going out for something special. if you have long or thick hair that you like to do up or back...she has some great combs and hair pins.

what the haaaay!

if you looked at my blog a bit ago or a bit before that or a bit before that... yes, i know you look at this one minute and then again and it has changed again. that is because i keep trying to get it right.

i moved the buttons down because it is easier to see them as a group rather than a stream (well it is for me and it's my blog and i can't figure out that new blog roll that takes up less space...teach me). 

then i started looking at my list of blog sites. i just had to split them up. some of you are only visiting because of one thing. some another. maybe you just want to see who has lots of pictures, who tells really good stories, how does lots of things on knitting, and then where have i found a good site for something i really like on line.  there may be some over laping because some people fall in more than one.

will i ever get this right? probably not. but it will be interesting to see what developes. remember, i warned you, this is a hodgepodge of stuff.

attention knitters/crocheters!!!

i know you have to think i have forgotten all my knitting/crocheting friends. 

not true. most of the people i have been talking about are knitters/crocheters who have other interests similar to mine. i think knitting  and photography and art are all of a similar nature. we see colors that can work together, blend into one another or contrast against each other. i think that is why many of us get into dying yarn. somehow, we must translate colors we see onto blank yarn. lights and darks and shades and hues. 

so many textures. we see textures. now that is one of the things that turns us into yarnaholics (see my portrait). textures turn us into knitters. we want to feel the yarn move thru our fingers and see/touch the resulting fabric. we have to make patterns. and then some of us are compelled to learn to spin ... how else will we get the yarn we want? 

if you are not a knitter or crocheter, i hope this draws you into this wonder craft(s).