Little Magic Glasses

Well I've been stuck wearing my glasses all week.  An eye doc appointment on Monday resulted in having to take out my contacts and wear my glasses and come back on Friday due to a "cloudy area" in my eye which was "irritated".  Back today and have to go back on Monday again - vision in the eye is better but something still isn't right.  Told to rest the eye and not do close work (I'm sitting as far away from the computer as I can! LOL).  I was supposed to go to a hook-in tomorrow but will not be going tomorrow as being in a room full of wool and hooking all day wouldn't fall into the "resting the eye" category! 

Anyway - it doesn't really hurt - just a wee bit bothersome.  So I guess iffen I was a "napping" type of person I could just sleep the weekend away!  

Well despite having to wear my glasses (which I hate when I'm out) I ventured out to Grant Street (again) on Thursday. 

Another fun day with loads of belly laughs and silliness and actual work getting done!

I did some "wool therapy" shopping - hey I have a bad peeper so I had to cheer up that eye right?

Joan (the bionic hooker) came and has finished her dog rug... colors are wonderful in person...

Jackie and Bonnie showed up (which always means a full pumpkin patch full of laughs)... Forgot to take Bonnie's pic -she's still scrambling her eggs.  Jackie got a lot done on her dancing bunnies this week.  She's making this for her grandson  Jack who has decided exactly what colors and what he wants on this rug - So I'm sure next week this rug will be done!

Nancee is just about done with her dog rug - It's supposed to be her Mom's dog and her dog - It's another beauty in person....

Oh poor Kathy - she's either crying from laughing so hard or the fact she just about took her finger off.  She received a package from her secret pal and one of the gifts was one of those little battery operated fans.  Well she had it buzzing (sounding like a lawn mower) and next thing you know she's yelling OUCH or something like that!   She got her finger too close to the blades - Thank goodness they aren't metal blades or I'm thinking she would be taking up another hobby!  Anyway we were all howling with laughter - thinking back on that  that might not have been too nice of us!   Oh heck, it was funny!  Bet her secret pal had no clue they gave her a weapon!

I also had a secret pal gift for Easter.  I'm thinking my secret pal is way too generous - It's only April and I've gotten a trunk load of gifts so far!

This time I got a candle on a hog scraper - really cool.  An old strainer filled with RED woolly worms and some fabric eggs, some Reeces pieces, two chocolate scented bunny tart melters (oh my goodness my entire first floor smells like chocolate from these two little things, and some peeps!  OH yea and some cat treats for the boys!  Thank you my secret pal - I'm thinking you need to take a break - you've been way too generous but I so love everything so thank you.

This picture is for the BRAT - and she knows exactly who she is and I wasn't amused to find this in my bag this morning....

At the Sheep Shearing a few weekends ago I started this antique adaptation rug "Kinderhook Flower Basket" - I had it almost done except for the border by the end of the night and finished it today.  For those that know me - I RARELY "revervse hook" or pull out or whatever you want to call it - but I did a lot on this rug.  After I got the flower and basket and leaves in and some of the shading around it - I didn't like the rest of the "lines" - just couldn't find the right thing.

Well I actually had the right colors but I cut this one wool (see the wool pic and see the piece) one way and when I hooked it - it just looked "pebbly" to me around the flowers.  And I only had a little bit left so needed to get another piece and once I cut the wool in the other direction - the colors and everything feel into place.  

Anyway wasn't sure on some of the other things but thanks to Kathy (and new wools at Grant St) she picked out the perfect faded looking wool to use for the very outside border.  The funny thing about this was earlier she had been folding some of that wool and I'm like "i don't like that!".  Well just goes to show you never know.

This is a bad pic taken tonite and it's dark out - will try to get a better shot of it when I finish the binding. 

I do love the drab and antique look to rugs and always struggle to do that - I tried so hard to keep this one neutral and it was hard for me to keep those yellow flowers in - Almost all my rugs have red in them and those flowers nearly got changed to red about 10 times!  I'm liking how this turned out I think. 

Today I went outside and picked some Spring and brought it in the house...

Oh and remember my onion skin dyed eggs.  Well my boy Riley took "egg scratching" to the next level as you can see - they were soooo pretty (oh and they are a darker red/redware color - bad camera or bad camera operator!) - however the scratches are there! 

Wishing everyone a great weekend!