The Snow Continues

As the third snow storm canceled school once again, I decided to take stock in a few things.. like my herbal cabinets and my essential oil shelf.  I opened the doors, and restocked! This month www.aromatherapeutix.com where I buy most of my essential oils is having their 1/2 off sale.. YES half off all oils, it is the BEST time to buy them so.. I took the time off from work (canceled school) to see which I am low on, using their catalog as a check list!

 

when I finished there.. I went to the next room where I keep all my herb books, dried herbs and accessories

 Here is my cabinet and dehydrator.. I bought these cabinets from Crate and Barrel years ago now, and lined the glass with wrapping paper to provide darkness for the plant matter.

 This cabinet houses the plants A-P

 This is the second of the two shelves... and houses plants from S-Z and my accessories..

 There are tinctures, cordials and my sprout tools in here as well!

This is the neatest of the Herbal Shelves.. 

And that's what happens when this girl gets bored on Snowy Days.. 

oh then there is my knitting.. and my books

and ... these are the books I am currently reading.. I generally read a chapter in one or two of them every morning.. sooner Or later I will finish one and move onto another.. just can't be happy reading one!

I am making strips of this pattern to put together to create a baby blankie!

Ezevia Rose

Yours Truly

Snow

We have had lots and lots of snow.. and those who know me, well they know I love snow!
Now they ask, have you had enough?  The answer is No.. cuz I love snow!

 Front of our home!  Covered in deliciousness

 Kitty "Honey" in the window is glad he has a home

Looking South  on Rt.114 Bristol RI

 Looking North on Rt 114..

Looking East on Verndale Circle

  Here is a little of what we have .. and how much we have shoveled... okay so it's not so little, about ten inches last night.. on top of the accumulated past snows.. this is our 3rd snow day...  pretty soon I'll be having Saturday classes, cuz I am not making up school in June! LOL!!!!!!!

Knitting for Snow!

Having a Snow Day is always nice.. and for the first time in a long time I actually did nothing!

 I took my time, I read and did some knitting it was nice to have nothing to do and being able to 'chill'

I decided to step up my knitting skills with a new pattern, and here it is! My intention is to make it like a small scarf that will wrap my neck like a 'turtleneck' and I will add a little overlay in size with a button and loop!

And while I was knitting away.. Our Pussy Willow tree which is enormous decided the weight of the heavy wet snow was to much of a burden.. and split! The play-ground swing apparatus is actually holding it up!  So another job as soon as the temperatures rise a bit! Poor Pussy Willow!



Yours Truly!

The Snowy Day

Yep.. SNOW.. now anyone who knows me, knows just how much I love snow.. so this was an expected and wonderful treat..

These were taken in the first three hours of the storm, there is a small childs sandbox in the front corner of these pictures you can watch it disappear!

here are some of the photos I took.. yesterday and today.. total I think was about 10 inches! Here you can't see the sandbox at all!

My garden and fish pond!

The school.. and by the way I took this one from the ground after I fell and that man who happens to be married to me, didn't even notice!

 The garden today!

 You can see the ground here, and one of the layers of snow, after we had already shoveled it all twice previous to this picture.

 I love this photo.. all those happy little light orbs!

 Slides of Snow

 Our back door..

How fun.. the orbs are all the fairies riding inside the snow globes!  And an orb wrapped around the Peace sign in the school window! .. Just lovely.. lovely lovely!

Gramma!

So I learned to knit.. made myself a scarf, and since I don't know enough knitting yet I bought another skein of yarn and crocheted myself a beret to go with the scarf.
My grand-daughter took a couple of pictures, which my husband balked at saying, "Wow you really look like a gramma now!" "Hat and Scarf to match!" 

Here the dog is asking for a bone for Yule

Here I am telling him, he has to be good and can't be naughty!!...
Well ok, I guess I do look like a real gramma in these pictures.. but least you all know what I have been up to!
Merry Merry....

Crochet

Hey it's been so long ~ but a busy busy time of year..

My latest creation is a crochet beret, here it is..  the bottom, a side view and the top complete with pom-pom.

My Mom dropped by on Friday and asked if I could please make a hat for her friend who couldn't find a yellow hat to save her life to match a scarf her nephew had given her.. so wal-lah!  It took me about 3 hours.. no pattern and here is one of me sporting it for fun!

Not bad at all!..   Now I finished another scarf.. for myself this time... here it is

I made it nice and wide so that it would fold over around my neck and keep me toasty, it's soft and warm! I love it.. Thanks again to Sapphire Soleil who inspired me to learn to knit!  Yippee!!
And yes.. I am about to burst into hysterical laughter in that bottom photo!

Happy last days of Fall!

Where in the World have I BEEN?

Ha.. of course I am busy, I am always busy.. so busy I haven't had a  moment to spare to jot down all the things I have been busy doing

First I learned to knit.. here are some photos of my newest adventure... 

Of course that was the beginning, then I really got going and created a Christmas gift.. for my granddaughter! Here it is

I am really Proud of my Accomplishments.. My grandmother was BLUE in FACE trying to teach me to knit in my youth...but I could never manage it.. .mostly because She would RIPPPPPPPP out every mistake!  It was pretty discouraging.   So Now I am on my way to being a Happy Knitter!

There are some other new adventures coming to this BLOG .. in a day or two!
Keep your eyes open!!

                                                                Crazy but Mostly Happy