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A blog, like life, is a mixture of all sorts of things. You think you are going down one road when all of a sudden you come across a curve and find yourself going off in a totally different direction. My blog covers my interests in gardening and crafting, with some reading and photography added in along the way. Depending on the season or my mood the posts will reflect more of one side of me than the other.
The weather for November has been amazing. The temperatures have hovered around 10 Celsius and above. There has been hardly any rain. Yet, I know this can all change in an instant and winter weather will set in.
My weather predictors are ready and waiting.
The latest addition is Grim, who sits atop the post by the front door. I wonder if any snow will dare to settle on him?
Then there is my faithful Gary the Gargoyle, who has graced the deck for a couple of years. I used to take him inside in the winter but he got teased by the Boys in the Hood over at
GardenJoy's place. So now he bravely sits outside all winter, just waiting to let me know what the weather is like.
Remember the fun garden whimsy I made last year? I have it hanging by the deck fence just waiting for that nasty weather to arrive. Have a look and see how I made it. There is a cute poem that goes with it and it would make a fun gift for the weather watcher on your gift list.
Are you just sitting around waiting for the winter weather to happen? I'm not I've been enjoying this wonderful weather.
Thanks for taking time to visit today.
Posted for sole use on the Crafty Gardener blog and website.
(added as someone is taking my posts and using them on their site)
Labels: weather, whimsy, weather predictions
Edit - this post has been reposted again .. look to see if yours is there too ... they change every few days, so keep checking back ... if it is complain
The Crafty Side of me has started on some crochet covered coathangers. I never know how many extra little gifts I'll need for the holdiay season so I like to keep a stash of some already made. These hangers work up very quickly so I decided to complete about 18 of them.
Here are the first two completed ... so that means ...
only 16 more to go.
This pattern is a great way to use of some of your stash yarn as well. I do try to match the yarn to the colour of the coathanger if possible. I originally blogged about this pattern here and also on my website.
Awhile ago someone asked if I could create a pdf version of the pattern as they wanted to use it as a handout in a class they were teaching. I just happened to have a program that converts files to pdf format so it didn't take much work to come up with it. You can download a pdf file of the pattern here. I didn't create this pattern, but just did some adjustments to one that someone gave me. I have no idea where the original pattern came from. You can find a few versions of this on the interent.
Thanks for taking time to visit today.
Posted for sole use on the Crafty Gardener blog and website.
Labels: coathangers, quick and easy gifts,
It just keeps going and going and going.
Thanks for taking time to visit today.
(added as someone is taking my posts and using them on their site and they could be taking yours too)
Be sure to put your name on your images so that when the post shows up elsewhere at least you have some credit. Usually the 'other site' removes any links you have in your post so no one can get back you you. The site that's taking the posts this time has several sites, all that look the same, but with different names. They are trying to sell domain names and products related to gardening. They are at least leaving a link to say where the post came from but I'm not leaving a link to them as I don't want to advertise their site. I have notified many bloggers whose posts are appearing there with my own little email campaign and I hope each of them is emailing to complain. I know that some have complained and others are letting it go. As of this morning my posts seem to have been deleted, but I thought that once before and then they reappeared after a day or so. I'll keep checking as linking back to me or not as I think they are stealing posts. I don't think it is right that they use our posts to sell domain names and profit themselves.
Thanks for listening to my rant.
Labels: Friday's Flowers, Christmas Cactus
