Friday Moment-My favorite words this week

The best day

of your life

is the one on which

you decide

your life is

your own.

No apologies or excuses.

No one to

lean on, rely on,

or to blame.

The gift is yours-

it is an

amazing journey-

and you alone

are responsible for

the quality of it.

This is the day

your life

really begins.

Bob Moawad

Right Now lately

I found a cord to hook up to my computer and now some pictures to show of these past couple of weeks.

 Went to a seedling sale and I'm going to be daring this year and try growing yellow watermelons.

 Went home to the garden to put down the plants for later. I know have 20 plus tomato plants waiting for me at the end of the week and leeks, broccoli, watermelon and possible kale.

 Great yard sale finds an Ikea frame a book on making wraps and a book on gardening with recipe all for $5!!Yes score. 

 My favorite 3 words when I'm home. 

 Yay for sun tea.  This 52 fl oz pitcher is from Ikea.

 Trying to make my own yogurt popcicles.  The popcicle molds are also from Ikea.

 Cleaned one shelf in my kitchen for all my cookbooks.

 Curbside find it's bench/table.  Perfect for summer a little cleaning, replace a piece of wood and some paint and it will be as good as new.  Haven't started it but I am seeing the potential.

Oh orange juice pops they seemed to be hit.

Well that's the catch up for now friends so glad I found my cord and hope I don't lose it.

Monday Links

Hello it's Monday this is probably my shortes Monday list of links but I had to share these few for their ideas.
One of my favorite things to do is put books on my wish list .
Recently added this book from crazy mom quilts I love her projects.
Add this Making Magazine to my collection.  Check out the making for... tabs they are inspiring they made my brain hurt with ideals.
Found this website from the Nate Berkus Show.

Hope you're inspired today too.

Yarn Along: A new rug

Made it in for Ginny's yarn along with a new rug that I'm working on.  I can't decide if I love it but it's fun to make.  It's similiar to this one.  The second picture is a rectangle for a tree branch for  the yarn shop for the Wake up the Earth Festival on May 5.  I'm loving the colors. Lastly these are the books I'm carrying around lately. 
Hope your enjoying a good read or yarn today :)

Big Crochetted Slippers

Before I begin this post about the slippers I wanted to say thank you to all the followers who keep coming back during a pivotal time in my life and welcome new readers  here and at 5 Good Reasons.  Things will be still be a little slow for posting a while longer over there. But I just wanted to say thank you to my readers for coming by and checking in because like most bloggers we go through a down time of posting and risk losing followers and sometimes along the way readers don't come back so it's nice to see that not everyone has ditched this little kitchen and hope you are inspired as many of you have inspired me. 

Ok now the slippers.  I had been having a creative mojo slow down but things are picking up again.  In the January/February issue of Crochet Today I wanted to make these slippers. The pattern looks easy something I can handle and they are cute.

 But guess what happens when I don't use the right yarn?  They came out way too big.  I had to show you these before I unravel them.  Starting from the left these are my first, second and third try at these slippers.  The first was super huge and the last pair after a few decreases was much better.

 Not perfect but better because they are still loose and I have been wearing them I'm thinking of unravelling a few rows and doing many more decreases.  Other than that I love the pattern I even made my own buttons just some yarn chain, crochet and slip stitch together till it looks cute.

Tonight I unravel I have two more crochet projects I'll show you tomorrow.