updates.

I don't get to brag about how beautiful my niece is but here is a picture i snapped sunday. She is weird...i mean that in a good way and a bad way. Good as dramatic but also bad...overly dramatic...sometimes it hurts how she over reacts to something. but i love her and i can't wait to see how she grows up. She is sometimes really stubborn and temperamental (like her mommy) but i have also seen her love, and how much she loves her cousins. And now me. A long time i have worn glasses and have suffered from the sun. I know that there are prescription sunglasses but...too expensive for me. Back in 2006 I wore contacts and i was able to wear sunglasses..but contacts just weren't for me. Deal extreme was doing a promotion for their website. I wound up getting these snap on sunglasses... As you get older, you really don't care how you look, as long as you aren't hurting. today i had a migraine...these couldn't have come at a better time.
This was this last sunday. I was dropping krystal off at home, and i thought it would be a great time for them to visit my mom. So we went swimming... I feel so badly for my babies.. they can only swim for like 15 minutes at a time...before they are shivering uncontrollably...and i have to force them out of the pool. they don't like that.And since I have been running for almost 5 weeks straight, I haven't done much tatting...but I won a thread giveaway. Thus the next set of pictures....beautiful!


its all the same thread...just taken differently. sea of thread...I LOVE IT!

Faux tatting???

Tell me. does this look familiar? I found it at a thrift store yesterday. I was like OMG I FOUND SOMEONES TATTING... I pick it up and it was like plastic... or something...flexible, white. I don't usually bother Anthony with tatting stuffs but i really had to show him this one...The thing was...it was made to resemble tatting...even more so proven, there were little lines to seem like they were stitches....

I thought that this was so funny that someone went through the trouble to make something look like tatting, but didn't actually tat it...strange? they even went as far as having little plastic piece sticking out like little picots. sorry i couldn't get a better picture... but i thought i would share with you guys!

Fate or what not.

So to start i realized something... I am meant to have friends named Melanie and Michelle. Why i was thinking this is because a couple years ago, i had a couple of friends...Melanie and Michelle. Some drama went on and we are no longer friends. I was reading a nice blog...from someone nicknamed smellyann. I spent an entire 2 days reading it... i didn't even finish. But i went and friended her, probably everywhere. Her name i came to find out was Melanie. I would laugh, because every time i would talk about her, I would have to clarify with who ever it was i was talking to, that it was my Internet friend, not Melanie Melanie. Then someone messaged me on youtube about my videos, asking for help. After a couple messages it clicked in my head that her name was Michelle. So then having to talk to Anthony about what i am doing, i started the whole not Michelle Michelle thing again...fun. But awhile later i was thinking...i have my friends Melanie and Michelle. AM i just meant to have friends by these names...and even funner... i was talking to Jessie about my long time ago friend shannon...yes...shannon. and she was all like but your Shannon...you were friends with yourself...i then went on to explain about Shannon and Shannon.

Its a small joke that i laugh at every time someone asks...because i think in my head about the joke i use to tell to myself...Our street was awfully quiet because of all the shh's... there was Shannon, Shannon, Sharon, Charlene, Shawna...all on the same block. that was fun.


Any way I think i ought to get down to the actual post...First up. We have Azriel trying EXTREMELY hard to be iron man. those are pillows in his shirt, and no its not the 90's (shoulder pad joke)

And here we have Anavay dressing up her dog... isn't he perty?

And because i didn't have a silly picture of Atreyu...I threw this one in, so he didn't feel left out.

On to tatting. I have been tatting but more tiny, trying new things tatting, I really haven't gotten any further on my hanky edge but I'll get around to it. This is the thread that I got from Fox... It is so pretty and i tried breaking some with my hands...my hands got hurt...so hopefully it will tat up beautifully...See I thought that it had gotten lost in the mail but it was just because of the mail strike...But see this is a great example of something to do in my next photo...


A lot of needle tatters have the question "where do you keep your needles" Well. Last year or earlier this year I won a drawing over on intatters. Kersti sent me a test tube looking thing for holding your needles.. and then she also sent a needle. So needless to say I have been using that...until yesterday. Yesterday I was getting up from my recliner and for some reason my tatting bag was under there. I SMOOSHED it! I heard cracking and breaking but when I looked and investigated my bag, I saw that nothing had broken..this morning i took out my needle tubey and IT WAS WHAT BROKEN. I was heartbroken. So my plans are to super glue it together. BUT in the meantime....my m&m minis container will do...And its portable...I could just pop my thread that fox gave me into it (cause it fits) And then i would have everything I would need to do needle tatting. Anyway I hear a whole bunch of loud pops... so either fireworks are going off or someone is getting shot...maybe both!

A sunday stealing to fill time... sorry, but it was effective!

The Faceless 4th of July Meme

Welcome back to Sunday Stealing which originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent memes. You may have heard of the expression, “honor amongst thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we also have our rules. First, we always credit the blog that we stole it from and we will “fess up” to the blog owner where we stole the meme. We also provide a link to the victim's post. (It's our way of saying "Thanks!") We do sometimes edit the original meme, usually to make it more relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, sometimes to select that meme's best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive from either this new meme or recently asked questions from a prior featured meme. Let's go!!!

Today we ripped off a blogger known as Jana at the blog That's Me, Jana!. She states that she was tagged by Lallopallo. But, it was probably stolen there as well. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Tracing back our theft's thieves might take some time. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!

Sunday Stealing: The Faceless 4th of July Meme

Cheers to all of us thieves!

1. Last movie you saw in a theater?

Harry potter and the deathly Hallows...my next movie...actually its going to be cars 2 but i wish it could have been Harry potter and the deathly hallows pt 2! that will come AFTER THE CARS 2!!! wouldn't miss it for the whole world

2. What book are you reading?

I read every night to my kids...

3. Favorite board game?

i don't think i have one...

4. Favorite magazine?

I don't do magazines either...

5. Favorite smells?

Nautica or vanilla musk. the smell is my mom.

6. Favorite sounds?

the clicking of shuttles

7. Worst feeling in the world?

i imagine, loosing your kid, because the point where i felt the worst was a dream that my kids had been killed, and there was nothing i could do.

8. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up?

right now, I think "ugg again. wake up wake up!"

9. Favorite fast food place?

used to be chico's taco... but i love some taco bell, jack in the box, mc donalds(yes sometimes...rarely...don't judge)i really like fast food...leave me alone :)

10. What’s under your bed?

i imagine thread scraps, i know a soda, my box of tatting patterns :)

11. Finish this statement. “If I had lot of money I’d….?

shop a whole bunch! Oh yes I would...i love shopping!

12. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?

no, i never really slept with stuffed animals. i had a cat thing that i kept under my bed to protect me from bad dreams, it worked (in my head) and now he resides in my kids room.

13. Storms – cool or scary?

cool...and educational!

14. Favorite drink?

water...cold water
soda
alcoholic - tequila sunrise
orange juice

15. Finish this statement, “If I had the time I would….”?

sleep or tat... right now in my current state...sleep.

16. If you had to dye your hair another color, what would be your choice?

pink, burgundy...i don't like blond or black on me.

17. Favorite place to relax?

my childhood room. it was the best. but right now. i wish i could sit in my car more. while in the apartment...my blue chair.

18. Name all the different cities/towns you’ve lived in?

I was born in San Antonio, Lived in... Eureka, Blue Lake and Sacramento

19. Favorite sports to watch?

Gymnastics from the 90's..late 90's...or Figure Skating..

20. Would you like to be born as yourself again?

maybe... what are the conditions? do i get another mom, biological if i get pregnant is there a chance of my kids being born as they are?