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so the new year is here... it's 2011!!

I hope everyone had a good time during the holidays!  with lots of love and happiness among dear ones!


New hopes, new goals, new challenges... like the 1st day at school... new notebooks clean and crisp..ready to be written... isn't wonderful??? we can write whatever we wish!  it's up to us!
What are we going to do with it? the new time that's given us to experiment with?

There is so much I would like to do, and so many plans... I can't possible do all that I would ... but maybe, just maybe...if I'm very disciplined with my time and the things I will commit myself to I just might!
2010 was a very challenging year...all that I had planned and envisioned didn't come through... but it certainly was a year when I learned a lot about life and people, how we are so very vulnerable and in truth we are not in control !

So as we embark in this new journey I wish us all to be able to live and learn the lessons we need to learn, but enjoy the journey and life as well for it is such a gift!

And since my remodeling thing is not yet done... I have been busy with crochet and knitting, trying out and practicing new stitches... and I learned about Tunisian crochet which I found to be so cool... you crochet but it looks like knitting and full and closed knit!! loved it...


and also I have been looking into granny squares doing some research on patterns and looks..
found this at this Hungarian blog Annás... I like the rounds in it!
 http://horgo-blog.blogspot.com/2010/02/viragos-hatszog-leiras.html



And here is a good tutorial for the Tunisian stitch
http://www.chezcrochet.com/page22.html
And I don't know how come this is the 1st I heard of this stitch.... I guess I didn't look hard enough before... 
this stitch is good for cuddly afghans and outwear garments...when you want to ward of the cold and wind!!
and then there is this other link
http://kimguzman.wordpress.com/tunisian-crochet/

Have fun!

 

New tidings!

A new year is always a hope of new tidings, opportunities, achievements, conquests, and of course prosperity.   It is a mark of things done, completed, a new look on new goals, a repaging on old ones, new priorities...
It is of course a chance to stop, ponder, evaluate, regroup, breath in, and plunge in head first on new endeavors!  Isn't it wonderful that we can do just that at the brink of a new year!
But, as it is always, each year will bring it's share of new challenges, obstacles to overcome, may it be in the realms of personal growth or of real and tangible things such as physical challenges of all sorts.

Be it as it may, we are certain it will bring changes!  Changes are good!  Some  don't enjoy them as much, it takes us away from our comfort zone and they can even bring certain anxiety ... we always fear what we don't know or understand...it's a human thing... our challenge?  to overcome it, embrace it, even enjoy it!  It is what this life is made of....changes!  Cycles begin, cycles end, and with that we acquire experience, hopefully some wisdom, new knowledge, and most certainly more understanding of this life and what we are about.
In my experience, now of some years lived, it brings also serenity, even in turmoil for I know that all things pass, good things  and bad things!  So I have also come to understand that we are to live and enjoy NOW, prepare the way for things to better tomorrow, but yet it is in the now that we live, our choices, our thoughts, our actions are always in the now, in the moment...whatever we choose to do now will alter the choices for tomorrow, will lead us into new tomorrows!

So I am hoping to all of you that this new year of 2011 will be a mark in every NOW that you choose to live and that the choices you make will take you into better tomorrows, full of new opportunities!
That the light of Christ may guide in the making of much good, that it may be the beam when into darkness and despair, the guiding light into the storm, and that it will a burst of sunlight in happiness and joy!  Let us all rejoice in peace and harmony, in the knowledge that all good things come from Him who watches over all of us and is there cheering us on!

A very prosperous New Year to All ... may 2011 be that year when we understand that it is better to add and make together things, that is better to have peace and harmony in the midst of war and dissention!!
That if we all do just a little share of good this world will be just a little better for all of us.

Happy 2011

new magazine!!

I love love all the possibilities I see in this magazine I linked from another blog!!


go see!!     http://issuu.com/byfryd/docs/1._by_fryd

you can see it in full image... beautiful!!! just so!

happy crochet

I have been into crochet a lot lately and even trying out some more in knitting; I love the colors of the skeins when they are together and imagining all the possibilities and how wonderful things can be created... I just love colors... and since my house has been in total chaos because the work in it... these activities feel very attractive!  So blogging round today I found this lovely blog... http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/crochet/page/6/... and she is buoyant and happy, just a lovely person...I also love the British way, lovely, gorgeous, lively and peculiar way of the English language.  The English countryside, the country villages, lovely fashion ... anywho... I just love the English way...

Her crochet is lively and the buoyant colors make it just happy!!!  I like happy!!  makes you feel skippity...skippy...

and here is a simple tutto on a small granny sqr

http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/summer-garden-granny-square.html

little girl's dress

Christmas musings!!

So here we are... another year that has gone by, Christmas festivities at our door, and celebrations usually are in order!  unless of course you still construction going on when they should have been finished a month ago!  So......that means no celebration for us as far as dinner and friends over and such!
We have much to celebrate for we are thankful for what it really means!

So all I had planned for this Christmas will be postponed for next year's season; but I have long learned to not feel upset, we propose the Lord disposes!  some things are meant to be others not!

So my reflection now is exactly that, to be able to see the difference, things we can control and things we just can't!  things we need to learn and go through, and things we are to be tried with, the purpose? to learn to overcome our selfish desires and be more giving and patient with others...just as we expect them to be with us forgiving our trespasses!
Such a hard lesson to learn at times!  but we can do it... it might take time, but we can do it!
And this has been a great year of learning and learning what forgiving really means, what love really means... we don't understand that until we are put to the test...when you have been hurt to the very core!
When the hurting comes from people you dearly love and dearly thought would not be the one to ever hurt you!  unconditional love, like the one we are now celebrating!  like the one we received from Jesus Christ who was born so that we could be saved, who paid for our shortcomings with his atoning sacrifice!

So this is much to be celebrated and thankful for!

Merry Christmas


May the gifts of heaven befall all of you as you endeavor to choose the right!

Where Women Create

This is a wealth of creative people in all categories!

If you haven't been there yet... what a source of inspiration!!
Isn't it just awesome how great the possibilities are just because we are all unique and have such great potential for doing just about anything! It is interesting to me how we all have different tastes and styles and our minds can go off on all kinds of ideas and creations, and best of all, how interesting life can be just because of this diversity!

How boring it would be if we all liked red...what would be of the blue, and the yellow, and the green?


Where Women Create

The Crafty Crow

The coolest ideas for recycling materials and working with little ones on some crafts!



The Crafty Crow

devoir de vacances - bleu hortensia

I have just find this magnific work.... mom and children working together to create such a beautiful memory!

devoir de vacances - bleu hortensia

Home ideas, decorating, interiors, design, DIY projects, recipes and galleries - Homelife

Just found this magazine!! so full of ideas!!

Home ideas, decorating, interiors, design, DIY projects, recipes and galleries - Homelife

Tis the Season to Be Jolly

A very Merry Christmas

In the Christian world, This is the Season to celebrate

the birth of Jesus Chris

t, our Savior and Redeemer!

For those of you who do not join us in this celebration for religious reasons, I would like to still invite you to be a part and  join in to share  the joy of peace and brotherhood.

Let us all just celebrate that we are born equal on this earth

to face and overcome the same challenges.

Let us be happy and share in the things we are alike and lay aside

cultural, regional, language and social differences and just be happy for being.Let us share in love and friendship!

A  very Merry Christmas to all !!! and a wonderful New Year !!

It is typical to offer le muget as a wish for du bonheur... wishes of happiness and good luck! May the blessings of heaven be upon you all ... this is my wish to all at this season !

Contemporary Design, Pictures, Remodeling, Decor and Ideas

This is a great place to visit for those who like home decor and ideas!! It's as if you bought a whole of magazines and then you clip the ones you want to save for reference ...you make your own book of ideas...and there are so many great ideas... for all tastes and shapes!!


Contemporary Design, Pictures, Remodeling, Decor and Ideas