newbie to blogging

I thought I would share this with you all, My youngest daughter has decided to start her own blog, and is looking for other bloggers to follow and followers ect, so I will post her blog address for you all please  drop by and have a look and leave a comment to say hello...

http://sammiscraicandchatter.blogspot.com/

Oh and thanks for looking

Oriental Fans

I love anything oriental, hence the reason I love to cross-stitch oriental themes, here is what I am working on at the moment and its called Fans of the Far East....

There will be three Fans when finished and they will have three differant flowers, the Siberian iris is the flower of faith and hope, The exquisite Japanese poney brings to mind opulence and luxury and the creamy -yellow Magnolia represents tenderness and love of nature and there will also be a boarder so this is a big project and here is a pic of what it will look like when finished.

Oh nearly forgot here is finished laptop bag, I crochet this with 2 strands of wool together a pink and cream just left over wool .

Finished bag.

Not been Idle been busy

Well I'm back at last, my computer broke and it would have cost too much to repair so I had to save up for a laptop, so I went shopping for one 3 weeks ago,I was  delighted that I got one and then discovered while I was not on a computer someone decided to play games with my passwords on all my favorite sites, blogs,and even down to my e-mail accounts, (but luckily who ever it was could not get into pay pal account) so it took me awhile to get back my e-mails accounts and blogs etc and lots of phone calls later I'm back , Ya can't knock a good Irish woman down like me lol lol,   it was annoying but as I always say, what goes around comes around.




So now back to what I was working on some crochet and knitting and here are the pictures  of the baby cardigans,blankets, hats, and a pram-suit,
  

     

This was crochet in squares and then put together plus I lined the back of it to make it softer on babies skin, my friend was delighted with them all, and so was the expecting mother that makes me happy too...

 Iam working on a cross-stitch project at the moment of 3 oriental fans and will post pic's on the progress of the fans, also the finishing touches to my crochet lap-top cover or bag,just t sew it all together.....

 

A night at the Dogs

I have been very busy over the last few weeks doing some projects, Knitting,crocheting,cross stitching, and I'm still crocheting  blankets, there are for a very good friend of mine she is expecting 2 more granchildren, in april/june so far I know one baby expected is a boy , won't know till after the 23rd of this month what sex other baby is.

The cross stitching was for my friends 50th birthday,

sorry the pic is terrible and to the trained eye, I only seen it when I was uploading pic, that the box on the right hand side is wrong, need to get it back and fix it, huh

this is the before pic and the other is after I framed it and added a few touches to frame....                             

                                                                                                                                                                       

we also went out to the greyhound races in stainforth for her birthday, and it was a cracking night, won some money and lost some but the craic was great....

Shirley and me.

The drink was flowing too, not my way lol...

Winter Olympics

The opening ceremony of Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010 is taking place on February 12 at Vancouver BC Place Stadium, British Columbia in Canada, which has a capacity of 60000 seats. The Governor General of Canada, Michaelle Jean will open the biggest event of the year, The Theme for the games will be

"TO INSPIRE THE WORLD"  and ,for the last couple of weeks the olympics have been advertiseing it on TV with the tune of "cry me a river" sung by Michael Buble his version, love that song I even have that tune on my phone it's funny really cos when the Olympic tune came on tv I would pick up my phone, thinking it was my phone ringing lol.

 The opening ceremony was awesome

I loved the way the torch was  lite it was fantastic the way the three poles came together in the middle so the flame in centre could be lite, 

 The big point, following the solemn talk from the commissioners was k.d. lang amid an arena of candles singing the work of another Canadian laureate, Leonard Cohen with the song  know as a song from "Shrek," the lovely "Hallelujah

Found this on u tube beautiful go on have a listen....

My Favorite sporting event at the Olympics is the figure skating, but with the time differance I have some late nights, plus I can watch it in peace

My hubby has reminded me that my blog is called the sport's widow and that I seem to write about sports  on the blog, and when the olympics are on I watch sports  well I write on what I like lol

On a sad note It was terrible sad to hear the shocking news the death of 21-year-old Nodar Kumaritashvili, who crashed at speeds of more than 90mph on one of the most dangerous sections of the luge run

My prayers go out to his Family

Some Crochet I had Finished

 One of my Friend's daughter's had a baby girl her first and my heart went out to her cos her partner is in army and is serving oversea's at the moment he was able to get some leave but not much  and  he did get to see his daughter born and was able to spend a week wit mother and baby,so I crochet an outfit for baby, all in pink and white and they are so adorable,

Now my other friend her 2 son's partners are expecting babies end of March, so I'm busy knitting outfits all in blue or white because their expecting Boy's, and crocheting blankets too plus my friends 50th Birthday is on the 7th March and and she hopes to go abroad for her birthday which I cannot go due to lack of funds, I keep joking with her that she is older than me, only by 6 months though,  so I'm stitching her a suprise, so you can see I am pretty busy crafting at the moment and will be for a while yet.



CROCHET DRESS

PANTS AND BOOTIES

CROCHET BLANKET

A New Discovery (photos are yuk)

(This was drafted 3weeks ago waiting on usb cable for my camera so I could insert pic's)

If your a bit squimish DONT LOOK AT PHOTO at bottom of page lol


We as in my hubby and I made a discovery today,well I said we but I really meant me,
As you know we moved house just before Christmas still sorting it out,ie like decorating ect you know what I mean anyway there is 2 small sheds in garden that are built into house but they are full up with odd doors garden lawn-mowers motor bike parts basically full to the brim with rubbish, 
 For a couple of weeks now I have been saying that I could hear running water near the sheds but was told it was my imagination as men usual do say so I decided to get the sheds cleaned if I left it up to hubby they would still be full of rubbish anyway  I had ordered a skip to get rid of all rubbish in these sheds and it came this morning Monday and the cleaning commenced, and no we didn't look like Kim and Aggie from How clean is your house I love that programme as we were shifting the rubbish into the skip we discovered an outside toilet (a broken one at that) with a burst pipe and the water flooding everywhere, so it wasn't my imagination then, but hubby tried to fix burst pipe and it broke in half and he got soaked and I mean soaked, I nearly wet myself laughing, it was really funny, couldn't get a photo though cos he ran off inside house before I could could get camera, it was like a scene from a Carry on Movie we could call it Carry on at the Bog, hee hee


We had to get a plummer out, and he came pretty quickly, he also got soaked but he had protected clothing on, fixed it within minutes, job done, and all we had to do then was take it all out and use it as a bike shed ...

Now you got a warning look if you dare...

New House

Well we have moved house and trying to get it sorted out before christmas is a squeeze but as long as down stairs is done I won't mind,We are going to be putting up trimmings tomorrow and no problem finding all trimming's this year because of the house move,suppose that is one good reason of moving house lol,writing this on my I -touch -pod "technology is great don't you think "I haven't got my computer set up yet so will do after Christmas ,haven't done any crafting been real busy but I might do some tomorrow Sunday and try and relax and not be as manic as I'm been told this week by my OH he keep's telling me to slow down but mind ya he would live with boxes everywhere just like all men really hee hee
Going to watch the new Harry Potter movie The half blood prince have ordered it on sky will watch it after the X Factor....

Not very good at blogging lately

Haven't been very good at blogging lately, I could blame it on alot of things but what's that saying a poor workman blames it on his tools think that's it, see there I go again ramblinging again, tut tut

I do have great intentions when I log on to computer, I'm going to up-date my blog and then I start to reads other people's blogs and I seem to get lost in them, like there would be a link to a great pattern for knitting/crocheting/cross stitching and then I click and that leads to another blog so on and so on and before I know it family are home and hungry and I didn't up-date my blog!!!! and then I promice my-self that I will do it later but later on and I just get settled and couldn't be bothered (smack on the hand I need lol)

I am still cross stitching the geshia lady and finding it a bit of a problem but I will continue at it till I'm finished which I haven't that much to do now, just the edges and backstitching

Could do with a new computer as this one is so very slow has been for a while, but I will manage with it till I can afford a new one...

Another new gadget

I now have internet on my mobile phone and its great which means i can go on internet when ever, where ever i am, like having to wait to see doctor in hospital or surgery anywhere really that your left waiting for am hour or so which really drives me nuts cos did you ever notice that if you have am appointment and you arrive in plenty of time, your always left waiting for ages ,but if your late thats a differant story cos your appointment gets canceled and you have to get another one now thats very annoying, dont you agree? Well i have nearly finished my Graceful geisha cross stitch and i have started another one its Japanese fans from the works of JOAN ELLIOTT an oriental odyssey she has made some beautiful designes in this book , you can get book from RU CRAFT.CO.UK they have some lovely crafty stuff in catalogue winter 09