KnitterGirl39’s Blog

Posted By KnitterGirl39 on January 27, 2010

I am now selling items on my Etsy Shop.   Stop in and take a look.   Let me know what you think.

I currently only have stitch markers but will add more items soon.

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Posted By KnitterGirl39 on December 27, 2009

He purchased this wonderful parrot yesterday:

Still don’t have a name for her yet She is a Blue Faced/Front Amazon parrot. Being an Amazon I’m trying to think of an exotic name but all that comes up is Xena (the Amazon Princess). But Gabby was an Amazon Princess in the Xena tv show. hmmm She (the parrot) already can say Hello (at only 4 months old) so maybe she might be Gabby? lol Don’t know yet…

Any ideas?

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Posted By KnitterGirl39 on November 24, 2009

I was “doodle knitting” a while back and made these fingerless mits. I liked how they turned out so I wrote up a pattern for it. Would anyone be interested in “testing” out my pattern? Also, I used Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick yarn, could someone suggest a KP yarn to substitute for it?

I have the pattern here: Shozbot Patterns

If you have Ravelry, I have uploaded on there too: KnitterGirl39’s Ravelry

Let me know what you think, if I need to make corrections, etc.

Thanks for your time

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Posted By KnitterGirl39 on July 9, 2009

One of my many hobbies is Scrapbooking.  It goes along with my photography hobby well.  A few years ago I came across Digital Scrapbooking and fell in love with it.  It pulls together another of my hobbies of working with graphics and such.

Some of the benefits of Digital Scrapbooking are:
-    Reuse, reuse, reuse.  With digital you can reuse all your ‘papers, elements, photographs, etc’ over and over again
-    Cheaper – even with purchasing of the digital kits it is usually cheaper than a kit at the store that you can only use one time
-    You can save your layouts on a cd to view at anytime.
-    You can take your finished layouts to Kinkos and print it to put it into your albums
-    You can add extra embellishments after it is printed for a more ‘textured’ effect
-    You can print multiple copies or a whole book at Shutterfly.com and give it as a gift  (I printed one of my layouts, framed it, and gave it to my parents for their anniversary – you can see it here:  http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=84309&ppuser=44895 )

If anyone is at all interested in Scrapbooking and wants to try out Digital Scrapbooking check out these sites:

http://www.digiscrap101.com -  good lessons
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com -  great site with challenges and a place (gallery) for you to post your layouts and get advice or comments on.  They also have lessons here too and purchasable and free layout/kits.
http://www.rakscraps.com/forums/index.php -  another great site for digital scrapbooking with purchasable and free layouts and tutorials.

I use PaintShop Pro (PSP) to work with my scrapbooking.  It is a great software, easy to learn and doesn’t cost nearly as much as Photoshop (full version).  Photoshop Elements works well too.  There are tutorials all over the internet for PSP and Photoshop.  Some of my favorites are:

http://www.pspug.org/tut/beginclass.shtml
http://www.psptutorials.org
http://scrap-stuff-with-psp-tutorials.blogspot.com

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Posted By KnitterGirl39 on May 31, 2009

Mike and I have been extremely busy these past couple weekends working on the cabin.  Here are the pix showing how the cabin looked when his brother and him bought it through to what it looks like so far…

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Posted By KnitterGirl39 on May 31, 2009

I know I haven’t ‘blogged’ in a while but I have been very busy lately. Here are my latest pix of my WIPs:

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Posted By KnitterGirl39 on April 23, 2009

We finally have a chance to go up to the cabin and work on the flooring. Hopefully we can get the water heater closet tiled and install the water heater. Then if time we can do the wood flooring in the other rooms, or at least partially.

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Posted By KnitterGirl39 on March 26, 2009

When I got close to finishing up my Masters, it was stated that now I can get more pay at work or get a position in Management.

That is not what I did it for.  I went for my masters as a personal goal.  Also, I love to learn new things (just don’t like the pressure of grades  lol  ). 

As Zig Ziglar states:  “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

In my opinion, this is very good advise.  Money is important, unfortunately, but that shouldn’t be why someone goes to school.  They should go to enjoy the process and learn in a field they have a strong interest in, not just gives the most pay.  After all, if you are in a job just for the pay and don’t enjoy it, you will have a miserable life.

Another saying we all hear is that “Money can’t buy happiness”.  There are a lot of people who believe it can, but it really can’t.  How can one be truly happy in a job they hate just because of the pay?  Only one’s outlook on life and doing what they enjoy can truly bring happiness.  Money can help, but isn’t the answer.

You have to accept who you are and what makes you happy and go with it.  Strive to make yourself better to achieve your goals.  It is the process of life that we go through that makes us who we are and we are the only ones/things that can make us truly happy.  Sometimes we don’t always know that when bad things happen to us.  We question “Why Me?” and don’t understand.  Later on, as time goes by, we tend to realize that if it wasn’t for that bad thing(s) happening, we wouldn’t be where we are today, or more importantly who we are.

Just remember, it is the process of life that we make for ourselves that is important and that only you can bring yourself happiness…

~Becky

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Posted By KnitterGirl39 on March 25, 2009

Here are pix of my current Works In Process…

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Posted By KnitterGirl39 on March 24, 2009

I just got a call from the lady in the cafeteria here at work – she got me a copy of the recipe for their Stone Soup – a really thick creamy chicken with dumplins.

I’m sooo happy!

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