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I went to another virtual crop last weekend and all the challenges are due Nov. 30. So here I am making Christmas layuot kits and two December Daily kits (to be given as gifts).

 

I have also been chugging away at my MKAL although I know how it looks finished now even though I am not done, but I did get a few surprise sections so I am happy about that. The rows are now over 900 stitches long, and it is a good day when I get more than one done. Really it's a good day when I get 1 done : D. I am on row 3 of 24 in this last section and then there is the bindoff. So I might have this done in a little less than a month (fingers crossed). 

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WOYWW 597

 

There is a lot going on here, which is typical. some things from the crop last month yet to be put away, embellishments to be made. The booties to be finished are just out of view.

And proof of a scrapbooking miracle : D. The Gary Larson cartoon was the basis of my daughter's first Halloween costume. She was the miracle and I was the butterfly from the wrong side of the meadow. Sadly I did not get a picture of my wings. But the picture and the cartoon have been toted around for about 25 years, but like Superman and Clark Kent, never together. I finally got them both together so there will be a page : D.

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WOYWW 596

I have been making layouts!!!! It's been 2 years and some months since my last one was completed. I went a virtual crop in the beginning of the month at Victoria Marie Designs Mighty Network (free to join and 8 dollar for the crop).

I have also been knitting alot as October is Mystery Knitalong Season (you get clues every week and knit them up not knowing what the shawl will look like. This is the back of it as I don't want to accidentally give away spoilers : o.

So one of my pages is about the MKAL, and how I bought a kit for the first time : D. I used the yarn bands (labels) and the yarn used to tie the skeins for embellishments. I also used some of my Crackling Campfire Distress Glaze to color a little piece of wood (in the right corner), and Crackling Campfire to change the color of the letters to orange. Also if you knit, LolaBean Yarn is amazing! I can't afford to buy it regularly, but totally a wonderful splurge now and then. It sells out very quickly. I had to buy mine from Amsterdam : D.

Also a new stamp set : |, because 2020.

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WOYWW 594

 

The blue bits are the baby booties, now in the beading stage. My fancy water can (coated Cherry Pie Filling) My mint green mouse on the left side of the computer which is hidden from view by the Care-a-van die set to co-ordinate with the stamp set I bought last year (from The Greetery). It's a very very dangerous website. Also on the left is a bottle of Tim Holtz Embossing Dabber. I saw it recently ans my mind was blown. I'm still working on some layouts from the virtual crop I went to earlier in the month. The one I am looking to get back to is in a secure Stickles Drying location so I don't keep touching it to see if it is dry yet : D.

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WOYWW 593

 The desk was cleared and then messed up again : D. I am working on some wayyyyy over due baby booties for a kid who is now running lol. I figure the mother will either use them for decoration, save them for another child or give them away. When I unearthed my desk I found all the pieces, so I figured I might as well finish them. I finally got a Heidi Swapp Memorydex punch (huzzah) so much easier than the notch die I bought, though it was only $2 and the punch was a bit more. Just out of view is my computer. I went to a virtual crop over the weekend and did my first zooms lol. Another square check off on my 2020 Bingo card : D. Since I only have an OTT lite in a dark room I looked a bit like a luminescent ghost.

 

I even made Banana bread between Zooms lol. I feel very accomplishted :D

I also started the new WestKnits Mystery Shawl Knitalong. My notes thus far : D.

My colors for this section. #NeonsAreANeutral : D.

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WOYWW 592

 

Doing a little organization and uncovered a few things that need to be finished (baby booties, star box and, a fighting anxiety reminder notebook) and a couple of finished things that need a place to be.

The Dionysus filet crochet is finally finished! (I finished the crochet part in 1979, and it took me until this year to get the ends woven in and blocked).

Someone was asking about my Grumpy notebook, just has pictures of Grumpy in it : D. But Grumpy makes me very very happy : D.

 

 I covered some banker's boxes to hold music. The individual boxes are really prone to falling over. They are really difficult to cover though. So I put adhesive paper on the boxes so everything could stick to that. Also I put a band of painters tape around the lower part to keep both boxes tied together while I added everything else and just covered it up.

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 The state of my desk this morning. A Grumpy Journal in the foreground, and proof that I succombed once again to the siren song of a new Tim Holtz color. This time it's Crackling Campfire (swoon emoji). 

The big news is that I finally finished this filet crochet of Dionysus with all the ends woven in and blocked. I finished the crochet part in 1979, and learned how to do it from a book (Reader's Digest Guide to Needlework long before the internet was a household thing), but didn't really get the whole end weaving and blocking thing. I managed not to lose it through 12 or so moves. It was crocheted out of actual thread because I had real vision back then. So the finished piece is new and vintage at the same time lol.

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