crochet coaster

It's a Coaster!!

I don't often like to crochet, but for no known reason, I love this one pattern. I have made a couple dozen of these coasters. The people I have given them to may not appreciate them, but...

I told them they could also be hung on the Christmas tree - pretend they are snowflakes (Don't even START with that only six sides per snowflake. It's a homemeade ornament...)

If you want to hang them rather than use them to soak up icy condensation from your bev-of-choice, you might want to smear them with glue - good old white school glue, which is on sale right now at Kmart for 9 cents a bottle (20 cents ea at Wally World). Put some plastic wrap on the counter, wet the ornament or dilute the glue by about half water, smear glue on ornament, separate coaster from plastic, make sure glue is on the other side, blow on ornament to make sure the delicate holes aren't clogged with glue, let dry.

tiniest socks

Are these too small for Children in Common??

teeny sox

These were made from Knitpicks Parade yarn left over from fingerless mitts I made for my daughter-in-law... They are destined for an orphanage in Russia

http://www.childrenincommon.org/
http://www.knitpicks.com/yarns/itemid_5420135/yarn_display.aspx
(currently on sale)

belly laughs

For a real belly laugh, have you ever read the yarn harlot?
"meeting a million knitters all over the continent while you truck around a sock talking about knitting"... It includes pictures of women with knitting tattoos and someone whose significant other calls "dork vader" - not to mention a real photo of the cowboy bible (I don't make this stuff up.How could I?) http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2006/08/02/keepin_austin_weird.html

"BEDFORD, N.H. - Blistering heat was just what Sandi Fontaine needed to bake cookies for her co-workers — on the dash of her Toyota Rav4."

"CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Charlotte-Mecklenburg police supervisors offered prizes to officers who wrote the most traffic tickets during an eight-day period over the July Fourth holiday."

"Little Havana shopkeeper Maria Vazquez sells toilet paper imprinted with Castro's image"

"BEIJING (Reuters) - Two Chinese officials cut off power to a hotel after they were not invited to its opening party and forced managers to drink spirits before they would turn the electricity back on, a state newspaper said Friday."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060804/od_nm/china_blackmail_dc_1

Josh hauls a halibut for us
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looking down from Grande Denali Lodge, in Denali National Park
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grizzlies - mom and yearling cub in front of Denali - aka Mt McKinley
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Alaska -ten days

ten days -
catching halibut n ling cod,
photos of moose, grizzly, red foxes, caribou,
Mt McKinley in sunlight,
mountains over black sand in Seward

overpriced hotels, fine dining, fishing guides
I could tell you the cost

sharing these views with our son and daughter-in-law
priceless