Gotta Love This Pretty Necklace!

I love working with good high quality fibers when I'm crocheting!  And some of the yarns are sooo pretty!  Like this:  

The picture does not really do this necklace justice.  It is just gorgeous in real life!  This is hand crocheted using the Solomon's Knot stitch and is approximately 10 yards long and done in one long piece.  The options for looping this around the neck are varied and endless.   The button tab on it can be  removed or embellished with a broach or flower.

I love this necklace!  I can't wait to try more colors with this pattern.

Thanks to Carolyn at Living Skies Crochet  for this lovely pattern. 

Lovable Little Critter!

After 3 1/2 years, I'm back.  Life gets busy sometimes and people get sidetracked.  Well, I get sidetracked for sure.  But things are good and now as a retiree I have more time to do all the things I love!

Lately that thing is crocheting, and here is one of my latest critters.  I say 'critter' because he is totally a one of a kind creation.  His name is Frankie and he was crafted randomly and without a pattern.  There will never be another just like him.  Part bear, part fox, part cat?  Use your imagination!

Leave a comment and tell me if you think he is as cute as I do!

Blessings!

A Tribute To My Mom....

"You were the very best mom!', I whisphered.
"I needed to hear that," she replied in her soft German accent.

It was the middle of the night and I was sitting on the side of her bed.  At the time I probably didn't realize just how much Mom needed to hear those words. The next day she left us for Eternity.

I makes me angy now to think of how the devil torments our thoughts with feelings of doubt and worthlessness, even in our darkest and weakest moments.  Or perhaps especially in our darkest and weakest moments.  That's just how hateful Satan is.  But Gods love overcame the hate that night.  Just me, Mom and Jesus in the dark night, praying, smiling, embracing and encouraging.  Led by the Holy Spirit into a sweetness not of this world.  Only God can take the fleeting hours before impending death and make them a treasured memory.  And only God gives us the promise of an estatic reunion one day.

I love you you, Mom, and I miss you still.  But it's never been 'Goodbye,' but rather, 'See you later!'