WIP • Klimt Inspired Fairy-tale Blanket

mm. mm. good.

all my little circles... as of right now...

such a good feeling to finally see them all laid out.


coming together for real.

I cannot wait for this to make itself comfortable on my bed with Arizona morning sun spilling in all over it!

Will keep you posted!

Pax

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Hey Hey Everybody!

I have the urge to blog! Ta-Dah!

That's right. I obviously cannot drum this up on my own, it takes extra inspiration... (or maybe just enough months of cumulative silence so i know i can't possibly go over everything that's happened and I can simply make a fresh start of it!)...

So...

here's a picture:



you couldn't have possibly thought it would be a picture of anyone or anything else did you?!

sillies.

Arizona is still beautiful. I may or may not be saying the same thing in July.

We've been on the road for the three of the past four weeks. two of which we have spent in the same hotel and room even though the weekend in between we were in another hotel a hundred miles away. weird things happen. anyhow... waaaaaay to much time in hotels and restaurants for my taste! I'm a homebody thank you very much and come about 9 tomorrow i'll be gratefully galloping in that direction! thank the Lord!!!

in other news..

crocheting has totally taken over my artistic sensibilities for the moment. will probably be moving on as soon as i finish this fun project (it's a big one at that!):



I realize you can't really tell too much from this picture, but i happen to take a lot of pictures on my phone and sometimes forget to take comparable ones on my camera... so i'll try to put one up so you can have a better idea of the project as a whole.

Looking at the above picture again and thinking about a time when I was growing up and i'd look at pictures that other people/parents would take and/or post and was always surprised by the amount of pictures that had a laundry basket somewhere in them. I never understood this... until now! They are the most wonderful invention ever!... (except that they're so dang ugly. If anybody knows of something with the miraculous toting abilities of a laundry basket that also has aesthetic appeal, let me know!!).. so yeah. I use them for just about everything. and I'm sure you'll see other specimens from my growing collection of them soon enough :-)

Feels so good to be here.. i'm in such a good mood that i'll even post another picture!



This is my favorite "accidental magic" picture from March. Taken on top of a mountain on my baby boy's first birthday (the same day the top picture was taken on aforementioned mountain). Good times.

*sigh*

I missed you, bloggy-poo-land *sickening baby voice*.

Random ramblings time:

Tucson has a Savers!

The story Michael told me of a "jumping cactus" attacking him the other day had me in stitches... (don't worry he wasn't (seriously) injured)...

Does a parentheses in a parentheses work?

I hear toenails being clipped a room away *raised eyebrows*

Baby bear loved mushrooms and krab tonight. weird.

A tish homesick for my wonderful mum and dad and the craziest, cool brothers in the world (and those are just the ones at home).. I miss my whole family. a lot. *musing on what i or Arizona could possibly offer to get them here in the next... uh... year...*

anyway... if you're reading this and if you're directly related (or even if you're not), just know what my/our door is always open. really. anytime. We love visitors!

Alright, well... enough is enough. one last picture?... i think so...



so there you have it.

Tune in next time to see more of what Arizona has to offer... and possibly my current and future crochet projects!

Peace and love!

Abi K

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Better Pictures Coming

More on Winter

Winter.

Fall is Soon Over

1-3 inches of snow in the forecast this evening.

happy winter!

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Ean

Eight months old tomorrow!! He is a blessing to my soul, every day!

Thank you, Lord!

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To Brighten Your Day

A Nicatarian* Bug

By far, the ugliest bug i have EVER seen!!

*name credit for this ugly bug goes to Jeremiah... yeah, it might also be known as a praying mantis...

Sushi Night

I LOVE making sushi rolls!... and eating them too.. i guess ^_^

The Utah Røises

Kennecott Mine

The largest open pit mine in the world...

(also where i dropped my camera in a toilet at the visitor center... fail...)

Gifts...

.. from cousin Simonne. Enough said.

My Sad "Cutecumber"

Cousins

American Fork Canyon

Curried Rice with Shrimp

My baby loves being sung to!

He brings me so much joy!

My First Layer Cake

Chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, caramel, reese's and snickers. Can you spell d-e-c-a-d-e-n-t?!

Forest World

The world is not respectable;
it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever;
but it is shot through with beauty, with love,
with glints of courage and laughter;
and in these, the spirit blooms timidly,
and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
~Unknown

not art.

but one of my first works in acrylic. thought you ought to know.

September

A Few Good Thoughts

•"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
- Helen Keller

•"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

•"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
— Mother Teresa

•"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

•"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

•"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

•"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
— Mother Teresa

•"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
— Donna Roberts

•"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

•"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen

• ‎"No legacy is so rich as honesty." -William Shakespeare

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