My Plants...

Thought I'd post pictures of the house plants I have here...

First off, here's my "Momma Pothos". This plant I've had for about 8 years, and it just keeps on growing...I've made lots of smaller plants from this one in the last 8 years.


Next is my crazy Umbrella Tree:


Some Cactus and Succulents, plus two African Violets on the second shelf of the stand. The small clay pot on the top shelf is actually some Basil seeds I planted - hopefully I can grow an herb this summer!


Next are come of my Snake Plants (Mother-In-Law's Tongue):


My Zee-Zee Plant:


My tallest Snake Plant (from floor to top of the tallest stem is about 4 feet):


Two more Snake Plants and a Christmas Cactus:


Brand new Jade plant from Lowe's:


Red Dracaena:


Small Dracaena I brought home from work to nurse back to health:


My Hibiscus that has never seen a day outside and still keeps flowering for me. She had a huge flower yesterday, and has a big bud today that should be open tomorrow:


Cylindrical Snake Plant:


And finally, some plants in my living room - new cacti from Lowe's, some cactus sprouts from seeds I planted, and some tomato seeds I planted to see if I could grow them!


Whew! Now it's back to crocheting.....

Variegated Granny Afghan

I made this afghan using up scraps of variegated yarn I had here. Just a basic granny square, 6 rounds of the variegated, and then a round of solid double crochet in black for the edging. I slip-stitched the squares together with black yarn, and I used edging #49, a very simple edging, from the booklet 50 Crocheted Afghan Borders by Jean Leinhauser. The afghan is 5 squares by 6 squares, so more of a lapghan, but still a nice finished size.

Final Peruvian Print Strip!

Finally! I have a strip finished in a size I like. This one is 18 stitches wide, all half-double crochet, on a J hook. It took an entire skein of Red Heart Super Saver yarn in the color Peruvian Print, and turned out 6 inches wide and 60 inches long. I'm going to edge the strips in Soft White, and I should have seven strips when I'm done, so it will make a nice-sized afghan. I'll crochet all the strips together, so there shouldn't be any sewing on this afghan.

I have to once again thank my friend Linda (aka Crocheting Fool) for the suggestion of crocheting this yarn into narrow strips. I really like this much better and I'm glad I decided to do a narrower strip.

Another Attempt with Peruvian Print yarn...

I took the advice of my friend Linda (aka Crocheting Fool), and used the Red Heart Super Saver color in Peruvian Print, crocheting it into a strip. I like this so much better than my other pattern attempts with this yarn. Thanks, Linda! I really do think this color is probably for knitters rather than crocheters, but I do like how this is turning out. I'm going to edge strips with white, and make them into a lapghan or afghan, depending upon how much yarn I have here. The strip is crocheted with a J hook in half-double crochet on 25 stitches...

Fleece Blanket

Here's a fleece blanket that I put an edging on. I crocheted two blankets together, then just three rounds of a shell edging. Crocheting two blankets together makes them very nice and warm.

Christmas gift...

I got to work yesterday and found that one of my co-workers had left me this gift. It's so cute, and I love snowmen too!





The day before, another co-worker left me a beautiful fruit basket. It was filled with oranges, apples, pears, a tangerine, a kiwi, and grapes. The fruit is so good, so I have to find out where he got that from! It was so nice of both of them to leave these gifts for me. Two of us got "thank you's" from them for all our help this year, and it is really nice to be remembered for that.

While I was taking the pics of my gift, I decided to take a picture of what I see outside my living room - it's snowing here, with up to 7 inches predicted by tomorrow with lots of blowing and drifting and below zero wind chills. Welcome to winter in Wisconsin!

Weather PIxie

I have that little picture to the right of my posts that is a Weather Pixie. If you click on the picture, it will take you to the site to get one of your own. It shows the current weather here were I live, and yes, it is cold here now! Had nearly a foot of snow yesterday...too much for one storm!