First. Hmmmm, I don’t know what to address first… I want to respond to a few of the comments to a few of my latest posts.
Ah, let’s address the question of Wilhelmina. A few of you will remember Wilhelmina, yes? I had posted about her, oh back in February? And then zipped off to Costa Rica, got obsessed with my tan, flew to AZ, Palm Springs, involved with a wedding, and of course, my favorite time filler: blogging, and. well… Wilhelmina has ended up like this:
So, sndra of no link, I can’t show you ‘how it turned out’. I have only the heart I glued on and maybe, not sure the pencil marks will show up in the photo, but I drew on her to get an idea of how to map out my idea. I have collected a few more items that are concave and convex to attempt a ‘fit’ with her curves, and that’s about it. Guess this calls me a procrastinator. Have I ever told you about the Christmas stockings I was cross-stitching for me and Hub? I got one done a couple of years ago. The other is still only a half way stitched design and I started these is 1990. I have dresses cut with their patterns still pinned waiting for me to just sew up that were begun in 1993. Which means that the cross-stitched stuff has been stored in SEVEN houses, and the sewing project has been following through my last FOUR houses. Did you all know that I move a lot? Yep, I am living in my 7th house. in under 20 years. It was a much worse average before the last 3 houses but the 6th house was lived in only 4 months so maybe not? whatever.
My messy craft room, Wilhie up close:
I glued the ♥ a little too high…
Second, on my artichoke post, JavaQueen mentions that she saw artichokes in the store and wondered how to cook. Honestly, my first thought is RUN TO GOOGLE and look it up?! What I really did was actually open up the WordPress search and entered How to Cook Artichoke and found some good resources. Whenever anyone asks me “How Did you Know…”, I can usually always answer, “I GOOGLED IT!” Ok, somebody tell me what you call a word that has been watered down to mean the universal non-specific noun/verb and not the brand? ie, Xerox, kleenex, etc? ‘Google’ is becoming such a word, don’t ya agree? (crap, they are going to come look for me now and demand a nickel.)
and Lastly and or Thirdly, my rant about commenting in the first half of the artichoke Wednesday post, was in no way to admonish any of YOU to leave me a comment (or I won’t visit you.?! ha) That is SO not the case! I was only expressing a slight dissatisfaction with a particular activity on my other blog that is supposed to inspire community (duh, comment-leaving) where I felt I did MY duty to the others and got no love in return. It would be similar to my Photo Fridays if I always posted, commented on the other participants’ photos and NONE – ie, NO ONE, in the 6-7 weeks of ‘sharing’ – EVER came by to say hi. And I can only assume it’s due to the variety and thus ‘chore’ of commenting on so many types of blog platforms. (oh, PFers! I love our sense of community but I know it’s not always possible to visit everyone each and every week, especially when we start getting hundreds involved, right? good. AND, btw, the theme tomorrow, FRIDAY the 13th, is UNLUCKY.)
Please, comment when you want to, don’t when you don’t. Really, it’s OK. I’m a big girl and I will get over it, and move on. LOVE YA!
OH, you didn’t think I was done, did you?! I just HAVE TO SHARE THIS! I planted zucchini! Last FRIDAY! and now yesterday they are not just babies, they are toddlers!!
Yes, I know, I KNOW I planted too many. I’ll thin the grouping down to one eventually, which is sad, maybe I’ll transport some instead.
Idea Jump! 