Baby Blanket, Play Rug or Lapghan

Newest release from Cranberry Ocean Knits:

This versatile little blanket can be used as a Baby Blanket, a Play Rug or a Lap-ghan — or adapt the pattern to make a full size afghan.

Adult Hat

Bonus: a hat pattern included sized from infant to adult!

Child's Hat

Pdf downloadable pattern available through Ravelry for $3.95USD

See the Pattern Page for full details.

I am so sorry that I missed Thanksgiving, yesterday! I  am disappointed in myself.

This is the final update about the new donut shaped pendants I am making.

I found the perfect sterling silver bails. They are minimalist and modern without any decorations or Schnickschnack (German for ‘knickknack’). They mirror the silver inclusions in color without overwhelming anything about the glass design, I think.
Yet, at the same time, they are sturdy and I don’t have to worry about not being able to use larger diameter cords or chains.

Now Christmas is coming up and I did need something for my mom. I’m not going to see her this year for the holidays as I usually do, so I needed something I could send her in the mail to Germany.
She is very religious and always wanted something with a cross but she isn’t into bright popping colors and a lot of Schnickschnack (there it is again). She has a couple of stone donuts already, so I knew she likes the shape. I tried to stay on the muted color side with the design I came up with. I’m going to send her both because I really don’t know about the colors and now I can only hope she likes them.

Like Someplace I’ve Been Before

Abstracts… the area in between familiar and unfamiliar space.  It’s that place that conjures dreams that you just can’t quite remember. Déjà vu and premonitions could happen here.  A space that is familiar enough to make you start thinking, but not so familiar as to let you off the hook. If you’re going to think here, you’re going to have to struggle through to the answers, if there are any.

Maybe that’s why so many people, myself included, find abstracts difficult. Because for me, perhaps more than any other style of art, the story in abstract art is more dreamlike and less narrative. It either grabs you out of the gate or it doesn’t. Maybe abstract art is more about the story that YOU (the viewer) bring to it.  

When I finished this one, the little artist’s voice in my head said “It’s done!” but my logical, left-brained side spoke up and said “It can’t be done! Where are the shapes? Where is the pattern? There is nothing here!”

But through this process I have learned to let the little artist’s voice be louder. And I have also discovered that for me, all my paintings start as an image, as daring colour splotches while the story and thinking come after.

Today we celebrate all the things

in our lives that we are thankful for.

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Watercolor Painting by Lorraine

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“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it

is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

-William Arthur Ward

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I wish you the joy of happiness on this day of thanks. I hope you are surrounded by loved ones both family and friends. Bring to your table the memories of those who are no longer with us so that they too will be present among us.

Paint with Me

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Beach Panorama Wallpaper Pack

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I’ve written about Zenfolio before (Zenfolio Photo Website Discount), so I won’t go into all that it offers – just my new discovery!

One of the resources they offer is the ability to easily create an “Embeddable Slideshow”. You get many options including:

• Size and aspect ratio
• Background color
• Amount of time to display each image
• Kind of transition
• Plus several more

Hi everyone,

I want everyone to know that I am not just the art guy at Thompson’s Originals but also a client. If you can’t love what you design then I just don’t see the joy in doing this sort of work.  So…yes I can be my biggest fan and therefore pardon my bias.

With that being said I recently purchased my Christmas wardrobe of T-shirts and the fine folks at Printfection got them printed and out to my door just in time for the Thanksgiving weekend.  In case anyone was wondering the quality of the t-shirt prints from Printfection, (my current choice of online printers) I decided to take a picture with my digital camera. As you can see that the shirts feature a large and bright, bold print and the colors come out flawlessly. True the colors on the darker T-shirts are not as vibrant as they are on the lighter T-shirts they still do stand out rather nicely from the darker shirt material.  (You can click on the image for a larger view.)

I invite everyone to have a further look at my Jolly-T’s Christmas store at www.thompsonstshirts.com or www.jolly-tshirts.com.

Well that’s all for now folks.  Wishing everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving.

Matt Thompson

As Thanksgiving Day approaches I reflect on what I have to be thankful for. Family always comes first in my heart, my husband Bruce, my 81 years old dad, my sisters along with their husbands & children. These are the people who have shared my life from the very beginning.

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I reflect on all the friends I have acquired through the years, some old and some new.  How fortunate I’ve been to have the most wonderful friends to share my travels through life with. The friends we make are a reflection of the friend we are to others.

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I have so much more to reflect on, good health, a comfortable lifestyle, 2 amazing homes, fresh air to breath and a sky full of bright stars above me.

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I hope you can take a moment and reflect on the beauty of your life.

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Photographed by jek in the box

but tastier!

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Material description:

It is used a lot of bright colors to set off the beautiful effect of the letter the letter pattern material. Colorful, colorful dots of various colors, as well as pink yellow and green snowflake-like patterns, coupled with the letters they need to disseminate the material elements of the radiant. Very beautiful fashion

The Colorful Coleus: A Truly Wondrous Houseplant – Associated Content – associatedcontent.com.

Jyväskylä, Finland, 21.11.2009

Most likely you’ve seen the results of someone’s bad day and can obviously tell by their SM status (in an effort to keep this PG, fill in the blanks) “I hate this  F_&*!!G S*!T. My boss is an A-S.”  While the frustrations of our day weight heavy on our minds at times and using your social media network as your online counselor is fine, keep the language PG.  Don’t think anyone is watching?  DUH, your whole network is watching and so are others NOT in your network.  It could come back to haunt you.  Case in point: Courtney Love.

Recently the bad girl herself has gotten her hand slapped by yet, another legal battle.  Love is being sued for libel by a fashion designer for allegedly slamming the designer on Twitter, learn more here.  Apparently her remarks weren’t exactly positive – ha!

Next up for no-no’s – YOUR PHOTOS.  Does anyone really need to see a photo of you in such a way that you’d be embarrassed that your grandma saw it?  While we all like to have some fun, #1 DON’T document it on film and #2 DON’T  post it to your Facebook photo album.  For the college students looking for a job one day, the 40-something mothers of kids and the rest of you wanting to keep your jobs (what is our unemployment rate these days???), I’d suggest you keep it PG.

Tisk – tisk, for this  November 20th, Worst of the Week goes to – THEM – all of the bad boys and girls w/ R-rated language and photos.

Hi everyone!

So to kind of go with yesterday’s interior design theme, I decided to show you a few pieces of furniture that could definitely spice up a boring room!

I hope you enjoyed! I actually have a project of painting a bookshelf black, light teal, and dark metallic teal. It’s unfinished, but I’ll post pictures when I’m done. Until then, I have to go start studying. I have a test in…6 hours and I haven’t started revewing yet. Wish me good luck!

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