Nancymccarroll

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• Last Week of June Review

  

  Sweeping off the patio has always been a full time summertime obsession. I feel like the old man in the cartoon from years past who in the fall tracked down... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• New Zealand and Australia Pictures Beta Testing on Photosnack

  

  Because I did not make a movie or slideshow from a Scrabble trip to New Zealand and Australia back in 2009, I decided to do so by trying out Photosnack to... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• A Fox and a Birthday and a Sun

  

  The husband received a game camera from Julie and Jack, one of those motion sensitive and infrared cameras that take pictures at intervals after being... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• Blog Sharing

  

  Reading others' blogs is usually not only a fun way to keep up with virtual friends, but also a source of inspiration and a way to introduce new ideas into... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• Gardening in June

  

  High country gardening techniques say...to prolong the blooming period of columbine you need to interrupt this seed producing process by removing the faded... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• Trout

  

  Fish! We caught fish! The husband and I each caught our trout limit this morning in a bit over an hour in a lake twenty minutes from our house. We kept the... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• Done and Done

  

  Finally. Finished the Shetland Lace Shawl #2 in record time to participate in Fiber Arts Friday blog-along.Pictures are not great, but the shawl itself is... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• Waiting

  

  After six weeks of waiting, I called Knit Picks today to check on a back order of Swish yarn this morning. Their back order was due on May 15, but I had not... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• More Flowers on Fencing

  

  Now we have both the east and the west back yard fences painted with flowers, just in case the seedlings do not prove viable and flowers won't grow according... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• Four & Twenty Blackbirds

  

  ... baked in a pieSo goes the nursery rhyme. Political satire? Recruitment song for pirating? Or just a nursery rhyme? Any way you look at it, we all know the... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• Concentration

  

  , or absenting myself from felicity (in Jean's words) while I start another round and adding an additional center panel to the Vogue lace shawl. That is what... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• Flowers on Fence

  

  Looking through Pinterest and images on Wooden Fence Decorating provided imaginative mental fodder for painting flowers on our wooden fence. It is rough cedar... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• A Spring Post

  

  Noticing that time between posts is beginning to stretch out, I decided it was time to catch up with spring happenings here at the Urban Renewal Place, also... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• Knotty Little Problem

  

  Not really a problem so much as a frustration. The arm stripes on the Delancey Cardigan do not match with one another. Likely the reason is that I was distracte... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• Show Off Your Marigolds

  

  Happy, insect repellent, glorious marigolds !A native of Mexico, marigolds have been grown in gardens throughout the world for hundreds of years. Today, they ar... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• A Pause in Lent: Mercy

  

  Excerpted from A Cry for Mercy:O Lord, this holy season of Lent is passing quickly. I entered into it with fear, but also with great expectations. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• Mary Janes for Baby, Shortbread

  

  Knitting:Annie at Knitsofacto, knitter extraordinaire, published a complimentary pattern for baby Mary Jane booties found here (not for sale). They were so... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• Candied Violets and KnitWits

  

  There are lots of ways to make sugar coated violets. Since my two violets are blooming profusely, it was time to make a few to top a basic buttermilk cake from... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• Acrylic Impasto Technique

  

  For the church sanctuary display beginning on Easter Sunday and continuing through the summer in Ordinary Times of the liturgical season, I decided to try the... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS

• Cheerful Acceptance of Penances (?)

  

  Again this Lenten season, Floss is hosting a weekly link-up on Sundays and Mondays in which people reflect on thoughts, ideas, books, sermons, people, poems, ar... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2014 ARTS & CRAFTS