At the beginning of April, I invited people to create a face of joy, using yarn in some way.
Well, you are still invited to continue doing that, and linking your pics so we can see them.
I said that I would be giving away a one of  a kind handmade crochet hook that is an homage to Jane Austen.
And I think that it is so appropriate that Jane Austen is going to be heading to England for her new home.
Caroline shared 2 of her Faces of Joy, and so she is now the companion to my Jane Austen crochet hook.  It …read more

Yesterday, I began the ‘Face of Joy Challenge’. So, that has me thinking about how to show the Face of Joy in as many ways as possible.
It’s a F A C E of Joy challenge, right?
Soooooooooooo…..
that means that the face doesn’t have to belong to human being.
AND……
I did say that for this challenge,
WIRE counts as yarn, right?
So……..
my entry for ‘The Face of Joy’ challenge for today
is
A teddy bear that I crocheted from 28 gauge coppper wire.
He has a big heart and a happy disposition.
He’s got wooden beads inside his head and his tummy to keep him
from squishing flat when he’s …read more

Any month that starts with with a day of foolishness deserves to have a celebration of playfulness, doesn’t it?
I’ve been reading up on ‘play’ (click the link to read what wikipedia has to say about play)
and playfulness.
Expert after expert has talked about the importance of being playful
for our entire lives.
There was a wonderful conference about Serious Play last year.
All the experts agree:
Play is essential to our well being, in body, mind and spirit – as individuals and as communities.
Being playful can alleviate all kinds of stress.
Playfulness increases resiliency and flexibility….and, whew… do we ever need to be flexible these days!
Because …read more

When I was a kid, and someone would skip classes, they were said to be ‘playing hookie’. Do they still say that?
Anyhow, while the servers were down, and I couldn’t work on my blog, I finally got to work and pulled together all the pics of the new crochet hooks  that I have been carving.
I had kind of lost track of them! LOL!
I had to rummage around the studio to find them and get them organized and measured and photographed and photoshopped and finally up on my website.
(I have been neglecting my website because of focusing on blogworld, so when …read more

I am a total Jane Austen freak.  I got addicted to Jane Austen when I was 11 years old, and I have re-read her novels hundreds of times.   I still have my first copy of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ that I bought from the book club at school.
I have designed all kinds of dolls in homage to Jane Austen, including a :knitted Jane Austen doll:

Sooooooooooooo………
I am utterly ecstatic that PBS is running a series on Masterpiece theatre, showcasing all her novels.
Persuasion  was brilliant. Perfecto!  
Ditto for Northanger Abbey. In fact, it’s my least favorite of all her novels…. BUT, this …read more