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 blogworld vanished, I was able to do some maintenance on my website. Hidden blessings!)

So, here’s a few pics of some of the new hooks I have been playing with:

My homage to Jane Austen and cats and dogs:

and heartfelt musings about home and hearth :

and another Snowman (we’re back into another blizzard! Oh! Will winter NEVER end?)

I have more blanks started, and since winter is such a drag, I will be finding respite in the workshop.  And that means….

more crochet hooks……..

And, oh yes, we’re also working on a series of new Jane Austen inspired spool knitters, too!

Can’t get enough of Jane!

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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 interpretation was so good that I actually liked it! 

A L A S…… I thought Mansfield Park was a disaster! They totally blew it…. they made a hash of the screenplay, (Fanny didn’t get sent home?!?!?! EH?!) and missed out on great fun by down playing and minimizing Evil Auntie Norris.  And, excuse me, but Billie Piper was utterly and hopelessly miscast as Fanny.  Pituey.  I thought it stank.

A N Y H O W ! ! ! ! ! 

I am sooooooooooooooooo excited about 6 delicious weeks of Jane Austen telly that I have carved a homage to Jane Austen crochet hook! I turned it on the lathe, and am tickled pink with it.  It’s my second attempt. 

My first attempt did the exploding hook routine- kapowweeeeeeeeeeee!

but, the second one has me feeling happy.

Here she is:

Ah, Jane Austen, I’m your biggest fan…..

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