Have the sheep been watching the news? Are they ashamed of how humans treat each other and have given up all hope? Did they want to see if the grass is really greener on the other side? One can only guess.
If you're an aol subscriber, you can click here to read the story about nearly 1,500 sheep jumping off a cliff.
How sad.
I've been busy. Very busy indeed! 
Next, 
The next question you have to ask is how hooked on crochet are you -- are you "so hooked" or are you "seriously hooked?"
The questions don't stop there! LOL ... Next question ... do you hold your hook like a "pencil" ... or like a "knife?" There's even a 'lil something for the 
I hope this satisfies everyone's desire to promote crochet ... and if not, I'm game for suggestions. J
If you do opt to shop ... be it at one of my shops or at someone else's ... WRITE THIS CODE DOWN: lolsav ... is good for $3 off all apparel until July 14.
No cooking for me tonight ... I've got a doily dancing over there on the couch ... just dying for a few more rounds ... pictures coming soon. :)
Well, who knew I was nobility? heh heh heh
I visited this website that has you plug in your name so it can generate your stitchers name. I typed in my first name, Crochet, ...what? Did you think my first name was Dee all this time? (LOL) ... anyway, I typed in Crochet as my first name and With Dee as my last. What popped up was "Lady Stitches All Night." How much truer of a name could that be? ((grins)) Go ahead, click onto the link and discover your stitching name. :)
For those that have been following my journal for at least a few weeks, you may remember the entry that I wrote about crochet speed. I have an update for you. I received an email from Lisa Gentry stating that she broke the Guinness Record that was held by Barbara Jean Sonntag ... Lisa crocheted 170 stitches per minute! Wow! You can read about it here, and see pictures here.
So here's how it stands, for those of you keeping records: Hey, just wondering here, how come we don't have baseball cards for crocheters? ... you know ... complete with all the crocheters' stats minus the baseball theme? I tell you what ... design one that tells about your crochet experience and I'll do the same. Then we can trade!
Lisa, Barbara, Lily -- I think that's just amazing! :)
I received an email from a reader stating that she's been a fan of my journal/blog for about 4 months and says she enjoys her visits. (I love when my readers let me know that! Thanks!!!) ... She says she is "amazed at the frequency of [my] entries but sometimes [she] can't read them as regular as [she] would like." She wishes to remain anonymous, but wanted to know if there was a way she can search my archives for older entries that she may find interesting "in relation to the type of crochet I enjoy."
Well, yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, or in this case, a website that will help us all! If you look to the "About Me" section on the top left of my journal here, you'll see that I've added something new to the bottom there: a link to the technorati website. That link will lead you to my profile I created over there which will then let you type in a keyword ... such as "coffee" ... that you want to read about on my journal. The technorati site will then search every entry I've done since January of 2004 and will "expose" each and every one related to that word. Isn't that great?!? (yikes, I have 20 entries containing the word coffee? No, wait, this one mentions the word "coffee" too, so that will make it 21!! LOL)
The bag featured here was worked with delicious wool -- yes, that's right, wool, and yes, it is summer! (See, I AM a diehard crocheter! LOL) Yesterday I finished the second bag with the Berroco Suede you see pictured. The hardest part of the project -- picking out just the right buttons for the project! I was at JoAnns yesterday with my daughter and I think we spent about an hour just looking at all the button possibilities! Don't worry, I did treat us to two new crochet booklets for all the "pain and suffering" of having to narrow down the button selection. Heh heh heh. I couldn't say no ... not at 40% off! So I picked out a book on doilies and one on crochet weaving. (I'll provide the titles if there's interest.)
For now, I need to get back to work ... and to my cup of coffee ... maybe I'll see visions of new crochet patterns in my coffee ... one can at least dream it, right? :)
Other Favorite Items Featured in my Picture:
The book is the Crochet Stitch Bible --it's oneof my favorites for using in my crochet classes. (I used it for selecting some of the stitches for my bag.)
The crochet hook is a Graydog -- they're only available on ebay. My sweet hubby got me that hook as a present a few years back ... here's a close-up of it (look to the left)
Or if you enjoy thread, and/or filet crochet better, then go here.
May your celebration be fun and safe! :)
Late Journal Addition: If you already visited my journal today, you may notice that I've added the image on the left to today's entry ... it's an picture I took this evening while watching a fireworks display with my family. We were "right there" in the "thick of things" ... it seemed like we could reach into the sky and touch the magic!! It was Fa-bu-licious!! Hmmm, I wonder if that could be considered an actual word: fabulicious... Well, it doesn't matter if it is or isn't an actual word -- we had a great time and that's what counts, right? :)
(Yes, while waiting for the fireworks show to begin, I had that crochet hook flying. I'll share a picture of that project tomorrow.)
For a little historical fun, click here.
I've been slightly derailed from having a winner selected as I've been asked to write a bio for a Freeform Exhibition Catalog. There are SO MANY ENTRIES for my free drawing that it's going to take a little bit more time than I anticipated!! (I think it's so wonderful that so many of you did; and that your stories are so heart touching!) :D
Along with the biography, they also asked for a picture. Oh, a picture? I'm kinda camera shy so that's a challenge! (I'd much rather be the one taking the pictures than the one being photographed.) So, I combed through pictures that survived my last PC crash and found one that my husband took about two years ago. My hair is about the same length now, so it's still pretty current. I'll have to think about getting a professional mug shot in the future. In the meantime, here's what I came up with: 
Regular Dee Image Coloring Book Dee Image and Cartoon Dee Image.
I took my image and meshed it with a scarf I crocheted a few months back. Then for my journal here, I turned the image into a "coloring page." It's the new image you see in the "All About Me" section. (Do you like the change?) While I'm on this subject, I've been receiving many inquiries on how I'm able to fit so much in that section (aol has a 1000 character limitation), so I thought I'd share my secret. It's mostly an image! I used Microsoft's "Paint" program: paste the images you want to appear, type your text using the font/color you want, then save the image as a "bmp" (bitmap) file. Go to key word "my ftp space" and upload the image. The next step is to tell aol in your journal where to find the image using what's known as html code. The code will look something like this:
<.img src="http://members.aol.com/youraolnamehere/images/yourimagenamehere.bmp"> See that red dot in the code? You'll need to remove it in order for it to work.
All right, that's it for today. I've got to get that biography done so I can announce our winner, right! ;)
