Am I a Hoarder?

I went grocery shopping this morning, and along with the food, I bought the silliest things...

Do I need them? No. Do I love them? Youbetcha! The storage bags are already full of fun, 

and using them cleans up the toy bin at Gramma's house a bit, too!

Then I got to thinking about how many little things I've acquired in my 58 years of "collecting." While I don't think my habit has reached the "televised-hoarding" level (yet), I sure don't want it to get out of hand! I'd better start using or giving away some things! Let's start with these 10, paper egg cartons...

Hey, local chicken friends, gardening friends, crafting friends...any immediate needs in your world? I'm happy to bring them to you for the price of some friendly conversation!

I am not, however, ready to give the yarn away, so I'd better start using it! What should I start (or finish or photograph)? Here's one I finally took modeled photos for, though I finished the knitting 2 or 3 weeks ago...

...and here's a pair of fingerless gloves using leftover yarn from two projects! 

I still had a bunch of the dark pink, silk blend left, and this light speckle, so now I have half of a second pair! 

I have lots of other ideas for the yarn stash, but another opportunity sounded like fun this weekend. It started with a box of melted gummy candy, left too long in the trunk on a hot day, looking like this: 

I took a shot at re-melting and molding the candy with the small, silicone molds I keep in my kitchen. 

I really thought it was going to work, and the resulting gummy cars looked good at first, 

but they were wayyy too sticky! After coming to room temp, they juste became sticky, green, sour apple blobs with cornstarch all over then. 

Oh, well. You win some, you lose some, and i can always go back to the knitting! 

Before I go, seriously, Amy takes on those egg cartons? I hate to throw them away, but I'd hate being a hoarder more! Drop a comment here or on FB if you'd like any or all of them! 

Thanks for stopping by, and Knit in Good Health! 

A Hand-y Post

As I was looking down at my knitting this morning, I noticed my hands. 

Oh, they're nothing special...no fancy manicure, and I'm a chronic nail-biter, so I'm easily embarrassed by my hands. So, when asked to take photos of a project I'm test knitting "on actual hands," I felt personally challenged. I started with this: 

These are, of course, not "actual" hands,  but Flat-Stanley-style hands I keep so my actual hands don't show up in photos. But then I got to thinking 🤔,  "Hey! I have friends with hands!"

And so I do! Though my friends were slightly dismayed when I asked them to don the mitts and display a silly mug, they did eventually agree...so yay! 

As I looked over the resulting photos from the 2023 hand sessions, I couldn't help but notice how beautiful these hands are. 

Their beauty is not the result of fancy polish or finger exercises...it comes from living and loving and learning, and their beauty grows as they keep going. 

Thank you, ladies, for letting me get silly and take pictures of you and your hands. And thanks for all the ways your hands have helped me through the years. 

Thanks also to Shana, who has helped me to see the beauty in my own hands. Maybe I won't balk so much next time! (By the way, if you like these gloves, Shana has a pattern coming out soon...seems like she always has another great pattern coming out! Check out Shanalines Designs to see all her designs and patterns!)

Thanks for stopping by, and Knit in Good Health!