The other two clocks 

Back of clock 

Front of clock 

3 Old Clock Bodies. 

Blog Spam

I don't know how to prevent people from spamming my blog, or just leaving plain outright weird garbage behind. So I'm changing the comments format, you'll have to be a registered user to leave a comment from now on! I hope this helps.

For my Sky groupies. I took this about a year ago, I think. It was probably August, late summer. I love big fluffy clouds. 

Wooden Cigar Boxes. I managed to find two small, very small actually, wooden cigar boxes for a swap I've decided to join. Ok I have a lot to learn about swaps, like what they entail, are we swapping finished products or what??? 

A Green Cigar Box, now that was a find. 

Everythings Green 

More Green 

Skeleton Keys, these will be loads of fun! 

Today's Finds

And the winners are: Old tobacco tins, Prince Albert and Velvet to be exact. And they look very well worn and used. Old clothes pins, skeleton keys, cigar boxes, postcards, thread spools and license plates. I found much much more. I'm planning on having tons of fun with this stuff.

Quotes

Couple of quotes I found along the way, that I had to share.


Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
Its good to be a nut.

Be patient, even an egg will walk in time.

Part of my Fairy Ring, it's seen better days. They are browning quite quickly and are becoming wrinkled, rather cool looking actually. I'm sure all of the spores have been dropped and I hope to have an even bigger fairy ring next year. The undersides of these shrooms was pinkish, I'll have to look the latin name up. 

This Mornings Sunrise 

This mornings sunrise, a rather misty one at that. Should have been outside earlier when the mist was heavier. 

The Usual

Have you ever had one of those days, one of those days when you wish you had never gotten out of bed? Today was one of those days for me.

I replaced the ink cartriges in my Epson C84 this morning, and it apparently chose that exact moment to die. After spending several hours fiddling with it, to make sure it was actually dead, I finally succomed to the inevivatble and went and bought a new printer, an Epson C86. I admit I had the other printer almost three years, but why it couldn't give me seven more is beyond me!

I do have several other printers in the house, a laser printer that prints only B&W and an HP, whose ink is not waterproof - read smudge proof. On a good note the ink cartriges from the old printer are usable in the new printer. Oh and I get a rebate on top of it all, which does make me very happy.

I'm off an making postcards again, I decided I needed to sit and stitch tonight, lest I lose what's left of my sanity. I've decided that the piece I made tonight needs some hand stitching to further accenutate the surface of the piece. Another words I think it's boring and flat.

If I had been outside about 20 minutes earlier this morning I would have been able to get a stunning photo of the mist that was hanging in the air. As it is I woke up late, at 6:30 instead of ten to six, and took the picture rather late.

Field of Posies - in progress. It needs great big French Knots and large Stem Stitches to finish it out. I'm enjoying this series. 

New Novelty Yarn List

There's a new yahoo novelty yarn list, I found out about it today. In order to become a member you have to post a pic of your novelty yarn. I'll have to go dig mine out and take it's picture so I can post it's pic!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Spinning_on_the_Edge/

Sunrises

For some reason my digital camera likes to compensate for what it believes to be bad light. It's a cheapy digital camera, one that is pushing me to wanting to purchase a better digital and soon. And I'm thinking that the Nikon F100 needs to go into the shop for a little repair, so no time like the present to look for a D100 body to go with my lenses.

My shutter won't open and close on the F100, I'm not sure why. I'm the last person you would ever want to ask about the intracies of a camera, or a computer for that matter. Speaking of which I need to get the new computer out of the box and up and running today.

But take my word for it, the way the clouds were backlit was spectacular! Why the camera decided to even out the light is beyond me, it ruined the images of the clouds, in my opinion. With that said if the Nikon had been working I would have put it on fully manuel and taken the clouds pics. I would have had to have the film developed, but the pics would have been fully reperesentational of what I was seeing - not washout.