scarf

I just learned how to crochet. A few years ago I learned how to knit, but for some reason I could never get my head and my hands to be able to be successful. Crocheting is a different story.  

rain on the cloths line.

After the rain there are always so many simple beautiful things.  Wouldn't you agree.

compare

Sometimes it's fun to see what comes out in an image when you take the color away. 

Thank you youtube for teaching me to crochet.

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uncle charlie

Uncle Charlie came to visit... in his little red car. 

easy as pie.

I love making pie, particularly the crust. (I know, it's weird)

So my mom and I combined make amazing pies! Mom makes the inside and I make amazing flakey crusts.

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Cookie cutters are one of the best ways to decorate a pie. I particularly love using stars!

and don't forget the cheese with your pie. YUM!

to see the world through your eyes

Sometimes it I think it would be very interesting to see the world through someone else's eyes. How do they see things? What do they see? Are they interested in the same things that I am? 

Always makes me wonder.

apples

There are so many types of apples, I feel like I can't keep up with it all. Red ones, and green ones, yellowish ones and any combination of all of the above. All I know is it's a sure sign of fall when apples are everywhere!

happy birthday

I can't believe that Tibby is 1 years old today! Crazy! 

It seems like just yesterday she came home and was a little white puff ball. Now look at her. 

deep dish cookie pie

 I found this great recipe and I just had to try it out! (and trust me, you should too!)

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The recipe was originally found on the Blue-Eyed Bakers blog. It's well worth checking out their blog for other great recipes!

simple

Sometimes complexity is just too much, but a little punch of color is always nice. 

what was green is turning brown.

It's sad to say, but I fear that the Summer is over. The garden is winding down. What was green and liefy are now turning brown. Tomatoes are growing that will never turn red. There are flowers that will never become what they should be.  But the colors and light are beautiful. The angle is lowering and casting beautiful shadows. 

In some ways I wish summer would never end. The warm nights, the constant desire for adventure. The colors and textures. But everything must come to an end. And as the nights cool down and what was green turns brown Summer too will come to a close .

But for now I will enjoy the last warm days.

daisy

It seems impossible how much daisy has grown. She's so cute! 

Who couldn't love a face like that. 

cookie cutter

In a culture, society, and with men who tell women they are only beautiful if they have long hair it sometime takes a little longer for the women who short hair works better for them to come to terms with it. (and yes, a man, or maybe boy would be a better description,  has actually told me that I would be less attractive to him if I cut my hair)

Trust me I was a die hard long hair girl for years. With long blonde curls going to my elbows. The only problem was it was always up, braided back or in a pony tail. Kind of a waste of long hair. With short hair I can embrace it's true beauty. And what guys tend to forget is that a women is so much more beautiful if they can embrace their own beauty rather then fitting into a mans' cookie cutter of beauty.
Every women is different. We all have different hair, different eyes, the shape of our head is not the same. Some are tall and some are not so tall. Some women where lots of make up, so much your not even sure if there is a face under there. Others where no make up at all. The list of differences goes on and on. Our interests, desires, hopes, dreams. None of us is a cookie cutter. But why do guys insist on attempting to squeeze and squish us into a form and shape that we can't fill.
Probably, TV has a lot to do with it. We these women with their weaves and their fake lips and perfect barbie starved bodies.
Sorry, I guess that's my little rant against guys with cookie cutter ideas of beauty. And we all know that it's not just guys who have this cookie cutter beauty in their mind. Women really can be just as bad, but it is hard when the ideas of beauty don't get to come from inside of you, that it has to come from every outside point of view imaginable. It's exhausting sometimes.

I guess the best way to end this rant is with a quote. It's a quote that comforts me when I am frustrated with the imperfections inside of me.

"I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics.
Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young.
They're still princesses. All of us. Didn't your father ever tell you that? Didn't he? "

Sara Crewe, A Little Princess (1995)

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will there ever be a winner?

I found this interesting article tonight.

Facebook vs Google+

For me, Facebook is for "everyone I've ever meet". Since college, for some of us, Facebook has been where we build our contacts. It's where we create events to get together.  It's where we say happy birthday to that girl we meet once at some event and then forgot about. It's where we stalk our ex's and maybe even start a new romance with another person that we thought was cute and added as a friend.
Google+ is for people who I actually want to hear what they have to say, at least for the most part. For the people in my life who I genuinely want to hear what they have to say. To see where their lives are going and how it is right now. I love the control it gives you. That you can so easly not show those people that you only know a little bit about the boy that just broke your heart, but share with the world the picture you just took of your puppy.
I think I disagree with the idea that people only have space for one social network in their life, but maybe i'm the anomaly. After all I'm involved in 4 blogs (in one respect or another) Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and who knows what else.
In a way I don't think that Google+ was really meant to "replace" Facebook right off the bat. Just as Google Buzz wasn't meant to replace Twitter, at least not in my eyes. I think that Google is trying to make following people and their social networks easier. It is to enhance your experience, not replace. You can connect your blog, tweets, what you read, what you care about, etc, to a single place.  Google reader makes it easy to share the cool things you find on the blogs you follow, one thing that Facebook doesn't even come close to having. Google is a one stop shop. It makes it so much easier when you can go to one place and catch up on "everything" that person is involved in when it comes to the Internet. Not to mention chat and check your e-mail!
But then that is how I see it.
And I'm obviously no expert.
I think the real problem is that Google allows many options and ways to connect so many different networks, yet doesn't really "show" or encourage it to be used that way. Not to mention that Google+ is trying to attract a select crowd, the die hard google users, the people who are involved with lots of social media and those who want to keep up with other people who are the same. Where facebook lets them all in.
In a way I think that the "one stop shop" is ahead of it's time. I know that Facebook has that option as well, but with less control of who you share with (or at least more hoops to jump through to control anything).
The lack of adds is extremely refreshing as well, and if Google+ can keep ads out of it's design, in the long run, Facebook might just go down.
But again. What do I know.

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I pray for love...

It's strange the things that make you think about time, and how it goes by.
It has been 10 years since 2 planes hit 2 towers.
In 10 years so much has changed, not only in my own life, but the country has gone through some massive changes. There has been in war, we've lost loved ones, we've lived, we've learned, we've loved.

There is no one who could have predicted all that has happened. And if they did who would have believed it. No, the cars don't fly. We don't read each others minds (thank goodness). There is no time travel yet, backward or forward. In many respects the world hasn't changed. People still fall in love. We don't always treat each other with the most respect. Money is always an issue. And life is never fair.
But life goes on.
As it should.
In 10 years I hope that the country is in a better place. I'm hoping that in the next 10 years my life is in a different place.
I hope there will be peace. In every respect. In the country, in my life, in everything. There should be adventure around every corner. And I am hoping that I don't have fear to keep me from it as it comes. And love. I pray for love.

For now I will breath.
And I hope everyone else will as well.
A deep breath will do us all well.

haircut. finally.

Yesterday, I finally got my hair cut. It's so exciting. One thing that always makes me laugh about my hair is the way it reacts to being cut. At first it springs up like crazy! Gotta love that natural curl.

One of the most ironic things about my hair is that my biggest fears was always chopping it off. Then I took the risk and I'll never go back.

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