Here's Lady High Gloss



Actually that's my name on a website and I wanted a pic of the "High Gloss" part of the name.  ha ha  Had to be from a URL, so I hope this works. 
BTW: Ladyhighgloss is also the name of a horse in The Sting.  A fave movie of mine.


Remember to vote...for ROMNEY!   ;-)

Hey all, just wanted to post this response I read on Bozell's site.  I do believe it's as thorough, and yet succinct, a description as to what's been going on as I've come across:

JohnSvengali•23 days ago

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I will coin a phrase that I hope takes off and expresses the failure and abuse of the media, in general. CONSTRUCTIVE DISENFRANCHISEMENT through media malpractice is the effect of when the medium of the press alters its reporting through being intimidated (as with the White House press corps when they ask too many sharp questions, that is, those who actually do -- they get shut out of access.) or biased, the majority of media inaccuracy. The results of omission and factual distortion deprive the public, the voting public, of accurate information to make an informed choice. Hence the result is an indirect form of disenfranchisement.
The schools throughout the country have indoctrinated over a generation of students with leftist presumptions and false, distorted information, attacking our traditions, eliminating historical teaching or modifying it, shifting emphasis away from the core of history and our Constitutional republic. The result is the election of Obama, a person who is most skilled in manipulation and exploitation of the primed audience, who are conditioned to respond to the code words and whose attention span generally comports with the invariably false message of Obama and his ilk.
One needs to only listen to opinions expressed and reporting omissions on outlets such as National Public Radio to hear how news is selectively manipulated and editorialized through the presumptive mindset of the leftist.
Oddly enough, the existence and success of FOX News and its obviously more objective but majority conservative hosted shows gave implied license to the others to become more overtly leftist in their news delivery. They see their own biased reporting as some kind of balance vis-a-vis FOX News, talk radio and the internet. But they are supposed to be news outlets, that is, TV news, newspapers, etc. They have obliterated the line between editorial opinion and news reporting. Hence they have destroyed the medium and in effect deprived the public of truth.

October 7 and just now getting the outdoor stuff up.  I'd love to get a cool witch that, when you pass by her, comes up out of the ground and starts talking to you!  lol  Maybe I'll catch it on clearance.  There's a skeleton like that too.  I think they go from 2' tall to 5'.  I definitely think I'll go back and get another pumpkin to add color in the corner by the step.  There's a white ghost there, but ya can't see it during the day very well.  We finally planted our new shrubs too.  They're so little but they'll grow in nicely.  I can't tell you how much better I feel having some of the landscaping finished up - it's been a year and a half since we tore the nasty huge bushes out of there.  It looked horrible for a long time.  Our poor neighbors.  What lit a fire under me to get my husband and myself out there?  I'm having a piano tuner come on Wednesday and I wanted it to look nicer than it did.  lol  Eventually where the two scarecrow ppl are, we'd like a concrete patio, but that'll be awhile. 

Ok, well, I'm off to enjoy the last of my Sunday. 

Olympic Committee FAIL!

Birthdays and Baseball and All Sorts More

Monday, Aug 27 we went to the Twins game.  Great seats and perfect weather but we lost.  :-(  It was dd's birthday though, so we had a good time anyway.  She and I get rowdy at games.  Or I guess it's me who gets rowdy and she has fun watching.  lol 

Last Thursday I started Grayson's Baby Sophisticate @ MOA - today, one week later, I finally finished it up.  I had to restart the collar three times.  (My own fault ea. time.)   The pattern's wonderful though a little on the small side.  I sewed the buttons on tonight and here it is:

Back to working on other UFOs.  I started the 60 Quick Baby Knits pattern, Hooded Pullover.  I spent $45! on the yarn, but it's SO beautiful.  It's Cascade 220 Superwash Paints in Clover.  I just love the yarn.  Truth be told, if I'd have known how expensive it would've been, I wouldn't have bought the yarn.  I just got talking and talking to the friendly employee there (I always forget her name) and before I knew it she was handing me a receipt for $14.50/hank.  Oi.  Anyway, I'd better get back to work.

Memory Lane

Wow, here's a quick jaunt down memory lane.  It seems I've been trying to get some artistic sensibilities out of my system for quite some time.  This is a wreath - I call it a Victorian Rose Wreath - that I made for my mom's room back in 1994.  My dh just found it while he was going through some things in the basement.  (Funny how so many creative things end up in the basement.)  I also made some neat things, I forget what they were called, out of yardsticks (free from Hom Furniture) and that twisted, wrinkled paper that you have to wet to unroll.  I'd throw a bunch of dried flowers and ribbon along with it.  Dang, wish I had a pic of that.  It hung above my mom's bed for years.  Oh well, here's the wreath. 

The Day After...

Well!  I survived almost an entire day at the MOA!  (Mall of America)  My son and his friend bought all-you-can-ride wristbands for the amusement park and went at it.  I chose the first day of the Minnesota State Fair in hopes of a thinner crowd where we were.  It seems to have worked.  Usually just walking into that mall sucks the soul right out of me, yesterday - not so much as a headache.  :-)  We met up and talked on the phone to make sure all was well and safe with them.  Otherwise I was on my own.  It was so lovely to be able to stop whenever I wanted and for how long I chose.  No aching plantar fascia ;-) and I just sat and knitted and listened to a) a job interview (she got it) at Caribou and b) a job review (she was doing a good job) at Barnes & Noble a few hours later.

I started a Baby Sophisticate for Grayson while there.  It was a good time.  On the way home we stopped at Amanda's place to visit my grandbabies.  Jackson's so funny.  He kisses and loves on the baby so much.  Then he took my phone and looked at pictures and pretended to talk.  So then I got talking with Amanda and Zach and wasn't paying much attention to J over yonder.  All of a sudden I hear on the speaker phone setting on MY phone...MY husband!  Jackson had not only called his gramps but put him on speaker phone!  I can't do that when I try.  lol  He's a sweet little kid.  His brother is too, but only being two weeks old, a bit boring.  ;-)

The night before yesterday I finished up a Lark sweater I'd been putting off for a month. It's for the boys. I still haven't washed/dried it...when I use acrylic, that washing and drying constitutes blocking. But it's still turned out nicely. I have trouble with sewing down the placket and sleeves evenly. Grrr. I'll just keep practicing.



 

 

Practice Aviatrix (helmet)


 

This hood on the Lark was done with a Three Needle Bind-Off, which I adore, used on the shoulders as well. The trouble with a 3 Needle on the hood is that it leaves it rather pointy. I'd like to investigate short rows for a hood. Maybe add that to my repertoire. I've already used them on the Aviatrix pattern for a helmet type hat. So cute. It's not worked in the round but back and forth with short rows. I'm just not sure how to apply to a pattern on my own.


So anyway, Blogger just made it impossible to add to this to sign off without signing out and back in first.  ?  I believe I've mentioned how much I loathe Blogger and yet I know not how to do anything else better.  Alas, I am doomed to stay here until such time as I see fit to get a Ph.D. in computer sciences!  That's about what it'll take to understand this stuff.  Grrrr.  Ta-ta for now. 

Day Two of Baby Gray

It was so easy to imagine if you were there with these things roaming around.
I have to say, it was creepy.  Their eyes followed you.

Just inside the front gate.  There was a big guy (dino) looking over the edge of the entrance spitting water at us too.

I guess this is the guy who preceeded T-Rex.  He was much larger, faster, and more dangerous.  Blech.

This pic was taken in honor of my new grandson with a bit of a cone head.  ;-)
Ds too, trying to show how displeased he is to be there. 

Awesomeness right here.  I love the pterodactyl.  To be honest, I didn't read what this is exactly.
But it sure looks like a Pterodactyl.

So on Thursday, the day after Grayson was born, dh and I were going to meet at the hospital (a long way away) after his workday was done.  So I took ds and headed down to the Minnesota Zoo before our annual membership expired and before the Dinosaur exhibit closed.  He, being 13, wasn't thrilled to go, particularly to a baby's exhibit, but too bad!  It was only 75 deg. and we were going to get out and do something different.  It was pretty fun, the exhibit was much shorter than I would've thought and I ran out of room on my SD card right before the T-Rex!  (My favorite)  But I still got some good pics.

We took a tractor up to the farm and there's a nice restaurant there.  Eric was in a much better mood then.  Food seems to have that affect on teenage boys.

The sky was so gorgeous that day.  It was like living in the Rockies.  They were so high and towering.  There were horizontal loose gray clouds floating in front of the big cauliflower-type ones.  It looked like a panorama.  Huge, heavy rain drops started falling on our way out to the car.  We stopped under some shelter for a minute until it stopped.  It smelled so dang good too.  Hot pavement with rain on it.  Childhood.  :-)

Gramps with the new guy Grayson

We got to the hospital and met up with dh.  We spent about 45 min there.  Everyone's doing well. 

Then this morning I woke up to see this on Facebook:

Grayson wearing the hat I knitted him.  He's got matching socks too.
So sweet and content.

A BIG Day

Welcome to the world little Grayson Joseph!  Sadly, I don't have a picture of my dd with him that doesn't show too much skin.  ;-)  More to follow though.  He was born at my daughter's favorite time (yes, she has one.  lol)  7:33 p.m.  It's her favorite because 7 is Joe Mauer's number and 33 is Justin Morneau's.  She's quite the Twins fan. 

Grayson was actually a gray-son.  His little face was almost black looking.  Apparently he had the cord wrapped around his neck twice.  Scary stuff, but all's well.  He pinkened up even before we left.  He's got a lot of dark hair, more than Jackson had.  (I hate to start comparing them.) 

I was at my first piano lesson.  The teacher said we're running out of time, I looked at my watch and it was not quite 7:35. So that's probably right while he was coming out.  Eric came with to the lesson and we called Amanda's phone as we were leaving the lesson.  Zach said "We just had a baby."  He said it sort of full of wonderment.  Calmer than usual.  So we jumped on 694 and headed straight on out there.  He's a beautiful little guy.  His brother was born on 6-6 and this one was born on 8-8.  Both were ten days early.  Amanda's consistent.  

We'll go back down to see them tonight.  Curt's going to meet us there and then we'll, of course, go to dinner.

Charlotte the Second

Hey all.  My ds and I left last evening for the store and this is what greeted us as we crossed the threshold of our front door.  Isn't this cool?  Incredible too, there's nothing to which the web is even attached.  I sent dh a pic in an email this morning and he, at first, thought it was a UFO.  [chuckle]  All I used was a simple flash on a not-too-expensive camera.  Nature's great...as long as it stays out of the inside of my house.  As a knitter, I have to say it's so cool that she can do this without a circular needle and knowing decreases and/or increases.  I look at this and start wanting to knit up some more ponchos.  ;-)

So anyway, went through and cleaned ds's bookcases and shelf they're on.  It took so little time, maybe 10 minutes, but feels so dang good!  :-)  Plus, it was a trip down memory lane for us both.  We found the I Spy books we used to spend countless hours with.  And a picture of the two of them (dd and ds) from 10 yrs, 1 month ago.  WOWSERS do they change a lot.  Of course I never do...

OK, just off to take care of some more responsibilities of an average grown up.  And to buy garbage bags.  Viva la Costco!  Ta-ta.

Olympic Sized Tree Felling :-)

Wow, so last night ds and I heard huge movement on our deck.  Not an uncommon occurrence during a storm as we have a table and chairs out there that are regularly hurled around or at least across the deck during such weather.  However, the next morning I wake up and look out the upstairs bathroom window and BAM! this is what I see:The dead Maple in our backyard that I'd deftly avoided calling to have removed, was no more.  : )  Big relief!  What's more is that there was minimal damage and the cats were having a blast slinking around the branches.  DH had a golf tournament that day so on Sunday we cleaned up the debris.  Now to have our stump ground.  That's all that's left.  I love happy little accidents like that.

In honor of the Olympics, which, despite the 40th anniversary of the Munich Massacre of the 11 Israeli Olympians, refused to honor the dead, I made the pancakes this morning in the shape of the five rings. 

Actually, that's how I always make them but it reminded me of the festivities.  :-) 

 

Thanks for stopping by.

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Michael Coren: Unabashedly pro-Zionist, pro-Israel

Screw the Olympics and screw England and the BBC. 

Sale at Babies R Us.  Very fun time.

Oh my.  It's been awhile.  December was filled with drama.  The non-good kind.  I've been sorta hiding out since.  However, big news: Our second grandson is coming in August!  His name is Grayson Joseph and I'm sure he'll be just as perfect and gorgeous as our first one.  Here are some things I made for him.  (Pics are on other computer, dang.)

The smallest brown on the right that you can't see is for Grayson.  I made Jackson a big one for Easter.  Didn't know about Gray then. 

Ok, I guess this isn't for Grayson, but I will make him one to match since they'll be sharing a room.

Hi all.  Yesterday was a perfectly nice, non golf-on-t.v. day for once.  Hubby and son went down to do some work at a job site and then we all headed to uptown to look for a freezer.  Doesn't sound too exciting?  That's cuz you're not me!  lol  (I'm starved for mental stimulation...no jokes please.)  We also headed over to the Galleria and had lunch at my fave place Big Bowl.  Chopsticks and all.  Num-E!  On our way home we stopped at a couple Schmitt Music stores to find Metallica for the violin.  (Chuckle)  We ended up with the Beatles and some songs from LOTR and some other movies.  Here's a story from yesterday as I told it on Facebook:

Ok, so we were at Schmitt Music in Brklyn. Ctr. yesterday and I happened to ask the guy working there if he'd experienced any ghosts. (Cuz all the local ghost books say there's at least one in there.) He said no and explained how each version of the ghost stories was wrong. HOWEVER, in the spring, once it starts warming up...there are s-n-a-k-e-s, yes you read that rightly, SNAKES! that drop. from. the. ceiling!

Honestly, I think I'd rather see ghosts. lol

Can you believe that?!!  Apparently the snakes (garters) come in during the autumn when it starts to get cold and voila! there they are in the spring. 

In happier Schmitt related news - my wonderful hubby encouraged me to sign up for piano lessons.   I have always wanted to play piano.  We finally bought one about nine yrs ago, but then I lost my job and couldn't afford lessons.  I tried teaching myself through dvd's etc.  That doesn't work very well.  I can play Mary Had a Little Lamb, Jingle Bells and Ode to Joy with some chords, but that's it.  I hope by next year I can play Christmas carols on Christmas Eve and all that family type stuff.  :-)

On Saturday my dd wrote on FB that she'd like to see a Twins game before her newest edition of human (baby) comes.  Little Grayson is due in a few weeks.  Anyway - what started out as just her and me going - turned into all four of us getting perfect seats (for over $200!) and having an excellent time.  The Twins even won.  Wonder of wonders.  We took mass transit.  No comment.  Oi. 


Lately I've been crocheting a lot more than knitting. Here are some items:

Grayson's little sailor hat

Something in girls' colors.  For future granddaughter.

Same as above.

Same as above.

As you can see, while I love neutrals and 'boy colors', I've had my fill for awhile.  I'm 42 and finally turning into a girl!  lol

OK, off to finish my floppy brimmed summer hat - and probably a beach bag to go with it.  Thanks for stopping by. 


Aug. 2, 2012 update: Here's the floppy hat, a pattern on Ravelry (for free) called Adorable Ruffles.  I didn't use dk wt., used worsted instead, with a 4 mm. hook (!!) so it turned out larger than I'd planned.  It fits my 13 yr old!  Still, it's really cute and I'm hooking a bag to go with it. 

The dk. purple is from my stash.  That's what I'm using for the beach bag.  It'll be nice to get that huge 710 yds. skein out of storage.

American Dhimmi

Ok folks: You've got to quit thinking of Obama as some poor, sweet, persecuted black person and start giving him the credit he deserves: that of a grown adult who makes his own choices and let him take the consequences.  Liberals are so damned brain-dead when it comes to the big O.  What do you guys think you're proving?  What is it you think you're creating?  There will never be a utopian paradise here on Earth.  Not through socialism and other childish thinking.  Pay attn. to this video and just try to argue these things.  Actually don't, just don't re-elect this jackass.

They'll Call This Video Racist

National Secular Society - Sharia Law and Middle Class Feminism

National Secular Society - Sharia Law and Middle Class Feminism  Nail on the head folks.

John Bolton: Israel, Get Ready For More Obama Leaks

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Oh wow this looks so good.  We just bought this exact kind of couscous at Costco for about $7 or $8 dollars (huge bag).  Now I have something to make with it.