Flash your Stash!

My blog posts are going to have a theme this week. The theme is yarn, yarn, YARN! 


I'm a knitter. Can you tell that yarn gets me a little excited? :P


So, to start off the week, I'm going to flash my yarn stash! This is all the yarn I own, and where it lives.




These two long bins live under my bed:

And a few huge skeins that couldn't fit in the bins (I put a regular-sized skein next to them for size reference)

My cotton yarns: Sugar n' Cream and Knit Picks Crayon

My novelty yarns: Eyelash yarns, T-shirt yarn, glow-in-the-dark yarn...you name it.

My wools: As you can see, I love Patons SWS.

Some partial skeins/scraps for my scrap yarn blanket:

And the rest are in two drawers I kidnapped from little sis's dresser ^_^

And thats my little stash! It's very much in need of some serious organization, but it's mine nonetheless.


 If you're a crafter, let me see your stash! Painters, flash your paint. Sewers, flash your fabric and thread. Sculptors, flash your clays. You get what I mean. :P

P.S. Only 3 days left to vote in the poll on the right sidebar. Make sure you get your opinion in! By the way, I just changed my template to a 3-column one today. Do you like it? The best part is, thanks to Blogger Drafts, I didn't have to bother with any pesky HTML ^_^

Sunshine Award!

Looks like I'm doing something right in the blog world, because Odin has nominated me for the Sunshine Award! The Sunshine Award "is awarded to bloggers whose positivity and creativity inspire others in the blogging world."

Thanks Odin!

Here are the 12 Blogs I've chosen:

Altered Pages

Batsy Shop

Bungaloe

How About Orange

My Latest Obsession

One Pearl Button

Audzipan Anthology

Knit, Nicole, Knit

Knotted Nest

Smile and Wave

Sweet and Hearts

Clothed Much

Enjoy your weekend! 

"WHY ME?" Embrassing Teen Stories

"I had my notebook out on my desk and it fell on the floor right in front of my crush. He saw my first name and his last name printed together in a heart! I was so embarrassed!" 

"I went to church one Sunday and sat in the front with my family. My little brother had 
to use the restroom so I had to go with him. I ended up going to the bathroom too. When we walked down the aisle we kept hearing snickers coming from people in the pews. I got back to my seat and was about to sit down, I realized my dress was bunched up in my panties. No wonder why everyone was laughing!" 

"I had lost my brother on a fairy boat one time so I went looking for him. I found this kid that looked just like him and he had blue shorts on just like him too. I called his name, thinking that he was my brother, but he wouldn't look at me so I walked up to him and slapped his butt. He started screaming and that's when I realized it wasn't my brother! Everyone around me was looking over so I ran away. Oh, and I eventually found my brother!" 

"I had just gotten out of practice and walked up to what I thought was my mom's car, I was texting my crush and was really distracted as I put my bag in my seat and buckled up. I greeted my mom like I always did but when she responded, it sounded different, I looked up and saw the confused looks on the women driving and one of my class mates. I got into the wrong car! The woman laughed and said, "Uh, do you need a ride?" I said nothing and ran out of the car but I forgot my bag and had to go back!" (I think this one was the worst! I laughed sooo hard! -Tyler)

"I was with my BFF in the mall and I thought I saw Robert Pattinson so we ran and shouted like crazy girls up to him. But when he turned around and looked at us (with a frightened look, needless to say!), it turned out not to be him. My friend and I just got bright red and ran away!" 

All from Seventeen.com

Btw, I'm sooo winning in the poll! (its in the sidebar) Bf claims its because I "worded it to make his answer look stupid," but I say it's 'cause I'm right! haha. Well there's 5 days left to vote, so we'll see who wins this thing. (me)

Have a great weekend everyone! =)

Improv Everywhere Prank: Suicide Jumper

Don't jump, dude. We care about you. Really.

Reader challenge!

I need your help! There are 2 things I need your help with.

First, I need your opinion with this thing me and my boyfriend were talking about. It has to do with this puzzle from Sunday's post:

I start with the letter E.
I end with the letter E.
I usually contain only one letter
Yet I am not the letter E!
What am I?

He swears the answer to the puzzle is "Eye." The answer is actually "Envelope" (get it...it contains a "letter"...haha.) Anyways, his reasonings is that "Eye" starts with E and ends with E, and that "I" contains only one letter. But I say "Eye" and "I" are two different words! You can only answer the riddle with one word! So what do you think? Vote in the poll on the sidebar!! >>>>

The second thing I need feedback with is your creative uses for seemingly useless items. See some of my old posts like Uses for CDs to see what I mean.

What are some ideas you have for reusing:

- Cassettes

- VHS tapes

- Scrap yarn

- Scrap paper (or newpaper)

- Tissue boxes

- Magazines

OR Cardboard tubes?

I'd love to hear your suggestions!

How-To Tuesday: 5 Minute Notebook

Got 5 minutes? Need a notebook? Well lucky you! You've come to the right place! :) I found this tutorial on Les Plus Beauxx's blog. 


For this project you'll need:


1. a paint swatch (or other decorative item of about the same size)
2. a notecard (or a sturdy paper grocery bag to create one) [or, for the cover you can cut out the front of a cereal box and fold it over. -Tyler]
3. scissors
4. notebook paper/white paper [or scrap paper! :) -Tyler]
5. stapler
6. rubber cement/strong glue
7. something heavy
8. 5 minutes


Click here for the tutorial.


P.S. We finally reached 200 followers yesterday! ^_^ Thanks to all of my readers for following, commenting, and making blogging in general worthwhile :)


Happy Tuesday! =)

Tease your Brain!

Can you get all of these brain teasers right without cheating? I couldn't! Good luck to you :)


Puzzle 1:

Can you complete the following language equations? For example 24 H in a D is 24 Hours in a Day.

366 D in a L Y
50 U S
8 S on a O
52 C in a F D
90 D in a R A
7 W of the A W
12 S of the Z
18 H on a G C 

Puzzle 2:
I start with the letter E.
I end with the letter E.
I usually contain only one letter
Yet I am not the letter E!
What am I?


Puzzle 3:
s oou oan oee, oy poinoer oepoacos eoero thord oetoer oito tho leoteo 'o'. How mony oifoeront oetoero haoe boen oepoacod?


Puzzle 4:

What is the next number in this sequence?

1 11 21 1211 111221 ==?==


Puzzle 5: 
Answer quickly. Starting with an empty barrel, which happens first?

2/3 full
1/4 empty
1/2 full
3/4 empty

Puzzle 6:

In a dictionary, the verb 'BE' is described as:

BE [verb]

first and third person singular past indicative: was
second person singular and plural and first and third person plural past indicative: were
past subjunctive: were
past participle: been
present participle: being
first person singular present indicative: am
second person singular and plural and first and third person plural present indicative: are
third person singular present indicative: is
present subjunctive: be

Therefore you can correctly say 'I am', 'she is', 'you are', etc. Is it ever grammatically correct to say 'I is'?

Puzzle 7:
During a crazy weekend of paintball, four friends were having great fun. The paint came in blue, green, yellow and red. Coincidentally, the four friends had T-shirts in those same colours. Brenda used blue paint balls. The person in the green T-shirt used yellow paint balls. James was not wearing a red T-shirt. Diane used green paint balls and wore a blue T-shirt. Simon was the only person who used paint which was the same colour as his T-shirt. Can you tell which colour paint they each used and the colour of their respective T-shirts?


Puzzle 8: 
Which word becomes longer when you remove one of its letters?


Puzzle 9:
They are three errers in this puzzle, what are they?


Puzzle 10: 

Read each line aloud without making any mistakes. If you make a mistake you MUST start again without going any further.

This is this puzzle
This is is puzzle
This is how puzzle
This is to puzzle
This is keep puzzle
This is an puzzle
This is idiot puzzle
This is busy puzzle
This is for puzzle
This is forty puzzle
This is seconds! puzzle

Answers


Puzzle 1:
 366 days in a leap year.
50 United States.
8 sides on a octagon.
52 cards in a full deck.
90 degrees in a right angle.
7 wonders of the ancient world.
12 signs of the zodiac.
18 holes on a golf course.


I got the first two...but after that I was lost. lol :P -Tyler


Puzzle 2:
An envelope.


Puzzle 3:
The answer is 15.

The paragraph should read:

As you can see, my printer replaces every third letter with the letter 'o'.
How many different letters have been replaced?

I actually figured out the sentence after reading it for a while, but somehow I counted 14. >_< -Tyler


Puzzle 4:
312211: each term describes the previous term. Therefore the missing term should be read as: three ones, two twos and one one. 


Puzzle 5:
3/4 empty: since 3/4 empty means 1/4 full.


I actually got this one right! ^_^ -Tyler


Puzzle 6:
Yes: I is the first letter of the word igloo!


Puzzle 7:
Name    Wore    Paint
Simon   red     red
Brenda  yellow  blue
James   green   yellow
Diane   blue    green


Puzzle 8: 
Lounger


Puzzle 9:
1. errers [should be errors]
2. They [should be There]
3. there are only two errors


Actually, I think there are 5 errors because the comma should be a period, and the W in "what" should be capitalized. Thats 4 errors, which then makes the fifth error. Ha. I can say confusing things too, BrainBashers! -Tyler


Puzzle 10: 
Now go back and read the THIRD word in each line from the top.


All puzzles were found on BrainBashers.com




Have a great Monday everyone! =)