::giveaway!!::

It's about time around here for a giveaway, don't you think?
I promised my friend Beth like a year ago that I would do one when I won something in one of her giveaways. Lame it took me so long, but oh well at least I'm doing it!

Leave a comment here before midnight on Sunday Jan 31st and you'll be entered into the drawing for 2 pretty little snowflakes!
(one winner, two snowflakes)
Here they are:


The first one is the standard pattern from here. The second one is my own little variation.

They have lots of uses. You can hang them from the ceiling. You can pin them to the wall. You can put them away in your Christmas decorations for next year's tree. You can stick them under your door to keep the cold air out. You can wash the dishes with them. You can use them as coasters. You could sit on them at basketball games. I'm sure the list is endless really.

So enter if you want to! We'll pick a winner sometime monday morning.
Happy friday!

::finished::

Check it out:

This is what I did with those cute snowflakes.
My original idea was to hang them from the ceiling of the kitchen. But I needed tons and tons to do that, because I would've wanted them thick. And the ceiling in our house is a bit low, so I was afraid Kris would be banging his head on them all the time.
And there was this perfect overhang at the window that was just begging for some fun.

So there they hang. Those two you see that look yellow aren't really that yellow. They're just kind of off white. When I realized how they looked compared to the other yarns I didn't make any more of those.

I think they're really fun. They make the winter seem just a little more festive. And you can't really tell, but most of them are made with yarn that has a little bit of a sparkle to it.
I like their silhouettes:

I got the pattern from here. They look really hard and complicated, but they're really very simple. And they're fast too, once you make one or two. I cranked out like 8 the other night when we were watching a (dumb) movie. And it's easy to improvise with them too. I came up with two other patterns based on the original that I really liked.
So try them. It's fun!!

In other news Kris has been tying a lot of fly fishing flies. He's getting good at it. He's working on flies for salt water fishies.
They're a lot bigger than the freshwater ones I'm used to seeing.
ALSO, Kris fixed my stained glass lamp. You can see it in a couple of the pictures in the beginning of this post. We got it for our wedding from some wonderful friends and I love it. One of our last moves did it in though. The post was totally broken. It wasn't of the highest quality to begin with, and four moves in four years was just too much. Anyway, Kris attempted to fix it a while back and it turned out badly--gorilla glue + fingers = bad news. But the other day he had an epiphany and fixed the dang thing with a dowel. I'm so happy to have it back! We need it out here in the winter. It's so dark and gloomy almost all of the time.
Anyway, I know my husband loves me when he solves a nearly unsolvable problem for me and doesn't give up on it.
That could light up anybody's january.