Black Halloween Kitties

I am a little late at posting these. They have already come down to make way for my green, red and white granny squares. Photos to come. :-)

Granny Square Flower Necklace

Is for sale at my Etsy shop, .

Sons of Anarchy $10 bill

Someone brought this $10 bill into work. They have to much time on their hands.

Granny Square Scarf

Blue & Cream Granny Square Scarf

End of Summer Granny Square Blanket

Here is the completed blanket. I decided to not put a boarder on it. Maybe down the road I will but for now it is AWESOME the way it is!

Kitties!

I finally did something with my crocheted kitties!

End of Summer Granny Square Blanket

I spent the day crocheting.

Granny Square Tower.

Granny Square Tower.

All the colors.

Almost done! Just need the boarder!!

Sea Glass Necklace

I spent a week in Lake Tahoe for a family reunion. My Aunt Marty told me to bring some of my sea glass with me. She tought me how to bead around a piece so I could hang it on a necklace. Thank you Aunt Marty! I love it.

Granny Square Banner

I thought that our stairs could be brightened up a bit. So, I did what I do best, I made a Granny Square Banner. It adds just the right amount of color.

Pickling

Cleaning the jars and the cumbers.


Cutting the cumbers.


Cooking the dill pickle spices.


The finished product!

Strawberry Jam

I made strawberry jam for the first time.




We picked our own berries.



All crushed and ready to be cooked.




The finished product.
It tastes yummy too!

Everything Bad Is Good For You

I read and reviewed Everything Bad Is Good For You by Steven Johnson. I then thought that it would be fun to use Xtranormal to create my review. I have posted it on Twitter and Facebook as well. Enjoy!




Transcript:
In Everything Bad is Good for You, Johnson attempts to de-bunk the popular narrative that the culture industry is making us stupider, by feeding us more and more dull television shows, video games, and movies. Johnson suggests that the Sleeper Curve in popular culture is actually making texts more complicated over time. Many video games, television shows, Internet sites, and movies are making us smarter by challenging out mental faculties. Because of this we have to make more intellectual and social connections. The texts of video games, television shows, movies and internet sites leave out information that we have to figure out on our own. We also have to figure out the rules of the video games because they aren't told to us explicitly; this in turn gives us delayed gratification. IQ tests scores have been improving over the last few decades, and while it's problematic to compare IQ tests across cultures, races, and locations. It's not as problematic to compare them across generations.
Differences between the generations don't pose the same problems that differences within generations do (page 142). The gene pool has not changed in a generation yet the IQ scores have gone up. Johnson believes that some environmental factors are responsible for this. "The question that Johnson is asking is: What is the reigning technological paradigm - combined with both market and public-sector forces - doing to our minds (page 205)?” Johnson believes that we are living through a period when the combination of digital-age network technologies, public sector investment (the creation of the internet itself), and market-driven incentives (the "most repeatable programming" notion) have come together to create an upward trend in the complexity of the culture (page 205).
In conclusion, Johnson states that all around us the world of mass entertainment grows more demanding and sophisticated, and our brains happily gravitate to that new found complexity. Dumbing down is not the natural state of popular culture over time. Johnson says, that where pure problem-solving is concerned: we are getting smarter (page 144).

4th of July Crochet Table Runner

Valentine's Day Table Runner

Valentine's Day Granny Square Table Runner

Crochet Kitties

Crochet Kitties that I have created.

Granny Square Table Runner

Spring Granny Square Table Runner

And yes, I am a little addicted. :-)

Yo Yo Scarf

Baby granny squares hand sewn together.

Jane Austen Action Figure!

I have loved Jane Austen for a long time. So, when I stumbled across a Jane Austen action figure I had to have it! And I mush say she is pretty awesome.

Granny Square Blocks

These are the blocks of Granny Squares that I am making. I will then add all of these blocks together to create a blanket.