Going Retro – Learning Macrame

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First I need to start off with saying that we did get our electric back yesterday – I was amazed.  Five trucks, plus 3 supervisors showed up and the problem was fixed within minutes.  I received a call this morning from Con Ed, they had read my blog. First thought was that they were going to ask me to delete it and then WOW, they read my blog.  I spoke with a very nice woman who told me that they were taking this seriously and were going to look into the problem that we have with our transformer and with the way the situation was handled by the agents – impressive.  I did tell her that being without power for the week made me realize that there were other ways that I could simplify my life even more and that I was going to try some things starting in October – so stay tuned!

I cleaned out the freezer and refrigerator, hoping to be able to save some of the fruit that I picked and froze for winter use – keeping my fingers crossed.  I rinsed the fruit, placed them back on cookie sheets and put in the freezer – we will see.  Also was able to do some laundry and hang that out to dry.  I LOVE my new sweeper – it works incredibly on the area rugs with getting up the dog hair – I wish I had gotten one years ago!

After going to the park to practice riding Stella’s bike – she is really getting good with riding without training wheels, we came home and decided we were going to try a new craft.

I was never a brownie or a Girl Scout – so I never learned how to macrame when I was a kid – I think I learned another knot that we used to make the bracelet’s with the plastic cord, but I do not remember how to do that.  Out came the computer, macrame was typed into the search line and off we went.  We found one site that had some patterns, but then it was on to YouTube.  We found a couple of really good video’s, but used this link and start and stopped it until we were done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeVb8Bms3uw . It was really fun learning a new craft with Stella.

I searched the house for an item for each of us to place the hemp rope on so that we could start our chokers, then it was a search for beads that had holes large enough for 2 pieces of the hemp to go through – we ended up using mostly wooden beads from another kit Stella had.

Then getting started and learning the knot:

Getting closer, work in progress.

Almost done, measuring to see how much further.

Our finished projects, of course now we want to learn other knots and do other projects!

Stella's Choker

Wearing her new creation!

My Choker

Need to go pick up my items from my friend’s freezer and fridge and then to use the bananas that went bad this week since we were trying to eat the cold food before it went bad!  Will make some banana muffins and some chocolate chip banana muffins for dessert, yum!

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