tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67575956076213431822024-03-04T20:43:12.505-08:00Pooh's Little Acre<b>Welcome to my world !! Here is where I share what interests me. My love for YHWH, the CREATOR of heaven and earth, crochet items I have created, recipes I have tweaked to my families taste and tidbits on life (my own opinion of course:-)) So come on in, grab your favorite drink and visit. Sure glad you came to visit :-)</b>DebbiePoohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725282286491635937noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757595607621343182.post-73228674351103873412013-03-22T11:49:00.002-07:002013-03-22T11:49:46.455-07:00Confused - Need some advice<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">I'm so confused. After 55 yrs, 33 of them married, I finally found a man I gave my entire heart to. I left an emotionally abusive married back in 2011 to be with, what I believed to be, a very loving man. He paid for a plane ticket to "rescue" me so I could start a new life with him. And now, 16 months later, I find myself 2,000 miles away from him. He became frustrated, I started clamming up. He became abusive with his words (calling me an idiot, stupid, unthinking, an overgrown 55 yr old child), I became a shut-in.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">During the 13 months I was in California only 8 months were actually living with him, he kept sending me away. First because he had lost his job, thought he was going to be homeless, so he sent me to my friends' house downstate. A few weeks later, he sent for me, a job had come through. Six weeks later, he became frustrated again and began calling me names, nothing I did was right. I didn't cook the foods he wanted and what I knew how to cook he would not eat it. I cooked the bacon too long (though after a few tries I finally got it right). I overcooked the french fries, under-cooked the fish sticks and shrimp. He was so picky about how he cooked his food and I was so afraid of getting it wrong (not to his liking) that I did "get it wrong". And all this coming from a woman who cooked for a houseful of children and 2 different husbands, along with countless Church Sunday Buffets.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Oh I could clean, he did like that, though he kept telling me he didn't need help with cleaning "HIS" place.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">So the result was to send me away again to my friends house, so I could "work on myself", "figure out how to take care of myself". See I was a housewife and mother for 27 of the 33 years I was married, it had been so long since I was in the workforce, nobody wanted to hire me.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Two more times he sent me away, and paid to bring me back. I felt like a yo-yo. Never staying in one place long enough to get over the hurt and pain of rejection I was feeling, that I never did "work on myself".</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Two months ago he sent me away again, this time 2,000 miles away, though he did tell me he wished I would stay in the state, but I had burnt the bridges of the 2 friends whom I had stayed with because both women didn't want me going back to him, they, both, stating that he was not good for me. So, at the end of 2012 he started again with "I wish you had somewhere else to go" - "I need my space" - "We would work out great if you had a job and had your place to live in, then I could come visit when I wanted to and then go home" - "I didn't sign up to take care of a 55 yr old grown ass woman". So friends I have in a different state, a different state is where I told him to send me.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Many times before, and a few times after, he bought the bus ticket to travel across the country, he told me he wished I would stay, he wished I could have found a job to take the pressure off of him, he really did love me, he was going to miss me. Even after I was already on the bus, he text me saying he had half the mind to come and get me off the bus, but I guess somehow I knew it would never happen.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Now, a little over 2 months later, while I am working on myself, seeing a therapist, getting some much needed medical work done, he sends me an email. He is empty without me, an emptiness in his soul that only I can fill. He states that if I were to come back "NOW", find a job, help him out, work on myself there, he will stop and drop all plans he is having about moving in with a "female friend" (purely platonic) so he can save money to go visit his grandbabies on the east coast and buy a new car come the end of the year. </span><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And I am torn</u></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">. I feel like I am making headway with myself, though I haven't found a job yet. I am scared to death of going back to the relationship the way it was when I left but on the other hand I am longing for the relationship we had before I arrived by his side and the relationship we had in the beginning.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">There is so much more about me that he does not like: my constantly telling him I love him, cute little love notes in his lunch, my wanted to cater to him such as making his lunch and ironing his work clothes every morning, crap one night I made dinner and cut my meat before setting the plate on the table and I thought I would do that for him too, but I got yelled at for making him feel like a child who needs his mother to cut up his damned food for him.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">So my question is what do I do? I do have an emptiness for the love he had for me in the beginning, it was so beautiful. I love him, or at least I keep telling myself that I love him. I feel like my heart is telling me to go back and do everything he wants me to do just so I can be with him, and my brain is telling me to stay where I am and finish "doing me" so I can be a good person, a loving woman.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">I did email him back and told him I wanted to stay and work on me, that is when he turned it around and told me that life wasn't about me, but about doing for the person you love, so IF I really love him I will go back and end his loneliness, re-fill that empty space in him.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">OH but I need help and some advice right now. Can anybody help this lost 55 yr old fool????????????????????????????????????</span>DebbiePoohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725282286491635937noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757595607621343182.post-86875540409925369312013-03-06T11:30:00.001-08:002013-03-06T11:30:57.200-08:00RAW VIDEO: Shoveling snow in Fairborn<a href="http://www.whiotv.com/videos/news/raw-video-shoveling-snow-in-fairborn/vsbY5/">RAW VIDEO: Shoveling snow in Fairborn</a>DebbiePoohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725282286491635937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757595607621343182.post-67996993845151119252010-12-13T23:05:00.000-08:002010-12-13T23:20:26.612-08:00Vintage Lace SquareOne of the lady's in the crochet group I belong too <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AtMyHouse/">(AtMyHouse)</a> made and shared the pattern she used. I thought this square was lovely and wondered what it would look like in some Christmasy colors. The pattern can be found <a href="http://promotions.drgnetwork.com/newsletters/talkingcrochet/pages/TCNL1306_patt.html">here</a> and below is my results. Thanks Dobey for sharing this really easy pattern, and I hope you don't get too cold tonight - hehehehe - I still got some soup left from dinner :-) Love ya!<br />
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Here are mine, along with one of the 15 Angel Dishclothes:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Until, next time...May your days be merry and bright......and may ALL your Christmas' be white!! :-)</div>DebbiePoohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725282286491635937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757595607621343182.post-41597046807787366802010-11-15T20:03:00.000-08:002010-12-29T15:15:58.147-08:00New Dishcloth or Facecloth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcdkNFCDqdPWPSSW5DYVisHL1GtHUeTOhgSYYZXRtajnPc-1JS52WXTyblT_Y4wASPemVQk2zOgXFeEXLn3xMQkwn3mW-R0Rx-VZ1STJPpbmFhZGZHb0U2TvZamG-7Jv_wXoIVOOjybk/s1600/GEDC0012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcdkNFCDqdPWPSSW5DYVisHL1GtHUeTOhgSYYZXRtajnPc-1JS52WXTyblT_Y4wASPemVQk2zOgXFeEXLn3xMQkwn3mW-R0Rx-VZ1STJPpbmFhZGZHb0U2TvZamG-7Jv_wXoIVOOjybk/s320/GEDC0012.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Found this pattern just the other day on Crochetville, gave it a try. My thoughts? Very easy to follow along with the pattern, it whipped up quickly, only a few hours. It is called "<i style="font-weight: bold;">Just the way I like it, Dishcloth" </i>which can be found over there on <a href="http://www.crochetville.org/forum/showthread.php?t=72991">Crochetville</a> I left mine in a triangle so the tip fits in glass jars and such, and I gave it a border instead of the recommended non-border only because I like a finished edge. Karen did a very good job on this and can be found on Crochetville as well as her own blog over at <a href="http://ukrakovianki.blogspot.com/">http://ukrakovianki.blogspot.com/</a> .</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Think I'll make a few more in blues to go in my bathroom. I like a good facecloth on my face and I believe this one will fit the bill.</div>DebbiePoohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725282286491635937noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757595607621343182.post-43231656333414798662010-11-13T18:28:00.000-08:002010-11-13T18:28:22.625-08:00Quick Thick DoilyJust one of today's projects that got "whipped up" today. Sure is gloomy here in South Central Kentucky, great day to watch football and crochet.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Also finished up 3 sets of coasters, 5 pencil holder covers and a pair of slippers. Boy my arms are tired - lolol</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Have a great night or day where ever you are</div>DebbiePoohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725282286491635937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757595607621343182.post-15540196710829376482010-11-08T22:12:00.000-08:002010-12-29T15:16:41.578-08:00Tea Bag Pouch for Crochet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you find any mistakes, and you will as this is my very first written pattern, please e-mail me at <a href="mailto:pwa2pooh@ahoo.com">DebbiePooh</a>, and let me know. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Converted to crochet from the knitted pattern found at <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://pegoftilling.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/tea-wallet/">http://pegoftilling.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/tea-wallet/</a> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><h2>Materials</h2><div class="MsoNormal">Small amount of yarn you would use for a dishcloth, I am using baby yarn with a filament in it that I use for my scrubbies in the kitchen.</div><div class="MsoNormal">E hook (though I am sure a larger hook and thicker yarn can be used to)</div><div class="MsoNormal">((IF using a larger hook and thicker yarn/thread, make sure you measure – I used a tea bag in a sealed pouch – but the body with tapered lid should measure about 7 ½ “))</div><div class="MsoNormal">Couple of straight pins</div><div class="MsoNormal">Small snap</div><div class="MsoNormal">Darning needle</div><div class="MsoNormal">Matching sewing thread and needle to attach snap</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">BODY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Row 1: Ch 19, work 18 sc, ch 1, turn</div><div class="MsoNormal">Rows 2 – 28: 18 sc, ch 1 turn</div><div class="MsoNormal">Row 29: sctg first two spaces, 14 sc, sctg last two stitches, ch1, turn</div><div class="MsoNormal">Row 30: sctg first two spaces, 12 sc, sctg last two stitches, ch 1, turn</div><div class="MsoNormal">Row 31: sctg first two spaces, 10 sc, sctg last two stitches, ch 1, turn</div><div class="MsoNormal">Row 32 sctg first two spaces, 8 sc, sctg last two stitches, ch 1, turn</div><div class="MsoNormal">Row33: sctg first two spaces, 6 sc, sctg last two stitches, ch 1, turn</div><div class="MsoNormal">Row 34: sctg first two spaces, 4 sc, sctg last two stitches, ch 1, turn</div><div class="MsoNormal">Row 35: sctg first two spaces, 2 sc, sctg last two stitches, ch 1, turn</div><div class="MsoNormal">Row 36: sctg first two spaces & the last two stitches, fasten off.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">With wrong side facing you, fold bottom of the piece up at row 15/16, place a pin on either side to hold.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Your piece should resemble a small envelope.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">At this point you could either use same yarn and whip stitch the sides together, or use same yarn or contrasting yarn and using a sc, sew the sides together.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Here, I am going to use contrasting red thread and sc the sides together and put a fancy edge on the tea bag lip.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">My edging:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Using a 4 steel hook and 2 strands of #10 cotton thread in red at a bottom corner, sc evenly spaced up the side.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Starting at the corner of the fold over lid, *<b>1sc, sk 1, 5 dc in next stitch *</b> repeat till you get to the opposite side and sc evenly spaced down . Fasten off, weave in ends.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">At this point you can add a button and a little chain to keep this shut or choose velcro (which I should have done - LOL) or attach a snap (<b>mental note</b>: choose a snap larger than an ant, it might work better as mine came out off center). Antyhoooooo centering the snap, sewing it on. Insert tea bags and off you go in style.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This same concept can be used for business cards and credit cards.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>DebbiePoohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725282286491635937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757595607621343182.post-75554813035945786392010-10-29T07:32:00.000-07:002010-12-29T15:17:20.052-08:00Little Crochet Organizer PouchHere is my latest little project. I started out with the outside of the "hook roll-up", as I dubbed it, but knew it was missing something...............but what???? So I posed a question to the yahoo groups I belong to and asked them what they used to organized their hooks, needles and stuff they use for crocheting. I got a ton of answers :-), from pretty 5" vases to hold hooks, to organized 'scatter' all over a computer desk, to plastic M&M containers. I myself like organized little spaces, something I can grab and go at a moments notice (though I don't leave the house but 3-4 times a month - lol). Sew (there I go again playing with words - lol) I read, I researched, I gazed at pretty things I could buy, and at 2:00am CT, I finished it!!!! So, (I mean sewwwwwwwwwww), whatdoya think??? Daughter and I even threw it like a football to make sure NOTHING fell out - success & TOUCHDOWN!!!!!!!! 6 points for the Poohster!!<br />
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Hugs and Hooks ~ Pooh<br />
<b><i>Footnote-Nov 13, 2010 - This pattern is being tested now and should be up as a free pattern here soon. Have patience :-)</i></b>DebbiePoohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725282286491635937noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757595607621343182.post-40297256174052117362010-10-25T19:17:00.000-07:002010-10-25T19:17:42.162-07:00Starflake Christmas Coaster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7VPZ022N93X4GEu7_MIPR4bGMfkjNARNfJQmaPsGqYsVMl71Diu4hby8eEueQSwjJiQg4JjwzPTxoy8qj9z80-Fuu_eB8ozQ7tuOfgixUHznnktqd-dmUfUjSqIB702SuzUrtO5c2_K8/s1600/MVC-009F.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7VPZ022N93X4GEu7_MIPR4bGMfkjNARNfJQmaPsGqYsVMl71Diu4hby8eEueQSwjJiQg4JjwzPTxoy8qj9z80-Fuu_eB8ozQ7tuOfgixUHznnktqd-dmUfUjSqIB702SuzUrtO5c2_K8/s320/MVC-009F.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>A pattern I'm working up, my own design. Have to write up the pattern now. Thanks for looking.DebbiePoohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03725282286491635937noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757595607621343182.post-47091782743912090982010-10-21T21:18:00.000-07:002010-10-21T21:24:03.337-07:00Another night of crochet playingPlayed around with a pattern for a <a href="http://www.crochetme.com/media//112106.aspx">Face Scrubbie #2</a><br />
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<div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And this is the beginning of <a href="http://delights-gems.blogsot.com/2010/09/rose-ripple-potholder-pattern.html">Rose Ripple Potholder by Delight Gems</a> . I ran out of green so 2yr old granddaughter is now walking around with it on her head. Think tomorrow I'll attach it to a large hair comb for her to wear. They're so sweet at that age :-)</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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My first try at a flower was helped along by Lee Ann Hamm over at <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/abbeydale/183/pansy.htm">http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/abbeydale/183/pansy.htm</a> <span style="color: black;">who did a wonderful job writing directions this little ol' lady could follow (though I did have to use the WWW to find out how to do a d tr stitch (never heard of it before now).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black;">After using two different blues for the pansy I trimmed it in silver fillament. It really does look better than this picture I took, my camera was worse at taking the pic than the camera on my old cell phone took. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black;">So see? Even this 53 yr old Nana can still learn something new :-)</span></span></span><br />
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