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Pit Bull Awareness Day

This is a YouTube Video I got from RoseByAny@-;---- 's blog. I love her blog and all her posts about her puppies. It is Pit Bull Awareness Day this Saturday.   Technorati Tags: Pit Bull Awareness Day , love your dog

Silkworm drama…

Right on schedule on little eggs started hatching… Sept 29th These little guys are called “Kego” in Japan, and translates to “hairy baby”. See detailed info on the website WormSpit . I am feeding the Mulberry leaves although it is starting to cool down here in Southern Indiana. I have bought the dehydrated “silkworm chow” yummy, in case we need it. I have gotten different opinions on this from “you can’t change from leaves to chow, but can change from chow to leaves” begin the predominant opinion. I talked to one guy who said his ate either, as long as they had food. I bought the “Zebra silkworms” which said they were stronger, and more disease resistant. This sounded like a quality I would look for in a tomato plant, so I thought I would be a good idea. Hopefully I will not kill as many worms as I did fish when I started with aquariums. Oct 2, blast of cold air last night, I didn’t know that the #1 cause of silkworm death is temperature. OK so I had 1000 eggs. I didn’t

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Here are some things too good not to pass along. Love all of these links… From Jo So and Sew a tutorial on how to cover a plastic bangle with knitting. Check out How to Be Domestic , she shows you how to etch a set of bar glasses, this would be a nice personal present or wedding gift. I got one of these one Christmas and used it to death, here is the pattern, a crochet dish scrubby, yes you really need that scratchy acrylic yarn to make it work well. Wee Folk Art , teaches us how to make a mini braided rug You know I’ve been crazy about top down sweaters, here is a pattern for a raglan cardi from CosmicPlutoKnits Along the same lines Knitting Pure and Simple has a fab tutorial on top down sweaters. Indie Fix show us how to make a mini drawstring bag. This is great to carry those socks we are knitting. For us Knitters that need some crochet flowers to put on, oh whatever, here is a video from Little Birdie Secrets. From CraftNouveau a primer on photography for