Working on a New Crochet rug

Well I am off to a good crochet start, I started working on a rug during the holiday and I am still busy working on on it. I will make sure it becomes about a medium size crochet rug, I am using my smaller hook and doing some very basic stitches.
Oh I am just so excited Polar Bear won diary of the day on Dogster. com Yeah for you special boy!




We also have a new dog to the family, that's right another dog and she is something special Lilly was adopted from some family members who no longer can care for her or were taking take of her correctly. I hate admitting my niece's boyfriend was not being smart by abusing this little girl. Holly cow is she hard to get to hold still for a picture but this is her anyway. She has her sweater on her and was wiggling around while I was trying to get the picture.
I hope she realizes one day no one will hurt her ever again, we just love her lots also.

2-3-4 Inches of Snow on the Oregon Coast again

Another winter storm for the Oregon coast, I woke up yesterday morning to 3 inches of snow here on the coast. Looks like winter has arrived and it sounds bad today, we are going to get high winds, and freezing rain!
So I thought I would share a few pictures, because it is rare to see snow on the beach! And Astoria is colder than Portland! WOW! that is pretty amazing and strange. Here is the snowman .....









My son after he has thrown a snowball at me!

The Contest has Ended

CONTEST QUIZ

This contest is all for the silly and fun side of Christmas time.
I have a quiz for you all
There are 5 questions that you will have to answer in order to win if you can answer all 5 questions correctly you will be the big winner!
The picture above is what you will win!
Darn.....
There were no winners this time but you can see the answers to the quiz......

1. What was so great about the little neurotic doll the sweet girl was given for Christmas?
It was a Wind up dolly
2. What do you call a Kitty on the beach at Christmas time?
Santa claws
3. Who is never hungry at Christmas time?
The turkey who is always stuffed
4. Why does Santa Claus have 3 different gardens?
So he could HO, HO HO!
5. What does a snowman eat for breakfast?
Snow Flakes
Come on and have a little fun this holiday season, you just might be the lucky one who knows the answers to these silly questions.
So hurry and send your answers in by Dec 17th to stockerpam@gmail.com
I will then pick the winner by Dec 19th and ship Dec 20th by priority mail
Yup this is a whirl wind Christmas contest! so hurry and get those answers emailed to me.
In your emails answer the questions and send along your email so that I can contact the winner for shipping address.
Remember to have some fun and good cheer with this silly quiz, because you could be the winner.
Good Luck!

Started a New Store

Well I went and decided to start another store using blogging. This store will be smaller just a few items at a time and I will have a feature item once a week that has larger pictures and details about the product. It's call It's Just Krazy Kute Productions instead, I changed the name because I starting over and fresh again, but I have not forgotten Frankly It's Kute Productions.
One day I hope to resume that store also again but for now I will have tons of fun in both blogs. In fact I am thinking about doing a small contest in this one in the next week coming.
I also wanted to say a few things, I how thankful for Frankly It's Kute Productions, I have made some great friends through having that store and learned a lot.
I could complain about how bad of year it has been so far, with the problems with my health and economic times. But I am not going to do that, just because there has so much more to be thankful for.
That's right I am thankful for my adverse times, why? so that I might gain more compassion for others and knowledge.
"Come What May, and Love It". The talk is by Elder Joseph B Wirthlin.
There is a part of the talk I would love to share with you all during these hard times and it goes like this; "Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering and sorrow is part of our on-job-training. The experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others."
We also have to remember this, "He who descended below all things will come to our aid. He will comfort and uphold us. He will strengthen us in our weakness and fortify us in our distress. He will make weak things become strong."
I try to always remember this when things seem like they are at the worse.

Frankly its kute productions is gone for now

How to begin this was tough to do, but I had to take down the craft store Frankly Its's kute Productions. The choice was made for me in someways, as I was not able to renew the domain name right now.
I have to admit things are very tough right now for me and my family, but I know faith it will turn around and this summer I have plans on creating a new store. My blog is still here and I am hoping to figure out a way to help you all be able to purchase things just from the blog and I have to find out how to do that or create another blog with my hand made crafts you can purchase, if anyone can help with ideas I would love to hear from you.
I am sorry about having to shut the craft store down, but logging is quite bad and the out look for the future of it is not good there are lots of rumors floating around and my fingers are crossed that most of them will end up being untrue. In any case it will be alright no matter what, I feel that is the only way to look at things right now.
Some say why be hopeful well, is it not a whole lot harder to faith than not to have faith? So I will keep faith and a very positive outlook at things.
I figure its just a bit of adversity to come through and we all will, with faith, hope and prayers that will be answer come what may.

There still will be lots of crafts and ideas and I will think of lots more to do on my blog.
I will have something fun for you all in the next few days, maybe a contest..... or a free giveaway so be sure to stayed tuned it.

Late with this Recipe, Mint Walnut Fudge

Well I fell behind a bit, this post was suppose to be on Friday. But it still will be fun to make for Thanksgiving.
By the way Happy Thanksgiving to all! May your hearts be fill with the spirit of gratitude. Let this spirit of Thanksgiving be with you all your life.

What you will need:

• 1 bag of mint chips
• 2 cups of sugar
• 1/2 cup of sweet milk
• 2 cups of chopped walnuts
• 1 tablespoon of butter
• 1 jar of marshmallow creme

Start first by melting the butter and marshmallow creme, in a sauce pan on medium heat. Add the chips be sure to stir often making sure all gets blended. Add the sugar, sweet milk and let it boil up to soft ball stage, be sure to keep stirring while it boils so that it does not burn on the bottom go a little past the soft ball stage before removing not quite to the hard ball stage. Remove from heat and add the walnuts, pour into lightly greased pan and cool.

If you can not find the mint chips, use white chocolate chips, peppermint, and green food coloring. Just a cap full of green food coloring to the melted chips or if you want add coloring till you get the green you want, add just a little bit of peppermint flavoring and you now have walnut mint fudge.
Again Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Holiday gift box

I thought I would share one of my many craft ideas with everyone.
So first you will need a small wooden box that you can find at any craft store.
I love color and for this box I used a bright red acrylic pain and brushed it on all over the box and let it dry over night.
Then I took some walnut stain and carefully dabbed it on in certain places on the box and took a old dry cloth and wiped away the staining, so that it gave the box an aged look.
I let dry once again over night.
For the top of the lid I used a clear glitter pain and brushed it on and let it dry.
I had some really cute graphic bears and downloaded them onto some photo print paper and cut them out.
I carefully decoupaged them onto the lid, using 2-3 coats and letting each coat dry before doing the next coating.
The final touches were a little more glitter paint and a good sealer to seal everything nicely.