Off The Hook AWE!Some Crochet Blog

BROWN Like ME

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. -- Indira  Gandhi

BROWN Like ME! album up featuring a few of my art- rageous neck bags....

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Do not let passion be a burden

The worst sin -- perhaps the only sin -- passion can commit, is to be joyless. -- Dorothy Leigh Sayers

    I'm almost finished with my freeform design...It's taking shape nicely.  I like "painting with thread".

Altho I wanted to go to an art musuem or gallery this past week, too many other distractions popped up.  I did get a feel for art by looking in an art mag...of course, it's not the same but we do what we have to do. 

And then I settled within, gazed at that reflection and said "do it!"

Gotta get back to work,

Crochet Brio!

gearing up for a mental/spiritual marathon race....quench my thirst.

"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be." ~ John R. Miller

Do not give up, and always create your own momentum...Build on every success to get more successes.  And never quit.

~ Mark Victor Hansen

Courage is grace under pressure.

~ Ernest Hemingway

yawn, it is tooooo early but the hook is in the coffee, the hook is in the coffee....save Her, she could drown

Thank you, thank you Sharon for your inspiring email!  I sooooo appreciate it!

Girl, it's eeaaaarrrrrly over here--ooooh, but 3 hours earlier over thure for ya....Oh, I found out who, who, who let the hook out?  huh, er who put the hook in the coffee.  Oh.  Me, guilty party.  It kinda got jealous since I wrote an ode to the fiber, a.k.a. yarn (yarnie), something about "slurping fibers"**  let's see if I can find it.  I need to look for my sanity while I'm at it.  Shhhh, you hear 'em:  the guys in white.  Ya know, the ones with the jacket: one size fits Gina.  It ain't my style.  Excuse me,  gotta give 'em the "slip" hint hint.  Don't tell them you saw me.  cause ya didn't; my yarn trail has many paths, so many I can't quite keep up and I laid down the "crumbs"  Here Hansel & Gretel, luminous yarn crumbs here.  Hookie, get your fiber here.  Hey, Mickey, she really did look....

betcha was shook

by what it took

the path led to the brook

sit and rest now

ya won't be forsook

by Da Hook.

Da Crochet Hook

The other day I picked up a reap hook

a reap hook

yep, it's a tool for cutting grass

ya c, it grabbed my attention for I, silly me, thought if I sowed a hook, I'd reap a harvest

ok ok back to the regularly scheduled program

look, shook, took

my crochet hook

out for a walk

she saw this fiber and that one

the shaking started:  crochetitis on the horizon

we had to make a decision: 

oh?! oh, over thure

you can (make decisions) w/o medication

this is my poem, get out!

look,shook,took

pouring into this open book

by hook or by crook

I will stay

amazingly off the hook

hey, is that a shepherd's crook?!

This is my stage:  what you trying to say? what are you trying to say?

yawn, it's still too early and the hook, out of the coffee, is drying off now

**fiber slipped in

Girl, you don't like coffee

Reply:  I know, but my thread is wet

(7/20/06's post)

it really really is ok to sit awhile and think

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we don’t know who we are -- or if we are afraid to be who we are -- we betray ourselves.

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

-- Dr. Seuss (via Elena)

“What you must dare is to be yourself.”

-- Dag Hammarskjold

The picture above is titled "All That Remains Is Response".  It was one of the art pieces I had exhibited in a one-woman show in Norwich, CT. It is made of cotton, rubberbands, pantyhose, leather and crochet over wire.  It is more of a non-wearable wearable, an art piece.  Instead of hanging it on the wall.....well, there ya go.

All That Remains is Response:  be true to yourself.

~~~~~~~

I got my nails done today.  The owner crochets, mostly afghans.  Perhaps she'll be inspired to do other things...she was lovin' my shawl.  Her precocious 6 year old is interested in learning. 

The Atlanta Makeup Pioneers had a meeting tonight for an upcoming Fantazzy Shoot.  I am a newbie, teaming up with 2 seasoned artists.  Looking forward to it....

(Stephanie, left, and Alex--my 2 lovely team members)

  other members of the group:

(and that's Dee, the Organizer.  Isn't she sweet?)

reflection

God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds.  He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years. -- A W Tozer

The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary.  He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned.  The Lord GOD has opened My ear; and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away.  I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting. For the Lord GOD will help Me; therefore I will not be disgraced; therefore I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed.  He is near who justifies Me.  Who will contend with Me?  Let us stand together.  Who is My adversary? Let him come near Me.  Surely the Lord GOD will help Me; who is he who will condemn Me?  Indeed they will all grow old like a garment; the moth will eat them up.  Who among you fears the LORD? Who obeys the voice of His Servant?  Who walks in darkness and has no light?  Let him trust in the name of the LORD and rely upon his God.

Isaiah 50: 4 - 10

What then shall we say to these things?  If God is for us, who can be against us?  He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay a charge against God's elect?  It is God who justifies.  Wo is he who condemns?  It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall tribulation, or distress, or perseution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  As it is written:

"For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.  For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8: 31 - 39

accomplish/do/courageously live

The best way to accomplish something is to just do it and then find the courage afterward. -- George Chapman

Open to the moment

“Why not concentrate on the now instead of hoping for better times in the future? Why not understand the now instead of forgetting it and hoping for the future? Isn’t the future just another trap?”

-- Anthony de Mello

this moment.

“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What a treat--the movie Yentl (1984) was on Showtime early this morning!  oh joy, I still sang along, cracking voice and all, ha.  What a powerful movie, a favorite of mine

basically: DO & BE YOU!

Lyrics to "Where is it Written?"

"No Matter What Happens"

and my fav:

A PIECE OF SKY

Tell me where

Where is it written

What is it I meant to be?

That I can't dare...

It all began the day I found..

That from my window I could only see

A piece of sky.

I stepped outside and looked around.

I never dreamed it was so wide

Or even half as high.

The time had come

(Papa, can you hear me?)

To try my wings

(Papa, are you near me?)

And even thought it seemed at any moment I could fall,

I felt the most,

(Papa, can you see me?)

Amazing things,

(Can you understand me?)

The things you can't imagine

if you've never flown at all.

Though it's safer to stay on the ground,

Sometimes where danger lies

There the sweetest of pleasures are found.

No matter where I go,

There'll be memories that tug at my sleeve,

But there will also be

More to question, yet more to believe..

Oh tell me where?

Where is the someone who will turn and look at me?

And want to share

My ev'ry sweet-imagined possibility?

The more I live - the more I learn.

The more I learn - the more I realize

The less I know.

Each step I take -

(Papa, I've a voice now!)Each page I turn -

(Papa, I've a choice now!)Each mile I travel only means

The more I have to go.

What's wrong with wanting more?

If you can fly - then soar!

With all there is - why settle for

just a piece of sky?

Papa, I can hear you...

Papa, I can see you...

Papa, I can feel you...

Papa, watch me fly!

....with all there is, why settle for just a piece of sky?  Papa, I can hear you.  Papa, I can feel you.  Papa, watch me fly....

why indeed!

....wrapped in the shawl that learning weaves....

ooooh nice!  so that's what she sang....have you ever not known what was being sung, but you muddled thru anyhow?  from the song "This is One of Those Moments"

being a designer, that above line intrigues me

ooooooh tres cool

learning ~~~ producing ~~~ weaving

creative strands

Doc says the medication should be available soon

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become action.  Watch your actions; they become habits.  Watch your habits; they become character.  Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. -- Frank Outlaw

aesthetic ~~~~ cosmetic

genetic ~~~~ magnetic

poetic ~~~~ prophetic

energetic ~~~~ unapologetic

crochetitis:  maddening

don't need general anesthetic

Doc, that better be a hook in your hand!

kinetic threads

see Dick!  see Jane!

GinaRenay will crochet all day

     within her hands

     equipped to say

hey!

I will not, NOT

delay

to create my pay

     forth -- nor lay

around in misery

     say

Yarn

     say

Hook

seize the day!

do not

     delay in the fray

(don't you unravel on me)

tongue in play

meant to sometimes stray

ok ok turning away

with my single & double crochet

don't wait up

crochet fusion groove

visual feast

taste (of the journey) budded

fiber slipped in

.....musn't waste.....

the brand

it was wet to me you see

do I usually slurp

fibers

or engage

visually

the tendrils

of hope?

the Creator: I am known in the womb

(that's the awakened hope, you see)

journey of inspiration

released

hey! hey! compliments

yes, I made it

you like?

hubby's pouring another cup

Girl, you don't like coffee

Reply:  I know, but my thread is wet

GinaRenay, copyright 2006