Ravelry Fun

Okay, once again I have spent another fun filled morning at Ravelry, a small amount on Facebook and am now here to write a post before the HTC battery stops.  This is when we know we have to recharge soon. 

I'm addicted to Ravelry.  Where is my addicted button to tack onto my shirts?  Or maybe its a bumper sticker I'm requiring.  Seems I spent a long time there again.

This time, I found myself cleaning up the favorites, weeding out the ones I don't end up wanting to make or that I do not want to buy the patterns after all.  I cleaned it up and am down to two pages of my favorites.

Probably won't buy all of them, but they are in the favorites to look at.  You know, inspiration.  Then, I went toy library for awhile and downloaded a bunch of my patterns into my tablet.  I'm sure I've got them stored in other places, but what I like about the tablet is its small and compact, you don't have to fire up an old cheap laptop to get to the patterns. 

I then started looking at the skirt patterns.  Right now I'm working on a skirt pattern and want to be inspired for new ones.  Ending now before the tablet dies and I can't publish this one. 

Jennifer Jo FayCopyrighted July 28, 2013


My skirt is a stockinette stitch taupe and pink skirt.  I want to make a pretty lace one after to go with leggings. 

Reasons to like Facebook

Okay, this morning I have spent a good amount of time on Facebook.  Who doesn't love to go there to kill some time?  I like to usually check out what my friends and family are talking about. 

I enjoy looking at all the quotes and sayings, find myself getting inspired and then some. 

I do hate it though when you begin to read something and your page sends you back to the top and you have to scroll back down to where you were.  I was reading something on Irene Sandler.  I think that's her name.  It was an interesting read about how she smuggled Jewish infants and toddlers and saved lives.  She had a dog in the car to keep the baby noises undetected.  And she put the names of the infants in a jar. 

Finally got back and finished reading.

I like it when I can see a picture of Facebook and it gets me in laughing mode.  Today, it seemed I've been inspired by writing quotes, sayings and some prompts.  I've lingered longer that I sometimes do.

We can't always be inspired by Facebook, but then we have days when we are. 

I also like discovering new FB pages to like.  Women get it free, writing FB pages, etc...

And there's already lots of news about The royal baby edition to Kate and Will.  Along with pictures of a baby with the false teeth. 

I'm just about ready to head over to Triond with new post ideas.  Thanks FB. 

And I've got a stack of library books in front of me.  Don't we just love to sit down and flip through the pages of a cool book to inspire us. 

I borrowed a book the other day that had lots of sewing ideas in it.  Two projects which have me thinking is a really simple skirt pattern and a pattern for fabric roses. 

The fabric roses had me baffled last year and my first stabs at it seemed half good.  I Mau try again.

This one says to have a five foot long facric and two inches width.  Then, you just fold an edge over and do a gather stitch.  Seeing as I've mastered how to make those yo up circles, I may be able to pull off the fabric rose.  And then you can use them on anything.

The one in the picture had them on a pair of shoes.  But I imagine you could use them on anything. 

Jennifer Jo Fay

Copyrighted July 23, 2013

Fun Days

Yay, It's.Friday.  Short and sweet today.  It's a hot one, and I am hoping for a few more yard sales.  I love it when you find what you want.  Saw a cute little table for cheap that could have been cool to redo but had to think its going to be an extra thing to move and its furniture. 

Watched some good movies.  Save the Last Dance was good.  Don't you love dance movies?  I liked one with Anthony Banderas in it a while ago.  He teaches kids how to ballroom dance.  Kids from the wrong side of the tracks. 

Fridays always kickstart a fun weekend.  Hmmmm......snacks, movies, and other fun stuff. 

It's fun driving around finding the sales, but I do hate it when you are led astray and no sale on sight.  Also its a letdown if you get to it and its all baby stuff and just nothing you need. 

Jennifer Jo Fay

Copyrighted July 18, 2013

using this green yarn for a new project. 

Another Hot Day

Stepping out this morning and I can already tell its going to be another hot day.  It didn't last too long for me and am now in a cool air conditioned place.  How many of us have turned on our fans?  The stickiness is no fun, turn fans to high.

Skimming through some magazines and came to a halt on a page for homemade ice cream recipes and about 24 different things to add.  Yum.  I may have to jot down the basic recipe and try it some time. 

It would make you want to rush out to the grocery store to get the ingredients you would need and if you are hungry, watch out.  I went for dip fixings and came out with a small bag of Ruffles fries.  Sounded new and different.  They're not bad, but it tasted pretty much like a large size potato stick. 

The more heart wrenching thing was reading memories of the Sandy Hook victims in a People magazine.  It's still so hard to think about them, and the fact that a bad man took them away from loved ones all too soon.

We should take time out of each day to remember the angels.  Or to remember your loved angels who can't be with you.  Do you ever think its odd when they enter your dreams?  In dreams, it seems as if they never left.  Just depends on the dream.


I'm not up on all the meanings behind your dreams, but I do know many people are inclined to decipher them.  Like if you dream of a tiger or a frog, what is the meaning behind it.  I would think for a tiger it would possibly mean you will have a lot of courage and bravery. 

If its a frog, maybe its either your future prince or the vice versa would be its a slimeball character you wish you never laid eyes on. 

I would like to toss slimeballs out of my life.  One is a pig. 

The day is still young, so there's lots of time left to our hot day, and just how do you want to have it turn out is up to you. 

I'm thinking posts, not sure all I'm going to write about yet, but there is potential within the mind. 

When you write do you color inside the lines or outside the box? 




I read something about writing inside the lines this morning and I'm thinking a post could decipher thoughts on that.  Skeleton comes to mind or the act of fleshing out words.  hmm.....



Jennifer Jo Fay

Copyrighted July 16, 2013

Publishing with Triond

Publishing posts at Triond is fun to do.  I'm also back here now to make myself post a second post here today.  Still wish it would work here to post with my cheapo laptop, but something is glitchy.  I wanted to share some of my Triond posts.  I'll try to post the links to those tomorrow. 

I like to share those occasionally on igoogle but I usually don't do a lot of advertising for my posts. 

Anyway, I'm Jfay1995 there.  I believe I've met my quota there today with twelve posts.  A few are still pending but should be published soon.

As with any writing site, it does take time and effort to start to be more successful in your adventures as an online writer.  Same with maintaining a blog, just for the fact you love to blog.  As of this week, I am going to try to work more at adding extra posts here as well. 

I like the library atmosphere while I am writing, but am looking forward to moving hopefully before the year is out, a new laptop and my own secure internet.  I'm liking the fact I would be able to hop on later in the evening to write more posts.  Whereas the library closes and I'm done.

Triond, like any other site takes time to see your earnings increase.  When I first started, it was like pennies a day, but now that I've been there a while, I am seeing more of a jump in my earnings.  It's still not a lot, but I like the fact that its some money in my pocket, say gas, groceries, anything else, the occasional skien of yarn.  Not that I need more yarn!!!!!  Ha ha ha. 

That's the dilemma of a knitter seeing new colors to add to the stash.  Now, yarn finds at a yard sale is a different story!!!! 




I'm remembering once seeing a pair of knitted handcuffs on a gallery wall.  Maybe we knitters need those to keep us from adding more to the already large stash. 




Triond articles, once you have enough of them can generate more revenue.  Meeting a quota is a good thing to do when posting anywhere.  Some days, I can like anyone else feel I just don't have enough to write about. 

I like it when there are lots of views to the posts.  I've had some posts that would generate close to 2,000 views.  That doesn't happen all the time, but its nice to see. 

My goals with Triond is to see if I can earn more in a month than I have yet to earn.  I guess that is our intent with any writing site. 

Jennifer Jo Fay
 Copyrighted July 15, 2013

Memories of Times Gone By

Do you ever think about times of long ago?  When life was simple and carefree?  This is how most childhoods are supposed to be. 

I'm part of a FB group for the village I grew up in.  There were so many villages like mine back in the seventies and eighties when the world wasn't so built up and gone too far into too much nowadays. 

Our world's were young, but still with a history that came before us.  I was just thinking of how my childhood was.  Everyone was home more often, Moms stayed home with their kids, tended to all the housework while the men worked all day.
 We road our bikes all over the village, tried to escape the siblings and younger cousins so they couldn't find what street we were on. 

We had Nana and Grammy to make lots of cookies and sweets on a regular basis.

We had Moms who invited their friends over for coffee, tea and Sarah Lee pound cake or those frozen cakes.  Lawn chairs out in the back yard, lemonade, tents made up of Mom's old quilts so we could play in it all day.  It was hung over clothslines which hardly anyone uses one of those nowadays. 

There were old roads to walk on to get to a nearby Mall and there wasn't anything built up along the way of these old roads from our long ago past.  Nothing but old trees, tall grass and golden rod, which my Mom loved. 

I don't think it really matters which village you came from, the times were the same. 

Life was different back then.  I wouldn't change a thing about my childhood, as it was idyllic. 

Jennifer Jo Fay

Copyrighted July 15, 2013

how to Maintain Your Blog

Just how do you find time to maintain your blog is truly up to you.  Making yourself come back often is usually the key to a successful blog.  I should work at this one more often. 

I'm back to writing my posts on my Tablet for this blog.  It was maddening I couldn't use my cheapo laptop for it.  Maybe blogger updates?

I'm also beginning to think about moving, which will be about time I moved from this not pleasant surroundings.  A new neighborhood will do me good.

So, how often to post.  Do you find you do it just a few times out of the week or do you try to do it daily?  I've heard many times that if you post more frequently, you can get more traffic to your blog and potentially be much more successful. 

I've been posting more often again at my Triond site and found myself posting about seven to eight articles there.  Some on writing. 

I believe its a matter of making sure you stick with it and success may suddenly begin to knock on your door.  Quality is also key to effective writing.  To seductively sink in our readers is an important tool to use. 

If they come to your blog and ate not satisfied, they will click away to another blog that shall be more precise to what they long to learn. 

Blogging can be power if you do it often and think about what it is you want to say beforehand.

Jennifer Jo Fay

Copyrighted July 12, 2013