Years ago a dear friend gave me the pattern for a slinky clown, but I had lost the instructions. So I sat down one day and decided to see if I couldn't remember. It isn't hard, might make some changes to the arms and legs. Think this one will be for Tori or she will pick the yarn for the one she wants. For she likes playing with a slinky, though this one won't get tangled.

In the Love2Knit Dishcloth Group on Yahoo we did an exchange where you sent yarn and needles to a partner. Tori my granddaughter is showing off what I received. A set of clover needles, cotton yarn, and since my partner knew that I collected turtles included a turtle scrubber, turtle buttons and a journal. Thank you Alicia. I tried a couple of turtle patterns, but ended up doing the honeycomb pattern, it doesn't show up very well in this picture, but I do like the pattern. We then sent the dishcloth off to someone else and got a dishcloth from someone else. It was fun and different.

I'm having computer issues, so it is hard to post pictures when I finally have some to post. Here is one of the beaded necklaces that I made.

I have to be the worst blogger, but maybe one of these days will get with it. Had been busy with getting ready for the craft show at Chewelah. It was hot, over 100 Friday and Saturday and maybe high 90's on Sunday. When it is that hot the crowds seem to stay away. One granddaughter got sick on Friday before we left home, so just had the oldest with us, and she was a great help. On Sunday her step-mom and little sister came up and that is always a fun time. They usually come on Saturday, but had a wedding to attend. The creek running through the park was well used. It was hot enough we skipped our usual ritual of stopping at Luke's for dinner and came to town and stopped and had salads. So last week was a recoup week, Sam had to go home Tuesday night, and I had Tori on Monday and Tuesday, so had the rest of the week to myself. Did get some scrubber orders done and mailed. It has been so hot, guess we are lucky that we have two pools we can use, and with the girls here we used them every day. today is just Tori and I and so will be just the 2 of us at the pool. She is getting where she doesn't think she needs her life jacket, finding out she can swim without it and can touch in the shallow end.