WISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My DEAR aunt Mirto, she is my lighthouse in my life. Dear aunt, how can I tell you more that I really think of you....the best aunt ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Susan, she is so nice,my son's girlfriend, tender, sweet, always there for him

Socks, socks, gardening and my loving Cristina, is gone, I cried so much, she is 6 feet under...my feet. Now comes Celeste, 2 months old, lovely, we are knowing each other.
Fireplace at the farm, and a wood kitchen device.

My farm home. It is winter, but I love that avocados and lemons trees are evergreen, and lemons, all year long with fruit. So I make lemon pie, lemon sorbet, and the Hass avocados doesn't ripe when they are hanging in the tree, so I keep some for me to have them all year round. I am learning to use the mud oven for make bread, meat, it is so fun.
I am crocheting a blazer with short rows, it says "experienced", and I am finished it!!!.

Here are the pics.

Hi:
At last, a pattern made by me!!. I choose hairpin lace for my scarf. Nothing new, except that making a sc, I made a dc instead. The scarf is easy and fast, just follow my instuctions, you have one loop on your hook, turn, grab the yarn just turned, down between the hairpin loop, grab again the yarn, so you have 3 loops on hook, and make a dc. Why?, it is warmer, and looks much more neat, I made my scarf with ombre yarn, and 2 strips of 160 loops. I must wait for my DD to help me upload pics, that will be soon.
The reason I am not posting that much, is because I am running the farm!! Hope you like the scarf, and sure, I made a poncho (again), and a hat, from Naidas crochet, but I changed a little bit. Also boas, and drop stitch scarves.

I want to share my cream, I looked all over, it must be with no preservants, petrochemicals, and easy to do. You need 10 liquid oz of almond oil, 1 oz beeswax, 3 liquid oz of water phase. The oils, can be replaced with some avocado oil, or rosehip, I do like mine white, and almond oil, is so moisturizing to your skin. Water phase, any floral water, I use rose water, if it is difficult for you to find, use plain water, or an infusion of green tea, white tea, aloe vera gel...anything you like, I add some zinc oxide, for sunscreen, here the ozone layer is very thin. Some people add borax, not me, sometimes I add a multivitamin-mineral pill, those are ready to use for your skin cells, or/and a t (2 casules) of vit E, oily one.
In a double boiler melt the beeswax with the oils (if I add vit E and others, other oils can be expensive) take out of heat, add the water phase, and use your stick blendor (the one used for babies, cheap and so useful, I think 12-20 US$), let it rest while it comes just warm, then add the vitamins, if you want to, and some nice scent, essential oils, as rose, sandalwood, lavender, or fragance oils used in bakery, and chocolates, or the same place you buy the essential oils, just google.
While is still warm, I use a clean nice jar for keeping it, now mine is just almond oil, and scent of citrus flowers (sorry, the name is out of my mind), just 4-8 drops/30 gr of cream.
If you are going to camp, add citronella, geranium, that will keep bugs away.
Sorry to tell that kids below 2 yo, do not use essential oils, so add citronella to a candle.
For teens, they need also moisturizing, but they stay away of creams, thinking that pimples will appear, then do use tea tree oil, antiseptic.
Great gift, but not me, I use my cream daily, from my hair (great conditioner) to my toes, after I use the special stone for feets, add some lemon juice or cider vinegar if fungus itches. The same for all your body, armpits, hair if you have danroof, do not worrie, once it dries, the smell goes away.

Here some pics, the view from my window, me, and one soap batch, scent?, orange, ylang-ylang, and citrus flowers essential oils.
I bought a great fragance oil, "sex on the beach", I diluted 2% in almond oil, that is my parfum. Be careful, aromatherapy oils are diluted 2%, be sure to buy plain EO or FO.

As you can see, my aftenoons have been very busy!!. The cactus flower, lol, it is a kind people use to go up to the sky, I think they cook it, and the flowers really last one day. The poncho is from e-pattern central, the same as one of the purses, the other is from interwave press, the rug, well I looked at about.com, the tulip stitch, and hw to use it, as I really like it, surprise!, annies attic published a "rug", that is serendipity.
My hnds sing with my self-made tools, my soul cries so loud!, I do want to go back to my litle town by the seashore. I miss my friends, I WANT MY LIFE BACK. Here I am so alone. Hope some day somebody takes the time to read my blog!!.

Well, no summer vacations for me, and almost no internet, just today the company cames to fix te phone and internet. It was kind of boring to go to a cyber, to the town. But I cannot miss a day of Annies Attic pattern, when you get used to something is so dificult not to do it. My DD came for a visit and I think day aftr tomorrow she will be back. In the meanwhile, I finished the purse, mde another, and something suppossed to be a rug, but it is a shame that my work will be on the floor, here are some pics,

I wanted, but, as you know, God has the final word. So, here I am, working at the farm. I love my house back in that nice town, but now, I must run full time the farm. I don't even have my clothes here, :((. I guess I will go at the weekend.
I am happy, my DD, will spend much more time with me, my son, he will be back I hope in August-September, for good.
I don't even have my DC (dear computer), but Cristina, my yorkie is here with me.
It is a difficult task to run this farm almost alone, lucky me, most of the workers knew me, when I helped my late Daddy. Now, we (my DD and me), have to fix the house, it is big, but not that cozy for us. I will go now to the house and search for a camera. Not in a hurry, mornings here are clouded, but at noon, sun wants to warm and light up our lives.

Some embroider I made a time ago, the draw pattern, and teacher, Maria Lecaros. Thanks Maria, you helped me so much. Embroider is far away from just cross stitch. She taught me about 50 different ones, how, and when to use them. She also fight with 12 women, trying to teach us color theory. I told her, that it depends, for me color is just a light wave lenght, or else that teach me hw I can mix all colors and get white. Now I know, our eyes, are tricky, never ever buy a yarn/thread, without looking them away from others, as our eyes cannot get the real difference, as you suppose green is darker than red, and that is not true, also to look at the yarn with our choices (the crewell was made with yarn), and stitches.
That gave me a huge background on how to choose a color, and create a fair island.
Talking about crewell, never, ever try to copy oil painting, nature has not defined endings, or drastic color changes. Mountains, believe me, are shades of purple, trees CAN be green, all shades in a single one, but they are brown, red, yellow, blue, white, orange, and for me, yellow all over, lol.
Tomorrow, no in 6 hours I must go to the farm. traffic, is something difficult, just patience, but, believe me, I am dumb, I bought my car without air conditioning. What for?, where I live, I never use it, and it is so expensive, luxury taxes.

I don't have a pic. The recipe of this week, use you oven tray, and sprinkle salt, any you use, about half cm, (1 inch is 2.5 cm), meaning not leaving the tray color shows, white, place a chicken,washed and with skin. Sprinkle salt as "frosty the chicken". All white, bake it as usual, the salt will take out all the fats, and will be like a crust, take it away, skin also. Never ever any meat absorbs more salt that needs, so you will have your chicken very low cal. Serve it with vegetables or, what I do, bake some tomatoes, potatoes, onions, using another tray, and not wasting more energy and unexpensive way to do them.
I must separate my posts, with labels, as an old lady, let me learn first how the blog thing works! Ruth
The soap, oops, I have to make more, lol, you must use potassium hidroxide for liquid soap, and I asked, asked, nothing, only sodium lye. One day, telling somebody to open for me the place where dangerous things are at the farm, 2 bags (45 lb each), of potaqssium hidroxide, dumb, dumb me, you cannot use sodium on any vegetal, so for cleaning the foses that gives them water, you must use potassium hidroxide.
I just finished taken pics, with the layer on top, as usual, you remove it, add a nice aroma,(essential oils), and color. Cristal clear. Mine, pink, and rose eo. For shampoo?, try sodium bicarbonate, not baking soda, it is rough, you can fell the blood flowing to your root's hair, taking away all dirt and bad oils, keeping all the good ones. Or just a beaten raw egg with a t of olive oil, let it there, while you do something else, rinse and feel like a model.