Spring is in the air!!!. September 18th, our national day, and I know how to dance our national dance. Here at the farm is so real nice to be with all the nice people, and Celeste, my new yorkie, she is just a puppy. At first, it is an adaptation period, to know each other, now, we can enjoy our company (and bed), also new people at the office, Teresita and Willy.
Just today I asked to place the flag, waving with the wind. The blue of the sky, the white of the snow up in the moubtains, the star, Lucero, and the red of our national flower, copihue, and the blod of the indians, fighting against the spaniards. We are proud if we believe one drop of them is in ours.
BTW, I finished another pair of socks, and a blouse, all for me, lol.

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.

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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,