Ok, so this one’s a bit negative, but so what? A poll is a poll is a poll…So lay down your hooks and cast your votes!!! And guess what, it’s on your right this time————> Surprise!
Veronica graciously made me another button for my blog and here it is. I’m thrilled with this one, too!
Go on, swipe it!
Today was my second CAT at Crochetlist, and it was fun again!. Some different people and some same ones, but I won a PAC again! YAY!!!
For those who don’t know, Crochetlist is a mailing list for crocheters from all over the world and every month from February to October they have a 24-hr chat. Today was this month’s chat (Crochet-A-Thon). Every hour there is a draw for those who’ve been there the whole hour, and the winner gets a PAC!!! I won a PAC last time, too, just haven’t received it yet. You know where you can see pictures when it arrives!
Better yet, one of the hosts couldn’t make it at the last minute, so I jumped in with both feet and hosted for an hour. It wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be, and quite fun, actually. I might actually volunteer, next time…So today I was totally distracted. In fact at the time of posting this, the CAT is still going on, but I felt I’d lingered long enough….So I tore myself away.
There are some members there from Crochetville, too so it it was good getting to know them a little better. Courtney, for one. Anyone else? There are some blogless…
I gaze longingly at the Secret Pal swaps at Crochetville. They sound very interesting. But I’m restrained by a couple of things….
-> Just to mail a package from here to the US (for example) requires at least $11 (if it is to arrive in my lifetime). And that is just for envelopes. I haven’t enquired yet about boxes. So even if I sent just empty boxes twice, I’d be at the spending limit (if I understand it correctly). A lot of the supplies I buy costs much less than that…unless it is in bulk, then I shudder to think what the postage would be…You might remember the green unholy mess that I bought back in June:
-> Most (if not all) SP packages seem to include yarn and/or other crochet accessories. I can’t think that what we get here will actually be worth sending out to anyone…Not yarn or hooks, definitely. That only leaves endless amounts of my own handmade stuff, which would get boring after a time, I should think! Has anyone been in a Secret Pal swap which didn’t involve yarn/hook items?
-> Given Crochetville has about 3 and a half participants from India, how “secret” a Secret Pal would I be, anyway?
If you are still reading this and haven’t rushed off to to strike me from your blogroll subscriptions, maybe you could tell me what you think….I should stick to RAOKs and Christmas in July and the occasional doily swap, I think.
Update:
I’m hugely gratified by the number of comments I’ve got on this post. So many of you have taken the time to write in, and with so much thought behind your comments, I love reading all of them.
Most people seem to agree that swaps are great fun, and I think so, too. To reply to one point raised by Veronica, although I needn’t give my return address on the packages, I’d still have to stick Indian stamps on my stuff and that would be a dead give-away! It would be fun to play the guessing game, but only if there was more choice in the guessees (new word alert!!!)
Hmm.
I think for now I’ll stick to RAOKing and swapping things I could actually use (NOT afghan squares!) RAOKs and wishlists seem to be a bit more flexible for my purposes at this time. I should have great fun building up stacks of bookmarks, doilies (now I have an excuse to make more. YAY!) scrubbies, dishcloths (maybe not, they seem to use cotton yarn….How about socks? I know exactly who can tell me more about these…)
**goes off mumbling**
After much peer pressure, I succumbed and made something(s) from the booklets Cordelia sent me. But, they are for my Elfin duties on Crochetville, and as such, they will be invisible on this space until at least the end of the month, I should think.
I’m just offering up this information as proof that I can finish things! So there!
Despite frenzied campaigning by me, and several of my blogging friends (including Kimberley and Cordelia), the voter turnout for this poll was once again, sad. Without further ado, I present the results:
Which term is good to describe comments on blogs
Blommenting 5 (71%)
Bloming 0 (0%)
Blenting 0 (0%)
Blonting 0 (0%)
Clogging 1 (14%)
Cogging 0 (0%)
Any other 1 (14%)
Total votes: 7
A lot of voters said in the exit poll that they think “Blogmenting” sounds best, hence they chose the first option. As I said to them, it doesn’t sound pithy enough. What do you think? Shall we formalise it then?
Here are the pattern booklets sent me by Cordelia who was cleaning up her attic or something and came across these booklets she didn’t want to throw away, so she offered them to first-comers. I asked for two of them and she was nice enough to send me two extra, and send them all the way to India! Wasn’t that sweet?!
Woohoo!
Yes, I’m no longer a RAOK v****n! Veronika from C’ville made me three buttons for my blog and you can now swipe them from my sidebar, to your right——->
They look like this:
Aren’t they cute?!
On another note, please don’t forget to vote in my poll. I’m receiving interesting inputs from people who’ve already done so. The poll is also to your right ——–>
Does anyone know how to repel crickets? Yes, the creatures that make that noise. We are being flooded (?) by crickets as soon as darkness falls…I’m not scared of them, except that they are very irritating…I can’t keep any light on at all, not even the TV. Suggestions are welcome.
The first picture is of a sunset from our balcony at the western side of our flat. The second one is from the balcony on the eastern/sea-facing side.
I love the colours!
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