So, Why would you do this?

When you travel abroad and illegally bring drugs into a country that has the death penalty for drug trafficking, you have agreed to play Russian Roulette with that country. When I travel I greatly respect that foreign county's laws and research them before I go. Even taking in prescription drugs that are legal can be dicey. I realize this and respect the law.

Indonesia

I won't make any friends by stating that I agree with Indonesia. I have experienced first-hand that legalizing Marijuana has ruined where I live. And yes, alcohol creates the same problems and it is legal, go figure. and yes, I have drank alcohol and am the first one to raise my hand and state, "Hi, I'm a hypocrite."

I will also state, drugs and alcohol cause A LOT of problems and if you stay away from them you have a lot less problems.

I hope President Joko Widodo stands firm with his capital punishment law. I am really tired of people not taking responsibility for their actions and not wanting to be held responsible for their actions. I am also tired of the bleeding heart organizations that make a huge stink about the death penalty when there is no stink to be made. Don't get me wrong, I believe in protecting those that should be protected. These people are not them. The children that are born addicted, the people who die because someone else is on drugs and caused their death are.

The people that did the illegal drug trafficking where all for taking advantage of the extremely high payoff if they got away with what they were doing. Trust me, I worked in a medium security prison and speaking with the offenders, they were all about the payoff and smugly informed me that they had no remorse because the one time they were caught there were 10,000 more times that they were not and are very smug about this fact. Smug, smug, smug. Grrr.

I hope Indonesia stays strong and I wish more countries were like them.

I'm tired of the smug attitude and not being held responsible for your actions, and the organizations that protect them, aren't you? I wish we had the death penalty for drug trafficking here.

Good day,
L

I lurvs it here...

This:



Is today.
No need to say anymore.

Good Day!
L

dear friend...

I'm feeling a tiny bit melancholy, and have recently been going through old photos.

This is one of my all-time favorites - July 2011:



The cat has transcended and I miss her. Her name is Mix.

The dog is still present and she is a wonderful companion. Her name is Kasey. Kasey loved Mix. Mix did not share the same feelings.

Send me all the news,
L

Conversations...

"You can tell us."

"No, I'm not supposed to tell."

"Did mommy tell you specifically not to tell?"

"well... no..."

"Then you can tell us."

"Well...ok, but you have to promise to forget it after I tell you."

Conversations...

"I wonder what these little green things are?" "They're too dill-like tasting to be peas."

"They're capers."

"What???" "How could you possibly know that?" "You cannot possibly know that."

Shrugs.

"Oh Waitress, can you tell me what those round green things are in my food?"

"They're capers."

Conversations...

"What is this???," "and what does it do?"

"a Turkish spindle, and you use it to make yarn."

"What???" "you don't know what that is." "how could you possibly know what this is and what it does?"

"I know, because my mom has one and uses it to make her own yarn."

"oh."


These are mini ones (and I luvs them):



Good day,
L

embroidered...and felted...

embroidery is finished and its now felted. It's still ugly (sigh), although it is period correct for my 3rd person interpretation volunteer gig.

Waiting for the hex frame to finish and put it all together. wish me luck.

Front and back:






Happy textiling.
Good day,
L

knitting news...embroidery.

hello,

I'm making this pattern, and have knit the bag in the round, which you're NOT supposed to do - but I don't like knitting all the parts separate and then felting and then trying to sew it all together, which gave me nightmares (and a headache) just thinking about it. I figured out how to knit it in the round while doing the colour work and am happy with the results. I now have to embroider the flowers, etc, which sadly I lost steam on this project because it was supposed to be done in January 2016 and is still not done. sigh.

here's a photo of the knitting done:



and here is a photo of the red flower embroidery:



only two more flowers to embroider and then I get to hard felt this puppy. Very excited to see how much it shrinks as it is currently huge!

I call this my Mary Poppins Satchel. I am looking forward to finishing. Its also period correct (I checked)(late 1800s) for the 3rd person interpretation volunteering that I do. I'm tired of carrying a flour sack with all my stuff in it and thought this would be cool.

Happy knitting,
Good day,
L

lost at sea...dear friend.

I'm feeling a little lost at sea these days.

need I say more???

Send me all the news.
Good day,
L