How To....................Thumb-Knit!

Hello all! This is Gwen, and today I'm going to teach you how to thumb-knit! It's SUPER easy, you'll pick up in NO time. Here we go............................Materials needed: a ball of yarn, thumbs.
STEP ONE: make a slipknot with the end of the ball of yarn, and put it over your thumb. Tighten, but not so much that you can't slide it over your finger with ease. The loop around your thumb should still be attached to  the ball of yarn.

 STEP TWO: take the yarn about two inches-or more-down from your thumb, and wrap it AROUND your thumb above the original loop. Like so.
STEP THREE: To make a stitch, take your original loop (the one on the bottom), and bring it OVER your thumb. You should end up with this.


Repeat this, wrapping the yarn over your original loop and taking it over, many times, and you can make LONG LONG LONG "chains."
But wait! There's more!
ENDING A CHAIN! So you think you're done making this chain, when suddenly, you realize that if you just take the loop off your thumb, all your stitches will come undone.  Here's how you end it off so that that doesn't happen. 
STEP ONE: Take out your scissors-any kind will do-and cut the part of the yarn that's still attached to the ball.

Pull the end through the loop your thumb's in (take your thumb out first) and pull. Trim. Voila!

To make your chains thicker, instead of using a ball of yarn, use the chain you desire to be thicker.

You know what? I think that I am going to make more tutorials in the future. And that, was Gwen's point of view!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw!

Hi, it's Gwen (again) . I found this online..............Love it!

Faith in humanity-RESTORED! And that, was Gwen's point of view!

Merry Christmas!!!!!

Merry Christmas,  Life According To Gwen-ers!!!!! Yesterday, if you're silly and you didn't know,  was Christmas. Among other things, I received from my parents.......a BlackBerry PlayBook! And games, and clothes, and a whole long list of other stuff.  I am currently writing this on my tablet. :) I may not actually get used to the controls...........it's so different than my Mom's iPad! But I'll try.........and that, was Gwen's point of view!

Wow!

Thought I'd share this:


Thieves trying to get over the barbed wire will not have any trouble.......though they might slip.
And that, was Gwen's point of view!

May long weekend day 2

Hello, this is Gwen. My family-consisting of Zombieboy and my parents and me-and two other families (I will list in a second) are on vacation in Montebello. This is an event we like to call May long weekend. We go away for a weekend in May every year;we rent a colossal house and live in it for a weekend. The official list of people here is here. In the MCGCV family, there is Crazy Cody (he has a blog), C-Ling, V-8, Phil Plasma (him too), and Kitchen Diva. In the CE family, there is Page girl, Rabid Snail, Mesty, and Cakemaster. And then of course there is my family. Right next to me there is a rather panoramic cracked picture window. I can see forest, then a little more forest, then a little more, then a river. It is quite beautiful. I can't help but notice a small house/shack in the trees. I think I'll write a horror story about that. Me, Page girl, and Crazy Cody went out exploring down the hill that Far Horizons (the name of our house) is mounted on. Let's just say that it involved a lot of mud, crunching leaves, and climbing rocks. I am going to write another post tomorrow, hence the "day 2" part of the title. I couldn't write one yesterday because it was so crazy, unpacking and figuring out where every one was going to sleep. Well, bye for today. And that, was Gwen's point of view!

      

 

Action figures and Lego

Hello, and welcome to another exiting post from life according to Gwen! In the event category, Uncle Zombie (Mom's brother) came over! He is really fun to play with (especially action figures) because he sets up an adventure path both outside and inside for our heroes. Sometimes he takes our toy animals out (name a species, we'll probably have it), puts them in a group, and pretends they're genetically mutated. He also lets us blur the line between DC and Marvel. In one game we had Spiderman and the Hulk collaborating with Superman and Green Lantern. In another, Supergirl (my character) had a crush on Hal Jordan (one of UZ's characters). The games most often involve kidnapped heroes. In today's adventure, he sent us through twists and turns to find the Dragon Skull of Destiny. It's purpose was to get back our Power Matrix, and the crystal that poweres it, because if not, the DC/Marvel headquarters (a.k.a our treehouse) would explode in 24 hours. We had to use the skull to open a force field that Trollag, a fat troll, was putting up to keep us from taking the matrix back. Hawkgirl (my character) said, after finding out the base was about to explode, that she didn't want to die because she had a date tomorrow. Hulk (one of Uncle Zombie's characters), who liked to randomly smash things, helped steal back the Batman Sword of Killing Undead Things. He said that Hulk no like bugs, and then he smashed the wall, and as rocks and plastic bugs fell away, in an area between two rock ledges, there was the sword. UZ is also a genius with Lego. He can build virtually anything! Anyway, this proves that if you put imagination into it, even the most boring things can be awesome! And that, was Gwen's point of view!

Hope it'll be better next year

Hi again. The ceighlidh last night was quite fun and tiring, but there was no dancing! Can you believe it? No dancing! What`s a party without dancing...not a party, that`s for sure. Anyway, Zombieboy had tons of fun running around like a fiend outside. There was a park and a small spiderweb, and also a whole bunch of secret passage ways. In the basement, there was a couple of really rowdy teenagers who wouldn`t get out, no matter what. This really ticked my bff off, `cause that`s the syncro team`s practice area. Among our plans to get them out: if the boy started talking, I would say "JFH, did you say something?" then she would say "No, I didn't say anything." We had a laugh over that. Then we went up, got a lovely backup team consisting of Emc2, Barbie, Spiderman (JFH's other siblings), Zombieboy, and a couple of Emc2's friends. Then we went down, and yelled (quietly) for them to get out. Down with the syncro's headquarters, there are bathrooms and a shower. On the shower's wall there was a small, brown spider. Knowing me, a certified arachnophobe, I screamed. But, I am a scorpio, and scorpions are arachnids, so I went up to the boy who was going to smack it, and said right in his face, "you now, that's my cousin there on that wall." Then he said, "How? It'a a spider. You are a human. It's impossible."And I said, "I'm a Scorpio and scorpions are arachnids. So are spiders. come on JFH, let's get out of here." I said to the nearest person, "make sure nobody smacks it." Then we left. Anyway, goodbye. And that, was Gwen`s point of view!