Happy New Year!!

2011 Really?? WOW How did this happen?  I am sure I did not get any older but somehow the year has flown by.  I am furiously working on the new studio to get everything finished for the Open House in a couple of weeks.
New Years Resolutions.......... Well to start I will do a much better job at keeping my blog updated!  I know I have said that before but, it will seriously help that my new building is going wireless this week and I will actually have a connection to the interwebs.  Whoohooo!!
I have not forgotten about the book.  I have been writing and testing new patterns.  I have 12 completed and 5 in process and a few more rattling around in my head.  I even wrote a knit pattern!!  (Somebody stop me I am crossing over to the dark side!!)
I could ramble on about all the usual new year resolutions; spend less money, exercise more, eat right, blah, blah, blah, but we all know 1 week from now I'll blow it so lets be more realistic.

My words of wisdom for your new year are this:

 If you dream, It will happen.  Take time to believe in 6 impossible things everyday before breakfast.  I do!

 (OK, so the fact that I don't eat breakfast shouldn't change the idea.) 

Happy new year to all,

may your dreams for this year come true!

Press Release for Dynamic Massage & Bodyworks

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Jo’Elle Galo
Dynamic Massage and Body Works
301 West First Street Suite 303
Board of Trade Building
218-310-9883

Joellegalo@hotmail.com

GRAND OPENING

Dynamic Massage and Body Works moves to the Board of Trade Building
Jo’Elle Galo, CMT and owner of Dynamic Massage and Body works will celebrate the Grand Opening of her new studio on Sunday, January 23rd from 11:00 -3:00 and Monday January 24th from 11:00 to 6:00. Come in and enjoy free chair massage, and Paraffin hand wax. Enter the drawing for a free hour massage and receive 10% off any appointments scheduled during the grand opening celebration.

Jo’Elle Galo, Certified Massage Therapist in the Twin Ports since 1999, has relocated Dynamic Massage and Body Works to Suite 303 of the Board of Trade building. “I am delighted to have the opportunity to bring comprehensive massage therapy services to downtown Duluth”.

In a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere Dynamic Massage and Body works offers 30-120 minute massage appointments, chair massage, Escalon Relaxation, Deep Tissue and Pregnancy Massage, Hot Paraffin hand treatment, Lymph Drainage Therapy, Trigger Point Release, Stress Release, Diabetic foot massage, Hot Stone Therapy and Muscle Fatigue Release treatments.
The benefits of massage include increased circulation, lower blood pressure, reduced stress, pain reduction, accident and injury rehabilitation, medical maintenance and supports overall well being.
Visiting Dynamic Massage and Body Works could be the first step to a healthy life style.

New Project?? WHY??

Why is it, I am sitting in my chair surrounded by three projects I have recently started and not yet completed, I feel this impulse to look through my past magazine issues to find a new idea?  I love the 100% silk I am working with, as well as the new Merino wool scarf project.  What is it about crafters in general that makes us want to start the next thing??  Are we all a little bit ADD and can't complete 1 project before we start another?  It it as simple as some sort of chemical imbalance in our brains that explains it, or is it the creative side that just wants to keep moving forward?  I love the creative part of my brain but sometimes it gets in the way of the technical side of completeing projects.  If anyone out there has figured out a way deal with both of these issues please, I beg you to step in and help.  I am also quite sure I am not the only one here with this problem.

Where did the summer go??

August 18th today???  Where did the summer go???? 

        Well, Mike and I went to 5 different blues festivals this summer.  We traveled quite a bit and saw some amazing Blues acts.  We first started out for a one day event in Minneapolis MN.  It rained but it was still a great day.  Next, we left the country and saw the Thunder Bay Blues Festival.  It was fantastic.  We were home for two days and then we left for Sioux Falls South Dakota.  It was a Jazz and Blues Festival that we really enjoyed.  One week later we left for Grand Rapids for the newly relocated Boundary Waters Blues festival.  Mike managed the bar and I ran the hospitality, back stage area.  We worked harder in that week of "vacation" then we do all year long, call us nuts but we loved it and can't wait to go back next year.  Nine days later it was the start of Bayfront Blues Festival. The weather was not great for it but we enjoyed the last of our vacation days.
        Now that life has settled down just a bit; well for me anyway, I promise I will start back with my posts.  I will soon give you more details about our trips and add some photos from some of them. (my blog is called Crochet Blues after all.)  I am also starting a new job at Yarn Harbor.  I am very excited about working there and helping people choose yarn and answering questions.

You know you are an adult when.....

     You know you have become an adult when a new major appliance is exciting.  Our stove finally gave up the good fight.  I guess it decided it would try to take us with it on the way out.  I smelled gas, we checked the stove and it was turned on and kicking gas into the room.  The boy-child turned it off and about 10 minutes later it was doing it again.  We unplugged it and sent it out the door before it could poison us or blow up our home.  Small details.  We went shopping all over town, looked at stoves and ended up buying one at the first place we looked.  We got the new one home and it is happy in our kitchen.   It is really shiney!  Mike and I have gone into the kitchen just to look at it.

      I started looking around and noticing all those things you walk past everyday.  The muddy paw prints on the floor, the jelly finger prints on the front of the counter. Lets not even talk about the kickplate under the fridge.  That is just tooo scary of a place to go.  I watch too many ccrime scene shows, I guess I have other ways of collecting dna for my kids if they ever go missing.  I can get rid of the fingerprints I have in jelly, preserving thier dna.  After crawling around the floor, scrubbing and cursing myself for not doing it sooner, I got it looking pretty good and then after all that work it was time to cook a meal and make dirty dishes, let the dog in and track more mud in to the kitchen.... AHHHHHHH.  I gave up and called for delivery!!

Hockey Palyers are not right in the head!!

           Hockey players are just not right in the head. Now I understand the game is everything and the show must go on, I grew up in both theatre and “the State of hockey”, but sometimes you should step back and look at life for a second. I am specifically talking about hockey players who lose teeth like Duncan Kieth just did in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. He got hit and knocked out 4 teeth. He had 3 root canals and went back to the game. Now a normal person would go to the dentist and actually take a day off from work, not a hockey player. I wanted to do some research so I went online and searched for “hockey players teeth out” the first entry I got was this one.


amandakaschube ‎: 3rd grade: I lost my front tooth (via a volleyball net) and still went to my brownie meeting that night. I'm hockey player tough. #justsayin

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6 minutes ago

So what are we teaching our kids????

These are some comments from the night Belanger lost his teeth.

AP Photo/Nick Wass"I knew I was in trouble, but what are you going to do? It's the playoffs," Eric Belanger said Saturday of his injuries.

Belanger says Saturday he "felt my teeth shatter, right away," when Canadiens defenseman Marc-Andre Bergeron's stick hit him in the mouth in the first period of Montreal's 2-1 victory at Washington in Game 5 of their playoff series Friday night. Belanger needed some serious dental work at the arena, getting exposed tooth roots trimmed -- then returned to the ice midway through the third period. He was hit 2 more times in the same place that night; he had to leave the end of the game to get needed medical attention.

I am not putting down the game or the players; I myself am a fan of the game and follow it religiously but it does not change the fact and all this just goes to prove my point –

Hockey players are not right in the head.

Crochet Patterns for Sale

Patterns For Sale

I will soon have my crochet patterns available for sale from this blog.  They will be in a pdf download and will be processed through paypal.  They are currently available on Ravelry.com

The crochet patterns I currently have available for purchase are:

Crochet Felted Monk Satchel

 

Crochet Summer Hat

More coming soon.