I knitted for my friend: A little baby purse of much cuteness! It is my own pattern, “The Practical Purse,” which is currently in testing phase, but will hopefully become my first paid pattern. A miniature version of the purse you’ve probably seen me toting everywhere I go, it includes side pockets and an inner … More On the first day of Christmas
There was good news and bad news about this Christmas. The good news (which really far outweighs anything else, if you think about it) is that we live close to both of our families. As a result, every year we get five Christmases – My family, Jared’s family, my extended family, Jared’s extended family, and … More The Grand Scheme of Things
I am reposting this one as a Christmas gift, as it got cut off in the transfer… and I know most of you who have read it before will still titter, at least a little bit. Merry Christmas!! ———————————————————————————————– This is to the tune of “Divinum Mysterium”, a very old and cool sounding chant-y hymn … More A Rather Literal Christmas Song
So far, there looks to be about eight inches of snow on the ground, and the precipitation hasn’t let up one jot. We sat through Jared’s five attempts to beat a bally Zurg mission in Starcraft, not to mention three episodes of Lord Peter Whimsey, and the stuff is still fallin’ out of the sky at about … More Outside Help
Christmas is 10 days away. I choked on my apple a little bit when I typed that. Not to fear, though. I finished a thing I had been ignoring (even added to it), recovered a project that I had misplaced, entered the fourth level of denial that another project I am 80% done with is … More Choke
The 2009 Furnace War has finally become serious, since a couple weeks ago when the MD winter decided to stop being completely wimpy. I’m nowhere near having to break the ice in the toilet (I doubt that could actually happen south of the Mason/Dixon), but I’m to the point that I find myself implementing careful … More Strategies
to upload a PDF onto wordpress. You pretty much just treat it like an image. There’s even a special place that says “Media.” It took me about four hours to figure this out yesterday, between emailing friends, poking around on the server, Jared getting rebuked for trying to “sudo” (whatever that means), and typing urls … More It’s easier than you think
Today was cold, but not near as cold as yesterday was! Lots more people came out on the newly cleared roads to buy crafts and what not, and we had a glorious time. Miraculously, we didn’t lose any toes. (Okay so it was only 40 degrees out. I hope no Canadians are reading this. Or… … More I wish yarn sold itself.
I woke up this morning to watch the sleet coming down outside our window slowly turn into snow. At first I was worried that the CSA parking lot, where those oh-so-needed customers would be parking, would be a soggy mess. I didn’t need to worry. this is what the parking lot looked like when we … More Slushy Debut
You know wool fumes have gone to your head when, in between working at a yarn shop and trying to start your own wool business, you start adding to your Christmas knitting. This is a terrifically inaccurately colored picture of a hat for our church secretary. I’m calling it the “Crap, Becky has Cancer” hat. … More Time Crunch Causes Brain Injury
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