So, I just received an e-mail from Patternworks hawking the Plymouth Yarns Booklet “Done by Monday Afghans.” The description says, and I quote: “Cast on Friday after work and be finished by Sunday evening! All you need is a weekend to complete any of the 15 afghans in this warm-and cozy collection. “ They all [...]
I now own three eyelash curlers. For a woman who hardly wore makeup at all for nearly a decade (i.e. only on very, very special occasions) that seems excessive.
(Yes, I have a justification, feeble though it may be. I had a Revlon curler that served me well for years, but the pad was finally wearing [...]
You’d think I’d learn.
This is a pair of socks that I’m knitting for my friend Guin’s birthday. You may remember them.
You might also notice that the “pair” currently consists of one sock. That’s because I finished this – the first sock – tonight. Guin’s birthday is April 17 (three days before mine,) which means I [...]
Tonight was a blur of costume shopping at my favorite costume shop (can anyone hook me up with a good dress in fat girl sizes that screams fire?) and going to my friend’s gallery opening – very exciting on both counts, but I’m about ready to fall over.
If you have a moment, however, I highly [...]
…going out with the girls to a fantastic, tiny Middle Eastern restaurant and coming home with enough Baklava to share.
I know, I know! It’s another content-free blog post from me. I feel terrible, if it’s any consolation.
But really, if you had just spent four hours answering essay question for something that you usually consider your hobby but has felt a lot like work recently…well, you’d be too burnt out to blog too. (It was [...]
The Baby Surprise Jacket was delivered to the parents-to-be with all due fanfare:
I know we don’t do it for the applause, but it’s nice to have your work appreciated. It was oohed and aahed over, and I was proclaimed the Queen of Knitters. It gives you the warm fuzzies, yanno?
Oh, and thank you all for [...]
Knitting buttons onto finished item: more frustrating than advertised. Sewing buttons back onto random pants and shirts did not prepare me.
(Tomorrow, Bradon and I are celebrating our one year anniversary a couple weeks early by going to see Phantom of the Opera. I’ve taken the day off of work so that I don’t have to [...]
Most of the time I don’t even watch. My eyes go to my book, to the movie playing on our TV, to my husband’s face. I am barely more conscious of what my hands are doing than I am of my own breathing. The movements have become a part of me, something that my body [...]
