Archive for December 2006
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Champagne for fingers
I owe Opal a huge thank you for recommending some wonderful knitting podcasts on her blog, listening to other knitters and spinners has kept me sane through the final stretch of gift knitting and spinning. Between marathon movie sessions with the husband and kids and podcasts I’ve been able to keep on track and ahead [...]
And so what do I do? I blog about it
It’s raining cats and dogs right now. There’s a leak directly over the kitchen sink (hey at least most of the water is going into the sink, I’m not going to complain about that), the shop floor is a soppy mess because I had to put down some old newspapers and catalogs to keep water [...]
Stitch markers, fishsticks, and jello
I managed to give myself a friction burn right in the middle of my right hand ring finger when I was turning yesterday, which has got to qualify as one of the worst places to get a nice swollen blister. Luckily I’m left handed so it doesn’t impede all of my activities, but I am [...]
I will back up frequently and obsessively.
Oh wow. Poor Opal. Her blog freaked out, it might have been the SQL database or just a weird glitch but it was going to this page neither of us have ever seen before. Of course while trying to fix this my laptop decides to just shut down. How is that for luck? Speaking of [...]
I’m not a monkey with a chisel
Technically I have a personal blog that has a shopping cart (with stuff for sale) so it is a shopblog, but I really detest some shopblogs because they are nothing but “Buy this, and ooh lookie, buy this too” and “I just made these, and wouldn’t you know everyone wants one?” So I try to [...]
I dream of turtles
I have weird dreams. Actually, I think my dreams seem weird because I tend to remember at least one or two of them each night and they aren’t so weird, just the more memorable images. Like last night in my dream: I was on a beach, there was a small house, surrounded by water (indeed [...]
