check out my new swimming headgear! a big thanks to Mary for the bday prezzie! I will certainly be the talk of the temple and will be leaving them in my wake (literally!). You will be happy to hear that I have ordered some yarn for my upcoming sweater project. I decided on Araucania Nature [...]
Archive for January, 2007
shayna punim
Posted in daily living,, knitting, on January 31, 2007 | 10 Comments »
calorimetry
Posted in family,, knitting, on January 29, 2007 | 14 Comments »
I know many of you are suckers for the button tin. Here are some pictures of mine. This was inherited from my Grammy. Many of the buttons are loosely tied together and many came from dress shirts – carefully snipped off and tied together before the shirt went to the rag bin. I have to [...]
Posted in knitting, on January 26, 2007 | 11 Comments »
thank you thank you for your birthday wishes! and your many suggestions regarding my sock and yarn choice suggestions. For now I am ignoring the socks. I want to simply attach the Koigu and finish the damn things, but fear that I will never wear them if they are mismatched to such an extent. On [...]
it’s my birthday and I’ll cry if I want to…..
Posted in daily living,, knitting, on January 24, 2007 | 32 Comments »
First things first – my package from Margene! a handmade card! Margene recognizes my inner hot mamma! she hasn’t been the same since our kiss ;) how sweet is that sachet?! it smells so good Thanks Margene – you’re the best!! and now for the birthday heartbreak in the form of a small story ……. [...]
Posted in blogging, on January 23, 2007 | 5 Comments »
this is a good one!
Posted in family,, knitting, on January 23, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Thank you for all your kind wished on my MiL’s behalf. It turns out that her broken wrist is a god send. During the stress test, her heart rate went even lower and so today she is getting a pace maker with the wrist surgery now set for Thursday. Her fall was most likely due [...]
ouch!
Posted in family,, house projects on January 22, 2007 | 12 Comments »
We had some excitement around here this weekend – and not the good kind. On Saturday Boar got a call from his mother saying that she had fallen and was sure her wrist was broken. Off to the ER. Angie was coming off a ladder and had one foot on the ground and the other [...]
at last!!
Posted in daily living,, family, on January 19, 2007 | 12 Comments »
it’s not much but at least it’s something!
Pictures!
Posted in spinning, on January 18, 2007 | 14 Comments »
I know I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again —- I love my spinning guild! Last night’s meeting was a workshop on dyeing silk caps. The workshop was fantastic and lots of kudos to Rosane who pulled the whole thing together for us. Before we dive in, every meeting starts out with some [...]
I say ….
Posted in knitting, on January 17, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Remember yesterday when I said that sometimes simple is best, implying that nothing is better than k2p2 ribbed socks? Well, I am not saying that that’s not true. But I will say that it is not true in this case. Let me just say that the Shirley Stacy pullover has ribbed sleeves. Two of them. [...]
