some good links today!  Check out The Skinny Daily, it’s a site about health and weight related topics and today’s entry has some knitting content!  Fiber is so good for you!

and to keep our hands busy busy – idle hands are the Devil’s work afterall – the winter issue of Knitty is up and is a certain crowd pleaser.  It just keeps getting better and better and makes me wonder why I pay for any subscriptions at all!

My weekend consisted of getting the house all ready for the holidays – lights are hung, tree is blinged out, garlands are draped and I even got the cards in the mail!  I must confess that I am one of those obnoxious people who usually have all their gifts bought and wrapped by now …. but not this year!  I feel the panic setting in …. Did anyone else see that gingerbread house cake in the latest Martha Stewart mag??  I am thinking of giving it a try.  Unlike most prudent bakers, I do not test things out ahead of time, so if I do put it on the holiday menu, I will be baking by the seat of my pants! Being contrary by nature, I also always like to try new things for the holiday menus.  I suppose if the grinch comes along to blow my house down, I could crumb the whole thing up, slap some whipped cream on it and call it a trifle ….