to be cozy. We are having some weather. I have no real news of my own to report – continued progress on the felted flower bag, I expect to be whipping up the roses today and perhaps get some spinning time in. We have a late morning appointment for Poe – it’s check up time …..
awwww ….. I hate to wake him!
I hope you all have a wonderful Thursday – it’s my favorite day of the week for some inexplicable reason.
in a desperate bid for attention, Poe poses by the knitting
As you can see, there has been some progress made on the felted floral basket bag. Since you start at the top, knitting and decreasing towards the bottom it goes fairly quickly. Side one is finished, side two is in progress and then it will be onto the flowers, handles and bottom panel.
The big excitement of my weekend was scoring some ½ price cashmere sweaters at Lord & Taylor. I had an excellent day of shopping with my friend Claire. She is the very best shopping buddy with a knack for finding the best things on the sale rack. We always end up laughing ourselves silly and this time was no exception. After our mall trip, Claire and her husband came over. While the guys were watching the Olympics, I was showing Claire my latest spinning attempts. What truly caught her attention was the possibilities for color blending in the drum carder. So we played around with that for a little bit which led to a small spinning lesson ….. and she’s a natural! Yay Claire!!
Now for some bragging on behalf of Claire ……. her daughter was hired for a summer internship at Betsey Johnson’s! She met Betsey, had an interview and got herself an internship …… did I mention that this girl is 16 years old?? This summer, she will be taking the train into Manhatten and working in a design house! When I was sixteen, I was taking the family’s wood paneled Ford LTD station wagon to rt. 202 and working in a fast food restaurant called Gino’s ……
it has not been easy to be one of my pets these past few months. In the fall, we had to put our Shih Tzu Mo to sleep. Next our dog Daisy was diagnosed with a heart condition, which we monitor daily. And today, our cat Holly passed away. As recently as the beginning of the year, she had been the picture of feline health. The past two weeks were a different story however. She was critically ill and after doing some tests, the vet thought that she most likely had cancer of her spleen. The only consolation is that she died while being petted.
I spent a glorious weekend being wined and dined. Thrown in was some knitting and baking and watching of ‘Arrested Development’ dvds. Marvelous!
Today I am off to the vet because I have a cat who is not acting in her usual fashion. At the moment she is in our basement, underneath a sofa – definitely something wrong. Ugh. I have been seeing far too much of the vet lately!
What this means is that you all are getting the short end of the stick….. there’s a little less blogging time today. I shall leave you with a picture of my weekend baking escapades. This is a first for me …… bread!
can you smell it?
purlingswine 