After!
The cupcake didn’t make it home without needing a little glue gun surgery. Had it shipshape in no time.
My new cappucino mug holds 2 cups of coffee, which makes me very happy.
Ready for the blizzard
Oh Portland, Silly Portland. Why must you freak out over a little snow? We are supposed to be socked in with snow today. It is early, granted, but all I see so far is slush and lots of rain. Phooey. In any case, I am prepared with my recently finished hat/mitten combo. I knit them for running [...]
Around here, birthdays last all year long
We are perfect examples of how to be simultaneously very cool and lame. The cool part – in an effort to stem the flow of, well, junk, into the house at birthday and holiday time, we are trying to give experiences instead of stuff. Pumpkin would love nothing better than to be buried up to [...]
Happy New Year
To start a new year, I bring you my Christmas gift to my family. The artist is Chris Haberman. We each filled out a commission questionnaire and submitted a photo. The genesis of this idea can be laid at the door of my dear Grandma Rosie. My paternal grandparents had caricatures painted of them and [...]
Got books?
We do! Despite our efforts to keep a lid on purchases, and frequent trips to the public library, books still seem to flood our shelves. All four of us are avid readers, and every room in our house has its own book shelf, often more than one. We are fortunate to have the kind of [...]
New Toy
I often find myself with surplus produce, as I subscribe to an organic produce delivery service and I grow a garden. I try to find a balance between the deliveries and the garden but inevitably I end up with surplus. I have been know to drop a huge zucchini on the neighbor’s doorstep, ring the [...]
Alert!
Pix is having an Easter Egg hunt! Now that I have your attention…I’m back. For how long, who knows? I’m not juggling so much coursework, but life doesn’t seem to be slowing down much. I am over on Facebook more regularly, but I miss blogging so I shall give it a go…again. WKD shows up [...]
Molly
I finished it! Molly Ringwald, from Knit scene Fall 2006, knit as small as I could reasonably get it and it is still baggy. Fits great around the shoulders, so my recommendation would be to size this for the shoulders. I did use bamboo silk, which is a really stretchy fiber, so that should be [...]
I got it bad
It’s hard when one has too many projects on the needles. Progress is not what it could be, even when one has Season 3 DVD of Weeds to get through. The upside is that no matter my mood, I have a project to fit it. So I knit on, promising myself that I won’t start [...]
things that get in the way of knitting
Vacations Gardens Shopping and Walter No, he was not named after the farting dog. We hit the jackpot at the Oregon Humane Society and we have all fallen head over heels for the newest member of our family. He is supposedly a 2 year old Shih-Tzu, but is a bit large for a Shih-Tzu. He [...]
