Hey. Honest-to-god water on the moon! This is SO COOL, people!
Yes, I AM a NASA Junkie
November 13, 2009 at 6:35 pm (CameraWorks, Celebrations, Fandom, Good Stuff, Media, Out of the Ordinary, Travels, Truisms)
If It’s Fall
November 9, 2009 at 9:09 pm (CameraWorks, Good Stuff, Pets and Other Housemates, Pleasures of the Flesh, Truisms)
There will be Beef and Black Bean Soup
and naps under cozy quilts.
A Friday Off
November 6, 2009 at 5:41 pm (Ailments, CameraWorks, Consumerism, Family, Fandom, Knit Goods, Media, Projects, Truisms)
While watching “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean” Wednesday night (God, Ava Gardner was beautiful), took pictures of almost all the hats I’ve made. Must now resize them to post on etsy. Hope to use free time over the weekend to photograph and upload some more worked-all-those-weeks-for-nothing-then-couldn’t-even-make-it-to-the-festival things.
Hannah’s had the stomach/throwing up things the last couple of days. Her best friend was just diagnosed with mono. Lots of friends nearer and nearer to all three of us are down with the flu. The germy circle is closing in around us. Who will be next? What will the symptoms be?
Watching a stunning, searing, brilliant piece called “God on Trial.” From the BBC, about Auschwitz prisoners. Quiet. And something that will stay with me.
Cameras
November 3, 2009 at 8:53 pm (CameraWorks, Frustration, Good Stuff, Just Because, Opinion, Truisms)
Got all the hats that I made for the festival out tonight to take etsy pictures, and. . . My camera battery was dead.
This is a thumbnail of all the pictures of my life right now.
I was also going to continue the H****way / Laurie feud, and while looking for images to use therein, I came across this:
Even I gotta give it up here.
Uh…
October 31, 2009 at 5:10 pm (CameraWorks, Consumerism, Frustration, Knit Goods, Not Much in Particular, Projects)
New books: hattitude and Noro: Meet the Man Behind the Legendary Yarn. Nice ways to stay distracted today, along with a couple of catalogs that came in the mail. Thank goodness for libraries, huh?
Had been working for, maybe, a week, on a diagonal lace-type scarf out of laceweight yarn. Discovered mistakes all the way back almost to the beginning last night, so unravelled it all and started making a simple cowl. My concentration is not what it should be at the moment. Also working on a secret Christmas project, a pair of mindless Noro wristlets, and did cast on a yellow mohair shrug last night:
You?
Appearances
October 26, 2009 at 7:54 pm (Anger, CameraWorks, Frustration, Kinda Weird, Knit Goods, Out of the Ordinary, Projects, Quandries, Truisms, Whining)
Paraphrasing Marin — this sock looks perfectly innocent, doesn’t it?
Wrong.
This sock gave me as much aggravation as any sock I’ve ever knit. And if the colors and striping hadn’t been so lovely, I would have given up on it.
Well, that and the fact that this was the second sock, the problem didn’t crop up until the foot, and the fact that I don’t like to be beaten.
It was the yarn. All of a sudden, mid-skein, the yarn was all twisted. You know, as in, when you let it go, it spins into a long, long spiral between the skein and your needle. Now, I”ve had twists in yarn before. They can usually be worked out in a little while. This twisting went on and on. I couldn’t cut out around it, because I might not have had enough yarn to finish the sock.
Yet, the yarn itself was screwy, too. Like it was spun too tightly or something. It wasn’t soft, airish yarn anymore — it was tight, thin, THIN, like heavyweight silk thread tight.
HUH?
It was not fun knitting, it was knitting I just got through as quickly as I could to both minimize the aggravation and finish the damn thing.
Hey, art ain’t always pretty.
Saturday at The Chez
October 24, 2009 at 11:59 am (CameraWorks, Family, Not Much in Particular, Pets and Other Housemates, Truisms)
There is knitting going on here. And stuffed toy making. But mainly, we’re all being silly
and lazy.
Relative
October 21, 2009 at 5:22 pm (Braggery, CameraWorks, Family, Truisms)
My baby boy is now 21.
And “21″ suddenly sounds much older than it used to.
That, taken with the whole my-baby-girl-is-in-college thing,
has me realizing where I am on the ol’ age continuum. . .
Two of a Sort-of Kind
October 17, 2009 at 6:54 pm (CameraWorks, Consumerism, Friendage, Knit Goods, Projects, Quandries)
One of my best friends, Internet or otherwise, is Shannon . She is also one of most creative and gifted craftsters I’ve ever come across. And she and I are facing the same dilemma: pricing the things we make for sale. How in the world do I come up with a price for something that I made on a whim? Versus something I planned? Something I did in 20 minutes, but that looks more involved than something I worked a couple of days on?
Me, I just thread the tags on the things, slap a number on each, and put them away. They either fit or they don’t, but all my work is done.
Oh, By the Way
October 15, 2009 at 10:36 pm (Braggery, CameraWorks, Family, Good Stuff, School Matters)
Is it just me, or has this been a long week for everyone?
Hannah had her first college test this week. It was in Medical Terminology, and she made a 98.
Proud mother much?
She and I are spending some very nice time together, with the commuting to and from campus. That is an inestimable bonus to my current schedule. But days do get away from me faster lately — maybe I’m still reeling from catching up on all that went undone last week.
A couple more photos of Briton for you, and I promise I’ll put this show to bed.
Before:
After:
