…so, of course I cast on this:
And here the divine miss M. is rollin’ with the homies (and providing an all important sense of scale)
Mr. Bighead also obliges us with a happier “Santa’s Drunken Elf who lost a tooth in a bar fight and won!” look
I confess I wasn’t really sure what the whole deal [...]
Okay, not lots of pics…but some pics
This is a bobbin full of single ply alpaca…
Which has become 330 yds (125 gms) of fingering/lace weight that looks like this:
And this (cause I’m proud of my accomplishment show off!)
I have about 75 more grams to spin so I should have a decent amount for???? A [...]
Still working long hours and am mostly brain dead (the part that isn’t dead is considering becoming a disgruntled employee.)
1. It might be a bad sign when your answer to being asked how you are is “Going postal soon, how ’bout you? Are YOU having a GOOD day? Hunh? Having fun?”
2. I just ate a [...]
What I know (granted it ain’t much but the knowing is good)…
Given the choice, little girls will dance around in their underwear. And put on shows for anyone who will show up. I’ve now seen over 100 cartwheels and handstands performed to Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie” 3 times. No more, I beg [...]
In case you can’t tell…work is busy! Not that I’ve actually been at work since last week. But it sure seems to be hopping right now and since I’m back to today, I am reluctantly hopping along too.
But there is always time for blogging…especially close to lunch when my brain is all mushy and hungry.
First [...]
(and I’m referencing lots of diets – yarn diets, weight loss diets, debt reduction diets)…
stopping a colleague and sniffing them to see if you can smell chocolate seems like reasonable office behaviour.
you count the calories in your vitamins.
these qualify as dessert.
you can’t fall asleep because you are too busy plotting your next “happy meal”.
you start [...]
I have been obsessed with lace for a while. But now, thanks to my cubicle neighbour and her really really cute 7-year-old WIP cable knit for her fiancé, now I’m looking at cables in a whole new light.
Soft small cables in subtle merino brushed wool…all twisty and geometric. Sigh. I need this like I need [...]