I just don’t even know what to say about this. It’s January. It’s 80 degrees. Our azaleas are blooming. I saw a ripe loquat this morning. If this is winter, I shudder to think what summer is going to be like.
Especially when it’s a busy friend I don’t get to see often, and it’s at one of my favorite places to eat, and it’s nice enough to sit outdoors, and the drinks are fabulous. So, yeah; that was a good time! Speaking of good times, er, wait… I had a …
Guess what is off the needles (although I will still have a neckline to knit after everything is seamed together)? The big part is finished. Now I just need to seam it, knit the neckline, and block the shit out of it. Started in October of 2010… finished… SOON!
Mostly this post is for my friend Stephanie (if she even catches it) and anyone who used to read my blog a really, really long time ago (when Stephanie and I used to work together and would sometimes chat at work or here at Snarkland about dream interpretation). I have …
I got nuthin’ — here’s one for the yarn lovers!
I spent most of the weekend doing this. Moving to skipping one week and bisque firing instead of glazing gives me an extra week to paint (when you paint in addition to glazing, the time you spend working on the piece can easily double or even triple, which is why …
While I did pour some greenware in the morning, we took the afternoon off and went to Sweet Dreams, and finally got around to seeing the Hobbit. I’d cast on a simple pair of gloves back before Christmas in hopes that we’d get to go opening weekend, hahahahahaha, joke’s on …
Look at this beautiful road we drove on. Just look at it. This? Just one of the many things I love about Florida. Yesterday I kidnapped — er, picked up Marie in the morning and we drove out to Sharon’s house. Sharon drove us, with Chris following on his motorcycle, …
It’s the time of year when most of the handmade business blogs I read are all talking about making your plan for the year. Personally I am somewhat of a long thinker so I started planning what I wanted for 2013 in late November/early December of last year, but whatever. …
Clearly I am not yet awake enough to come up with a title. Or really something to write, heh. It’s not that I don’t have stuff on my mind, BELIEVE ME. But some of the stuff that’s on my mind, that I want to write about, is that kind of …
I’ve spent entirely too much time answering email and social-media-ing this morning, and really need to shower and get working — so no in-depth blog post today but here are some pretty flowers! This crazy weather means that everything in my front yard is still blooming… or blooming again. I …
Ever since we went to Barberville Roadside I’ve been chewing on some ideas in the back of my head — go ahead and laugh but that place was really inspiring to me. I’ve always loved Spanish and Mexican tiles and colorwork, and for some reason being around all that Talavera …
… although I thought I was going to have to call my friend Caitlin to get a reminder on how to do it. I haven’t had time to do anything on it since October or so! But while on vacation I went through my yarn stash and paired up 24 …
Foggy brain in morning, coffee pot take warning.
It didn’t occur to me until about an hour after I cleaned off this window ledge and put some tiles down, and then houseplants on top of it, that the whole thing would be mighty tempting to the cats. And that since the weight of the plant was the only …
… can we consider the lesson learned, please, Universe, and move on to something else? Maybe something with less spewed sewage and more kittens? Yesterday was winding some yarn, having a couple friends stop by at different times, and taking a boatload of new things down to Ingenue Avenue. While …
Who’s got two thumbs and got hot water all over her because her dye bar still wasn’t fixed yesterday, only she didn’t know it until three hours into the dyeing cycle when she went to dump the hot water in the sink, exactly the same thing that’s happened for the …
I will spare you the other photo of the day, which I emailed to Tim after — wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. Suffice to say that by the end of this day, I really wanted this beer, and I really wish I liked it more than I did. I …
This is how I spent most of my day yesterday. And the day before, actually. It’s “yarn week” at HaldeCraft World Headquarters and I’m rewinding the new January colorway (hint: I was THIS.CLOSE to naming the colorway “Special Snowflake”). I was going to release that today, but the light looks like …
There’s nothing like a day with a lot of explosions in it to make you think “seriously, why did I want that vacation to end?!” – but all’s well that ends well, or so the saying goes. One problem isn’t technically ended yet, and I have my suspicions that the …
Those two cats do NOT like each other. At least, that’s what they’ve been telling me for almost three years now. I don’t think I believe them any more, though. They spent most of the day yesterday snuggling each other, and I just about died from cute.
You’d think, with a photo like this, that I’d be partying it up and enjoying the last of my vacation… the truth of it is though that I’m about all vacationed out. Next time I take a vacation I either need two weeks instead of three, or I need to …
Yesterday, in the Maker equivalent of “hold my beer while I try this” I had the idea that an old pair of jeans and a scarf I wove would make a good Nook cover. Bonus points of using the pocket to also hold my cell phone (when I’m not taking …
I think I’ve mentioned before, that I don’t really truck with New Year’s resolutions. Too much pressure to make sweeping changes that never stick, too hung over and/or tired the next day to implement those sweeping changes (thus setting oneself up to fail), and really, what makes January 1st different …
