There’s a little bit of everything trickling in these days… here are a few things in soap, yarn, and ceramics that you might have missed! Halloween Stitch Markers – Just in time for some spooky holiday project help! These Halloween-themed stitch markers are sure to scare your project into shape. …
A handful of shows we’ve been watching have either ended (CSI, Castle) or are about to start their final season (Bones, Grimm), so we’re looking for a couple of new shows to fill our brain-holes. Here are my thoughts about some pilots we’ve watched recently. Lethal Weapon – I was …
My laptop decided, this morning, it would be a grand time for an update that took – and I’m not even kidding – 90 minutes to install. Which means I was in the shower by 7:30 (letting it run while I got ready for my day) instead of at 8:15, …
A few random thoughts for the morning…. I’m alternating between “I have so much to do today!” and “hey, I got up about half an hour early, have already written a work blog post, now I’m on a personal post, this day is going to be productive as hell, I …
What are you working on this week? I thought I wasn’t really doing much until I went to go work on this post…
What are you working on this week? I thought I wasn’t really doing much until I went to go work on this post…
I talked a little about the class yesterday, and here are the photos (you may need to come to the site to see the slideshow, if it’s not showing in your RSS reader). Give the album a second to load, and then if you click on a photo thumbnail you’ll get …
… yeah, that title pretty much sums up this post. Any worry I had about the blacksmith class was completely unfounded – my wrist and elbow didn’t hurt at all, I’m not an utter weakling who can’t swing a hammer (although I did have to switch arms after about four …
Today, in a little over two hours (as I write this) I’ll be taking a class on blacksmithing. We’ll be making a set of fire pit tools; a log grabber, a poker, and a rake. Am I nervous? Am I excited? A little of both. I love learning new things. …
There was the first day, which is when I woke up, did a few things, got an order packaged up and in the mail, and got the dogs all kenneled up and then went to Gainesville to run some errands. Then there was the second day, which was going to …
So far, so good – I decided early last week to set myself a goal of small daily posts to get myself back into the habit of blogging… and other than missing two days at Fiber-In (I didn’t take my computer with me and it would have been ugly to …
Sometimes I like to talk to other small business owners about how they do what they do. How do you get X done? Have you ever dealt with Y? I overcame Z by doing… that sort of thing. A back and forth. What I don’t like – and I just …
I’ve spent the morning, while dyeing yarn, working on this blog…. Becca let me know that the previous layout was odd on phones – one sidebar would cover the middle – so I’ve been looking for something “responsive” that’ll automagically resize to phones and tablets. The problem with [free] WordPress …
Huh. I tried to write this earlier this morning, but for some reason a bunch of the code was missing from my WordPress back end — I think it was a browser issue, not a WP issue, because I was having a little laptop confunction this morning, too. All better …
My head is always so full after Fiber-In. As stressful as it is to get ready for an out-of-town, weekend-long show, being there is actually quite relaxing. I get to spin all weekend long, pretty much any time I’m not helping someone or eating, so I get that zen calm …
Wait, what’d you call me? I’m off to Fiber-In, in Orlando, in a couple of hours. Tim is staying home with the dogs, and cooking lots of good food for his family, which he’ll take out to Amy’s park some time this weekend (he’s making enough for loads of leftovers, …
Is it weird to wish it was next year already? I feel like 2016 just started and I’m already kind of over it. I had such plans this year but … wait, you know what, I think I said that last year, too, and then last year I broke my …
Your coffee is so strong it’s practically a bio-hazard. Freak out your office-mates (or warn them away from you) with this fantastic mug. Five different colors, each available in either right- or left-handed styles. This week only, you can find them here, marked down from $24 to $18. As I …
Your coffee is so strong it’s practically a bio-hazard. Freak out your office-mates (or warn them away from you) with this fantastic mug. Five different colors, each available in either right- or left-handed styles. This week only, you can find them here, marked down from $24 to $18. As I …
I overslept today for the first time in over a year – since we moved out here, anyway. I usually get up when it starts to get light, but I guess between being an overcast morning and staying up too late last night reading (The Taken by Inger Ash Wolfe) …
Picture-heavy post ahead, and folks not into cats can skip this post! Black and orange stray cat sittin’ on a fence I ain’t got enough dough to pay the rent I’m flat broke but I don’t care I strut right by with my tail in the air You might be …
Amy and Isaac are days away from having another baby, and Tim’s parents are in town staying with them in order to help out with Ranger Baby when the moment comes. So we had everyone over for dinner last night! Cetty fired up the raku kiln and timed the pull …
Remember when I used to blog every morning, with coffee? Tell you a little about my day yesterday, or wax philosophic, or navel gaze, or just gab? Then I started working at home – which you’d think would make me MORE likely to blog, as a distraction/time-waster? HAHAHAHAHAHA. So this …
Another holiday/four-day week, which means my schedule is off-kilter! Do you feel the same way? Tuesday feels like Monday, Wednesday feels like Monday too….? In ceramics, I’m working on getting pieces done for the Florida Fiber-In, next week. Eeep! I need to fire the kiln two or three more times …
