I'm so excited - I decided on a project, worked on it (and pretty much only it) and it was done before the due date: Father's Day - even though I won't see my dad until the end of the week. I made him the Knitpicks Bow Tie I used Cygnet Wool Rich Four Ply… Continue reading Projects!
Author: Becca
Valuable Lessons
It's the next-to-last day of school. Things have been somewhat calm / low key, the kids are on their loud volumes, but at this point, who cares? I cast on for Argosy last night - needed a new project for knitting on the train this afternoon. I brought it in to school with me and… Continue reading Valuable Lessons
NOOOO!
The last week of school is already hard enough. I've had two kids go on and on about how they can not wait for the last day to tell me off. Then I heard about hitting a teacher. When I told them it was a felony they wanted to know how much jail time it… Continue reading NOOOO!
YipYip
Thanks to the mental-floss blog, I have rediscovered two of my favorite characters from Sesame Street, the YipYips[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4VNMERVsC4]And I got my muppet (Beaker & Bunsen Honeydew) inspired yarn! Once I'm done with the tie, I will be casting on with this - maybe jaywalkers?? I got a lot done today so yay on that!… Continue reading YipYip
Virtual Vacation Q & A
(I took today off of work. Good day to dream about vacations!)1. If you could visit any state in the US, which would it be and why?I want to go to Alaska - have heard it's just so beautiful and I really want to see a glacier before they all melt away!2. If you could… Continue reading Virtual Vacation Q & A
Camera Play
This weekend somehow went by incredibly fast - especially since on Friday it seemed like there was not much that was going to be going on. Friday was the graduation for the 8th grade at school - it went off pretty well. Now there's just this week left - and it's all busy work! Tomorrow… Continue reading Camera Play
More Graffiti
Multimedia message Originally uploaded by nutmegknitter First of all, sitting 1 hour and 20 minutes in traffic (to go all of 16 miles - 13 of which are highway miles! No accident either. Ugh) is not my ideal way to start a Monday or any other day. Combine that with awful attitudes of preteens, tweens… Continue reading More Graffiti
Project Updates
I finally took pictures of my "Works in Progress"! First, my "Hope & Donald (Chevron Scarf)"I'm using Ruby Sapphire yarns - I spotted the "Hope" colorway and bought it immediately - it's the cranberry colorway. I had this brilliant idea to make a scarf for my Nana using "her" color and one for my Grampa… Continue reading Project Updates
Yesterday / Today
We're getting down to the wire at school. I took Friday off and it was quite possibly the Best. Day. Ever. Dan's work schedule is such that he has every Friday off, so me not working makes it pretty sweet and we did a little bit of everything that all worked out nicely. We slept… Continue reading Yesterday / Today
Belated Thank You!
This post is overdue.I need to publicly thank dragonknitter for inviting me into the world of ravelry. I have spent this week playing with it and OMG it's crazyfun! I've gone back through the blog (and flickr for the times I had it) to load in my projects, queued 39 projects, started to list the… Continue reading Belated Thank You!