these last few weeks have been so busy for me! last week i went to south carolina from monday-friday- its a 9 hour drive from where i live! the next day i went to san diego. i am in san diego now. i have been working on this ( Read more... )

I have been going non stop for a long time. This week is going to be very busy for me. I lost all of my food during the power outage and I didn't get around to restocking the fridge until this morning. Grocery shopping was insane. I make a lot of casseroles because they are quick and I never have any time. All the casserole recipes I have require ( Read more... )

There was a horrible ice storm and as a result I have been without power or heat since Tuesday night. My boyfriend and I had to stay at our apartment without electricity on Tuesday night because the roads were too icey to drive on. It was really cold and uncomfortable. We are staying at my parents house now and are supposed to have our power turned ( Read more... )

Wow. I am so addicted. There was a big snow storm where I live last night and I stayed in and crocheted an amazing dreadlock tam! It's from the book _Get Your Crochet On! Hip Hats & Cool Caps_ By Afya Ibomu. Its the best pattern book I have ever seen. Its really hard to find cute hat patterns that fit my dreads and this book has several. I had a ( Read more... )

Wow. What a day. Today has been really amazing ( Read more... )

I feel pretty confident in my fair isle abilities now. I spent about 3 hours at Barnes and Nobles the other day and looked through pretty much every knitting and crocheting book they had. I found one amazing book that I ended up buying. It's called _Hip Graphic Knits_. It has a lot of fair isle, stranded, and intarsia patterns. I think I am going ( Read more... )

Well, I have been thinking a lot about my life lately. I have been very happy with my decision to switch majors from Fine Arts to Women's Studies. Still, a bad feelings about my future have been hanging over my head. I am very lucky that my dad offered to train me under him in business and eventually pass his business on to me. I feel like I would ( Read more... )

Whew. I have been struggling with an addiction for some time now (since the release of the winter knitty). I have been knitting nothing but Calorimetry's. I have a ton of them. I put little cables in some of them. I will post pictures of those later. I have managed to stop myself from knitting another Calorimetry and decided to teach myself ( Read more... )