If you needed $12k in 7 months or less, how would you get it?

Step 1) Blast Opeth at high volume the entire way home from work
Step 2) Kiss boyfriend hello
Step 3) Pour a 12 oz glass of red wine and retreat to the craft room
Step 4) Take this:


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Following up on my last yarn-related post, here is a picture of the finished, three-ply merino top that christened my lazy kate.


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I don't get a lot of comments, so I don't know if I have many readers, but for those of you who are following along with my domestic frivolity ( Read more... )

My boy has an outdoor grill on the "patio" outside our back door. It lives next to the window, on which he has a birdfeeder full of seeds. Somewhere in all the snow and ice a seed got knocked onto the grill and took root.


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Well, it looks like I'll have tomorrow off. Our school is very likely going to close due to the incoming storm. I'm very happy with this decision, as it will leave me the day free to celebrate Imbolc. For those of you who don't know what that is (and for those of you who do), read this Imbolc 2011 article courtesy of the Huffington Post ( Read more... )

I'm old! Yes, it's that time of year again ( Read more... )