Sometimes Monday | 5.23.22
The best laid plans of bloggers... sigh. I had planned on giving you all a May Word update today. But Carolyn posted this weekend that word update would be next Monday. Okay... that works, because it gives me a few more days to contemplate Four Thousand Weeks, which I...
Partly Cloudy With a Dose of Bottled Sunshine
I saw this recipe on a blog recently and it peaked my interest. The only problem, the grapefruit's at the market were A. not on sale and B. they did not look appealing at all. However, oranges were and they were bright and sunny and blemish free. The wheels of my...
An Accidental Blogger
It has almost been 5 months since my last blog post. Five very long months that included me traveling back to Michigan to see my kids, some more knitting for a friend, some personal knitting for myself, some Christmas knitting, and a little tiny bit of Beginning...
Wool Mania with Beth Smith
I love wool and I really love people who share my obsession. In my perfect world, Beth Smith would be my next-door neighbor, I would be able to have her over for tea, and we would spin together. She would share her vast knowledge of all things wool from her...
Of Lichens and Wool
Cla·do·nia noun kləˈdōnyə, -nēə : a genus (the type of the family Cladoniaceae) of lichens characterized by its crustose plant body and capitate fruiting bodies borne in simple or branched podetia I am not sure if this is what Kirsten Kapur had in her mind’s eye...
Knitting with Exuberance
I am helping a friend with a wee bit of knitting – joyful knitting because all the patterns are from one of my very favorite designers. Add to this the yarns I am using are brand new yarns – and I am indeed filled with exuberance.
My summer at Camp
This was the second summer that I participated in Camp Loopy and it was as fun this year as it was last year. I completed three projects over the summer months, two of which checked off items on my “Gift Knitting” list. Our project for August was to select a color...