Well the yarn turned out looking lovely, and no, you can’t see it because it’s dark and I haven’t taken a picture of it yet. I’ll take one tomorrow in the daylight, I promise. I used jet black and burgundy to make solid stripes (if you can have such a thing) and dotted a mix… Continue reading Dying Yarn
Author: JulieD
Finishitis
I’ve been a hive of activity recently (can one person be a ‘hive’. I don’t think so. Forget that. I’ve been busy) finishing up projects. And starting them in some cases. And now I’m at a loss. I have no major project on the go and just a stuck sock (can’t remember what needle size… Continue reading Finishitis
Birthday Parties: A Necessary Evil
Is it a problem that, after spending two hours (TWO HOURS!) standing in corridors of an old industrial plant, now repurposed to hold airblowers noisily filling bouncy castles, and craft rooms, and rooms that can push synthetic pizza and nasty cake on children, talking to other perfectly nice parents, and listening in horror to others… Continue reading Birthday Parties: A Necessary Evil
Frank
My sister, on seeing pictures of our clutter neatly arranged on shelves in the basement, was lamenting her own lack of basement. K suggested giving her husband a pick-axe and a miner’s helmet, which made her yelp with horror, because her husband is exactly the kind of guy who would grin and go for it.… Continue reading Frank
The Seed Catalogues Have Arrived
(Fancifully written for my 100Words exercise.) The trees were bare but in her hands she held a summer’s bounty: plump grapes, red-ripe tomatoes, dreams of raspberries, towering spikes of foxglove and ipomopsis. A carpet of alyssum, creeping phlox and sky blue petunias spread in her mind from the shivering cherry blossom to the corner of… Continue reading The Seed Catalogues Have Arrived
Finished Story
Woo-hoo! I finished up a short story this morning. (Thank you, G for sleeping in). I started it on Saturday when things were calm, and I finished it this morning. The idea came from a conversation in the car, one that made me laugh. And the story is 1000 words: about as much as it… Continue reading Finished Story
First Day Back
K and I are alone enjoying five minutes of mellowness before K rushes off to shower and I rouse A and the whole treadmill starts again (speaking of which I should hook up the treadmill). I’m not as depressed as I thought I’d be (yet). Today seems new and shiny and different. I have things… Continue reading First Day Back
Motivation
So, Kev’s gone back to work. Angus is at school. Gregor’s still in bed. And I have my brain to myself. I have really enjoyed Kev being here all the time. I wonder if that is sufficient motivation for me to write that best-seller? And is that ever the proper motivation? Well, maybe not for… Continue reading Motivation
Toe-Up Opals — Finished!
I started these socks (details at Ravelry) in December, as soon as I ripped open the package from my Secret Pal 11 pal. I paused a little after finishing the first sock, because I needed to make something decadent and delicate and self-pampering (not that these socks aren’t pampery). But recently it’s been cold here… Continue reading Toe-Up Opals — Finished!
On the Caucuses
Obama? I’m glad he won. I’d love to see him become president, although I think it might kill him (he seems too nice and too principled. And also half-black. Now that I think about it, it might literally kill him. I don’t know that this country of gun-toters has moved past assassination as a form… Continue reading On the Caucuses