Key Cover Originally uploaded by jwordsmith. Ha! I love having a useful hobby. The handle came off my car key. It’s one of those big black keys with electronics in it and a key part that whips out like a switchblade. It also had a handle on one end that let me attach it to… Continue reading Knitted Key Cover
Category: Me
Adding Converts
I did it. It was my first time. I feel like a real grown-up knitter now. I taught my friend to knit. It totally did not push it. She came over (from the other side of the country, no less) and more or less instantly demanded that I teach her to knit. So I did.… Continue reading Adding Converts
Early Morning Writing
I woke up at 6.30 this morning, with no boys in sight or sound. I weighed the possibilities: go back to sleep for all of fifteen minutes, or get up and have a cup of coffee and a wee write, sitting at the dining table, watching the early morning light wash the sky/house line. I… Continue reading Early Morning Writing
My Stellar Clientele
I did this guy’s website. Think I should feature him a little less prominently in my portfolio?
Thoughtful
This blogpost made me laugh out loud. Then I kept reading and it made me go “Hmm. That’s a brilliantly simple idea.”
Lit-Bashing
Just tried to read the Atlantic Monthly fiction issue. What pretentious claptrap: the kind of stuff only read by people who talk about having read “the latest Mailler.”Give me the short fiction in Women’s Weekly any day. At least we know in the first paragraph who this is about and why we should care; “Who… Continue reading Lit-Bashing
Bored With The Internet?
bored_with_the_internet Originally uploaded by jwordsmith. Does this feel familiar?
KCT
Kev made me laugh out loud tonight. We were talking about this New Families picnic we are due to go to tomorrow at Angus’s new pre-school. The forecast is for rain and Kev was questioning whether or not it’d be on. “I’m sure they’ll move it to the gym, or something,” I said, ever the… Continue reading KCT
Orla
My redhead niece is nine today. I still vividly remember the late-night phone call (four in the morning for them) saying “Do you hear that sound? That’s a baby girl”. Born at home, and lucky to have met the midwife at all, in such a hurry was she. I was married and had been for… Continue reading Orla
Don't Take Away My Yarn!
A quote that made me laugh, from a fellow knit-blogger, who is having a hard time going back to work after the latest baby. “As I was having that good cry, though, my husband put things in perspective–‘We could probably live on my salary you know…we’d have to give up some things…books, movies, braces for… Continue reading Don't Take Away My Yarn!