May 31, 2017
Hello Wednesday! Is it really you! Good to see you, my time suck of a calendar day. Before the day goes poof, here’s a run down of the knit/crochet happenings since February – The Ambah MKAL As you may recall, my knit started out looking like this: But I hated the cartoony speckle, and ripped it out – then it…
May 30, 2017
My my my its been a long time – February! Here’s my tale of “woe.” I like to link up to the Yarn Along on Wednesday. And, for whatever reason, I kept missing Wednesday! I would be in the mood to post on a Monday or a Tuesday, but think, eh, that post would be so much better to link up with the…
February 28, 2017
Today is the last day of February, and therefore, the last day of InCoWriMo2017. I can’t claim a full victory, but I think I can do half a lap. I managed to get out 22 pieces of correspondence, 19 of which went in the mail, and three of which were hand delivered. I wrote to complete strangers through the InCoWriMo…
February 13, 2017
When you get sucked into the handlettering community, you naturally get pulled towards what’s cool and popular in graphic design. Watercolor, wreaths, banners – it’s all big, and it’s all on Skillshare. As I mentioned before, at 99 cents for three months, you can’t go wrong, and I’ve particularly enjoyed the following group of classes from The Pigeon Letters. First,…
February 8, 2017
And the Ambah Mystery is underway! Mystery knits are always a crapshoot, but I enjoy them nonetheless. This time around I’m joining in on Ambah‘s Hale-Bopp Mystery Knit-a-Long, some kind of a shawl, I guess with a comet theme. As you may recall, I bought yarn, fell in dislike with the yarn, returned the yarn, and settled on this yarn: The…
February 6, 2017
Sometime towards the end of last year, I decided that I had outgrown my fauxdori, a Travelers Notebook from dokipaper on etsy. This notebook served me well, no question, but I lost the money clip that I had on the cover, and it left a really dark mark. I also wanted a pen loop, and I was tired of my…
February 1, 2017
Look who’s ready for InCoWriMo 2017, or to translate that mouthful of an acronym, International Correspondence Writing Month. I have six handmade cards and envelopes ready to go, and I have my Flow magazine on hand to decorate the rest. After a trip to the post office this morning, and a very helpful Postal Person, I ended up putting Letters…
January 30, 2017
On one hand, I feel like I should be running down to the airport, with my signs and my fist in the air; not only is it the right thing to do, but I know that I would feel energized, and hopeful, and frankly, American. But, the bottomline is, this President just doesn’t give two shits. He doesn’t even give one. Instead of saying, I…
January 27, 2017
Big commitment, that International Correspondence Writing Month (InCoWriMo)! 28 days, 28 letters. Am I in? I’ve mulled it over. I considered my failed participation in the League of Extraordinary Pen Pals, how I began writing to a group of people – probably 10 or so – and every, single one of them fell by the wayside. My fault or theirs? …
January 25, 2017
Hello everyone! Hope you started your year off on a knitting high note – it’s always good to wrap up the old, start something new, and plan the next thing, and so on . . . My holdover from last year became my first finish of the year – behold, Braid Hills from Kate Davies: After finishing the knitting, I…