four years in the making

We’ve been in our house almost four years and for four years, I’ve had foliage, but no gladiolas.

This year, we got a surprise.  I did not plant this, and I think I appreciate its beauty even more because I did absolutely nothing to create it.

It was a gift that I wasn’t expecting, and I wanted to [...]

weekend of surprises

What a great weekend!  Saturday morning, SB went to the post office and came home with a package for me!  I love getting treats in the mail!

Diane at Wool and Spice had a contest recently and I won!  Unfortunately, I cut off the title of the magazine, but it’s The Knitter, a new UK-based knitting mag.  [...]

Holiday knitting

The fact that Christmas is ten days away finally hit me this morning.  Fortunately, I only have two things that I HAVE to have finished – a wee little scarf and a pair of socks.
The scarf has been started and frogged but I’m not really worried about that.  I can do garter stitch in my [...]

Thank you, America!

Hallelujah!  I couldn’t stay awake to watch the results last night, despite drinking an afternoon cup of coffee, but I woke to the news this morning!  I teared up a few times watching snippets of Obama’s speech on CNN, I can’t wait to watch the whole speech!
And today’s my anniversary!  Happy Anniversary SB!

It’s a good [...]

Arte y pico

Yesterday, I was flabbergasted to see that Cyndy had awarded me a Arte y pico award.  Although I’m not really sure what this award is (and reviewing the website didn’t make it much clearer), I’m humbled that Cyndy listed my blog because, well, I have a little bit of a blog crush going on.  As [...]

Random Tuesday

Life is busy!  I’m posting randomly!
1.  I’ll get the grouchy out of the way first.  There should be consequences for the person who takes the last cup of coffee before noon and DOESN’T MAKE MORE!  I’m thinking forty lashes but that may be too lenient.
2.  I owe a big thank you to Janet!  She sent [...]

Rhinebeck

You guys didn’t know I went to Rhinebeck, did you?

Okay, well, *I* didn’t actually go, just a bit of my money did, and thanks to the kindness of a fellow wool fiend, my spoils arrived today!  I didn’t show off my SAFF purchases so I’ll make up for that now.  ;o)

This is a lovely bump of [...]

yarn and knitting and maracas

Did I mention that I won a contest last week?  No?  Well, I did!  And my spoils prize arrived Saturday!

Look at that cute giftcard!  Jennie, I’m totally going to copy you and create some of my own!  Also going to copy you on those super-cool kneehighs! 

Yum!  I knew the yarn was coming because I got [...]

I got tagged!

The box arrived today from my Dish Rag Tag team, the Happy Yarn Hags!

I am the last person on the list to receive the box, and it was really cool to open it up and see the messages from all over the country

But it was even cooler to see the dishrag and surprises Mary sent!

Thank you, [...]

Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper, too?

I’ve gone sign-up crazy!

I’ll be participating in Melanie’s new lace KAL!  Me and 3,000 other knitters.  Oy!  Funny thing is, I just bought Melanie’s Leda’s Dream pattern and started it on the drive to the beach with steel Zephyr from the stash.  I’m about six inches in, but I think I want to use the Zephyr for [...]

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