Subscribe to the BlogA few weeks ago I had some serious swelling and pain any time I ate or even thought about eating. If I haven’t mentioned it before, let me just say it now. My office is next door to a restaurant. Every morning I get out of my truck and and smell garlic bread baking. It is [...]
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Scarves are flyin’ off the hook here!
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Completing projects is so much easier when you actually have time to work on them. Just look.
The first one I made for Lo over at slap happy musings took me almost 3 months!
The Second one for Twenty Four at Heart just 14 days.
This pink one for KD just 7 days.
I wonder if the ELPH will let me quit the day [...]
I’m home!
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Well the operation was a complete success. The brain they gave me is much more intelligent than my old one. This one even does math. Oh wait! That was dream, damn. Oh well. Anyway like I said everything went swimmingly. They gave me a nice valium in pre-op and I was feeling very fine. No [...]
Operation Success!
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Good doctor, good drugs, no cmplications. Staying overnight for observation. Everything went great. Thank you all for the good vibes! More tomorrow when I’m more coherent.
Randomness & Gland Update
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Well I finally delivered my completed swatch for the Maggie Wrap (pattern now available FREE here) that I have been commissioned to make by Margaret at Yes Yarn. Margaret was very pleased with the results and will be ordering the yarn shortly. After I finally decoded the diagrams it was easy! It’s going to look amazing! And [...]
ELPH wants a refund
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ELPH thinks I’m defective. He wants a refund from my father. I should probably give you some background but where to start? The wasp nest? The heart attack? No it started long before that. Actually before ELPH & I were married.
Defect One: Emotionally unstable. We had just moved from Chicago to Cumming, Georgia, was it 1991? Anyway, while [...]
Another Finished Project!
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Another Aran Isle Muffler designed by Ann E. Smith. This pattern can be found in Donna Kooler’s Encyclopedia of Crochet.
This is scarf was crocheted for a blog friend who doesn’t knit or crochet. She asked me to pick out the yarn for her but I sent her to her local yarn store and she [...]
The Journey Home
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While it was snowing in Atlanta last week, I was sipping Mimosas here…
As we were getting up to go to the airport, the ELPH’s cell rings. It’s Delta informing us our noon flight was canceled. Never fear, they’d scheduled us to go out on the next flight at 2 o’clock. Yes! two more hours in [...]