Monthly Archives: December 2007

I am SO exciting!

Posted on December 31, 2007 by | 3 comments

Totally spending New Year’s Eve playing with yarn and poking around Ravelry. I’ve been so slow to really use and appreciate that site. Have to take some pics and add projects soon.

I’m also working on a design that’s a rethinking of another design of mine, and it’s looking like it’ll wind up combining knit and crochet. Oooooh, heresy. But really? I think they play well together in this context, make things more interesting. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve done about 12 crocheted versions in the last week and I just wasn’t loving any of them. Heresy! LOL.

Of course, I got the Harmony Stitch Guides for crochet for Christmas, so the needles might be getting mighty lonesome pretty soon here. 😀

Er, back to it. Carry on. Something like that!

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Anxiety, social and otherwise.

Posted on December 31, 2007 by | 1 comment

Once upon a time, I thought I might recover from my years of schooling.

Apparently, I was wrong. I find it incredibly difficult to do things like “friend” people in Ravelry. I know better, but the social networking part of that particular revolution has been passing me by. I don’t do resolutions, but getting over myself that way is one of the ones I’m not making, lol.

Also? The whole “heart” thing on Etsy? Way too loaded for me. Easier to get over that one, though, since it’s classified in my head as *business* and I’m used to being more straightforward in that sort of situation. Also, I’m far, far better at separating out myself and my work than I used to be, so it doesn’t really bother me when those fluctuate, and I don’t worry when I unheart something.

The otherwise probably doesn’t belong on this particular blog. So I’ll spare ya. Who says I’m a big meanie? LOL. 😛

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Gah.

Posted on December 27, 2007 by | 2 comments

Wasn’t planning such an extended break, but I have an extended family so I suppose these things are inevitable.

Now I’ve got to pack a week’s worth of housework into, well, today. Wish me luck.

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Forecast: Quiet with a side of Crochet

Posted on December 21, 2007 by | 2 comments

Still finishing gifts, and I only have until Sunday. While this is completely, amazingly ideal because it means no rushing around on Christmas Day, it means that I have to finish things really, really soon now. So I’ll probably be missing until after Sunday at least. If I don’t see you until after Christmas, have a good one, ‘k?

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Welcome!

Posted on December 21, 2007 by | Comments Off on Welcome!

To the folks coming from Crochet Pattern Central! Glad you’re here! 😀

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Here’s a question for you…

Posted on December 17, 2007 by | Comments Off on Here’s a question for you…

What is the deal with uneven button eyes? Because I was just getting ready to sew uneven button eyes on a doll I’ve been working on, and I realized that half of the stuffie/plushie/whathaveyous that I’ve seen in the last couple of months have uneven button eyes.

I mean, yeah, it looks wicked cool, but whaaaaa? You know? I always wonder how these things get started. 😀

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There was frozen water falling from the sky!

Posted on December 16, 2007 by | 2 comments

I will never, ever regret moving to New England.

I’m resigned to winter.

But actively liking it? Ain’t gonna happen.

(And I wasn’t even the one who went out and shoveled the slushy muck out of the driveway. I don’t even like it from my nice warm chair. *sigh*)

(And OTOH? Great afghan-making weather!)

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The Joy of Frogging

Posted on December 14, 2007 by | 3 comments

Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I had a friend I had started an afghan for. Eventually misunderstandings were had and feelings were hurt, and if our respective lives hadn’t changed so much and so quickly, we might have overcome that. Instead, I’ve had the first skein-worth of that afghan sitting around for the last 5 years.

I started frogging it last night.

I feel sad, of course, but lighter somehow for acknowledging that it just isn’t ever going to be finished.

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Snowed under.

Posted on December 12, 2007 by | Comments Off on Snowed under.

And tomorrow, I’m hearing, snowed in.

*sigh*

I’ve had a mental list of things to post about for days now, but no time at all to sit down and post them. It’s really, really crazy here right now, and not in a holidays way as much as in a 3 kids sort of way. I have the urge to call my mother and apologize to her for ever having been 3 years old. I’m also behind with e-mail and I haven’t answered the phone in a week at least. I’m not sure what’s going on, really, that this is suddenly all overwhelming, but it is.

I *am* updating the shop, though, with all of the things I have on hand. Not much point making them to sell if I don’t try to sell them, right?

I really miss having time to do the more arty things that I’ve gotten very interested in (like this guy, though he’s finished [yay!]), but it has to get better soon. If I can just hold on ’til the first of the year, I think it’ll get a lot better. There’s something about the season that seems to make the kids crazier than normal, even with no real outward signs of Christmas in the house yet. They know, you know? LOL.

Ah, well. Off to finish (finally!) a bookmark for an order that needs to be done very very soon now (hi Sharon!). More soon, I hope. 😀

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Ack.

Posted on December 10, 2007 by | Comments Off on Ack.

Back soon. Finishing 2 custom orders, plus been busy with the usual kid and family stuff and trying to get some-[redacted]-thing done for Christmas. I’m not ignoring you, honest I’m not.

I’ve never been able to figure out whether I love December or hate it.

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