Yearly Archives: 2007

You’ve got to love the holiday.

Posted on July 6, 2007 by | 1 comment

Well, you don’t. But you know what I mean.

I’m not sure what it is–I think it was the thing being on Wednesday–but my whole freaking week just got destroyed. I keep thinking longingly of summers when I was a kid…it seems like we never had anyplace we *had* to be. Maybe that’s because we were kids, and the stress of going here and there was pretty much lost on us, but I think we really did have fewer events to be at. Not that I don’t love getting to see all of the people we get to see over the course of the summer, but I’m exhausted already and it’s only the beginning of July. The fourth just sort of drove that home. We had a wonderful, wonderful time, but I needed to sleep for a day afterward. Of course, being 8 months pregnant isn’t really helping with that, lol.

More on the crochet stuff soon. I was going to do an “evolution of a squiggle” post but I haven’t quite gotten there yet. There are some pics in my flickr if you’re interested, though.

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One of the nice things about always having a portable crochet project going on…

Posted on July 3, 2007 by | 2 comments

Is that it makes long waits in doctors’ offices much less annoying.

I’m very nearly finished with a new card wallet I’ve been working on after the adventure I had trying to see the midwife today. I really, really felt sorry for all of them in there…it was one of *those* days…but I got quite a lot accomplished, so it worked out for me, anyway. LOL. It’s nice to work without any kids helping from time to time, too.

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Finally!

Posted on July 2, 2007 by | Comments Off on Finally!

I finally got to start squiggling the Squiggly Wiggly.

Totally worth waiting for. Squiggling is fun! ROFL.

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This continuing delay…

Posted on July 2, 2007 by | Comments Off on This continuing delay…

In product availability has been brought to you courtesy of MasterCard and the United States Postal Service.

Yes, I’m getting anxious. But then, I’ve got that third-trimester semi-panicked thing going on. Big time. Patience is nowhere in my name right now.

I want to be shaping butterfly wings right this instant, but I suppose I’d best mop the kitchen floor while it’s so nice and cool. Ugh.

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It’s the end of the month, so it seems like a good time to find and list the WIPs floating around here…

Posted on June 30, 2007 by | Comments Off on It’s the end of the month, so it seems like a good time to find and list the WIPs floating around here…

Right now I’ve got the follwing projects at some stage past started and before finished:

–Card wallet in purples (% finished depends on how elaborate I eventually make it)
–Snowman “sculpture” (body finished, so say 65%…the finishing is hardest for me, by far)
–A blue critter (75%)
–Sadie’s “do-over” hat (50%)
–Squiggly-Wiggly trivet (just started)
–The Monster (10 year old, half-finished granny ‘ghan)

Partial patterns written for “orange critter” and the snowman.

Some pics taken for Etsy store. Have started writing item descriptions. On hold waiting for my new card to show up so I can sign up as a seller.

Er, I’m probably forgetting something. I almost always do. Hence the attempt to make lists! 😀

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So excited!

Posted on June 29, 2007 by | Comments Off on So excited!

I finally found something to do with all of the unmercerized cotton thread I mistakenly bought a few weeks ago. And even better, it comes in the form of my very first CAL at Crochetville! I can’t wait to get started!

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You know what?

Posted on June 29, 2007 by | 2 comments

It’s ridiculously freaking hard to take good pictures of things made from yarn.

Just for the record.

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Still hatin’ on the weather.

Posted on June 29, 2007 by | Comments Off on Still hatin’ on the weather.

Good Dog, I’m boring, aren’t I? ROFL.

Cooler today but no sunlight so I’m going to have to get over my pathological need to take pictures *next* and move on with what I’m doing. And do some serious housecleaning.

I ripped out the hair I’d put on one of the little beasties last night and replaced it with a beret. I love, love, love the result. Like all of these critters, it makes me smile. Hopefully it’ll make y’all smile, too.

If I ever get a decent picture of it!

I had no idea that I’d need mad photography skillz so much for crochet. 🙂

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I love my kids. I really do.

Posted on June 28, 2007 by | Comments Off on I love my kids. I really do.

But Oh. My. Goodness. can they be destructive from time to time. I mean, I know that a pair of toddlers is pretty much a recipe for disaster if they aren’t closely supervised, but from time to time they outdo themselves in truly stunning ways.

I went shopping today without them, and had a fine time. As a matter of fact, I feel pretty guilty because I took a bit longer than I probably should have. I got all blissed out shopping alone and lost track of time, lol. In any case, I came home to what I can only consider my just reward: an entire corner of my bedroom festooned with obnoxiously tangled yarn. The majority of the skeins I’ve been working from had been ripped down off of their shelves and ripped apart.

I can’t tell you how sad that makes me.

These are the times when I struggle with being someone’s mother. It seems so often like I have so little that’s mine. I feel pretty crowded most of the time, to be honest. Part of what I enjoy so much about crochet is that it *is* mine in a funny way that I can’t exactly explain. It’s both something I do for myself and something that provides a weird continuity with my life before I had kids.

They don’t understand that picking that particular thing to destroy was more hurtful than just about anything else they could have chosen. And they were punished appropriately before I even got home. But I’m having a hard time not going completely nuts at them anyway, because they took the one thing I’ve been holding on to for sanity and arranged it so that I can’t enjoy it properly. I can’t afford to replace it all, and really, it doesn’t need to be thrown away, since they didn’t do any actual damage to it. They just made such a mess of it that it will take hours of patient work to untangle it all. Is it really so much to ask that I be able to spend my very limited crochet time actually, you know, crocheting?

*bangs head against wall*

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Stupid Weather.

Posted on June 26, 2007 by | Comments Off on Stupid Weather.

I was on such a roll, too. Well, up until a couple of days ago, anyway. Yesterday there were other problems, and today it was 95 (!) degrees and we stayed out of the house all day. Tomorrow it’s supposed to be at least as hot and I’ll be gone all day, too. And the next day. Bah! I was aiming for the shop-opening at the start of next week, but I’m having trouble even being managing to be home at a decent time to take a picture (since the macro setting is pretty useless without copious natural light).

I do so miss air conditioning. We’ll have some around here as soon as we figure out what we did with the hardware we need to mount the damned window unit, which we apparently put Someplace Really Obvious when we moved in a couple of years ago. LOL!

Anyway, I’ve got me an idea, I just have to sit down and play with it. Maybe I’ll go do that now. In thread, because it’s so hot that yarn no matter how small feels, well, yarn-y. *snicker* You know what I mean, though, I suspect…

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