Yearly Archives: 2007

Unproductive.

I’m having such a terrible time getting anything done. It’s like the mere intent to work throws off weird vibes that disrupt the entire household. What’s up with that? I know the husband has troubles with the same thing from time to time. It’s starting to make me wonder if the house is haunted.

The quest for the perfect critter.

I’ve spent the last couple of days working on a little fellow who Just. Won’t. Work. Out quite right. I rather suspect he needs to go on the shelf for a few days. I think he could still potentially makes some sort of sense if he’s embellished right, but what “right” will be just hasn’t come to me yet.

If you’d asked me even a few months ago if I’d have any interest in crocheting anything 3-D, I’d have laughed at you, I think. And this has turned out to be the most fun I’ve ever had with hook in hand. Innit life a kick sometimes?

Today’s additions to the yarn stash:

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I’d planned on picking up the cotton. The RHSS was a $1 clearance item, the black $2.50. I grabbed some anyway since I am was so close to out of it. I’ve been going through black yarn like crazy lately.

Thank God H. Lee Scott hasn’t taken my crafts section away. Yet. He’d better not. OTOH, he’s doing away with all of this crazy talk about the need to rein in Wal-Mart, since he’s killing it anyway. And that makes the world a more peaceful place, doesn’t it?

Awesome progress.

I have everything in line now to be able to open a shop at Etsy. I just have to get *my* ducks in a row and get photos taken, descriptions written, and all of that good stuff. I don’t figure it’ll take me more than a week or so to really get everything in order.

I am So. Freaking. Excited. about this! Also nervous. But really excited. Yay!

A non-report report.

Just plugging away over here on my latest creation. And trying desperately to stay awake, because I got just enough sleep to make me sleepier. And looking around at the house and thinking that it’s time to put the yarn down and clean things up a bit.

You know, the usual. 🙂

Now that’s true love.

You know it’s true love when the husband comes home from Wal-Mart with a new spool of crochet thread for you. 🙂

Work notes.

I’m disturbingly close to having a pattern worked out that I believe I can write up successfully and sell. In the process, I’ve created a couple of wicked cute little creatures that really should be for the shop-to-be but will be hard to part with. I’d love to work on getting that written up this afternoon, but I have to go see the midwife instead. Silly life.

In any case, that’s the focus for the moment. I need to post a few more things at the other blog. It’s been surprisingly hard for me to do that, because I tend to be unimpressed with my own work. Which is goofy, because even the stuff I regard as “less creative” is still beautifully executed. I’m good at this. And I love simple things.

Ah, well. Insecurity is part of what drives a body to improve, yes?

The K-Tel Knitter

I’d forgotten the thing existed, until I was talking over crafts past with Jay the other night and it popped into my head the way these things seem to. And just the way these things seem to, it showed up again today in my wandering around the web.

I love the way the world works sometimes.

And the wildness of this month continues…

I’ve got a few stray creations up for sale now at Blogblivion.

Well, so much for being settled in.

I was so happy with the way I had things set up, too.

*sigh*

The theme I was using was causing me odd problems with getting pictures to work properly in the posts themselves. Something in the CSS was forcing the text into an unnatural relationship with the image, and we can’t have that. So back to the one that plain damned works for the moment. Hell, maybe I’ll just fix this baby up. Might save me a boatload of aggravation, by the looks of it. Decent themes are a lot harder to come by than a body might think.

Now, to post what I was trying to post in the first place! Right after I make sure that everything is where it should be…