A Day With No Knitting
Between the crazy at work and the buildup of neglected chores at home, there was no knitting time at all today. So here’s a picture of our tree with some currently falling snow 🙂
Category: General blather
(Knitting) Fashion Quiz
Here’s a nifty quiz from Alissa Head at headknits. Check out her blog for knitting, sewing, and much more 🙂 1. Do you think it’s true “if you wore it the first time around, you shouldn’t wear it the second (or third) time around?” 2. Do you believe there is a “first time around” anymore?… Continue reading (Knitting) Fashion Quiz
Happy Lunar New Year!
This afternoon DH and I went to a Chinese New Year tea at one of our local tea shops – Indigo Tea Lounge. We went to this same event last year, and it was mostly the same – a huge bunch of delicious food, tasty tea, and some fun treats to take home 🙂 Here… Continue reading Happy Lunar New Year!
Self-Care Quiz
Another quiz borrowed from NothingButKnit! Self-care is a new term for what we used to just call pampering ourselves 🙂 Getting down time and taking care of ourselves can sometimes be a struggle, so it’s interesting to see how other people handle it. Here are her questions: Do you practice self-care? Is it a term… Continue reading Self-Care Quiz
Excelling at Organization
This weekend I finally got started on a project I have been meaning to do for some time – a spreadsheet of all the projects I would like to make. I have been working on what characteristics I wanted on the spreadsheet and how I wanted it organized, and finally got going on it! I… Continue reading Excelling at Organization
Birthday Weekend
Well, today was my birthday, and it was a pretty good weekend 🙂 DH and I went out to dinner at one of our favorite restaurants today and had a lovely time there. He got me a knitting book I have been looking at for a while now – The Vintage Shetland Project by Susan… Continue reading Birthday Weekend
A Little Nippy Out
We have had a good solid week of below 0 (F) temperatures here, sometimes significantly below 0. Anchorage isn’t as cold as the interior, so we aren’t getting -50 like Fairbanks is, but we have been hovering between -5 and -20. Which is pretty cold. When it gets cold like this, any moisture in the… Continue reading A Little Nippy Out
Tea for Two: Random Tea for the New Year
Well, our temperatures are in the negatives, and that means its time to hit the hot beverages hard. Toward that end, I got some new teas from Harney and Sons recently to give them a try. A new seasonal tea they recently put out is their 2020 Lunar New Year tea. It is a black… Continue reading Tea for Two: Random Tea for the New Year
2019 Craftiness Review
As far as crafting goes, 2019 has been a busy, if unfocused, year for me. I think the thing I got most of done was Dolores outfits and Harry 🙂 I made a lot of items this year, most of them smaller: 6 cowls 2 pairs of mittens 2 hats 2 shawls 3 pairs of… Continue reading 2019 Craftiness Review
Quite A Yarn 