So we had this little weather event last weekend you may have heard of. Single biggest snowfall at one time ever recorded in Portland (31 and some change inches – and we didn’t get the jackpot). Started Friday and went pretty much all day Saturday. The wind was crazy (but fortunately, not bad enough here […]
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I can knock another one off my I really need to track this down and read it list. I’ve had this on my radar because my friend B loves these books. This omnibus is the story of how Cordelia Naismaith meets Aral Vorkosigan, who starts out as her enemy, and later marries him. I love
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I got bored with the Pookies. So, here’s the Nennir cowl, by Lucy Hague. I’m using Claudia’s Hand Painted fingering weight yarn, in the Teal Party colorway. I’m not going to lie, my first cast on was a disaster. I used size three needles, somehow managed to drop a stitch in the provisional cast on,
The DIY jewelry holders worked out great. Turns out I have less pins, and less earrings than I made space for, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The pin holder will be living elsewhere (just haven’t decided where yet), but the earring holder is in situ, since if I’m going to use it, it would
This is what I’ve been working on knitting-wise lately – Pookies, trying to use up more of my worsted weight scraps. (I’ve got #5 on the needles at the moment.) I really do like this pattern – it’s super easy, and they’re so cute. The one thing I’m doing different with this batch is sewing
My Grammie begonia (so named because the original slip came to us from my mother’s mother), is actually blooming. It’s a foliage begonia, and I’ve only had one bloom one other year for me (in the ten years I’ve had one in the house – this one is a slip of the older one that
This weekend’s project is a bit different and experimental for me. I’ll preface this by saying, I’m not much of a jewelry girl. I have stuff I wear, but it quite nicely fits in my (not so huge) jewelry box, and I can’t say I own anything of any real and impressive
I once tried to describe this series as the Northeast equivalent of the Sookie Stackhouse books – there’s lots of supernatural people right under the nose of the heroine that she had no idea were there until she somewhat accidentally stumbles upon their world, but Jane swears like a sailor, which Sookie would never do.
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I really wasn’t sure what to expect from this book – with the words “diet dropout” in the title, I wasn’t sure how much it would talk about food, and if not, what else it could possible talk about. It did turn out to not talk a lot about food – other than some pretty
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Project: Quest by Laura NelkinYarn: Quince and Co. Osprey in the Peacock colorwayNeedles: Sizes 5, 6 and 7 circs, and Size 6 DPNs My Quest hat is done. Again. This time, I did the medium size, and it fits! I really liked the pattern – the linen stitch was an interesting new stitch,
