I’m pretty well cruising along on Mom sock #1. (Though can I say, the colors look much less scarily pooly in person than in this picture.) Sadly, I finished Season 4 in the Babylon 5-athon last night, and we don’t own Season 5. I’m at a bit of a loss tonight, trying to figure out […]
I got my invite for Ravelry! I didn’t sign up for an invite for a while, because I still feel like a pretty basic knitter, and sort of felt like I might be getting in over my head, but I keep seeing some pretty cool posts on people’s blogs, and broke down a little while
The mobius scarf for my mother is done. This means I can now concentrate on her socks. I managed to add about an inch to the ribbing for sock #1 last night. The Christmas tree is up and mostly decorated. I say mostly because we had a slight snufu involving crunching of lights on the
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Read of the Armchair Traveler’s Reading Challenge. This book follows the author’s journey westward from Shanghai along the old Silk Road. There are many interesting glimpses of Chinese and other minority cultures along the way. I’d not realized that the Chinese had long considered a trip along the Silk Road a form of exile. Xinjiang,
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I raked 15 bags of leaves this weekend, 13 of which I had to wrangle on a rather blustery Saturday morning. Fortunately, my backyard is rather sheltered, so I only had to work around the worst of the gusts, but I definitely have some issues with Mother Nature deciding it would be fun to have
So Nanowrimo is officially over, and my word count is sufficiently unimpressive enough that I will not be sharing it. Although I didn’t get nearly as far as I’d hoped I would, I’m glad I signed up. I got all of the scenes that had been knocking around my head out on “paper”, which has
I’ve completed my sister’s Christmas socks. I really like the colors (it’s called Crazy Woman, which is very apropos for my sister), and I have a decent amount of the yarn left, so I need to see what kind of little thing I might be able to make with the leftovers. I’ve cast on my
ETA: View my final list here. Even though I can’t sign up until the 15th of December, I’ve decided to post my choices for the 2008 TBR Challenge, because it’s pretty easy to do. I already have a TBR list going (I’ll be moving it up the page a bit into my list of challenges),
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This book is a novelization of the movie starring Clive Owen and Keira Knightley that came out four or so years ago. It’s a movie that didn’t received overly great reviews, though from what I’ve seen in my DVD extra viewing, and from the differences in the theatrical version and the director’s cut DVD version,
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I came to read A.S. Byatt by way of her novel Possession, a book I very much enjoyed. I was extremely intrigued to note that she also writes fairy tales, five of which are featured in this book. The first two are actually in Possession, which initially gave me an incredible sense of déjà vu
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