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Cramming a week into a post

OH hey, hi.

Last weekend we drove out to Birmingham, AL, which is our halfway meetup point to hang out with my in-laws. They needed their turn to celebrate Kev’s birthday with him, and I needed an obscene amount of seafood – it was win-win! We met up at the Fish Market (warning, creepy [...]

A year’s worth of fiber

OH I am tired. So tired. This weekend was so fun and so…um…expensive. But fun! And that’s what counts.

I concentrated mainly on fiber for this SAFF. I only purchase one skein of yarn the entire weekend – woohoo! Restraint! But fiber…ohhhh, so much fiber. More »« Less

DYE, BITCHES!

Today Sandy had some of us over to her house for fiber dyeing fun. This was ideal for me, because:

1. I need to dye some yarn as per my Mission Possible 2008 objectives

2. Dyeing at Sandy’s meant her house got messed up, not mine More »« Less

the healing process

Thanks for all your well wishing and encouragement. Thursday was just a bad day. But things are getting better. Friday I was without car – normally Kev would have left me his car and driven his truck to work, but it rained all day and his truck doesn’t have functioning windshield wipers.

< —- here is where I would put a joke about how old and beat up Kev’s car is. But I won’t, because he’s very sensitive about it. —- > More »« Less

fleece navidad!

Hey! There was a party yesterday! Knitters and spinners converged on the house of blogless Jacquie, and on her two little dogs, many cats, and one parrot. It was the animal house! Except the cats were outside. There was soooo much food. I decided to experiment at a party that was not my own and make a acorn squash and bleu cheese galette, topped with carmalized onions. Being that there were only a few scraps left, I’d say it was a success. The only reason it probably wasn’t gone completely was the fact that there was OH MY GOD SO MUCH FOOD! Yet I have no pictures of the food. OH WELL! More »« Less