I’ve been working really hard lately to make good exercise and eating choices, and it has not been easy. The medication I’m on will give me days where I want to eat anything that crosses my eye-line, so I had…
2010 Year of Pleasures #7
This lemon is from my very own backyard lemon tree. The tree is so puny I can’t believe it’s even producing, but here’s the proof. I thought it was exciting the first time I used homegrown herbs, but this was…
Spinach Artichoke Puffs
We spent Thanksgiving with the big extended family, and with so many of us getting together, we all get assignments for food responsibilities. One of my jobs this year was to bring an appetizer, so I wanted to make something…
Mason Dixon Handtowels
More time ago than I’d like to admit, I started knitting the handtowels from the Mason Dixon ladies’ first book. This is one of those projects that I don’t have to hide away in my studio to work on, or…
2010 Christmas Cards
When you go as ridiculously overboard as I do every Christmas, you can’t do it all in a month. It takes a lot of careful planning. So every year around this time, I make my Christmas cards for the Christmas…
Quilt of Hate no more
Nearly three years later, I’ve finally finished it. My almost disastrous satin quilt project. All my fears about the unintentional swastika pattern (that isn’t *technically* a swastika pattern because it faces the wrong way, but whatever, try explaining that to…
2010 Year of Pleasures #2
It’s about time I turned my attention to my little garden plot, and it seems to have gotten started without me. I have no idea what this stuff is. After the explosion of poppies and the lettuce bolting, plus the…
Setting Goals
I’ve put up my new goals for 2010. Right over… Yeah, I know, there’s a lot of them. It’s probably mathematically impossible for me to achieve them all, especially given how much knitting is on the list when I am…
Snowfall Tree Skirt
Before I put Christmas away for good, I thought I’d share one last project I finished off this month that didn’t fit it with all the Woodland tree stuff. Last year’s new tree was my snowfall tree, and like always…
Woodland Tree
I raced to snap some pictures in between present making and present wrapping, so they’re not exactly magazine worthy, but I think you’ll get the idea anyway. Since this is my fourth full sized tree, I had to go a…