tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50079832011-07-30T09:51:02.813-04:00This is my blog about me, sometimes my work at the library, and often about the textile/art stuff I do. <p>Knitnickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06821669593035237287noreply@blogger.comBlogger1271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007983.post-92012674106751351332010-07-10T22:48:00.004-04:002010-07-10T22:58:40.094-04:00

I'm participating in the newest "Sketchbook project: 2011". It's a very cool project, and maybe I will be able to bring a rural view to it. It will be touring galleries in about 6 places in the U.S. in early 2011. Nettie and I are working together on this project, partly in an effort to get us to be responsible to ourselves and to creating better work/life balance in our lives. Neither of us has

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It's been a long time since I've updated my blog, so I thought I'd drop you a line to let you all know I'm not dead, just busy! Here's a picture by Sr. Claire of Springfield's waterfall.

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I've recently discovered the American Farmland Trust and their "No Farms, No Food" campaign. They are encouraging the "buy local" ethic, working actively to preserve farmland by buying the development rights from farmers so that the land never can be used for other than agricultural purposes. It seems to be an active group with some good ideas for saving our farmland from development. I haven't

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so, you know I said we have some ducklings, right? well, boy do we ever have some ducklings, and for the first time when I went out this morning to feed and water it was hot in their brooder/coop.I fed/watered them, and they are going through a whole trough of chick starter/grower in 12 hours, and running out of the three gallons of water available in the same time period; anyway, it was so warm

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sorry it's been so long since I posted, been a bit busy.moved from texas to kentucky, got that small-town library job I wanted, only i'm the director, not just a peon librarian. that part has been kinda scary. but kinda cool too. I get to do the things I feel strongly about, give the people things that will help them to use the library more. that part is cool.dealing with interpersonal issues

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Last saturday night was my "Great Escape" party. Since I'm leaving the Fort Worth Public Library and moving to the commonwealth of Kentucky, they decided to have a party for me. Of course we had to have great mexican food, since there won't be much of that in KY. we went to la playa maya, where they made us welcome, fed us some great mexican food, and where they make really great margaritas! Some

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well, it's time to finally get some project updates done here. I've been working through the 3 Stones Pagan Abbey's Book of Common Craft. I have been really enjoying the projects as I generally do the same kinds of things for fun. Over the past few months I've made the Oatmeal Bread recipe, twice, with mixed success. The first time the loaves came out like bricks...that's what I get for not

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the day I wrote the post "warned", or a day or two after, a friend of mine said to me "you know they say in management 'f()&* up, move up'; now they will know how you handle yourself".Now she and I are both in the middle of the management courses we were chosen for last June. I chose a leadership development course and hers is something similar. So for the last two days I've driven into north

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I know it's been a long time since I posted, that is the life of a children's librarian during the summer! Now it's football season, so I'm spending lots of time at football practice, but still missing most of the games. All the games are on Saturdays and I only have one saturday each month. It's pretty tough to get to any games. That's the thing that really stinks about working all the time, I

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Well, it's been one heck of a day. Of course my boss is gone, which is when all incidents seem to happen. It’s too bad I can’t say that this time it’s only a broken window or some graffiti on the walls. It’s not even that someone fell or got hurt in the library. I only wish it was something that simple. I can't really say much about it except that I have been accused of doing something that I did

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when you complain about having no readers! you find out that you do indeed have them! They exist! woo hoo! i'ts amazing what happens and who comes out of the woodwork! Hi Cheryl and Hi John! Long time no see. I'll be coming home in July for a few days for my neice's first birthday, and coming to see everyone at the library while I'm there. I finished a pair of house socks for someone who's coming

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I love being in a busy library, but I hate people who sit right there and watch their kids tear up books. That is destruction of city property, disrespectful, and downright stupid. It is also frustrating. They would not let their kids tear up books they had paid for, why do they let them do it in the library? I just don't understand.Grrrrrrr!

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Sorry for the pity party of the recent post "just blogging here for myself", I guess I was just feeling sorry that I never get any comments. I guess I haven't been talking about anything comment-able. oh well. anyway, thanks for the comments they make me feel great! Cheryl, I'll email you later this afternoon if the storm we are expecting holds off for long enough!!!My friend Ann sent me a

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Well, I've started a library blog for our guinea pig, Dewey. Dewey lives at my branch and I take care of her. She is spoiled rotten because my coworkers like to give her treats. She has gotten better about allowing us to pet her, but she's often grouchy. You can see her blog about all the things going on at the library by visiting Dewey's Library. There are only about three posts currently but

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I don't know about you all but I was hoping to eventually get some readers. I know the posts have been few and far between lately, but life gets busy. I took Saturday off to go to a fiber fest, then found out that this particular place wanted no kids under 16 at this event, which was an alpaca shearing. I looked closer at their website to find that they didn't want anyone under 10 on their farm

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Hey all, i'm back from vacation and finally feeling caught up with work. Last night i was so tired i fell asleep on the couch as soon as I got my son in bed. this is a drawing i've been working on lately, after looking at Laurel Burch's work and preparing a program for the kids at work. then they never showed up, so no program. se la vi. i'll post vacation pics and pictures of the socks i

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it's been a while since i posted, and it's been pretty busy. we're getting ready to go on a short vacation to Big Bend, which should be fun. we're hoping not to be too cold. february is always busy with the performers showcase and staff day, so i'm a bit short of time off lately. I ordered some perfume samples from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, and they arrived today. They are awesome! There are

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i have a week off! I got off work saturday at 6pm and don't go back until this coming saturday at 9am. I've been baking up a storm, two batches of cookies last night and will do three more today, maybe four. I've already been to the grocery three times for these cookies, and still don't have everything I need. so off I go to the store again today! to get more butter, and some containers to keep

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I was reminded by my Mom last Tuesday that it's been a while since I have updated my blog. I am a sad, sad blogger. two months? it's no wonder I don't have any regular readers.life at the library is the same as always, just busier. weeding the children's fiction and trying to decide what new stuff to buy in addition to the stuff selected by our system selector.zzzzzzzzzz...Hey, wake up! I promise

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It's that time again and I'm grumpier than usual. I hate being in this mood too. What the hell happened to that nice lady who would take anything from anyone, and do anything for anyone? She's long gone I'm tellin' ya. In her place there is a bitch with an attitude. I've been taking estroven for a couple of months now, and it has helped, a whole lot more than the damn prozac ever did, but I think

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My birthday was yesterday, and even though i had to work, i knew i had that card from my Dad with $$$$ in it! It wasn't a huge amount, but it was enough to pay for the little piece of jewelry I bought for myself, a small raven with celtic knotwork all in it, and a pentacle very small in the center of it, it's for a necklace, and I love it. I had seen it online a few days before, then on friday i

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Well, I've been pretty busy lately. I finally started on and made my sock for my sock-blocker keychain, it's pink, of wildfoote, in honor of Lilly my new little neice. (She's 8 weeks old now!)I'm also making a pair of socks for her, out of the same wildfoote in pinks with a tiny bit of orange. I have also finished a toy-wheel spindle with a walnut shaft, it should go pretty well, most of them do

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Which Star Wars Character (Episodes 1-6) Are You? You Are Han Solo! You love to take risks in life and love! You are true to your friends, and never let any of them face anything alone!Take this quiz!Quizilla |Join| Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab CodeWell, I took the quiz and came up as Han Solo. This quiz had so many f*cked up questions and answers that I was sure it thought i was

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Which Princess Bride Character are You?this quiz was made by mystiI just had to take this quiz, as "the princess bride" is one of my absolute favorite books/movies ever. I must admit to surprise at coming up as Buttercup, however. It's been a long few weeks, and has taken me much longer than I thought to get over the depression engendered by our visit to New Orleans. I have also been re-examining

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these two photos, in this order, should say it all:These photos were taken at midnight last night, and I haven't touched it since. this is a easy sweater to make, and this is the second or third one I have made from this pattern, which can be found in Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitters Almanac. the first one I ran out of yarn before I finished the second sleeve. I'm still waiting on the new yarn to

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Well, just tonight we have arrived home from our trip home to see the new baby. Of course she was gorgeous! I will put those photos up as soon as I have them, she deserves a post of her own. This time I'm going to talk about the part of the trip where we got back in the car after driving 900 miles from DFW to Indy, and drove another 500 miles to New Orleans. Yes, in August, and yes, just under a

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I meant to post this picture a while back, when the "new dad" was only hours old, rather than nearly two weeks, but it will still have the desired effect! So here goes:

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It's been a shitty week for pretty much no reason except that it's the end of summer reading. It wasn't this bad at GPL, why has it been like this here? Here's the deal, during the school year we are lucky to have a door count of 350-400 folks in the library, except on saturdays, when it's more like 500-600 folks. However, in the summer those figures are bumped up a bit and turned around. That

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Well, baby and sister are all fine and doing well. Baby was nameless for about 48 hours after she arrived, but when they finally did name her, it was a very pretty name, Lillian Grace, after her great-grandmothers. She is beautiful of course and I can't wait to see her. It's quite different having a blood neice than it was having a step-neice. I have two step-sibs from my dad and (much later in

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What Famous Leader Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com I took this "what famous leader are you" test online and came out as Einstein!!!!!! Of course my control freak husband came out as Hitler! Heil Hitler! Totally appropriate for the old control freak!!!

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I'm going to be an Auntie!!!!!! Can you tell I'm excited? Woo Hoo!!!! Of course this baby is choosing late in the day/night to make her appearance, just like most babies. All I care about is that everyone comes through it healthy and happy. Of course Jill and Derek have been very close-mouthed about names, so we just have to wait to see what her name will be. This is my only sister, and she's

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Well, as I sit here looking at the dust bunnies on my desk, I've been shamed into updating my blog by my husband, who's been doing a much better job than I have been. Oh well. It's been a while. the surgery is now merely a memory, except for enforcing that "low fat" eating regime. Low sugar helps too. So, I've had no coca cola (oh, how I miss you!) for about six weeks now. Also getting real tired

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hey all, recovery from surgery went well, though I do still have some little knots under my scars, I'm sure they will eventually go away. nothing to worry about. started allergy shots again, yeah rah! i'm well into the 4th season of Buffy the vampire slayer, it's so much fun to watch her kick ass then be a dumb blonde kid. I'm catching up on a lot of what I missed when it was originally on, and

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Well, I had to have my gallbladder out on Monday, and have therefore been off work all week. Thought I'd post some of the things I've been doing (other than sleeping a lot) this week. (quick break to go take some pictures...) Ok, I'm back now. As you may or may not know, my only sibling, Jill, is going to have her first baby in July, and I am quite excited about it all. I've been working for a

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we give thanks for unknown blessings already on the way,we give thanks for unknown blessings already on the way,we give thanks for unknown blessings already on the way,we give thanks for unknown blessings already on the way.Wow, We have had the best day ever! started out the day by deciding we wanted to go out for a bit of a drive. found Dinosaur Valley State Park, where there are preserved in

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I don't know what it is with libraries, but sometimes I guess you just gotta renovate. Granted, Seminary hadn't been touched in 30 years, and probably won't be for another 30, but boy will I be glad to get back to normal. I'm tired of shifting books around, tired of pushing book carts that are nearly as tall as I am, and just plain tired. I want to have some energy left over when I get home, so

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today my preconceived ideas about particular folks nearly bit me! Here's what happened:I'm a librarian, working in a large city library system. I work in the children's department, facing the new books and some computers. I looked up from reading about the recent OPAL event where Michael Stevens spoke about the top ten emerging technologies for libraries to see:a well-dressed young member of the

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It's only April 2nd and already it's been up to 94 degrees. I can hear you all groaning, but really, it wasn't humid, so it was just warm, beautiful, windy and warm. we went out to try to find some of the geocaches in our area and discovered a beautiful park where there were at least 5 caches, but our GPS unit is aging out of usability (they are changing the satellites it uses or something like

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Hi! I finally got a photo of my new Jeep! Well, it's new to me anyway, it's a 2004 and I like it a lot. It's black, with a grey interior, and I'm taking suggestions for names. I always name my cars, it's just something I've done since I got my first car. (a 1973 Chevy Nova, by the way.) I think it was nearly as old as I was, and I know it had once been parts of two different cars that had both

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Hey all, I graduated (in December) and the school has finally sent me my diploma! I brought it to work the day after I got it and asked everyone if they had seen $100,000.00 represented by one piece of paper! Then I showed them the diploma! I guess I should have actually shown them both the bachelor and the master's degrees, but hey, without the one I couldn't have gotten the other! I was

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well, it's still officially "winter" in texas, but it's already in the 70's consistently, and for the last few days has been in the 80's! beautiful, but apparently spring is the humid season here, because it's like late summer in indiana, you go out and you are immediately covered in a fine film of clammy wetness. sweating doesn't help either. I just say my thank-you's for the wind, which is

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got most of the stuff we need moved out of the other apt. and out of storage, and of course we are all now ill with some sort of respiratory thing. hack, cough, choke. huh, huh...aaahhhchoooo. cough, choke, sputter. that's how it goes boys and girls. dead dog tired, even when taking all my vitamins, in bed by 10:30, sleep till 6:30, still dead tired.new job is awesome though! door count of over

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well, as you can see I'm having a bit of insomnia again, thank you Meno Pause! I love it, sleep just fine from 11 till 4am, then lay awake for an hour, then finally get back to sleep and want to sleep way past the normal time to get up. Suck City, boys and girls.on to the reason for the posting! we have finally, finally gotten moved into our new apartment which being a 2 bed with a den (and

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i've been spinning again! lately it has interested me more than knitting, but I go back and forth with it, you know. a very nice friend at home gave me a couple of balls of dyed fiber, so i spun that up. here it is:anyhow, that's what I've been doing around running errands and getting Patrick in school. OH, yeah, I also started on a stuffed bear for my sister's baby! I'm still looking for a

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Well! What a trip! spent most of three days packing my house up and loading a truck, just to spend two more days driving and unloading. And to think, we have to do it again in just six weeks! Anyway, we're here and well. The drive was long, but made much more tolerable thanks to my good ol' mp3 player and tunecaster! Yea technology! Got to listen to some of the audiobook "son of a witch" by

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Today, while reading "350 years of what the kids heard" by the NY Times, I ran across this paragraph: Most early children's books were didactic and had a religious flavor, intended to civilize and save potential sinners - albeit upper-class ones, since they were more likely to be literate. As today, publishers were shrewd marketers of their wares. When John Newbery published "A Little Pretty

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Wow! that was a fast weekend. Got lots of packing and throwing-out done while my husband was here, but not enough time for homework. I am so behind I'm going to be in big trouble. I really shouldn't be blogging right now, should be doing homework, but have to work a full day tomorrow, and really need to have my SBA3 done for Johnson's web class. got the basic page in place, just need to figure

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Hi Guys, just posting in class for the fun of it.Bye!

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my best friend (forever) has started her own blog, you can see it at http://blandcraft.blogspot.com, it's really great, and she updates much more often than I do, so she's more interesting to read right now! She just finished a knitted babe, Goth Girl, which is awesome! it's obviously the middle of the night, and I can't sleep. again. I hate menopause!But, got some of the best news of my life

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Anyway, I've been busy, apparently too busy even to look at the news. When I did look at the news today I wished I hadn't. What the hell is happening to our society? When in one newsday I can see reports of one woman trying to steal another womans baby, a man stabbing a ten-month old baby in her stroller, and an award-winning marine being charged for shooting up a nightclub? What happened to

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Here's that screen door: it measures 31.25 inches wide (not counting the frame) by 79 inches tall, again not counting the frame. Obviously the boat in the background is for sale too, asking $1000 or best offer! Thanks for looking!

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Hi Freecyclers and everyone else too!Here is the sandbox I have offered:And here are the fence sections: Once I have a taker I will get the vines and etc off and move them to the front yard to facilitate pickup. They are leaning against a mini lean-to, the roof is part of the lean-to structure. Fence sections are around 5 1/2 feet long, and about 3 or so feet high.

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Here's what we spent our holiday weekend working on:the kitchen the way it's been for over a year (without the frig pulled out, of course):Here's our friend Tim who helped us (that means he did most of the work!):And here's Patrick enjoying his breakfast in the middle of the mess, but you get an idea what the floor will look like when it's done:

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This is too funny, my husband calls me outside while I am working on my homework...to see this:He says "I know we got rid of that old scrabble set last week, but this is too weird". I said "Patrick did that last week when we were out here..."He says, "Oh, thank god! I thought it was too weird to have happened all by itself! "Then the wonderful man goes right back to work on replacing the brakes

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Hey all! guess what! I think my hubby has a new job, in Irving, Texas! It will mean a big move for us, but that's ok with me. We will know for absolute (accepted offer) sure within a few days I think. They want him but need a few more things before they can make a hard offer. I am *so* excited! Texas! Wooo Hooo! and a heck of a good raise too! pics and etc of the latest works in progress coming

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Well, here are my son's school pictures, after they have lain aroun the house for two months! Isn't he just the cutest child you've ever seen? (sorry, couldn't help it!)Of course he's the light of my life! He just had a birthday and quite a grand weekend with the bowling party that was supposed to be pirates, except the weatherman called for severe thunderstorms, which of course never happened,

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I almost forgot, I finished (nearly) the bear from bearbrain this morning! He is so cute, all he needs are eyes and a sweater and he will be all done! He felted quite well, I am pleased with him. the pattern was easy to follow and knitted up really rather quickly. it called for size 9 needles but I used 10 1/2 because that's what I had handy and I can usually go up at least one full needle size

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wow, who knew that getting ready for an arts festival could be so much work? I have to get tables, a chair, my loom, spinning wheels, and a bunch of other stuff ready, pack it in the van, get it to the festival, get it all set up, demonstrate all day, then undo it all. sometimes i wish i had a camper shell for my truck, it would be so much easier. of course, on the same weekend there will be

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just thought i would let you all know what I have started on now, it's the Beezley Bear from bearbrain.com. He's the cutest thing and looks just like winnie the pooh! their patterns are reasonable and well written as well. Beezley will be felted, and I can't wait to get him done and stuffed! Have been spinning on my green "Victoria in the woods" from crosspatch creations, and it's spinning up

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have some sad news, but it's finally done and over with. You may not know that my Mom owned and operated a coffee shop in the library where I work, and now she's been forced out. This was a great service to all the patrons and staff of the library, and I am sad to see it go, as are many others. it's gone, and the last of the fixtures are being removed today. it's been a stressful time, and I am

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Hey, I finally got past the worst part of the weaving on the Thread Project, for details see www.threadproject.com Here are some pics of the loom with the eight inches of twining finished, and the first bit of actual weaving on it! WoooHooo! YeEeeHAAHAHH! It will be done so fast now that I nearly have to stop weaving on it.

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go figure, i'd rather blog tonight than do my homework. it doesn't help that when i went to look for the files i need i couldn't find them. I'd really rather be spinning, which i will do in a bit, after I get at least one of the two assignments done that are due on Friday. i hate having to stay up till midnight on thursday night just to get my homework done, I'd rather be spinning or knitting! I

Knitnickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06821669593035237287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007983.post-1113795678149751942005-04-17T22:29:00.000-05:002005-04-17T23:11:23.500-05:00

Man, what a beautiful weekend! The weather here was just perfect all weekend long, and we made good use of it too. Got the yard mowed and etc on Saturday, and spent most of Sunday working on our trailer. It's an old (1979)Starcraft tent camper, and was white at one time, but is now green! The paint was so old it was powdery and came off on our hands! We got this trailer for $125 and it was pretty

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Wow, went to the Fleece Fair in Greencastle, IN and got me a new fleece. It's a very soft suffolk, I have high hopes for it too! Took it directly over from the vendor i bought it from to Wolly Knob Fiber Mill's booth and gave it to them to process. Can't wait to get it back and see if it lives up to my high hopes for it. I know suffolk is often considered a meat breed, but this actually felt

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Oh my gosh, there's a great reference librarian/student/grad assistant/whatever working tonight at the IU bloomington main library, and he saved my life! I would have had to drive an hour down there, try to find somewhere to park, try to find the item I was looking for, copy it, then drive an hour back, all tomorrow morning, befor then having to drive to indianapolis and do the same thing all

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Forgot to show you all what I did a few days before Easter, I got to be the Easter Bunny! Yes, that's me inside that easter bunny, and I did blur out the childs face so he cannot be recognized, don't want any trouble!

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my god, am I ever sick and tired of being sick and tired! first it was a sinus infection combined with ear infections, then it was bronchitis. I feel like I have been sick forever. I'm finally starting to get better, and am very glad for it. I have been doing some knitting while ill, though not much. my neighbor kid went to a sheep farm (meat sheep) for a school fieldtrip and brought me back a

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I'm takin' my pointy sticks out again, this time they're pointing at lousy parents who can't make it on time to pick up their kids when the library is closing. Damn it, when you have young kids you need to know when the library is closing, and be there on time to pick them up if you are going to treat us like babysitters. Sorry, this babysitter has kids of her own that already don't see her

Knitnickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06821669593035237287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007983.post-1109123343026091642005-02-22T20:21:00.000-05:002005-02-22T20:56:46.850-05:00

I started dressing the loom Sunday night for the Thread Project. Marik helped me get the warp on the loom, but of course the hard part(threading the heddles and sleying the reed) are all mine. He said, I would weave if you'd set it up for me. Yeah, and so would a million other folks. I tell you, it's the warping that separates the weavers from the rest of the world. Here are a few pics of the

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OhMyGod! I'm takin' my pointy sticks and running them through the local cubmaster! We just got back from the boy scouts Blue and Gold banquet, which should have taken no more than an hour and a half, but no, these guys can't find their ass with both hands, so it took them 3 hours! I don't know about anyone else, but that is disrespectful of my time and energy, and of all the other parents out

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I went to the first meeting of a new local fiber guild today, and boy was it fun! We all learned something new I think! We did some dyeing of roving and a handfull of loose fleece. It all turned out beautifully! the regular meetings will be the first thursday of each month, in the evening, and they don't mind me bringing Patrick with me. he's a good boy. It should be fun, I need to take my charka

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It's another long day at work, I better get used to Wednesdays being like this, it won't end until May! Anyway, just finished making a project example for Paper embroidery for our school age kids. they have a project most thursdays here, and this coming week it's embroidery on paper. we are using card stock, I made a design of hearts and a triangles border, with a star in each corner. Will take a

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Man, it's been a pretty busy few weeks, and now school starts again on Friday. I can't wait for it to be over. Here's a pic of our recent trip to Chicago, it's taken at Medieval Times. Have been working on the Tsunami Doll project to raise money for the relief effort, and keeping the knitwits going too. Don't know what we'll be doing tomorrow, but I've plenty of time to figure it out yet. Have

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Since I am getting the hang of this, here are a couple more pics: My dog Fred: Here's that beret and the new bag i just finished: OOPS! I mean, the start of that MeBius I was working on! And here's my boy Patrick with his first bow:

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Catch this, it's our local park on the Monday after christmas, it was very cold and we had around 18 - 24 inches of snow on the ground, which is quite unusual for this part of the country. Hopefully this one looks a bit better than the last one.

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well, old st. nick was pretty good to me this year, I got a pretty decent digital camera, and they are getting pretty reasonable, I spent just under 70 dollars for mine, and it's a 3 megapix camera. Can't beat that with a stick. Patrick got a "real" bow and arrows for christmas, and will get to go shoot tomorrow if the weather is halfway decent. He's dying to try it out. DH got a black powder

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Hey all, We got a deer! a friend whose husband hunts had plenty of tags for legal deer this year, more than they would need for meat for the year, I told her that I would gladly take one off her hands if she just couldn't handle any more...and she called me this morning, I have a beautiful large doe in the back of my truck, waiting to be checked in and then made into meat. This is a very awesome

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Hey there, boy am I pooped, we got all our christmas shopping done today with the exception of two gift certificates, and I have a book to make still. I don't think it will be a problem though. I am going to try to post a picture now, after having looked at someone else's code from a posted picture. I need to take some photos and get them uploaded, have gotten quite a few things done lately and

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i'm trying to post to this thing more often, it's easier now that school's out for a month. I'm going to work along with the ME-bius project, I need some serious ME time, this was a terrible semester. I've been enjoying the last day or two, what fun to be out of school for a while. stopped by Bo Peep Fiber shop today and volunteered to design a square for the square a month afghan she's doing,

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Ahhh, all semester projects are finally finally finished! as of 12:30 this morning i am finished, done, caput, nada, no more to do! (for this semester anyway) and next semester doesn't start till mid january, a whole month off, i don't know what i will do with my time! oh, yeah, clean my house up from a semester's worth of neglect! just five more classes and i am all done, forever. and you can

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well, i have made some changes, blogger has come a long way since i started this two years ago. lots more choices now without having to think about it! gotta like that!

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as usual it's been too long since i posted here. life is *way* too busy right now, but only one more week and it will be over for a month at least. have been busy buying books and fiber lately. made another felted bag and now am short of the yarn to make a strap for it. will attempt to post a photo here, we will see how that works. have been spinning on the never-ending blue-faced leicester,

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Wow, it's been a while since I have posted anything here! the spring semester is over, and summer is well under way. I am enjoying children's lit, and getting ready to do some craft fairs this summer. I will have products at the gift and hobby show in November also. Have been working on some socks for my self, and another felted bag (to carry knitting, of course) for the pattern for that one you

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it's been a hard month or so, since coming back from vacation. I hate being behind in school, and I have been letting the stress get to me. I picked up the book "Don't sweat the little things...and they're all little things" and have been trying to take some wisdom from there. It has helped to reset my thinking a little bit. I am trying to remember that this too will pass, and to take the time to

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Man what a day! been here since 8, and staying till 6 or so. have had a bit of a headache all day. got the books put together for the artists book session tomorrow with 60 latchkey kids, oh boy! then have 19 kids signed up for felting the very next day. Bad planning on my part! got to wash some more wool !

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well, i've made it through the first 4 days after vacation, the first 4 days of a living h***. it always sucks to come back from a good vacation. just working like crazy trying to get caught up.

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Hi All! Just got back from Disney World with my family (husband and 5 yo son), and am starting to try to catch up on homework and housework. That Tam I made for Susan turned out really great, and she loves it! It fit her perfectly! We had a great time in Disney, Kennedy Space Center, Gatorland, and Indian Harbor Beach (Canova Beach, really). There's a great little GuestHouse Inn there, just

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Finished the tam for Susan today, just have to block it now. It looks great so far! I can't wait to see it dry and off the blocker. Now to start some new project! Photos coming to this blog site soon!

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finally found the other skein of yarn, and gave the finished socks to my Mom before I could get a picture of them, Will have to borrow them back from her in order to get a photo. long ago finished the hat for the friend at work, she loved it! started another hat for another friend at work, it's going a little slower, she wanted a beret, and she bought the yarn for it, I made a test swatch and

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sitting in cataloging and hating it, she's making it much harder than it has to be. finished (nearly)with the second sock but am nearly out of yarn! will have to eventually mail-order it cause no one around here carries it! boo hiss! working on a hat for a friend at work, she hinted that she wanted one for christmas, and she's so sweet I just had to comply.

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have been working on the socks some more, sat out on the porch on Halloween night and knitted on the second one while I passed out candy in my witch costume! Worked on a new project last night at my son's basketball game, a lanyard and small bag, just big enough for ID and money, basically a club purse, but you wear it around your neck, like a long necklace. I had purchased some "Boa" by Bernat

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It's a school day again, and if I get my postings done I will have some time to work on my socks for mom once I get to school. I am nearly out of the yarn I bought for these socks, may need to buy some more to finish this pair, oops! Am going to go down and scan the first sock now, see how it comes out. More later!

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I guess it's been around two weeks since I posted anything here. I finished one sock and started another, out of Koigu, in the Monet colorway. they are very pretty. I will see if I can get one scanned later, I don't have a digital camera (with a good battery) at the moment. These socks are christmas presents for my mom from last year, better late than never, I guess. Other than that we had our

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Well, sunday night and I have to go to work again in the AM. I am just totally burnt out right now, It's a good thing I get my vacation soon, like in three days! Can't wait to take some time off! of course, having two classes does not help. Especially when one is kicking my butt. I am fragged beyond belief.

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Hi All, wondered if anyone wants some links to some interesting Lewis and Clark sites on the net. go to www.geocities.com/knitnick/lewis.html. This is just a very plain page I put up quickly for a class I was teaching last week. if you replace the lewis.html with index.html you will get my home page, and links to all the other classes I have taught or facilitated. Have a good day!

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Hi everyone, If you have class with me on Wednesdays you heard me say that I had lived for 6 months in a Tipi. Everyone wanted to know the story, so here it is. When I was married to my first husband, we went to live in Green county (southern indiana) on some property his family owned. The plan was to clear about two acres, bring in a mobile home, then start building a log home. We went down

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Hi All, Tuesday and we have a bunch of loud and rowdy teenagers in the library again. I am getting to sound like an "old-fashioned librarian" running around shh-ing people. The kids think I am mean because I am one of the most likely to tell them it's time to leave for the day. I have to get my worksheet done for Reference also, almost forgot about that! Better get to work now. On the fiber arts

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HI Everyone, it's Monday morning, and all is well. Back to the work-week, as usual. But, my birthday is tomorrow! I'll be 34. I wasn't too worried about it until I got my hair cut and everyone said "wow, you look 5 years younger!" I thought, what, did I look old?Anyway, not going to worry about something I can't change. I actually got some spinning done over the weekend, spun up a bobbin of the

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Well, it's Friday afternoon, and all is well. I have been working on my buffalo and wool hat all day after finishing a spindlefull of lace-weight yarn last night for it. I think I am finally ready to tackle those shetland fleeces that have been sitting in my garage for a couple of years now. what I really need to do is get some serious spinning done on my wheel, so that I can get some real

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