Archive for September, 2005
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Simple still life
I joined a group called Simple Still Life. It’s an online group set up to sort of give a little artistic challenge. Get the juices going and all that. Each month there is a new challenge. This month we were supposed to take a picture of one item with it’s shadow, and then take that picture and use it as inspiration for whatever art form we choose, to create a sort of still life.
So I had wandered around the yard looking for something, I thought my own shadow was pretty interesting!
But I settled on the thing in the yard that is supposed to cast a shadow. Our sun dial.
I particularly like the column that it stands on. It was inherited with the house as the base of a birdbath. The bowl of the bird bath broke and so it then became the base of the sun dial.
So that will be my focus. I will be doing my piece in knitting. So hang out and see how it progresses.
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If it was only this easy…
That’s what is left of the yarn for the loom photo shoot! All the looms are set up and packed in their box and ready to go! My knitting time is mostly my own again!
Ok.. I am exhausted. I still havn’t been sleeping well and last night when I was sleeping I was woken up by some wicked wind. I was suprised by how little damage there was to the trees, as there were 60 mph gusts of wind.
I have been getting some knitting done really!
I made a few soap sacks to put in health packs for hurricane victims that our church is putting together.
The yarn came and I finished the second sleeve for my Noro shrug. Now I need to block it.
(pictures later) I also need to figure out what to do with the half a ball of yarn that is left over. I think after I join and seam the sleeves I will pick up stitches and put a little garter stitch border on it in the round. It won’t go too far but it will give it a more finished look.I have a lace edge washcloth on the needles right now also, and when that is done I will start the squares for the Diva Knitting Challenge.
So that ought to keep me busy.
I am playing around on the knitting board too, I am going to try cables again. Perhaps the little experiment can get sent to the challenge too! -
T- shirt Parade!
Well over at Pumkinknits PumkinMama has asked to see our favourite t-shirts! So I set out trying to find my favourite one.
But what with all the moving around of furniture and other Unfortunate events that occured this weekend I was unable to find it.I did find the contreversial t:
My second favourite t with my favourite quote!(plus my husband bought it for me!):
and in the end this one summed up how I felt about not being able to find my favourite t:
This was my catch phrase throught out a production of You Can’t Take it With You, for which I was the stage manager(in college) So I had it put on the back of myshow t-shirt!You see my favourite one has been AWOL for a while. I wanted to wear it in Maine, because it has a lobstery theme. I LOVE LOBSTER! But I couldn’t find it. It really is my favourite, not because it is so comfy, or fits really nice, When I saw this t-shirt I did not even hesitate one millisecond before I reached out, grabbed it and walked to the counter to buy it.
You see…
It fits me to a T!
Everyone who sees it on me says the same thing.“That is so you”
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Calling Yarn Harlot
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A Weekend Awry
If you came here today looking to read about happy finished knitted items; I fear you will be quite disappointed. You see over the last few days there have been some events that have over shadowed any knitting progress that has happened, or not, happened. So if you have come here looking for happy pictures of knitted items I suggest you stop reading now and go on to another knitting blog. Remember I warned you..
On Friday evening, overly tired from having a week of insomnia (which here means being unable to sleep) Denise tried to go to bed and get some much needed rest. After tossing and turning for several hours, she finally thought she had settled down and fell asleep. But alas, she felt something crawling on her arm. She quickly swiped it off and rolled off the bed and switched on the light with the speed and agility of a ninja. Looking on the sheets she discovered one inch long leg of a, presumably, very angry spider. She carefully lifted her pillow to discover a seven legged spider of an enormous size underneath. (The word enormous is used here to mean very large, very hairy and very much not belonging in one’s bed.) At this point having only a knitting pattern book on her side table to use as a weapon, she did the only thing she could. Gently shooed the enormous spider over the edge of the bed and underneath. Thus maintaining the pristine nature of her knitting book.
Having an angry seven legged spider under one’s bed is not the most sleep inducing event. Therefore between this and several young children waking and needing drinks and what not there was no rest for her that night.
The next day proved to be rather disastrous as well. It was decided that the family would take a nice hike at the local park. And so they all readied and packed up in the van, the family dog included. Denise took her knitting along as it promised to be an excellent venue (here meaning location) for shooting some extreme knitting photos. Knitting on a cliff top, knitting in a cave and other ideas popped into her head.
The walk started out at the visitor center, with everyone making a necessary stop before heading out on the trail. Left outside with the family dog, Denise watched over the three youngest children and said dog whilst Brian went inside with the eldest child. Upon seeing the eldest child exiting the building the dog could not contain herself and leapt toward him snapping her leash in half.
Undaunted, Brian quickly tied the leash together, and off they went for their hike. Unfortunately as we will find the adventure was not finished. After several stops; a diaper change, the leash snapping again, the next to youngest child who could not walk because he was ‘sick and dizzy’ Things seemed to settle down for a moment and the family thought that indeed this would be a peasant walk. Little did they know they were wrong. For after crossing a lovely bridge and rounding a corner, the family dog yet again decided to dash away. For what reason none of them knows. The retractable leash mechanism exploded to pieces in Brian’s hand bruising it, and nearly breaking it. The gears from the innards of the mechanism, still attaches to the leash and subsequently, the dog, flew through the air, right toward Azia. The gears went right across her upper arm leaving three large and painful scrapes behind. It was at this point that the family knew the pleasant hike they had planned was over.
Azia bravely hiked back to the van and was administered the appropriate first aid treatment and comforted by her parents and brothers. (The word administers means given amongst cries of protests like “It will sting!” “No” “It’s stinging” “Don’t touch it” “Your touching it” and the like.)
The ride home started out ordinarily enough. Listening to a story along the way the younger boys fell asleep. Then they encountered a large traffic jam on the main highway. It was apparent that the road was closed ahead because the authorities were directing vehicles to go off the road using the on ramps. They later found out that this was due to a man who was threatening suicide on one of the bridges, apparently he was having an even more unfortunate day than the family.
It took a very long time to return home.
After another fitful night the next day Denise tried to finish the work she had started the week before. Rearranging and moving the children out of one room into two. This meant dissassembling (here meaning to take apart) the guest bed and putting it into storage. The dismantling of the bed went smoothly. And Brian entered the storage area only to find that there was a rather prolific (here meaning very productive) leak in from the pipes in the storage area. This had caused a large puddle to form, which was centered under a piece of Denis’e grandmother’s furniture that was being stored there until she could refurbish it. Needless to say the item is, irrecoverable and irreplaceable as it was the wooden base of the couch that her father was born on. Reeling from the loss, and the mildew Denise got a VERY bad headache. But she was able to curb the headache by taking some analgesics (here meaning medicine) and helped Brian to clean up the mess. The rearrangement is left unfinished and so the family is tripping over items scattered here and there.I warned you, there was no happy knitting content here. But perhaps if you are the first person who can tell me the name of the story we were listening to in the traffic jam, then there might be some happy knitting contents making their way to you ina small packet.
So come back tomorrow, and perhaps there will be stories of bright and cheerful knitting items received in the mail, of projects finished and unfinished, of happy uninjured children enjoying happy times with their family.
Perhaps this unfortunate family will see happier times,
and perhaps not.
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Who knew?
Who knew rounding numbers could be so much fun for toddlers and preschoolers?
I am going to have to see if Brian can help me store and link a little video I took of the kids this morning.
Jaxom was doing a math activity online which involved rounding numbers. He would click on the number that the given one would berounded to and then the program made a silly kind of musical sound with the tone going up if he rounded up or down if he went down. Caleb and Julian thought it was just awsome! They squealed and laughed everytime they heard the tone. And chanted “again again!” It was cute. Jaxom ended up doing the activity about 5 times till Azia took over to do it so he could do the rest of his lesson!Here are a few shots of art classes:
Caleb liked painting!
You wanna buy a duck?
Serious artist at work!
Even Spiderman got in on the action!Yesterday was crazy. Caleb got stung by a bee, and fortunately did not react but everything stopped for the rest of the day so I could monitor him and he could sleep off the Benadryl! So a good part of the house got cleaned! Floors got mopped, and dished got washed. All that stuff that gets ignored when I am teaching!
I even got some knitting done. I finished Jack’s hat, except for the embroidery.
I was bad and didn’t get any looms set up. I will get some done today. I also got the yarn I traded with Isela for! Its some pretty Noro. She has a little contest on her blog for some more you should go check it out!Today is much better! Schoolwork is going more smoothly, and Caleb and Julian are keeping busy with their train set. Yeah!
Paying the bills…
Coming April 13th
