Archive for July, 2008
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I Took My Kids to a Museum in a Strange City and Lived to Tell About it!*
Before we went to North Carolina to visit with Rhett and Link, I knew that meant that Brian would spend the day Thursday with them, working in the office. I was a little worried. There I would be in a strange place needing to keep my kids busy for at least 8 hours… or more. Things like that worry me.. I know they shouldn’t but they do..
What to do? Well in came Link with a suggestion or two, to go to a museum in Raleigh. He got me some directions off Google Maps and after spending a bit of the morning with Link’s wife and kids, (and waiting for Brian to bring me back my keys)off we went!
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh is awesome! Not only is it free.. but it is chock full of things to keep you and your kids busy for hours! If you are in the area go!!! And the other cool thing is they have the Dead Sea Scrolls there till December 28th. Which means this is the second time I have had the opportunity to see them, and have been unable to do it!! GRRR!
So I enjoyed the day. It wasn’t too fun parallel parking in the city.. the public lot was full but we found a spot right in front of the governors mansion, of all places.
It also took us 40 minutes to find our way out of Raleigh.. we skipped the second spot on our little mini tour..Pennell park, but then found it by accident and were then able to follow the directions out of town from there!
(*Despite the faulty directions Link gave me… mwah hahahah)
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The Undisclosed Location!!
Well we traveled to lovely Lillington NC and were guests on the Rhett and Link Kast.
It was a blast!! Brian has been working with Rhett and Link most of the time behind the scenes and some times in the spot light!
I have to say theses two guys are a blast. And we were privileged to meet their wives and families too.
All of them, beautiful, wonderful, fun and with hearts for God. Definitely a winning, worthwhile combination! I am glad to have met them and to be supporting them!
Oh and hey.. they made a movie! Looking For Ms Locklear.
I am dying to see it, but I don’t think it is going to happen any time soon. So far it has been accepted at 5 film festivals.. if one of the locations is near you, GO!! They will have information on showings on their Facebook page (link above).
I also took some video while I was there.It is the the Un Unauthorized behind the scenes look at Rhett and Link. I will try to put it all together in a coherent way and then post a little video one of these upcoming Thursdays..
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The photos..or Not!
Well here we go! There was a whole lotta knitting going on at the conference.
These are just in one session!
Ok Well I think that I accidentally deleted a batch of photos! Oh no!!
And I even had a photo of the elusive male knitter, knitting along side his wife..
Le sigh!
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Wordless Wednesday.. delayed!
Hmm my plan was to post a bunch of photos of knitters who I spotted at the conference. There were many. But my camera card has gone walkabout on me and I am too tired to look! So I will post them later.. hmm this seems to be a theme this week!
We have headed even further south. Location to be revealed tommorow!
And rats! No knitting today! I did most of the driving! That really cuts into your knitting time eh?
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How To’s Day: How to direct your attention elsewhere!
Well being out of town and all doesn’t lend itself to a nice pictorial how to’s day for you all! So I surfed a bit and came up with a few little interesting articles for you to look over!First up: Fit and Finish by Knitterly Notions. A nice little piece about how gauge and stitch effect the size and fit of your knitted pieces.
And just for fun, how about a nice article about steeking? Here is one by Eunny Jang. This is the one I used during my first steeking adventure. And now that I know how to crochet, I think next time it will go much better. I think steeking is a really good skill for loom knitters to pick up actually. Then we can keep knitting in our fast little tubes and still make some neat stuff! Check it out! (It’s totally not scary really!)
Oooh I forgot how long that was!! Well now don’t you want to try steeking? I think we should. It turned out well for me!! See:
It didn’t fall to pieces! Really! cool eh? ooh I liked that sweater. That one was hard to give back to KnitPicks!
Well off to another day at the conference! Bbye! I’ll show you my travel knitting tomorrow!
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*Missed Monday!* All’s well! I needn’t have worried!
*Oops this post didn’t go out on Monday so I am popping it in now!! the How To’s Day post went up instead! yikes! Posting on the road doesn’t always work out well!*
Things went fine today. I had no reason to worry. I really need to stop borrowing trouble!
Jaxom and Azia went on their first (I hope of many) service projects today. Jaxom’s group cleaned up around an inner city school And Azia’s group did the same in a housing project. The only bug of the day was that I forgot Jaxom had to be picked up from his activity room at lunch time!
I snuck a picture of Julian waiting in line for his field trip. He was having fun! I can’t quite get the pic in here yet but I will try to get it in later in the week!
He had fun at the museum field trip!!
So all’s well here. The conference goes on. Seeing many many people I haven’t seen in a long time. It’s nice to catch up!!
And while I am sitting in on the sessions I am getting alot of knitting done! I was so engrossed by one session yesterday though, that I ended up knitting a whole extra inch!! Which I pulled back today!
Oh well!
I will also try to post pics of the knitting later too!
Paying the bills…
Coming April 13th
