Filed under: Books, Make Lists of Things, My Kids, Random Geekery, Retro Kitchenware, Unrequited Lust For Jim, War Movies, nip/tuck | Tags: Alias, blue rodeo, Books, grapefruit, Homestead, Inglourious Basterds, Jim Cuddy, Jim Cuddy - sex god, nip/tuck, organize, Primary Colors, Pyrex, renovations, Ukiuk
So much to say, such a short attention span:
- Heading out to Ukiuk tomorrow night with Auntie H and the kids, maybe DH also. I saw it before the Jim Cuddy show and it was pretty fantastic. I want to show the kids so that I can explain that it was actually someone’s *job* to work on something that awesome and inspiring.
- Disassembling shelving and reassembling it elsewhere, and sorting/sifting through the resulting ephemera seems to be for me the female equivalent of male “ripping and tearing” projects that inevitably commence with the onset of Spring. I relocated another bookshelf and spent a happy afternoon filling it up again.
- I scored a 1.5L Pyrex bowl to complete my set as far as bowl sizes go, but it’s the wrong era. It will do, though, until I get the red bowl — at which point I will regift it to someone who enjoys retro kitchenware as much as I do. I’d really like to get ahold of some pieces of the ‘Primary Colors’ refrigerator dishes. (more…)
Filed under: Books, Fibre Crafts, Holidays, In The Kitchen, My Kids, Needlecraft, Things I Make | Tags: #1, Baking, Holidays, Homemade Holiday, Wizard of Oz
It’s hard to believe that Christmas is so close, and I’ve still so much to do — though to be fair, most of it is for local folks. I’ve the stuff for mailing just about ready to go, minus the baking (which I’m trying to finish up today and tomorrow).
I’m pretty darn’ happy that I’ve not bought “things” for people but have, instead, put time, effort, and a whole lot of love into making gifts by hand. There is something deeply satisfying about gifting from one’s talents — I’m left feeling that I’ve truely given a gift from the heart.
That said, the gifts for kids do have a little something “bought” to go along with the gift I made — nothing big, mind you.
Filed under: Books, City of Ottawa, Exercise and Stuff, Fibre Crafts, Make Lists of Things, My Kids, Stitch-n-Bitch, The Urban Jungle, Things I Do, Watch Stuff | Tags: Carleton Tavern, fog, free stuff, knitting, tea
Today is off to a good start. I’m hoping to maintain the positive momentum through the day. I really like waking up happy, but going to bed still happy is even better.
Last night I hit the Carleton with some crafty ladies and a couple crafty men for some quality time knitting, gabbing, and drinking beer. It was nice to catch up with John and Alex as I haven’t seen either of them in awhile since cooler temperatures ended the 2008 Brew and Q season — hopefully we’ll be able to sort something out in terms of a group family meal and get everyone together soon. I worked on my mother’s Christmas present and was happy and relieved to hear folks commenting on great colour choice. I’m not terribly good at selecting colours for stuff, and was worried it might be too drab.
This morning I woke too early with a scratchy throat and a coughing child, but managed to get back to sleep. The boys are still adapting to the time change, but are happy to play until it’s time for everyone to get up. I was amused by how eager they both were to cooperate in preparing their breakfast. Then I made myself a fine cup of home roasted coffee (and I may make another before lunchtime) and some toast, and grabbed a couple minutes to check the weather and news before getting the boys’ lunches ready for school. Yay, fog! Weather that reminds me of home — we don’t get nearly enough of it here in Eastern Ontario. 
Filed under: Activism, Books, City of Ottawa, Drama, General | Tags: discarded books, harold fisher, library, ottawa
As already mentioned in my post from earlier today, this morning I “rescued” a number of books from the recycling pile in front of my local library branch. Many of these were clearly from a single donation, as they were inscribed with the same family name. Two of these were leather-bound presentation books, won in 1930. The bookplate gave the award information and piqued my curiousity. Fortunately for me, the recipient had thoughtfully inserted newspaper clippings pertaining to these awards–my Google-fu failed me.
So I finally learned the concept of the YO. What this means is that in the last five years I have increased my knitting skills from K only, to include P, P2TOG, K2TOG, and YO. Who knows what’s next? Cables?!
In any case, I’m a book person (hey, had you guessed that yet?) and as such would like to pick up a knitting companion. My question to you is if you were only going to own one book on knitting–no patterns, just stitches, etc–which book would you pick to be your definitive knitting resource?
