…I had resolved to be totally on top of things this time, and here I am blotting my copybook before school even starts!…
Category: Passions
All my posts about things-about-which-I-am-passionate-other-than-writing: you’ll find posts here on parenting, knitting, cooking, frugality, the environment, gardening and whatever else catches my eye this week.
Jaywalker Bag
I failed to get a birthday present to my sister this summer. When I called (on her birthday) to ask what she wanted, she had just seen pics of my knitted Twiggy Tweedish bag and said she wated one of them, please. I asked what colours, and she said she liked my Jaywalker socks on… Continue reading Jaywalker Bag
Millennial Mom Mondays – Summer Review
t’s Back To School time and I’m taking a minute to review this summer (before I forget) to see what I did right, what I failed to do, and what I”d like to remember to do next year…
Millennial Mom Monday — Gadgets
Mondays are for the Millennial Mothers (and dads too. And aunts and uncles, grandparents and friends. It’s just more alliterative this way…) Post a reply in the comments. Or write in your own blog and leave a link in the comments. Invite your friends to join in. This weeks’s theme: Gadgets A while back, I… Continue reading Millennial Mom Monday — Gadgets
Unripened Hanami Stole beaded cast on, without flash
Unripened Hanami Stole beaded cast on, without flash, originally uploaded by jwordsmith. This is just a quick picture post to confirm that the Hanami Stole did survive past the first few torturous rows and that I’m quite enjoying it now. There are mistakes, sure, but nothing crippling. Yet. Must be time for a lifeline…
Millennial Mom Monday — Things I Never Thought I Would Say
Mondays are for the Millennial Mothers (and dads too. And aunts and uncles, grandparents and friends. It’s just more alliterative this way…) Post a reply in the comments. Or write in your own blog and leave a link in the comments. Invite your friends to join in. This Weeks’ Theme: Things I Never Thought I… Continue reading Millennial Mom Monday — Things I Never Thought I Would Say
Millennial Mother Mondays — Becoming Mom
Mondays are for the Millennial Mothers (and dads too. And aunts and uncles, grandparents and friends. It’s just more alliterative this way…) We are raising kids at the start of a new millennium. What are we doing? What are the challenges, old and new? Are we different from, or turning into, our own mothers? Post… Continue reading Millennial Mother Mondays — Becoming Mom
Breathe…
So, I cast on a Hanami Stole yesterday. I’m here to write about my experience today, so we’ll skip over the beaded cast-on (which went well), and the knitting-of-the-first-row and the unpicking-of-the-first-row-when-working-with-tiny-fuzzy-yarn and the part where I reached that point after getting to the end of the first row for the third time where I… Continue reading Breathe…
Temptation
Ooo, I have a pullover and a sock on the go, neither of them small projects, really, but neither of them in the first flush, either. Both are about 3/4s finished, so naturally I’m looking around for a sexy new love. And I think I’ve found it. I’m sitting here trying to resist winding into… Continue reading Temptation
Tension
I’m going through a trying time. In short, I’m having my second miscarriage in five months. But I have two lovely children, I have faith, I have friends and I have people who love me, so it’s all better than it could be. But the other weapon in my arsenal, against the monsters lurking in… Continue reading Tension