Saturday, December 30, 2006
It finally feels like winter here in the nation's capital. It snowed through the night, the sun is shining, it's not too cold (-7C), all in all the perfect winter day. I mean really now, if we're going to live in a country with winter, then we should at least have something that resembles [...]
Friday, December 29, 2006
In order to avoid writing a humongous post on December 31 to get through my whole list of bloggy items, I'm going to do a really quick one this morning, before I leave for work. It's so quiet in the office, nobody will really notice if I'm just a wee bit later than usual. [...]
Thursday, December 28, 2006
I haven't been much in the mood for blogging lately – even though I had 4 beautiful days off from work. I thought I'd be writing lots, but instead I've been really lazy and haven't done much of anything. I did do a list of things I want to blog about – there are 17 [...]
Saturday, December 23, 2006
On Wednesday evening I went to Knit Night at the Bridgehead in the Glebe. Despite it being only a few days before Christmas, there was a good crowd there (10ish, I believe). As always, it was a lovely evening, with lots of laughs. Every time I go to a Knit Night, I bring [...]
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
A couple of months ago I was in Value Village and picked up a few sweaters with a plan to unravel them and use them for Dulaan knitting (and there's one or two that I may use to make gloves and/or hats for myself. So far, I have one and a half unraveled, and have [...]
Sunday, December 17, 2006
On Friday morning I finished up the package of washcloths and soaps for the gift exchange with my team at work. A couple of posts back I mentioned that I had planned to make one more – a white ripple one with a burgundy tie to complete the package. But I ran out of white [...]
Saturday, December 16, 2006
I've now made this twice as gifts – once I gave it as a dishcloth, once as a facecloth. However you decide to use it, that's what it is! This is quickly becoming one of my favourites – I must make some that I don't give away!!
Here's the pattern. There's also [...]
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Anyone who knows me knows that I don't "do" Christmas. I really hate the commercialization and hype of it all. I hate how it has become the "holiday season" to not offend non-Christians. Or, more likely, it has become the "holiday season" to attract non-Christians into the gift-buying frenzy. I completely agree with [...]
Thursday, December 7, 2006
When I was a kid, my mother would bake pies and cut steam vents in the top crust that, to me, looked like chicken feet. I asked her why they couldn't be happy faces instead. So from then on, whenever my mother baked a pie, she would make a happy face, using Xs for the [...]
This is my first update in a couple of weeks, as life got in the way of blogging. On Tuesday, November 21, my sister Debbie lost her 3 1/2 year battle with Ovarian Cancer. She was 51. I flew down to Halifax for her funeral and to spend a few days with my parents. Go [...]
