Category: project

  • Falling for knits…

    I can feel it starting….the air is feeling ever so slightly crisper, thinner, fresher. Fall is coming soon. I know it is because the box of fresh crayons and bottle of Elmer’s glue told me so! School will be starting in just over a week. I’ll be heading down to the basement to pull out…

  • why I couldn’t feel my arms 6 weeks ago…

    it just occurred to me that I never posted about our long weekend project we tackled at the beginning of September. it went like this… Saturday we (a-hem, Jason) dug eleven of these… mixed 21 bags of this… Sunday morning, we put up these… then this… by mid morning… Sunday afternoon… aaaaaaaand DONE!!! now, where…

  • arrrrrrrr ya ready to bake?

    now, how does a young man work in the kitchen and still remain manly? Capt. Zachary helps me out in the kitchen alot and he finally asked me the other day to make him his very own apron.“but not a pretty one!”, he said. well, of course not! what better way to bake then doing…

  • w.i.p…rippling rows

    work in progress…my very first afghan. I used aRandom Stripe Generator program. I put in the colors I wanted to use and this is the pattern I ended up going with. I still have about 139 rows to go.the red stripes were actually an afterthought, when I found a skein of red in a bag…