Or Happy Birthday to Me Yesterday I spent the day on my own personal little yarn crawl of Berlin for my birthday. I started the day with a list of 4 yarn shops and a general plan for the order in which to hit them. I made it to three… Read More »Berlin Yarn Crawl
You think assembling Ikea furniture is a quick and easy project. I’m pretty sure that most of the world considers assembling flat packed furniture like Ikea stuff to be at best an annoyance and at worst a frustrating hair-pulling experience involving many swear words. Yet, Saturday afternoon I found myself… Read More »You know you knit too much when…
I know there are one-project-at-a-time knitters, crocheters and spinners out there. I have even met a couple. If that works for them, that’s great. But I think saying that you “get things done more quickly” is BS. If you know yourself, and know that if you let yourself start multiple… Read More »Multi-Project knitters get things done
My work trip was good, but intense so as suspected, I didn’t get to see a lot of London. We’d leave for the office just as it was getting light, and get back well after dark (it is December – it gets dark early, by 4pm more or less.) I did… Read More »Back from London
I am headed off to London today for a work trip for the week. I’ve flown through Heathrow before, but this will be my first time actually stepping foot in London. Unfortunately, “work trip” means not a whole lot of sightseeing, so odds are very much against visiting anything cool… Read More »London Calling
Today is my mom’s birthday. She’s been gone well over a decade, and as her birthday comes around I start to think about all the things she never got to see me do, all the talks we never had. A big area of my life is everything I’ve done with… Read More »Happy Birthday Mom
On Saturday I completed an act of bravery – I ordered yarn online, from a German site, and didn’t use Google Chrome’s translation services. Nope, not a word. Found my yarn, the right colorways, check out and everything. Even figured out the shipping and returns policies to a sufficient degree… Read More »Daring and a bit of Good Luck
Confession – I like to read Dear Prudence on Slate. On Friday I was reading the latest Dear Prudence and felt a crafter’s sense of indignation over the woman who complained her daughter-in-law was “improper and stingy” for giving her a blanket she’s made from materials purchased with a gift card given… Read More »Giving and receiving handmade gifts
Today is Thanksgiving in the United States. This is our second in Germany. Last year we used the Thanksgiving holiday to visit Germany and check out our future home. We ate dinner on Thanksgiving at an Indian restaurant. This year, we ordered takeout from the same restaurant Wednesday night so… Read More »Thanksgiving
TheEnabler and I replentished our squash stores this weekend. There were butternut squashes back in our grocery store and we pounced on a pumpkin we saw at one of the small grocers downtown with a feeling of relief. We’d come to the realization that we would only have one pies’ worth… Read More »Renewed Food Stores
