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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

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I snapped this picture this morning. It was absolutely beautiful out. I am so happy with how this turned out! It is sometimes so difficult to take a good picture in the blinding snow light. I can’t actually see very clearly in the viewfinder and the LCD screen is worthless. Straight out of the camera shots that look this good seem harder to achieve as my camera ages.

My fingers have been itching lately to knit. And so knit I have. In fact I’ve been knitting so much that I’ve neglected to do other things like sew or blog or write letters. Those things are still in my mind though. I have a goal to make myself a couple of dozen new neatly hemmed napkins this year. We’re going through the stack of napkins I have now in less than a week. That is what making napkins and refusing to buy paper towels will do to a family. I still use paper towels for some jobs but we’re buying many less rolls than we were last year. I just can’t quite sacrifice a fabric napkin to the wiping out my cast iron yet. And I’m not altogether certain how my washer would react to an oil filled napkin.

On the knitting front I’m making good progress on my hat and pretty good progress on the ribbing of another hat. My speed has picked up in the last year which is nice. And I’m finally understanding more about tension or rather how to adjust MY tension so that my stitches are consistent. In comparison to some I’m probably still a turtle slow knitter but maybe one that has “running” shoes on now! I’m delighted with the yarn that I picked for my hat. I can’t wait to take a picture. I thought to try to snap one today but forgot to get one of my boys to help. The hat is all stocking (stockinette) stitch so it’s rolling up.

Crafty Goodness

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Modeled by the adorable Jr.

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Pattern was Fetching from Knitty with an added set of rounds at the cuff, extra length in the hand and an extra cable round at the fingers.

Oh yeah then this happened:

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More crafty goodness soon. I’m scurrying around finishing up projects like there is only a week till Christmas! Oh wait there IS ONLY A WEEK TILL CHRISTMAS! (EEEK!)

Iphoto import

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Iphoto zips through the pictures as it imports which made me just a bit sniffly at seeing the pictures of my lovely BABY boys. They are a bit past that chubby cheeks stage.

I’ve also given up the ghost on finding an iphoto alternative. Well that’s not exactly true I know of a perfectly good alternative so I guess the more appropriate thing to say is I’ve stopped trying to convince myself to by $600 worth of software that I don’t really need much and haven’t a chance in getting that money back out of ever. Thus I’ll go with what came with my computer.

I did try out Picasa but something kept making it crash. A few other open source alternatives were tried as well but none really had the user friendly interface I’d like.

So I’m loading up iphoto then I’ll select the photos for the annual photo book. In flipping through them last night I think I’ll title this year’s book “The Year of the Blurry Picture and/or the Cheesy Smile!”