happy new year and einstein spouts an arm!

Happy New Year to All! Hubby and I stayed in for a nice relaxing evening of good food and wine with a little champagne – FYI – be careful on wood floors with felted clogs and a couple glasses of wine Check out this great shrimp/tofu pad thai dish prepared by my hubby [...]

back from charlevoix and refreshed!

Back from another one of our annual trips to Charlevoix for relaxation, shopping, good food, working out, swimming, reading, knitting, listening to music…with no phone calls or work talk. Alas, another year with not enough snow to enjoy the cross country ski trails but we made do. As the passenger on the 3 hour trip, [...]

merry christmas – meet della and kate

Well, here is a photo medley to tell the story of the last few days from most recent.

Here is a pic of me and Maslow on our first official day of vacation and the day after my fam Christmas get together. The fire place is hot and Maslow has a full belly of Christmas stocking [...]

Another Sweater Project and a Finished Hat

Well…I have accepted that my Blizzard yarn will not be here by tomorrow and since I am now on vacation and so very tired of hats, I made a trek out to Threadbear and picked up 11 skeins of Lamb’s Pride Bulky in dark charcoal and I begin another project…The Sally Melville Einstein Coat for [...]

Yarn Status: In Transit – Back to Hats!

Well…Back from Rae’s and my yarn is still in transit…any day now! After spending an hour there perusing patterns and books, I left with two skeins of Lopi and back to a couple more hats until my sweater arrives. This one will be for my brother-in-law.
Well I am become more adept with this blogging thing [...]

Where is my YARN????!!!!

I really think I may lose it! My Reynold’s Blizzard yarn (look at it here in camel) is scheduled to arrive any day for my sweater project and I can hardly wait. I have finished all my other projects and have minimal scrap yarn left to make anything else. I actually found myself [...]

A promotion scarf

Here is a scarf I made for hubby’s promotion as he needs a hoity toity scarf to accompany his suits and dress stuff…Otis looks demure in this picture…showing his many faces and moods.

Christmas Hat – First Circular Knitting Experience

So, I completed some Christmas hats (Otis is modeling one) – my first circular knitting experience and it went pretty well – I twisted the stitches initally but I figured out how to avoid that once I did it a few times. I used Lamb’s Pride Bulky and the colors I chose are pretty mod [...]