Obsession of the evening

King Tut

I love Historical Tweets.

I have this song on vinyl. It makes me crack up every time.

snow and ice?

october 10 - snow and ice (2)
Originally uploaded by Jesmy

It snowed yesterday. It's cold as hell outside today. It's only the beginning of October. This is insane!

Unfurling

I just moved. It's closer school, which is nice. It's big change and adjustment.

I'm completely overwhelmed by the amount of yarn I have. I gave away so much over the summer, yet I still have 4 large storage bins full (not to mention the overflow into random areas). I'm making good progress getting through the cotton stash. I'm trying to make a decent amount of stock for etsy.

Today I stuck my hand in the top of one of my storage bins (you can just see the corner of it in the photo), and grabbed the first thing in there. It was some fake mohair stuff that's been lurking in the stash for a while. It pills like crazy. (I knit a hat for Vince using that along with a strand of icky green acrylic and it looks insane now.) I hope that blending it with two other oddly fuzzy yarns will make it a little less crazy looking after a few wearings. I am knitting a chunky little hat out of a strand of peach, pale grey, and the original tan fake mohair. I knit about half of it earlier today, but it turned out waaaaay to big for my head. I ripped it out and started again. I'm almost done with it. I'm not sure how I feel about it for me. It might go into a charity box.

Missed

One of my favorite writers died Friday.

I first read Jim Carrol's The Basketball Diaries when I was 13 or 14. I loved it and read it over and over again. I loved everything about the book. The language was so real and raw. The people talked like real people and there was no sugar coating of ANYTHING. It was gross and beautiful all at once.





Goodbye, Jim.

Cottonmania '09!

I'm trying to restock the store with some goodies!

Hot Pink Striped Dishcloth



Nautical Striped Dishcloth

phoning it in

I'm currently laying in bed with the beginnings of a cold. I just realized that I can access blogger with my fancy phone. Very exciting.