Monthly Archives: October 2011

1. I am irritated by makeup ads. I earned these wrinkles, dangit. 2. You know how sometimes good martial arts movies make you wish you could use the power of inertia to run up walls? Well, I just watched Whip … Continue reading →

It’s a little unnerving to put eighteen packages in a mailbox. But it’s done. And I am so inordinately pleased with what I’ve just started that I’m giving you a blurry picture and no explanation yet:

I got some envelopes stuffed, and I’m going to drop them all in the mail on my way out the door. Finally. And I made this: The one on the left is an Ashford high whorl, but the other one … Continue reading →

the Northeastern Regional Friends of Dard Hunter conference. Taking this: (There’s a couple of printed things, a pretty significant number of sheets of paper, and a few experimental blank books. In an ideal world, I won’t bring any of it … Continue reading →

Monday: It was unseasonably warm again today, so I sat outside in the sun and read a book. There are probably those among you who’d say that’s not really the most productive use of my time. To those, I say … Continue reading →

Yep. (Found some nice yarn and a thing to do with nice yarn.) (Needed a fidget, which knitting is practically designed for.) Also thinking about how I can make sticks that are lying around anyway into drop spindles. (Supported, for … Continue reading →

I finished the alphabet posters. (Next time I print by hand, it’s going to be a smaller edition.)