The before we moved in pictures: And the after, going from the left to right: Some general notes: The sand ceremony stuff (which is right now on top of the low dresser) should be on the shelf above the vanity with the wedding cross-stitch.  There was no way to stud-mount that shelf, though, so we’re [...]

I finally wore Salina yesterday, so here’s a modeled shot of it: Project details here. Brad took me for a snow driving lesson this morning. We found a parking lot with snow banks and no poles to run in to: After about 20 minutes, a plow driver told us to leave since he didn’t want [...]

Last night I stayed up way too late to knock out the cross-stitch for the annual ornament. To be quite specific, this is really all backstitch, but anyway… This year’s theme is our awesome European trip, if that wasn’t obvious. The pattern is from X-plore France, and it took me 2.75 hours to stitch. [...]

I started the Boteh scarf (Rav link) on Monday, and have been kind of obsessed ever since: It’s already Lani sized – and it actually goes well with her, too. Using Claudia’s Handpainted in Blueberry Toast. Of course, this isn’t on my list of goals. I’ve also started a sweater – Manhattan from [...]

I’m not surprisingly not so good at operating without stress. I have zero deadline knitting, had filled out my timesheet yesterday to take today completely off (my father is here), and I only just now remembered to even look at my November goals (of which I’ve done precious few of – I totally forgot I [...]

Better late than never, right? Brad’s stepmother asked for a snowman ornament with our names and the year on the back. We’re all very sure that she meant something like a ceramic ornament that you get from Hallmark with our names and date put on with a sharpie, but I do have this inate ability [...]

I just finished gift knitting/cross-stitching yesterday. I still can’t post it all, but I can blog what has been received. First, socks for my sister. Technically, they were her birthday socks, just really, really late (March 8th birthday). Pattern: Retro Rib Socks, Evelyn A. Clark Yarn: Less than one skein of Socks that Rock lightweight [...]

This post is going to be a bit picture heavy – part of taking an unofficial blog break is losing a bunch of progress pics. My normal sock club photos of the skein were taken, but not posted, and now I have finished socks! I’ll put the more interesting stuff up front. This was [...]

Yeah, neither do I. I used to cross-stitch. I haven’t done anything since my Christmas ornament last year – I had to create my 2006 cross-stitch folder in order to upload this picture: I ordered the pattern to stitch the Massachusetts map. I made a Hawaii map as well as a California map in 2003 [...]

This is going to be pretty weak. I also sorta missed the update last week, so no week 40. Anyway, Brad and I did spin and back/bis on Tuesday, yoga on Wednesday, and spin and chest/tris on Thursday. We were going to go back today, but are both having some back pain that we didn’t [...]