if it's Wednesday, it must be random

Just a few things today ...

1) Have you heard about PopKnits yet? This is a new project from the very talented Steph at Gleek.net. She's launched an online knitting magazine focused on vintage and vintage-inspired styles. Go forth, read, and design! (I'm noodling around with an idea for a baby sweater ...)

2) Want an afghan? Too lazy to knit your own? The lovely ladies at MDK are auctioning one off. Check it out.

3) The countdown has started -- two more weeks of school for the semester, and then two summer classes, and then I'm done with my master's degree! But the next two weeks will be b.u.s.y. -- I have a big research paper to finish, and a take-home exam that I think will be more like a series of short essays. Sigh.

4) I'm knitting something I can't blog about. It is not mindless knitting. There has been frogging. All of this makes for boring blogging.

5) Therefore, I shall find some other kind of image to blog.
Hmmm .... I have a lot of things I should be doing right now. But this is how I feel instead.

Dear Blog

Dear Blog,

I have not forgotten you! I've just been very busy. We moved into our new house on Monday. Before that, we were packing and shopping for house stuff and dealing with painters. And, as of this morning, a plumber to fix a leak in our bathroom. (No, not nearly as bad as what happened to Ruth's bathroom!)

Now we are unpacking and furnishing and decorating, and remembering where we packed/unpacked everything. (The underwear got lost in the move. Luckily for everyone, they were found the next day.)

I've still been knitting (mostly in the car on the way to work) (no, not while driving ... while husband is driving!).

Bloggy dear, I still love you! Every day, I think of something I want to post. Unfortunately, it has also been performance review season here at work, so I thought it best to focus on the tasks of my paid employment for a few weeks.

Luckily, the review went well, and I shall return with photos soon.

(In the meantime, if any readers have a favorite Etsy shop to recommend for artwork in the "el cheapo" to "slightly higher but still not expensive" price range, let me know. We're looking for bedroom and livign room art.)

Until later,
Danielle

happy birthday to me!

Happy Birthday to me!

(Me, some 27 or 28 years ago)

(I come from a long line of crafty women ... my mom made that dress for me.)

I treated myself to a birthday gift ... I ordered several sets of stitch keepers for my DPNs. I've been knitting socks on DPNs again, and I'm getting annoyed by the "porcupine effect".

Hopefully, these will help contain the pokey ends. (Thanks Beth S. for sending me the link to these!) I'll let you know what I think once they arrive.