Archive for January, 2009

There she goes again…

Life: January 30th, 2009

So just a little update on my Noro Scarf  .   In case anyone was wondering!  I can’t get over how lovely the colors are.   I was knitting at my mom’s the other night and she said to me,  you know.. you’d get more done if you didn’t look at it quite so much! [...]

./grumble

Life: January 29th, 2009

I’m hungry.1
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Oh Noro, how I love thee!

Life: January 28th, 2009

Because I worked this past Saturday as a favor,  I was able to take Monday off!  This is super cool because I never get week days off and I work 10am to 6pm so there are a lot of shops that are always closed when I get off.   [I know I could go on the [...]

In Which Van has Writers Block


January 26th, 2009

I feel Accomplished!

Life: January 24th, 2009

The past few weeks I’ve been working on switching my Quilting Bee page over to a new CMS called MyQuiltAdmin written by the ever lovely Bubs. I remember when I first joined the Q*bee in Oct 2007 I looked at it, uploaded it and was just too overwhelmed to figure it out.  So I ran [...]

Felted Fun!

Life: January 20th, 2009

I’ve heard of needle point felting in my various interweb journeys and it looked kinda neat, but I hadn’t had the opportunity to try it.
Until last night that is.
Joules, my darling twin who keeps trying to embrace the knitting/crochet world but who just doesn’t have the patience to learn it, met a lady who had [...]

I can’t believe I’m blogging again…

Life: January 16th, 2009

but I keep finding stuff I want to talk about! Todays topic is socks.
Yes socks.
Particularly knee high socks.
I feel like I’ve rediscovered them and I love them.  I am in love with them.
I suppose it comes from the fact that I wear a lot of skirts and I get tired of wearing sheer trouser socks.  [...]

Meet Stinker!

Life: January 16th, 2009

If anyone is reading this who doesn’t like WoW, hey, is that a knock on your door?
*tee hee*
Ok! So i want to introduce you to my new friend Stinker!

This is the reward for completing an acheivement in WoW of obtaining 50 vanity pets. Just for anyone who doesnt know what a vanity pet is, it’s [...]

Twin Power!

Life: January 13th, 2009

Something really exciting is happening.
For the first time ever, Joules and I are going to combine our creative forces to hopefully come up with some amazingly beautiful and cute creations. I’ve crocheted a bunch of little assorted flowers in pink, blue, orange and purple and she is going to use these little flowers and [...]