I’ve picked out my first project—and the yarn from my stash—for the Summer of Socks, and I’ve ordered the yarn and beads for Mystery Stole 3. I don’t think it’ll be a problem waiting to start another pair of socks. I only have to wait until the 21st for that, and I’m still not quite […]
Knitting things
I was browsing around a bit and saw this Elegantly Simple Baby Blanket pattern, free from Jackie E-S. Here are some other freebies from Jackie.
The forget-me-not socks are pretty well-behaved, but if I’d known about this a month or two ago some serious sock threatening would perhaps have made the Conwy socks go […]
It’s home. Came home on Monday, actually, but I had other things to blog about then. As a reminder, this is what it used to look like. Here it is now. And, because I took the pictures of it returning, I thought I’d share. While two men removed the couch, there were three to return […]
It feels like it’s been practically forever since I’ve blogged! Blame it on QuickBooks. I think, however, that except for the dreaded PayPal account, I have everything entered, and all accounts reconciled. Whew. I’ll tackle the PayPal beast another day. I can make no sense of their totals. Things that apparently clear the account on […]
I’ve laughed, cried, watched TV, talked, shared, argued, made up, knit, crocheted, cross stitched, slept, been sick, gotten well, recovered from surgery, eaten, spilled things, loved, and lived with this couch for more than twenty years. It was strange to watch it go off with strangers, to be given a new lease on life. […]
The upholsterers are coming today to take away my couch to make it pretty. And blue.
I’ve prepared the TV room as much as I can. The lamp, naturally, plugs in behind the couch, so I can’t move Dave’s end table, or the lamp, until the guys get here at 1:00. The remotes are stashed, […]
I took a couple photos of the dresser on my way out to the grocery store this afternoon—again with the camera in the cell phone, so no great shakes, but I know you’ll cope…
The photo on the right is the drawer-less, top-less dresser. In the center, Dave working on the top piece, trying to […]
More paint is coming off the dresser. Dave’s made more progress on it this morning, but here’s what it looked like when he was done yesterday afternoon.
Camera woes
I apologize for the quality of the photographs. I took them with the camera in my cell phone. I turned on my Cybershot yesterday to take pictures […]
Whether you call it a highboy, dresser, or chest of drawers, it’s old, it’s been a ghastly shade of dark turquoise—ghastly in our minds, anyway—and it’s been in Dave’s family, and that color, since before his mother was born.
If you’ve been getting the idea that we have lots of old stuff around here, you’d […]
I sometimes wonder how they keep track of all those feet.
Couch update
Dave and I took the fabric sample books back to the upholsterer on Friday afternoon. While there we got a tour of the small shop, saw a couple works in progress, and looked at tons more sample books.
First off, we should have […]