Thursday, January 27, 2011

Time to Decompress

The last few months of 2010 were a little more overwhelming than normally anticipated, so I've spent the last few weeks focused on yarn and my standard routine.
I'm on my third sweater of the year (to the armholes already). The picture is of a shawlette also finished in January, really it was an excuse to try out a new yarn in a lovely bright colorway.
There will be more knitting. Most will be of the overly intricate lace variety as I have at least two shawls I have every intent to finish before the year is out. Along with seven more shirts, all of the short or no sleeve variety as well as embroidery, cross stitch and some minimal artsy type painting (as well as attempting to learn to spin properly in any left over spare moments) I figure I am pretty well set for things to do between loads of laundry and correcting papers.
While this is not everything I plan on doing during 2011, it certainly seems like some of the most fun thus far!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

This about sums it up


The holidays were filled with all sorts of randomness for us. Cartoon hats, fluffy animal slippers(white tigers and sea turtles) , lots of yummy things to eat and one set of bunny salt and pepper shakers in an indelicate pose.

Started a new blog

  Oooh Shiny! is now on WordPress.  There isn't much there yet, but I will work on that.