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pavel in his house
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this is a photo of the house on top of the cat perch which pavel has claimed as his, despite the fact that he is way to big for it. so he lays in it with some part or the other hanging out, often reaching his paw out to pull his tail back inside. you can see what some of the parts hanging out are. i also have some photos that jake took of pavel in the kitchen sink. i had left yarn soaking to dye and he sat on top of it, like it was his nest. even though it was wet. goofball. i told jake that maybe it would hatch into baby sheep.

i dyed a ton of stuff today. a few pounds of wool and a bunch of skeins of yarn.

i had an awful headache last night, during which i managed to rip my right hand thumbnail down to the quick. i do not know how. and it feels awful. and i can’t keep a bandaid on it. it felt extra good in the vinegar while i was dyeing stuff. i didn’t sleep very well, and woke up early, after a couple of hours of sleep, got stuff ready to dye, watched the show that my yarn was on, and it was a letdown. you couldn’t see what was what and tanya didn’t really get to talk about any of the stuff that i know she wanted to show. and the host was terrible. and didn’t have any interest in yarn or knitting even though they have a 15 minute segment on everyday this week. regardless, it does give you an idea of how big a deal this knitting expo is to be on the morning show every day of the week. so i am cranking as much yarn out as i possibly can. i found the superwash yarn i was looking for, so hopefully i can get that in a couple of days.

i still have the headache, and after prepping the yarn and fiber, i fell asleep for two hours. totally out. dreams and everything.

i haven’t touched my wheel in two days, wait…3 maybe? i am not sure, and it sucks. i have new fiber dyed, so i am excited to spin to-morrow.

oh, and also, question for sock knitters…do you only buy superwash sock yarns? would you like soft fuzzy alpaca blends and other blends even if they weren’t superwash? please let me know. i am getting superwash, but i see other stuff that is really soft and gorgeous, but i was told at the knitting store that people didn’t like that kind of stuff.

ok, off to chill out and knit un poco.
smoochies all,
n.

ok…so it will be to-morrow, which is wednesday, the 15th at 10:15 on the kdka channel 2 morning show. i will be the only yarn, i think that tanyais taking on tv with her. so that is really exciting. if anyone is looking to buy an awesome yarn shop, she is looking to sell it. it is such a cool neighborhoody place. i drove up today, and brought a few skeins for her to take on tv, and as usual, they were so great to me. so excited about my yarns. i love that place. there is a huge knitting show next weekend and she told me to give her as many yarns as i wanted to for the show and that rocks! could i have better exposure? so i will be spinning and dyeing my ass off this week. i am searching for some good superwash sock yarn. superwash didn’t cross my mind until they told me that people don’t want to handwash their socks. duh. can you tell i haven’t started to knit socks yet? yet. she gave me a hairpin lace tool which i am really excited to play around with and the new knit 1 magazine and knitscene too. yay! there was some fun stuff in there.

i have the flu, i think. first my stomach was going crazy and then last night i had a fever, and today, too, as well as the big swollen glands and headache and runny nose. so i will just have to take some aleve and get to work, regardless.

my friend that i had to stop talking to told one of my friends that she doesn’t know why i am so mad at her, and to put in a good word for her. i am sure it made amy feel really great when she said that to her. it makes me so sad that she can’t listen to anything she doesn’t want to hear. i told amy that it reminds me of this gorgeous little stray cat that would wait for me when i came home. i would sit and pet him and when i would go inside, he would try to run in, also. and he would linger on the porch trying to look in the glass on our front door. i would look out the window and see him out there, and my stomach would sink. she is just like that. i can’t even call her, see her, anything. i can’t be her casual acqaintance. she has a strange immaturity that doesn’t let her see things as they are. doesn’t let her realize that it hurts me to be around her, it makes me sick, wears me down. i have immune system problems. i can’t be stressed out and upset all the time. i feel selfish, but i am no good to anyone if i am sick. and i can’t help her. she told amy that her “out of control” times were over months ago.

and, for the amazing blog of the night…and i mean AMAZING….sickening, really. i am not sure how i never heard of this girl before, but it is rare that someone makes me feel lame. i am just getting the skills to do things like this, and prefer more abstract things, but i would totally wear these. and it gives me awesome ideas. if anyone is supposed to write a fun crafty book, this is she! this girl is totally in the vein of cast-off.

ok, so i plan to update the site, but am trying to crank out stuff for the knitting show this week, so if you saw something on my flickr that you are interested in, make sure to ask, as it will likely be gone if you don’t.

smoochies y’all…oh, and where are all my valentine’s? huh? oh, my hubby got me cute gifts which i will post to-morrow.

xo,
n.

i have been all over my blogs, and found inspiration, so varied…it is amazing, the variety of creative things everywhere. and i know that i need to make sure that i don’t lose my roots, that i don’t burn out because i only do one thing, relating to one thing and it is work. and it stops being fun, or inspired. and really, when you don’t push yourself to do other things, that is what is destined to happen. like eating the same thing everyday. even if it is your favorite thing. like smoking a whole pack of cigarettes at one time. like eating something and getting food poisoning, you will never eat it again. never.

so. where am i going with this? i have been given the incredible chance to do my work, full-time. i do need to make some money, for sure, but i need to make sure that i am producing other things, as well. every day, at least a little bit. a drawing, something.

something that makes your heart swell. that feeling, like when you eat a warm brownie, or hear your favorite song while driving with the sunroof open on a sunny fall day…or..insert thing here…..

feb 9
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what did i do today? i dyed….10 skeins of yarn. i should figure out the yardage. lots and loads. i had bulky yarn, which was lamb’s pride dyed green and pink, about 250 yards, more lamb’s pride in sport weight…600 yards, 440 yards of black and pink worsted weight, and 880 yards of laceweight in pink and green, and maybe a another laceweight in black and pink…880 yards. and i think some fingering. so tons. lots. i dyed in the same colorways in case anything leaked. they came out really pretty.

i am going to have to wind my way to pittsburgh to drop yarn off for tanya and luxe’s tv debut. i will get the stats on it and let you know the day and time to-morrow. i will attempt to miss rush hour traffic as best as i can.

i wound so many skeins today, quickly as i can, that i cracked one of the pegs on my winder, so i need to email the company to ask for more.

i got a bunch of yarn samples and fiber samples from southwest trading and i was so excited. i felt so important! yay! samples!

i also emailed bob mould and told him that i would love to send him a hat or scarf if he would let me know what color he would like. black, i am sure. but it would be cool to knit him one. i would be proud. and the 15 year old version of myself would think that i was super cool. perhaps the 15 year old versions of any of you?

i tivo’d some episodes of style me one of the worst reality shows out there. bad. low budgety with really bad contestants in it. bad. sad. they make them do the worst stuff and they come up with terrible, terrible outfit after terrible, terrible outfit. i rarely 100% watch tv, i tend to be doing at least one other thing, more often a couple of other things. i know it isn’t good to watch tv all the time, i am ms. short attention span, and i feel crazy if it is quiet. i am not sure when it happened. i have the tv muted, the stereo on and i am reading, or drawing, or knitting, or blogging, spinning, talking on the phone, whatever. if i had more arms, i would be dangerous. and tivo has made me even worse. god bless tivo.

i had stomach mayhem last night and today, and have had a fever, i think, off and on. for example, i have turned the heat off and have the window open and feel hot. yeah. so i may have caught the cooties that are circulating. i will just take a barf bag and go to pittsburgh. no worries.

i have knitted some really interesting scarves and cowls that i will probably put up on etsy, and i think sugar will probably want some. i am pleased to have an idea of what she likes, and it tends to be the same colors that i like, so that is nice. it was hard working for the crappy boutique and trying to guess what stuff they would like when the things they carry are 90% ugly, and the ones that aren’t totally ugly are boring. and ugly. and expensive. and we all know that expensive means nice. it is true. the marketing book told me so.

one of my awesome secret pals got me KNITORAMA, it is such an amazing book. i lost it within a week, somewhere in the house, unless someone accidentally took it, which doesn’t seem likely, or stole it, which seems even less likely, and i cleaned up a bit in my room and it is just gone. for months now. i know that if i buy it again i will find it. although, i have had many things get lost that i never find. every pair of glasses i have had save for my most recent pairs, have disappeared and never reappeared. one of the styles i loved so much that i bought them again, despite the lofty price tag. and then lost them. again. in the case and everything. i tried to buy them a third time and couldn’t find them anywhere. i was so sad. and i imagined them sitting somewhere, lost, scared, sad. so. lost. of all the books i have, many, many, many, it has to be that one! why? why?!

one of the girls on rollergirls is moving to hawaii. how awesome would that be. i wonder if it is a lot like where bonnie moved to. but a bit closer?

off to read blogs. i am really trying to stay caught up. or something.

my year blogiversary is coming up tomorrow, i think. and regina’s is soon too. crazy stuff. it seems like yesterday.

warmfuzzies…
n.

feb 9
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ok, so first:

Your Blogging Type is Artistic and Passionate

You see your blog as the ultimate personal expression – and work hard to make it great. One moment you may be working on a new dramatic design for your blog… And the next, you’re passionately writing about your pet causes. Your blog is very important – and you’re careful about who you share it with.

this place has the coolest stuff for kitties.

in other news, i was bitching to jake that i have to drive to pittsburgh on tues to drop stuff off to pgh knit and bead. not cool. i hate driving and at that time i won’t be able to see amy, anyway, so that kind of will be a lame-o trip. i know regular people have to drive places all the time and i have no right to bitch. but. bitch bitch bitch.

i am going to do yarn and fiber dyeing to-morrow so if anyone has any requests, get it to me by early to-morrow. got it? also, etsy had a meltdownso my store ditched stuff that i put back up tonite. and there is free shipping on a bunch of it. so go and check it out. ok? go!

i also should have a luxe update to-morrow.

i also need to take photos of stuff to-morrow, so i reckon that something won’t get done, but i will do my best. i swear it.

ok. off to knit for the site.

smoochies, y’all.

n.

feb9
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here is a horrible photo that i am ashamed of, of the really cool pompom wreath. every photo i took today looked like utter poo. so i will have to retake everything to-morrow. i also plan to do a bunch of dyeing…some yarn even! whoa! and i need to mail stuff. i was supposed to do that today. time did not permit. and, whilst waiting for my prescriptions, i leafed through a crappy “easy crochet and knit ideas” or somesuch crapola magazine that had…a pom pom wreath! it wasn’t pretty, and i am planning to sue them for stealing my idea. haha. not really, but it was odd. i orginally got the idea from the interweave xmas tree made of poms and garland. and i still have some cool ideas. i am excited woo!

i got my selvedge magazine today in the mail(my rockstar spousal unti got me a subscription for chrismukkah)…can’t find the link for you at the mo, sorry, anyway, there is some really cool stuff in there. one, is an article on how women used to use sacks from dry goods for making all sorts of things, especially dresses, and used every part of the bag, scraps, etc, even the thread that sewed the bag together to embroider, or crochet edgings on things. later on, the bags came with labels that were paper, because obviously, it sucks to wear a potato sack that says, potatos on it, and then, they made really decorative floral ones, and even ones with pattern for dolls to cut out and sew. and i turned to jake and said that the packrat in me really misses a time when things had value to people. not that i wish that i had to make underpants out of scraps from a sack…i don’t…this is the sort of conversation that in a movie would cause me to wake up 100 years ago and be begging to come back to the future. anyway, there was a creativity that people had to have to survive, which made america so amazing. not just america, i guess in every culture, they had to make do with what they had. in southern cooking, for example, the slaves were given all the crap parts of meat, like the feet and ears, etc, ribs, tail, and they made them work. now in southern cooking, most of the favorites are based in african cooking. greens and black eyed peas and all.

the next thing to be a bit upset about is something i have been noticing a lot in clothing stores. you can get a shirt that is hand embroidered and has beading and sequins all over it for 15 bucks. what? a machine did not make the crocheted scarves and drop stitch knits. nope. didn’t. so this stuff is coming from india and mostly china, now that bush has changed the import standards, and their people get paid nothing to make clothing that can be sold at the gap or wherever. there is this strong handmade movement right now, and then they fing away to either make it look handmade when it isn’t, or pay a 10 year old chinese kid a penny to do it. sigh. evil. if i didn’t buy anything imported…i wouldn’t have anything. maybe i should put my money where my mouth is…or just shut up. it is sad though that there is no appreciation for these crafts…that the word “craft” has taken on this negative connotation of little blue country stenciled crap. no offense to stencilers. and then the art people…they discount all of the typically women’s arts and craftspeople as not making art. i feel like there should be a group in the middle. for those of us that are art educated and are snobs…to a certain degree…but because of our training understand that the difference between art and craft is intention, not quality. just because it is called art, doesn’t mean it is good. or meaningful. or anything. and just because it is made out of fiber, does not mean it is craft, or art or isn’t meaningful. everything i make has a lot of heart in it. and my intentions…you tell me.

i spun a bit today and had spun this insane uncarded chunky merino stuff that i had dyed in greens and navy and yellow. it was lumpy and crazy and i had this boucle mill end from ages ago that was a mustardy yellow that i plied it will and it looks amazing. lexi was right when she said that there is no ugly yarn. it just needs something more. and when i gave it what it needed…it was perfect. that boucle slid right into the nooks and crannies of that lumpy merino like it was made for it.

i need to do some knitting for valentine’s day gifts and i am having a hard time deciding what yarns to use. i hate it when i get like this. hate it. also, one of the cats keeps farting because i gave them some tuna helper which didn’t agree with them. someone ralphed it up…whole peas in it. ew. i may never eat it again. i need to knit jason h’s in another room because he is super allergic to the cats and i made this hat for him out of really nice expensive yarn and he wore it and broke out in hives all over his forehead. what a nice gift, huh? so i need to make sure i don’t knit it with cats around. and then wash it. so be warned, knitters. no one likes hives. not even that crappy band.

oh! i got a super duper good deal on dyed ingeo and i am really excited to put it into something. i bought it undyed before, and you can only dye it with a special kind of commercial dye that you have to buy in bulk. and i was not into that. so i spun what i had and decided i would buy it dyed from now on. i am not THAT hardcore.

ok. off to knit.
smoochies!
n.

feb 3
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i have so many different photos of pavel sleeping in various sorts of linens, laundry, unmentionables. often, on his back, toes pointed skyward. and when this one sleeps, it is very intense, like he is really really focusing. in this rare case, he is seen sleeping without his socky nearby.

in other news, my arms and hands were killing me all day and i have been feeling feverish and nauseous. i got up and did some spinning, but had to chill out for the rest of the day. i have my monthly doctor’s appt to-morrow, so hopefully we can figure something out. i have lots of work to get done and just don’t feel well enough to do it. i need to get orders out to-morrow after my appt, so i need to get them packed tonite. i have a super good friend, amy that sometimes goes for me when she hangs out at dv8 to study.

oh, additionally, our good pal gabe who is a fantabulistic artist and all around good guy, with freckles and a baby nose, has a new show up and a constant stream of art flying out of his hands, so…go, check him out and buy something. he does requests, too. and no matter how strange the request, no problemo.

more links, you say? well! the anticraft has a new valentine’s mini edition up, with some super cute stuff on it, including a skeleton lovey retablo sort of thing. ser cute!

one of bestest college friends, who i am too rude to keep in non-blog touch with, jen bought some of my stuff from etsy, and then i felt bad and wondered why she didn’t just email me, and then i realized that was why she hadn’t cause she knew i would try to give her a deal. well! jen, you think you are so smart? (she is insanely smart, btw. and i am a non-kid liker, and her kid is toooooo cute. and insanely smart.)anyway, there will be a super special something in said package. or maybe in one a day later. nope, in that one. cause i love her! thanks!

also, angie, one of my bestest customers ordered a custom yarn from my luxe store basically, you tell me what you want and i whip it up, just for you! anyway, she got a pink and black yarn and it is super pretty. photos soon. i swear it.

ok. my hands are killing me. and i feel like crying. wah wah wah! i need to cut back on the powerlifting, it is killing my digits. you know? you do. off to medicate.

oh…my blogaversary is the 13th of this month…can you believe it? 1 year!!!! so, in addition to all the valentine comments i will be getting, i will also get some kudos? right?

smooooooooochies! fuzzy ones.
n.

feb 3 2006
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jake and i went to amy’s grandma’s viewing last night, and her poor dad was so sad. we got a little tulip arrangement and it was the littlest one there. it was cute though. all the other flowers at the store looked like crap. and the roses looked a bit shady. so while i know that tulips are not the lillies, which would have been my first choice for a catholic woman…you know how it goes.

today, i had a hair appointment, which took all day. my hairdresser seems to be maybe going crazy. she says that she is…gasp!…not a steelers fan, and that everyone at the salon has been razzing her about it and she had a blowout with the nicest natured person who works there because she put a steelers sticker on the back of her shirt. in front of a bunch of customers on saturday she told the other girl that she was “fucking childish, fucking unprofessional and not a ‘real’ steelers fan.” and i didn’t know what to say. first, i don’t care so much about football…angela…you didn’t hear that…I LOVE FOOTBALL!! um, anyway, but why would you not be a fan of your local team? maybe there is a reason. i just always thought it was like your highschool team was the team you would most likely side with, right? who knows. regardless, she totally flipped her lid and still after the fact didn’t think i would think she was a loon for it. in my wisdom, unlike my old self, i didn’t say what i thought, cause who cares?, i just said…whoa. i bet your boss was mad. maybe it is time to go back on the medicine. i know that if i didn’t take anything i would be slapping people and making them cry with my vicious mouth. i used to do that. seriously. if i didn’t like someone…i would pretend they didn’t exist, even if they spoke to me, and if cornered or pissed off, i would say the most horrible things you could or couldn’t imagine, and make them cry. and i wouldn’t stop until i was empty. nothing left to say. i don’t do that, and am trying to learn to not say what i think all the time. it is not a family trait, to keep quiet. my beloved granny, well, she tells it like she sees it, to a disasterous effect. god love her. unless she is saying it to you, in which case, god help you. really.

for those of you that sent me nice comments and emails about my small spouting about jake…if you knew how amazing he is to me, to everyone, you would think i am a jerk for not saying more. and all the time. i seriously don’t know how i got him. he will pretend to not want the last piece of candy or cookie, or whatever until i pretend that i don’t want it so much that i will throw it away. he opens my car door for me. still. if i rub his head or kiss him when he is asleep, he will mumble, “i love you baby.” i will give you guys, to your dismay, a complete list of why i am sickeningly lucky to have such an awesome valentine.

have i mentioned that i love valentine’s day? so! i think that we should all send people emails, ecards or small gifts, should the mood strike us to everyone that we think rocks for valentine’s day to make it a fun and happy day for everyone. i decided long ago to take it into my own hands, as a single, and make it fun. i always give cards and little baskets, etc. cause everyone likes to be thought of. remember that! everyone does. especially the people that say they hate valentine’s day. change their minds. so! i will be sending stuff out, and if you feel like it, even if you don’t, send comments, or cards, or money. whatever.

oh, also, i made my first super time-consuming handmade pom pom-pom pom wreath. and it looks awesome. it has a ton of the pom poms, and whilst i think there is not such a thing as a bad pom pom, handwound ones rock. big time. i am thinking up more things to do with them. anyway, it took a bit of tweaking, but i am seriously thinking about selling some on my site, or etsy. or both. it looks awesome. i may even do some with regular poms. when jake saw it, i had told him about the idea, after seeing the pompom interweave issue, with the tree and tinsel, etc, he said, yeah, cool, but he is not a conceptualizer. at all. he was like, wow! that is sooo cool! wow! and touched it. and he is not that much of a fiber toucher. hard to believe, isn’t it? why else would anyone like me, except for my fiber?

off to correspond.
warm fuzzy wuzzies,
your linty pal,
n.

feb 3 2006
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vivienne? maybe. this is my favorite chemo cap, it looks so punky. it looks super cute on, too. so, it goes to show that fun fur has a valuable place in this world. i also have been spinning bits of it into yarns and it looks great there too. i have a soft spot for the stuff.

i spun a lot today, i will skein it and post it probably to-morrow. i dyed the scoured targhee and merino and carded it into some yarn, which looks amazing, but not at all the way i expected it to look. sproingy stuff. big time.

we went to get groceries, and besides being superbowl day it was miserable outside, so it was like a ghost town on the streets.

the other day, i saw a famous violinist on tv who had a stratavarius violin. i researched it a bit and the violin is worth at least 3 million dollars and is one of around 600 in existance left out of the 1100 that the man made in his lifetime. then, i saw instances of a person leaving a borrowed strat on the roof of his car and driving away, and another who had one of about 30 cellos that the man made, invaluable, it was stolen off of his porch by some random person and dumped in the garbage and found and given back to him. if you had something worth that much, would you strap it onto your body with an alarm, or what? so then, jake and i discussed how the musician was able to buy a violin worth that much. do classical violinists make that much money?

my friend that i had the falling out with, let’s call her ursula, called and left a sweet message, checking up on me and saying that she missed and loved me and didn’t know why i didn’t want to talk to her. it made me tear up. i really feel like she is my sister. i have never had a sister, but for good and bad, lots of bad, but it kills me. i really feel like she doesn’t understand why. she thinks i am just being mean. i came very close to calling. i miss her. as much as she drives me nuts, i miss her.

i am watching if only with own of my new faves, jennifer love hewitt, the cutest girl in the world. i also watch ghost whisperer, with no shame. and i cry when i watch it, cause you know by now, i cry really easily. this movie is about an uptight brit and his spunky awesome girlfriend who he takes for granted. they get in a fight, she gets in a cab, gets in a car crash, and he goes nuts. super intense amazing acting, actually this guy loses his shit. and movies like this always make me think about how much we take everything for granted…it is a really sweet movie. he wakes up the next morning and it is the previous day, over again. so he can do it right. it is a chick flick, but it is really sweet.

on the way out of the store today, it was bitterly cold, jake put the groceries in the car and told me to warm it up, as usual, because that is the kind of person he is. anyway, when he got in, even though he was super hungry, i was staring at a snowflake that had blown in and stuck to the gearbox…and i realized that i can’t remember the last time i took the time to look at snowflakes, in their amazing perfection. and jake was amazed, also, we spent a few minutes, in the cold car, before backing up, or getting our really late lunch, pointing out gorgeous snowflakes, “look at this little guy!” no, this one! and it really was one of those sweet times that you realize you will always remember that. that jake still is, in many ways like he was when he was a kid, he is always excited by new music, old music, ok, good music, really, he will always try something new, albeit in the same way, smelling it first, then touching his tongue to it, he is able to stop and smell the snowflakes…he is able to not ever make fun of me for crying at the drop of a hat, from a commercial, or thinking about our cats dying one day. he never tells anyone that i am an utter slob, even though he is incredible tidy, and our house can get a bit out of control…he never bitches at me. he never tells anyone that i am a terrible housekeeper. i would probably tell people if he were a slob. yup. i would. he helps me put my pain patches on, which are a real pain in the ass and he is meticulous and stops whatever he is doing to do it right when i ask. everytime. i will do a proper list for valentine’s. he is my sweetest. i don’t show him how much he means to me, and that is an important thing. for everyone you love. when i was tattooing, i learned about people…i saw that if you don’t take the time to find out, you will never know. it is true in all aspects of life. sometimes i meet someone that i thought i would totally love, have so much in common, this happened pretty recently, and updon getting to know them better, i realized that it is the very people that think they are the most liberal and openminded that are the most narrowminded judgmental people around. there aren’t too many people in my life that make me feel like a am a crappy person, but this person, made me feel just like that. the new me didn’t yell at them and tell them what i thought of them, i just kept quiet, calm, and smiled. i am utterly non-violent. i am a yeller, only if your corner me though, but this one…i would’ve love a sharp bitch slap. sorry if that is not pc. i won’t go on and on, but it shocked me when i ran into some who affected me so strongly. i generally avoid phoney peeps like the plague. with their moveable morals and bullshite politics. cannot bear it.

and on to a nicer subject…here are some super cute things for you to check out…cute! what else? well! this gal, never stops!

ok, i am getting sleepy, so as we know, i do not fight my body when it says it is time. do not! please feel free to email me with a name for the mannequin head. there might be a little prize in it for the winning vote.

sleepy smoochies,
n.

feb 3
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i have hideous cramps today, and am tired, but not as bad as before. at some point during the night, i ripped my pain patch off of my back and woke up with it in my hand. fortunately i get a few extras in my prescription or i would be screwed. so i got up and put a new one on around 4 i think.

today was phone call day, and…i called tanya from pittsburgh knit and bead who was so wonderful about carrying my yarns, whatever i wanted to give her. anyway, i called her and she said that she was just thinking that she needed to call me because most of the yarns i gave her are gone, and i gave her lots of stuff, it was right after handmade arcade and i had tons of yarn, and furthermore, there is a big pittsburgh knitting convention and she would like me to give her as much as possible for the convention. and, she is going to be on our local abc channel and wanted to take some of my yarns on. that woman…she is such a sweet gal. and my yarns are much more polished than they were then. also, she said that my vibrant yarns sold the best, so it is nice that the fun stuff is what tends to sell.

also i got my mannequin, please feel free to suggest a name for her. i took lots of photos, so go to my flickr if you want to check out the chemo caps and new yarns.

if any non-knitters have a friend who could use a chemo cap, please contact me and we can work something out to get them something soft and gorgeous to make them feel special. ok?

i ran across some gorgeous websites…like this one that is soooooo cute. ooh. cute! and also, more stuff you will want. go and buy stuff. or buy my stuff. whatever. buy indie, that is all! that site by the way, is defunct. sad but true.

the yarn over here is one of the valentine’s ones.
smoooochies,
n.