Is anyone else tired? I know I am after losing an hour of sleep this last weekend. As much as I love sleeping in an hour when we fall back in the autumn, I would be happy to give up that change if it meant daylight savings would stop causing problems for my sleep schedule […]
Author: Meg
With All My Love
For valentines day I made a frankenstein of a cake. By that I mean I used parts of multiple recipes and cobbled them all together into a cake that was far too large for four to eat on their own. Personally I am very proud of what I managed to make, but I will agree […]
Mid Month Middle Earth 16
There is a point where you start to question your decisions when it comes to long projects. It’s a little early for this project in particular but soon I’m pretty sure I’ll be getting there. As I’m filling out more of the first section I am starting to come across one of the things you […]
New Year Resolution: Going Swimmingly
At the new year I gave myself a pretty simple resolution: actually doing some needle point embroidery patterns. I’ve done cross-stitch for years and thought about doing needlepoint but always felt too overwhelmed to actually start. That changes this year. The first pattern I’ve started with is pretty simple – just a chain stitch and […]
First Friday Fiction: Digging Deep
This short story gave me some anxiety, not from writing it but from “losing” it. I’ld brought it to work so that I could do a little editing during my lunch break, and when I went home I realized I’ld forgotten it at my desk. Usually this wouldn’t be a problem, but it was Friday […]
The Holidays Have Rolled on Past
I have decided not to start any more posts with “should have “ or “planned to”. To paraphrase Gandalf, I post neither late nor early, I post precisely when I mean to. That said, I haven’t been baking much since we’ve been clearing out all the leftover cookies and candy from Christmas and New year, […]
Mid-month Middle Earth 15
This is not going to be a terribly cool update, because it’s just an update of beige. It’s important – the connective tissue that carries you on. But not terribly exciting as far as things to look at. Until I move into a new section most updates are probably going to be some sort of […]
Fandom Fun: Island Shawl
Growing up I played plenty of video games and one I remember fondly is “The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker”. As I’ve been expanding my knitting repertoire I thought it would be cool to make something from a Zelda game, however all I could find pattern-wise were simple green tunics and caps. This wasn’t […]
First Friday Fiction: Kitten Around
The holidays are over and we are trying to start the year off with some good habits – specifically getting back in the swing of posting each week. Some of that is getting into the swing of writing consistently again now that all the holiday activities are done. Some of that is just getting back […]
December Double Trouble: One Week to Post Them All – Part Two
I’ve been working on my own shawl design, and it’s been a bit of trial and error as I work out all the kinks in it. The initial idea wasn’t too hard to figure out because it’s a modified zig zag pattern, but my biggest issue was working out how much to cast on for […]