This weekend was a little better than last...Steve and I made a trip to Tallahassee to visit my mom and my grandfather. Yesterday was my grandfather's 90th birthday. We really didn't do too much while we were up there, except for shopping at Really Knit Stuff and going to the birthday party.
If you are a yarn lover and are ever in Tallahassee, you should make a stop at Really Knit Stuff. The owner of the shop, Paula, is very, very nice. She always makes me feel at ease and she remembers me even though I am not in there very often. I ended up with 4 "misfit" skeins of dark red wool (from the bargin box), a skein of Handmaiden silk/sea cell and a couple of braids of Fleece Artist wool. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to take pictures of my purchases yet, but I will get to it fairly soon.
Next weekend, I will be spinning at the Knit-N-Needle Nook. I am looking forward to that! :-)
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Through with the Pity Party
Okay, so I had a little pity party for myself on Saturday. I am over it now - for the most part.
On to bigger and better things...There is a company called Moo that Flickr is associated with. Moo prints mini calling cards, note cards and stickers using your pictures on Flickr - $19.99 for 100. I was almost out of my little cards, so I decided to have some made. Wow! They turned out so well. The are tiny - about as long as a regular business card, but only about half as tall. The pictures I picked to go on my cards were well picked! I will scan some to put on here later this week.
Now to watch Game 4 of the ALCS. I hope the Sox win tonight!!!!
On to bigger and better things...There is a company called Moo that Flickr is associated with. Moo prints mini calling cards, note cards and stickers using your pictures on Flickr - $19.99 for 100. I was almost out of my little cards, so I decided to have some made. Wow! They turned out so well. The are tiny - about as long as a regular business card, but only about half as tall. The pictures I picked to go on my cards were well picked! I will scan some to put on here later this week.
Now to watch Game 4 of the ALCS. I hope the Sox win tonight!!!!
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Bad Day
Have you ever been made to feel inadequate, insufficient and invisible? I did today. It has almost taken me to the point of never wanting to knit, crochet or spin again. It is amazing how something as simple as a comment and voice inflection can make it feel like someone punched you in the stomach. Regardless of who said what and how it was said, I came home in tears today. At this point, I am not sure if I will be going back to the Saturday morning knitting/spinning group. With that being said, I am thinking very seriously about selling off my yarn/fiber stash and equipment and finding a new hobby or refreshing an old one...
In other news, I spent the day at Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure yesterday, with my co-workers. The weather was beautiful but it was a little too warm for me. I was dreading this trip. It wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be, but it was still bad. I absolutely HATE going to the parks. This is mainly because of the insanely high prices of everything. Also, once you have been to the park, it will be basically the same the next time you go...okay so maybe one attraction will be different, but that is not worth the price of admission to me.
Okay, enough of the griping...
In other news, I spent the day at Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure yesterday, with my co-workers. The weather was beautiful but it was a little too warm for me. I was dreading this trip. It wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be, but it was still bad. I absolutely HATE going to the parks. This is mainly because of the insanely high prices of everything. Also, once you have been to the park, it will be basically the same the next time you go...okay so maybe one attraction will be different, but that is not worth the price of admission to me.
Okay, enough of the griping...
Monday, October 8, 2007
Who Moved My Cheese?
Has anyone else read this book? It is a book that is supposed to help people adjust to change. The four characters in the story are Sniffy and Scurry (mice) and Hem and Haw (humans). The Cheese is your goals, dreams, etc. A Maze (life) is involved, of course. Sniffy and Scurry are able to adjust to changes that come about because they, as mice, do not have the complex brains and emotions the humans do. Hem and Haw, as you can imagine, have difficulty adjusting to their Cheese disappearing from Cheese Station C. As silly and goofy as I thought the story was while reading it...I remember it. It may not be the end all, cure all for helping me deal with change, but, like Aesop's Fables, there is a moral to the story! Adjusting to change quicker will make life a little simpler and less stressful and your goals/dreams/etc (realistic) easier to obtain.
Okay, on to more important things...I got my invitation! My invitation to Ravelery. What an amazing website. I love all of the stash features (yarn, patterns, books, needles, hooks). It is really exciting (it doesn't take much to excite me these days) to be able to actually inventory all of my stash with pictures! I also like that you can indicate the store the yarn was bought from. Not that DH and I are full time/world wide travellers, but I would like to be able to tell where I bought a certain yarn from. The unfortunate part is that I will have to unpack all of the boxes (about 10 big Rubbermaid bins) to take individual pictures of the different yarns.
Knit-N-Needle Nook, in Mount Dora, has finally reopened. I have to say, they did an amazing job with the renovations. It is bright, cool, and open (space wise) now. Previously, it was NONE of those things. It was almost like walking to a yarn tomb! Unfortunately, the green shag carpet is gone too...Oh well. The store is not 100% complete yet, but it is probably about 85-90% there. I am really looking forward to classes there in the near future. She has a HUGE selection of vintage patterns. These are patterns that were in the store when she bought it in January, so some of the patterns probably date back to the 70s if not before.
Oh well, DH is reloading the closet in the master bedroom, since it has not been repaired from the disaster that occurred several weeks ago...when the shelf pulled away from the wall and tumpped all of my clothes on the floor...at 1:30AM. GGGRRRR!!!!!
Hehehe...Look what I just found....
Okay, on to more important things...I got my invitation! My invitation to Ravelery. What an amazing website. I love all of the stash features (yarn, patterns, books, needles, hooks). It is really exciting (it doesn't take much to excite me these days) to be able to actually inventory all of my stash with pictures! I also like that you can indicate the store the yarn was bought from. Not that DH and I are full time/world wide travellers, but I would like to be able to tell where I bought a certain yarn from. The unfortunate part is that I will have to unpack all of the boxes (about 10 big Rubbermaid bins) to take individual pictures of the different yarns.
Knit-N-Needle Nook, in Mount Dora, has finally reopened. I have to say, they did an amazing job with the renovations. It is bright, cool, and open (space wise) now. Previously, it was NONE of those things. It was almost like walking to a yarn tomb! Unfortunately, the green shag carpet is gone too...Oh well. The store is not 100% complete yet, but it is probably about 85-90% there. I am really looking forward to classes there in the near future. She has a HUGE selection of vintage patterns. These are patterns that were in the store when she bought it in January, so some of the patterns probably date back to the 70s if not before.
Oh well, DH is reloading the closet in the master bedroom, since it has not been repaired from the disaster that occurred several weeks ago...when the shelf pulled away from the wall and tumpped all of my clothes on the floor...at 1:30AM. GGGRRRR!!!!!
Hehehe...Look what I just found....
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