Current Mood: Cool
Les Paul at the Iridium Jazz Club, New York City
In what can only be described as a brush with greatness, as well as an opportunity of a lifetime (pardon the cliches, but I’m otherwise at a loss for words–heh) my DS and I spent a couple of hours last Monday night truly basking [...]
So, it was my birthday a week ago, and Margene gave me this–
Truly, I didn’t know I needed this. But Margene did. My wheel came with an orifice hook, which I was forever trying to balance on the arm of the sofa so that it would be within easy reach when I needed [...]
Koigu Beaded Bags
I’ve knit four of these Koigu beaded bags and still love to make them. They take only one skein of Koigu KPPPM and 660 beads (900 beads for the one on the top left). I can make one in a couple of days and have twice given them as gifts. [...]
Current Mood: Happy
On the same day my oldest turned 20, my youngest graduated from high school. The school he attended, and where I teach, is not your typical high school. Like our “Open Mic” event, anyone who wants to speak at graduation, may. My son didn’t want to speak, per se; he [...]
My first born baby boy is twenty years old today.
This is a self-portrait he did in his drawing fundamentals class. It was his first assignment; required, I believe, to get a feel for the students’ abilities.
It is uncannily like William, drawn from his reflection in the mirror.
Artist, computer scientist, math whiz, hyperlexic, animal lover, [...]
So yesterday I attended my godson’s graduation from Murray High School. My son and I sat halfway up the oval at the far end in what was basically a gymnasium made over for a graduation of 400 or so high school seniors. Good thing I had my knitting; it was destined to be [...]
I was not looking forward to today and had no illusions about the likelihood we’d reach an agreement. To my surprise, we did. My attorney says the divorce could be final next week.
As I sit here alone, surrounded by people in a busy restaurant and sipping a glass of very nice Lebanese wine, [...]
Current Mood: EmbarrassedSo I was all bragging at S’nB last week about how my sock was a big favorite and had over 100 favs. Woohoo, I’m a rock star—blah, blah, blah. Then I went home and, as a treat to myself, was going to bask in my rock-starness, when what should great me [...]
Our school has an “Open Mic” every spring, which is a talent show of sorts, but different from what you often find in high school talent shows. There are no auditions; no competition, no awards. Everyone that wants to perform, may perform. It’s casually eclectic—blue jeans, mohawks, t-shirts and hoodies. Sometimes even the [...]
As much as I love just looking at, petting, and photographing my own handspun, it’s come to my attention that one can also actually knit with it, too! Imagine that!
So I did.
Here’s my sweet baby James playing his birthday guitar* (Epiphone John Lennon acoustic electric from Utah’s own Guitar Czar) and wearing his birthday [...]
EWE-TAH KNITS
