mandala

Was reading a description in Isabella's catalog - http://www.isabellacatalog.com/ - about mandalas and how healing they can be. I don't fully get why. But I do know that I love to color (yes, even as an adult)....I sort of doodle a lot and then shade in my doodles, which is often soothing. So I'm very tempted to buy a mandala coloring kit from Isabella...Instead, I decide to wait and ask for a gift card from them for Christmas....Meanwhile, I print out some mandala's online and bring them home and start coloring them in with colored pencils I have around the house. It's fun and soothing.
I also spend a lot of time this a.m. working on my second green loom hat....I'm going to make this one a little bigger than the first. I notice one mistake where I think I dropped a stitch or something. I hope I can figure out how to disguise this little mistake as I would love to give it to K for X-mas, that little stinker is starting to get hard to buy for! She cracks me up. She's 12 and all of a sudden says she doesn't want anything really for Christmas.

secret santa gifts

I submit my Christmas list to my Secret Santa group (my siblings, sister-in-law and family friends) and I do something different this time. I list a bunch of items like I usually do, like gift card to Whole Foods, Isabella, etc...but I also tell them I want craft books and kits and to surprise me with anything.

craft books

I submit my Christmas list to my Secret Santa group (my siblings, sister-in-law and family friends) and I do something different this time. I list a bunch of items like I usually do, like gift card to Whole Foods, Isabella, etc...but I also tell them I want craft books and kits and to surprise me with anything.

the real way to knit

My friend Linda shows me the real way to knit today....I show her my loom knit cap - she loves it, can't believe it came out so nice with the loom and she loves the yarn. But I'd like to be able to knit both ways. I want to finish two scarfs that I started the "real" way years ago...I take a quick break at work to move my car from the scary back lot to the area closer to the door and spend five minutes or so knitting before running back into the crazy newsroom So soothing. I eat at my desk everyday practically so I deserve a little break. In fact we are mandated to get breaks so I shouldn't feel guilty. On the way home, I buy another knitting loom, this one a long thin one which will allow me to make ponchos, blankets and scarfs. Also pick up a punch needle for a cat kit I bought a while back. What else? Hmmm, oh that's it for me. Bought a few gifts for the little ones in my life - Michaels has such great little kid gifts.

green knit cap

I finished loom knitting a very basic green cap...It came out very pretty, mainly because the yarn was a gorgeous cat's eye green with some soft yellow in it. It was a very simple cap but looks elegant.
Am starting to make another one, this one I will try to make a little bigger and will add a brim! Feel like I'm making progress, I have always wanted to knit and never got the hang of it. Even though this loom knitting isn't the real thing, at least it's a start. Eventually, maybe I will learn to knit beautiful kaffe fassett sweaters-http://www.kaffefassett.com/. I salivate over his stuff.

craft meet up

just signed up for a craft meet-up, meets in new haven, i think this will be a fun way to meet some nice friends and maybe even get more crafts done!

Wish I could craft all day!

Don't really want to go to work tomorrow. Would rather stay home and craft, craft, craft. Have so many projects, so little time.

I want to make everyone's Christmas present this year. It's a goal of mine everyear to at least make a few and it usually works out that way. This year, I'm not sure, though, as life is so hectic.

I did buy citric acid at the health food store, just happened to see it while I was shopping for lunch, and so I picked it up for the bath salts I wanted to make for someone on my X-mas list. (Can't say who just in case she's reading!)