Life here in my world seems to be in full swing. School has started again, marching band has taking over and archery practice will join the slate too. In the meantime around the girls believe it or not I do occasionally work :) Here's what I've been up to lately. Saturday it was a wedding. In what feels like a past life some days I made cakes and sometimes still do birthdays. This time it was the wedding of a dear friend that decided to tie the knot in Vail this past weekend. Congratulations Ena and Steve!! In August, you were also treated to a new pattern in PIeceWork's Sept/Oct issue along with a cable hat pattern for Yarn Crush box. ...
Again another month has passed in the blink of an eye. Some days drip by like the sands in an hourglass and others fly around the track faster than you can think. The calendar turned to August and the first five days have already been full of band camp, a first concert and a treasured traditional trip to the ball park. Today I got to spend time with Lori of Cowgirl Yarn in Laramie, Wyoming as part of the Hot August Knits Yarn Crawl. For those of you that don't know, a yarn crawl is just like a pub crawl. You travel around to local area yarn shops tasting all of the different offerings of cashmere, merino, silk and more. As the...
Here we are again...another month and I didn't say a thing to you about this crafting life. Maybe that's a good thing though, last thing you need with your own crazy lives is me butting in too much. I have been told however that my stalkers get lonely without me so here goes. June is really the only month that the girls get off from school. What?! You're saying? Yes summer is the standard June, July and August here in the Fort, but both girls are now involved in band. Summer band camp for one begins July 17th and runs for three weeks. This one is important as this is her first year in middle school. She's not going where...
Well I truly didn't plan on taking a month off of talking here but what do you talk about when life is just doing it's thing? Passing day by day? May is a pretty crazy month anyway with projects and the end of school celebrations. I can happily say that I now have a middle schooler and a sophomore and both of them had straight A's this last semester. Now I have to figure out how to keep them occupied over the summer. I don't think that this will be too difficult as there's the pool and with each of their involvement in band summer really only lasts about six weeks for us. On to craft! I currently have a...
Good morning! Early last week I already had ramblings of what I wanted to talk about this week floating in my head, however that all fluttered away when I saw the cover of PieceWork May/June issue Wednesday morning......... Oh Wow!! Those are mine! I was overwhelmed and shocked as this was my first submission for the prized lace issue. Considering how the rest of life was when I was creating these I was deeply moved. Size 0's and a fine cotton silk blend are not the easiest of materials to work with when you are out of your usual elements. Jeane, the lovely editor let me push the deadline on these to the absolute limit and I spent one whole...
