January 16, 2004
Can Ya' FEEL the Love?
(Woo-hoo! Managed to rustle this entry up during my lunch hour yesterday! The blog liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiives!! But, still, no entry Monday what with the holiday 'n' all.)
One of the benefits of writing your own blog is you willy-nilly get your own personal forum to do with as you wish. And today, I declare, as I wrap my toga more securely about my person and then wave my arms grandly in the air, I will use it to send a nod to my sister and her fambly.
First, this arrived in the mail this week, with no explanation, but needing none. In case you can’t read it, it says “Michael E. Dear Auntie Ryan You Are My Best Aunt I Love You.” It rendered me quite misty-eyed! I do, however, have to take his declaration with a grain of salt since, you see, I’m his only aunt. I take comfort in knowing I could be Bloody Mary, Lizzy Borden, or Attila the Hunette and I would still be The Best Aunt.
Secondly, one of the Christmas gifts I received from sister and fambly was a wacky Origami Fold-Of-The-Day calendar. The calendar consists of 365 loose (no, not morally loose, just unbound), square sheets of paper. One side of each sheet is printed with instructions for an origami project; the other side is printed in fancy, colorful origami patterns. The idea is you use the previous day’s sheet of paper to fold the current day’s project. So, for you, dear sister, a bilious penguin curiously covered in fish scales. (Hmmmm. Looking at this, I think I better keep my day job.)
Knitting Knews
Since I'm currently working on the back of the sage green aran pillow, which consists of mile upon mile of k3, p3 checkerboard, I won't bore you with a picture of it. (New readers, see this entry for a picture of the finished front of the pillow.) So instead, how about a knitting-related Kooky Kraft?
My long-time Dear Readers will remember this link to the site of a fiber artist who gets her knitting inspiration from fractals. Apparently this Eleanor Kent also knits and crochets necklaces using electro-luminescent wire, as the following links show.
Link 2 Scroll to about the middle of the page to see Ms. Kent wearing one of the necklaces.
Link 3 Would that we could all knit something out of a mere 45 or 50 yards of some kind of fibery or wire-y material and sell the result for $300!
I'm gonna hafta make sure I'm on my second cup of coffee before sitting down to your blog. Origami calendars, knitting that glows, fractal fabrication, Auntie Attila... I'm going to go knit a couple inches of garter stitch to recover.
Posted by: Kit on January 16, 2004 12:35 PMWell, we wouldn't want the blog to get boring, now, would we, Kit?
Posted by: Ryan on January 16, 2004 01:03 PMI was having a dreary day until I read your blog, thanks for cracking me up!
Posted by: Theresa on January 17, 2004 12:20 PMWill you please either or both of my sisters and tell them to get on the ball (so to speak)? I need to be an auntie and get cards like that! Love the penguin, too.
Posted by: Rachael on January 18, 2004 01:20 PMi'm so glad you pointed the way back (inadvertantly) to those beards! i was trying to tell my dh about it, now i can show him the photos.
Posted by: vanessa on January 19, 2004 04:36 AMWell I think your penguin is just adorable and that calendar's a nifty gift. Might look for one myself :)
Check out this site:
It's a lot of fun!
Congratulations on your promotion, but please, please don't stop blogging? You add so much to my day :)
Posted by: Robbyn on January 19, 2004 10:43 AM