August 31, 2005
Twitter, Twitter, Twitter!
(No posts on Friday or Monday, Dear Readers, due to the Labor Day holiday and a couple of extra vacation days I’ve shoe-horned in there for absolutely no reason. )
Not much to write about today since the only thing of interest that has happened in our personal lives recently—TMK’s getting a Fudgesicle stuck ferociously and completely to her lips and being reduced to mumbling, slightly desperately and wild-eyed, “Helb me! Helb me!”—she forbade me to blog about. Oops.*
On the Dulaan front, however, things are much more exciting. Remember how the mice in Disney's Cinderella twitter and chirp and squeek at a glass-shattering, C-above-high-C pitch? I suspect that’s what TMK and I sound like as we burn up the wires with minute-by-minute updates on the CafePress activity. Things are selling! People are buying! Twitter, twitter, twitter! Chirp, chirp, chirp! Squeek, squeek, squeek! At last glance, a few tote bags, a couple of t-shirts, a mug and a button have found new homes. On F.I.R.E.’s behalf, thank you everyone for making these purchases!
The Dulaan Brigade is now up to 91 members! Which means we only need to knit or make 49.648351648351648351648351648352 items each ( or 4.964835164835164835164835164835 per person, per month) to reach our goal. Pfffffft; no prob.
New patterns are being suggested or offered for the project. Big Sister suggests making fleece hats and sent me these links:
http://www.mormonchic.com/crafty/fabulous-fleece.asp#hat ("Mormon Chic" immediately made wonder, would it work for any other religion/denomination? Somehow "Episcopalian Chic," "Wiccan Chic" and "Zoroastrian Chic" just don't have the same ring.)
http://www.p2designs.com/ShipSkiCap.htm
http://helpinghearts0.tripod.com/id8.html
Tina Shaddox of Charitable Crafters-big contributors to Dulaan last year-generously sent her own “40-Below Hat” pattern to add to the list, which I’ll do next week. And Julia FC made her easy-on mitten pattern easier to access (you had to scroll down to see it before). Again, I'll add the new link next week.
Plans are in the works for our first Dulaan Knit-In of the year! We’re thinking Saturday, October 22, in the pm, but it’s not definite yet. Local yokels, think about reserving that date!
And our friend LindaK, who is a talented bead wrangler and a big fan and supporter of Dulaan, made and gave me and TMK these two unexpected and very customized and personalized fobs:
Are they not boo’ful?! Does not the Dulaan one look very MongoLEEan? Thank you, Linda. I think you would laugh at how many times, over the course of the weekend, we had "just one more look" at these pretty things!
Lastly, a big hello to Libby who did That Thing That Floats My Boat-she went back and read each and every Mossy Cottage entry and, from what I can tell, could probably ace a pop quiz on my blog-life. Kewl!
*Before you start thinking I’m a heartless beast, we have an inviolable agreement that gives TMK full and complete veto over what I blog about where it concerns her. True, initially she was too mortified to have me blog about “Fudgesicle Meet Lip; Lip Meet Fudgesicle”…but the next day, when we relived the moment and laughed so hard we cried, she did a complete 180. So, no, I did not sell my soul to Beelzebub and endanger my relationship just to have something to write about in the blog. It hasn’t gotten that bad. Yet.