Not much knitting last night because I went out for yummy barbecue with a friend.

( And the stained glass doesn't look that impressive either )

Lots of knitting yesterday... watched taped stuff in the morning, then at night I watched mostly Olympics with a pause for Big Brother 10. The guy who couldn't believe Brett Favre came out of retirement and was traded to the Jets was funny. And Redskins get to play the Jets this weekend!

( I can haz pocket nao! )

You know that scene from Breakfast Club, where Ally Sheedy shakes her hair out over a drawing and her dandruff creates the snow for the picture?

I just shook my hair out over the unprinted newspaper on Mom's work table, and got a similar rain of red specks of glass. Yeah. Just a bit of ringsaw use today... I probably put at least another hour of ( Read more... )

When I read yesterday that DesMoines was being evacuated, I thought maybe the Making Light folks were getting into the spirit of Blog Like It’s The End Of The World Day. But no, a major American city really is underwater. Must be time to work feverishly on a glass project. It’s what I did last time, after all.The problem with this project is that ( Read more... )

So I finished the glass project yesterday... at least to the point I'd meant to finish it before leaving town. I need to remember how good it feels to actually work with glass... I procrastinate too much at the unpleasant pattern-making stage that's a necessary precursor to the really fun stuff.

Anyway...
( Have half a dozen glass pictures )

So half an hour ago I was 8 pieces from being finished leading up the wedding ring panel. I was tired, I was being careless, and I sliced my left pointer finger open on a glass piece that hadn't needed to go through the grinder ( Read more... )

This post needs to have about four icons representing it. The one I've actually chosen was recently made for me by dramaphile, and I like it muchly. Plus, I get to stare at it while writing this, so, mmmm. Thanks again! *licks icon as directed ( Read more... )

Saturday morning I woke up, all set to seriously delve into CSS work and get the family recipe book done up to give as a wedding shower present. But the first thing we do when sitting down at the computer is check the f-list, am I right? crazylittleme had recced what turns out to be the definitive POTC trilogy -- if you've seen the movies but not read any fic, ( Read more... )

Welcome to new f-listers! Since lots of us probably have new folks to get to know, here's a repeat of my intro on violet_quill's thread, so you can remember who I am and why I'm possibly interesting. =)

( Me again )

Not as much progress on the lamp as there should have been.
( click here for the latest picture )