January: 2011 Resolutions./This is essentially an updated/edited version of the "Things to do by the end of 2011" list that I made last summer ( Read more... )

2011 Resolutions:
Get a bartending job.
Finish four cross-stitching projects.
Read thirteen ten books.
Knit an afghan.
Get an Australian working holiday visa.
Leave the US.

Also, I finished that latch-hook the other night. Fwee!

*The Tsarina's Daughter by Carolly Erickson ( Read more... )

Shaina sent me a latch-hook kit as an early birthday present. It now owns my life. When I first started it on Sunday and was getting the hang of things (since I had never done a latch-hook design before), I thought, "Man, and I thought cross-stitching was time-consuming." Imagine if you had to re-thread the needle after every single stitch, and ( Read more... )