You’ll have to excuse my lack of blogging recently.  I’ve been on vacation for the last week or so, burning through leave at my old job before I start my new job.  The Vernal Equinox was here a couple of days ago, and it really feels like I’m staring at tons of new beginnings, and […]

Apart from the whole car accident and its attendant drama, this is what we’ve been up to round here. First, Scott gave me an amazing present: If I remember correctly, he gave it to me on the Solstice.  But I could be eliding dates, because my brain is still a bit scrambled.  That, my lovelies, […]

Scath: is still alive and purring, though terribly noncommittal about his plans for January.  He’s thinner than I would prefer; a bit too interested in my sock yarns and their new handmade Virginia Jenkins basket; quite sick of having pills shoved down his throat; and has been well and truly photographed by my Step-Dad: he […]

So, my Aunt Judy’s birthday is coming up.  Judy asked for a felted purse like the one I made for my Mom a while back.  Since I’m trying to figure out how to make these bags more efficiently so that Tuatha can sell them, I figured I should go the knitting machine route with this […]

We went to Tim’s on Sunday to eat Callinectes sapidus: beautiful swimmers.  That has to be one of the best summer rituals we Americans have come up with.  Water bugs taste gooooooood.  Old Bay tastes gooooood.  Drawn butter with lemon juice tastes goooooooood.  And then all of that together, with perhaps some beeeeer—mmmmmmmm.  Until it […]

I can’t wait I can’t wait!  The felt version of Ultuna is in the washer right now, hopefully binding itself tightly together into a stable, funny hat.  I was busting my hump last night to get this thing to come together.  I’m sure it’s harder to make in steel, but it hasn’t been easy in […]

Stitching stitching stitching.  I have to clothe the masses, and I have to do it right now.  My yearly sewing freak-out has been much delayed by the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.  I read it last Saturday and Sunday, and immediately felt compelled to read the rest of the series.  I’m finished […]

I finished my Red Tail Hawk Socks.  I finished the fifth Season of the Sopranos.  I’m temporarily done with the laundry, the catbox is clean, I’m pages away from the end of Bury Me Standing.  I’m pretty much convinced that we already had the 2005 Potomac Celtic Festival, though I can barely believe it, which […]

a h’aon: Cindy’s gift, cunningly displayed at Tuatha with a “sold” tag on it.  My spies say she showed it to  her daughter during the festival and said she wanted me to make her one.  You can’t quite tell from here, but it’s lined with the rest of the material I used to make umm […]