June 09, 2006
C'mon and see me sometime
Blogspirit is letting me keep this blog free of charge, but, if you're looking for my knitting stuff, I've moved to HERE. (badamyknits.blogspot.com)
I'll continue to post here, but I'm not sure if it will be gardening, or turned over to our household blog. Details to follow.
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June 02, 2006
Should I stay or should I go?
Am I really losing my free blog space? Where shall I go? What will become of me?! Any other blogspirit folks feeling the same? What are Y'all doing???
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May 28, 2006
go to savegocco.com!
I love my Print Gocco... I can't believe the cruel world is turning against me....
japanese fans have enjoyed using "print gocco" for over 25 years. as such, interest in the system has run it's course in japan. outside japan, however, a ground swell of appreciation for the "print gocco" system has only just begun. those of us who've known gocco a short time are understandably saddened by riso's decision to discontinue manufacturing the "print gocco" system due to stagnant sales in their home market.
yes, the rumors you may have heard are true, gocco is "going out of print." but maybe it's not too late if we all work together to find a new home for gocco outside japan!
savegocco.com was created december 10, 2005 and hopes to be an easy-to-use starting point for all things gocco, equipping fans with simple gocco-friendly tools to help promote it's continuation. this site is not affiliated with gocco or it's current parent company, riso, in any way. we're just fans trying to keep it alive!
please visit the site for more info WWW.SAVEGOCCO.COM
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May 22, 2006
Lists of Four
I've been tagged by Rain, so here we go!
4 jobs or places of work:
Pewabic Pottery (Detroit, MI)
- Arts & Crafts Movement handmade tile company. My favorite job in clay, I still miss it.
Boogie Records (Toledo, OH)
- 'twas the finest 30-year-old indie record shop in town.
Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH)
- Exhibition Coordinator
eBay Store: Beehive Betty
- gotta pay for all this yarn some how!
4 movies I'd watch over and over again:
Breakfast At Tiffany's - Miss Golightly, I protest!
Napoleon Dynamite - A big screen reenactment of my high school experience
Dazed & Confused - Afleck and McConoughey's best work
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Perfect to knit with and quote
4 places where I've lived:
Toledo, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Ft Myers, Florida
Glasgow, Scotland
4 TV shows I like:
LOST
Grey's Anatomy
The Amazing Race
CSI (all of them)
4 Websites I visit (almost) every day:
Knitty Coffeeshop
eBay
My daily blog list
then repeat
4 Places I've been to for holidays/vacation:
London
Toronto
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Outer Hebrides (Harris & Lewis)
4 favourite dishes:
All-day Breakfast (eggs, grilled toast, fried tomatoes, beans, rasher bacon)
Chicken Shwarma with heaps of garlic sauce
Korean Chirachi
My Grandpa Gordon's potroast
4 places I'd like to be right now:
Paris
Toronto
Penland, NC
Or, as we frequently sing this around the house, tongue firmly in cheek: there's no place that I'd rather be than right here, with my redneck, white socks, and blue ribbon beer.
4 bloggers to answer the questions next:
Rain put it best:
I know a lot of you have been tagged with this already, but if you haven't yet, consider it done!
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May 15, 2006
I am delusional
A few months back, I actually organized The Stash. No official inventory, but that's to come. Friends would stop by talking yarn, I could, without delay, pull out the yarn being discussed. I want to start a new project, viola! I know right where the needed yarn is lurking. Need DPNs the size of toothpicks? Got 'em.
I am Queen end-all-be-all of The Organized Stash.
Flash forward to this evening.
I decide I want a small project, something new, not too difficult. It's a toss up between Branching Out and Flora (both on Knitty). I opt for Flora as Branching Out is lace and might prove too heavy on the knitting side of the TV watching : knitting attention ratio. So tonight, with the pending deadline of 9PM (Grey's Anatomy Finale) I cannot find one specific stinkin' ball of Kid Silk Haze. This is the second small ball of yarn to go missing. The first being Koigu to finish that blasted Rock Star scarf. The Koigu didn't actually turn up in the organization process, and I think it may very well be in a suitcase as I started the scarf on a trip to Utah. I digress.
So where in the Freakin' H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks is the #$%ing KSH!!!? Why does small yarn wander? Are they off making Koigu-Kid Silk hybrid babies? That'd be nice, but now I am obsessed with finding the bright purply silk and mohair. How can I sit idle and just WATCH TV?!
Where IS IT!!??
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May 01, 2006
I almost peed.
Since I was too busy laughing my complete arse off the first time, here's Natalie Portman's Gangsta Rap on Saturday Night Live. PG14+
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April 27, 2006
Isn't it so darn cute?!
Having never sucessfully grown a radish before, this is quite an eventful day for me! Tomatoes, no problem. Radishes? Never. Many attempts yet never a radish... until TODAY! A teeny-weeny baby radish. I don't even like radishes. I'm that stubborn. But isn't it cute!?
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April 15, 2006
I am Voldemort, no more!
What a relief, the last Harry Potter personality quiz I took rated me as 100% He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Really, I'm not THAT bad. Thanks Turtlegirl for the quiz link!
Your Harry Potter Alter Ego Is...? created with QuizFarm.com |
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April 08, 2006
Johnny Depp comes shipped in a box too!
Thank you Secret Squirrel - Whadda Package! Let's see... Awesome Knitpicks yarns including some to dye with Kool-Aid too, a pretty necklace, spicy orange dark chocolate bar (yum!), Harry & David chocolate cherries, a pair of super hilarious socks, 2 fab knitting books, and a heart shaped box**...
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March 31, 2006
Stash in quarantine
Attention. Achtung.
Bad Amy is out with the creeping crud. Please forgive, but you really don't want to see her stash in this condition.
The Management
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