I'm taking a chance

This film was made several years ago for a TV show, but never aired.

I no longer look like this, and I don't live in Woodstock anymore

Back from NYC

We're home.

The weekend was busy and I am still working on some of the followup business.

I was on the look out for public knitting this weekend. The only person I caught on film was Kaye from the finnegan gallery in Chicago

Kaye is blogless but I tried to encourage her to explore a little bit of the on-line knitting world.

........

The cold is back, I'm not so stuffy but I've got a sore throat and feel tired. I think that I somehow managed to push the cold and any idea of sickness away while we were doing the show. Now my body's giving in.

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I'm now on Ravelry. Johnk.... to those who are interested.

No Fever

I'm feeling better, the fever's gone but I'm still a little bit stuffy, not hot just stuffy.

This morning I stumbled across this, I thought you all would be interested. Why stop at socks?

oh, yes and make sure you check out the website.

http://ninabraun.net
lots more sneakers, and wool posters and more.

What have I been doing while ill?
not knitting

Knocked out

Wednesday afternoon - I was feeling good. I had messages from old and new friends, I read the copy of the text for "the book" and liked it, then.........

I felt a fever, I started sniffling.

BANG,

I've been out of it for a day and am only feeling slightly better at this moment.....

I think I'll have to take it slow today. I have to be recovered for the Big Show in NY , set up on Thursday.

What's going on?

Late at night I wake up in bed and have amazing things to write about.

I sit down at this computer in the morning and it is all a dim memory or even worse.... a blank.

My work has been like that too.

So thanks for bearing with me during my existential crisis.

Oh, but wait ... the absurdity of the previous group of video posts, maybe my whole use of the interwebs, mean the human condition is not to be alone in the world.

All of this is a long way of saying I am now on the Ravelry list, waiting.

I was just thinking

about Woodstock
and missing people.

Final post of 2007

This will be Philadelphia tommorrow.


Happy New Year everyone.

Or as the Philadelphians say

Happy Mummer's Day

Merry Xmas everybody

Still in the youtube mode.

Snow

Snow

Snow

Not here yet so we have to create some

Santa Claus is coming to town

video post 3

I'm lost in youtube land

Finally getting to the cookies

and thinking of vigilia.

enjoy

Christmas, getting closer

I have started shopping. I did a little bit on Tuesday with my sister and have family things pretty much done.

And I decorated the tree. (in the newly painted dining room)
dirty snowman to the right of the mouse king.
It looks much better in person.

The next thing will be making cookies, I've gotten all of the pizzelle ingredients. I think that will be Saturday.
Then a visit from Melissa and Nina.

Little bits are happening in the studio, I might even be making a sweater.

I secretly already knew this

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

Thanks Rabbitch

The dining room is painted.




(walls - green, very very light, trim light light lavender, and the ceiling an even paler violet) the effect is lots of white on white with variation in tone)

Ok. so this photo shows that it's not really done, That mustardy colored trim on the left, that's what everything in the house looked like, I'm trying to find a color to paint just this one wall of windows....... I'm thinking a slightly darker green hardly a green at all.

The fire place is working, and the house is a mess.

I know none of this post makes any sense...... It's just the mood here at the moment.

Post Thanksgiving

This year Thanksgiving felt very uneventful.

The food was good and we had fun. The only strangeness was the weather.

The rest of the week has been about me getting images of my work out to galleries. I think it's time for me to show. That's a statement that has been taking a long long time for me to say. Now I'm working on it.

Today I feel ..... Ho-Hum.

Time to paint the dining room ( you would think I would have had this done before people came for turkey).

Mary Walker Phillips 1923-2007

photo: Glenda Arentzen

I just want to note the passing of this fun and funny lady who probably influenced me more than either of us will ever know.

The Mitered Square

In between getting the house together and preparing for the shows this weekend, I've started a "thing" using mitered squares. I'm not sure what it will become, some type of blanket.

See I am still knitting. Oh, this week I managed to get my work table set up in the studio (I decided to leave The walls purple for now) I hope a decision I don't live to regret.

What have I been Doing?????

Moving moving and moving, and then there is the little bit of trying to make some money thrown in. As I was writing the previous post (weeks ago) Fran walked into the room and informed me that we could do a 5 day show a the UPenn archeology / anthropology museum. I said "Okay" and we immediately began running around like maniacs to get stuff together. What made the entire show really interesting(ironic) was that,
1. We were doing it at the last minute, and there would be a gala preview party, a "hard hat" preview party, and the show hours were 11-8 Fri-Sun..
2.We had to have our entire inventory out of the Connecticut shop, with no where to put it except the house.
3. Our plumbing at the house was backing up and the Sewer repairs guys were there ripping out the basement floor and digging out the front yard.
4. The chimney repair crew was at the house to restore the fireplace to it's original working condition.

So, what happened?
The show went well, we sold a few things and I even sold one of the knitted recipes I had done. The Parties had fabulous catered food and drinks and we hobnobbed with the Philly elite(well, the Main Liners anyway).
Fran made it to Connecticut and in the process changed his name back to Francis, We managed to unpack the van after the show hours and it sort of fits into the house.
The plumbers were great and it ended up that things weren't as bad as we had feared and the bill (while still a lot) was thousands of dollars less than we thought it would be.

and..... the fireplace, It's weeks later the guys are still here.

They have promised that it will all be finished today and ready to go. It seems they had ordered the wrong length of liner, forgot to order a top, oh, forgot to put in the damper, had to order a new cap since the first one ordered was the wrong one. We'll soon know if we have a working fireplace.

There has been some other stuff ... the new studio
Yes, it is purple, no I haven't unpacked things. The loom won't fit. It's an attic with sloped ceilings, I'm working on it.

I've done a teeny little bit of knitting. one hat and the start of a second. (I also bought a little bit of sock yarn) which I've hidden since I've told Francis I'm getting rid of most of the stash.
That's part of the last 2 weeks. To everyone I owe emails to...... soon really.