Playing Catch-up

Actually, I'm not behind on anything except blogging. I've made 30 pairs of fingerless gloves for the craft fair -- and sold mulitple pairs on my Etsy -- that's all to the good. I've been having fun reinvesting what I make in nice yarns and bits and pieces for jewelry. Avon is all wrapped up, yay! I shampooed the carpets this weekend. Getting the house spic-n-span for the holiday season.

We got to see a girlfriend and her daughter for dinner Saturday night, that was a kick in the pants. Leja (pronounced Lay-ha) is at that age where you can almost see her growing minute by minute. She's a tightly packed ball of energy that rolls in seemingly perpetual motion until she just stops. That stop is finite -- it involves falling instantly to sleep. Children are amazing.

I started a new project, working on a lap throw made from a variety of afghan stitches -- a sampler of textures -- it will be a fun and warm bit of whimsy for the Kewbie Life.

Sunday was very nice day all around -- it included an afternoon spent with Mother Hen -- sipping tea and talking yarn and doing a bit more on the throw. I got to see her projects and I have to say again -- and here publically! -- that she is a fabulous beginner in the art of crochet. It's a peaceful and delightful way to while-a-way a Sunday. It's a kick to watch her work out the process and absorb the info so that as she moves on to the next step pretty darn confident of the whole. From not being able to decipher a pattern to reading it with confidence in 2 hours flat is pretty darn fabulous.

There have been several new books released lately. I've been reading a great deal but I haven't written out my thoughts on the books yet. I'll post the links below if you're interested to see what fiction has captured my imagination of late.

Today everyone goes back to work and school this morning and I'm looking forward to a relatively quiet (except for the phones) day.

The sky is leaden again to day -- I look out the front window and it's as if there is a film noir blue filter over the world. What a notion --- will there be a film noir script for the day?

hugs you.

Books Read:

Greywalker (Greywalker, Book 1) by Kat Richardson
Poltergeist (Greywalker, Book 2) by Kat Richardson
Underground (Greywalker, Book 3)  by Kat Richardson

Swallowing Darkness (Meredith Gentry, Book 7) by Laurell K. Hamilton