everything is interesting

If you look over to the links, you will find a new blog, entitled "Everything is Interesting". I will start posting to this blog today. It may take over from this one, for it's a vehicle for whatever moves me, day to day. And as any reader of this blog knows, I can't keep on topic or stick to one project for long. . .

purling quiz

In the Fall, I wrote a trivia quiz about purling and submitted it to the huge trivia site Fun Trivia. I promptly forgot all about it.
It's been on the web for a few months now, and it's been rated by the editors as "Tough", but the point of the quiz is not to get the answers right or wrong, but to learn some new things (trivial things, of course). The editors changed two of my questions in ways I didn't like, but hey, I never expected them to put it on line in the first place.

Here's the link to the purling quiz. Have fun!

a few creative things

Now that I gave it a bit of thought, I realized I have done some "creative things". If you scroll down, you'll see the shabby chic slipcovers. Y'know, they were not chic. They were just shabby. I replaced them last week with new ones. And that in turn inspired me to start painting the walls of my living room. When I'm done, I'll post a pic. I'm painting a few different shades of light green and yellow, hopefully blending them together well enough to look like the sun is shining in through the windows.

Speaking of the sun, I haven't seen it in days. And today it is snowing. It's the first snow of the season!

I used to be very happy when the first snow arrived. Now, I can't help thinking about bad driving conditions, shovelling. . .ah, this is one of the lost happy moments of childhood. I'd be out there jumping up and down if I was still a kid!

when was the last time I knit anything?

It's been quite a while since I've knit anything. I have no pictures to post. I've been totally uncreative. Click on the link "Medical Assistance Anyone?" and you'll find out why. Studying is taking up all my crafts time!

posting for the sake of posting

It's been quite a while since I've posted anything. I'm having a bit of a dry spell. I've given up on Monsieur Proust. Sorry, but I just didn't enjoy him enough to concentrate that hard. I bet I'll try again in another five or ten years. I will never learn my lesson with him.

There's a bunch of knitting and beading projects that are awaiting completion. What have I been doing lately?
I'm not really sure!

Ms. Know Nothing is a better conversationalist that she was last time I posted about her. Have a chat with her if you please. It'll help me make her more interesting.

off on yet another tangent

My chatbot, Ms. Know Nothing, is a bit of a mess and I haven't had the time to continue working on "her". Meanwhile, I have still yet to pick up any knitting or work on any number of my craft projects. I haven't been in my craft room for who knows how long. It may be covered with dust, for all I know.

I've got yet another new obsession and his name is Marcel Proust. What have I gotten myself into? I've picked up "In Search of Lost Time" many times, back to when it was still called "Remembrance of Things Past" and given up in humiliation. This is the longest book ever written in which there is the longest sentence ever written. And with my memory, this is a big problem, for with those really long sentences, well, I forget what they are about somewhere halfway through (or even less). Still, I'm intrigued. I always have been.

I just finished reading Alain De Botton's "How Proust Can Change Your Life".What a wonderful introduction to the world of Proust. De Botton himself is an excellent and very funny writer.

off on a tangent

I haven't knit anything for a week. I have a room full of unfinished projects. A friend brought over some felt because she said I asked for a small piece for something I was working on. I don't even know what it was!

What's happening here?

I'm off on a tangent. That tangent is called "Ms. Know Nothing". She's a web bot, a chat bot, a virtual character. You can talk to her if you don't mind her limited ability to converse and have a high tolerance for frustration.

I must give a lot of credit to a friend of mine who has way more knowledge of this stuff than I'll ever have. Please visit her blog, The Websafe Times, for great conversation, interactive drawing, and artwork that you'll see nowhere else. Some days, I am in awe. Yes, I know it sounds like hyperbole, but trust me, it isn't!

I'm in a hurry right now and I can't seem to set up the links outside of the posting area, so here's the link so you can have your frustrating talk with Ms. Know Nothing!

rocks

No, I didn't make these! I just wanted to share the new additions to my gray rock w/ quartz lines collection.

i ought to clean up before I take a picture

My living room is a work in progress at the moment. Well, it's been a work in progress for almost two years, to tell you the truth. When I moved into my present house, I had a hankering for a more modern feel than I had in the interior of my last house. We have two living rooms, one with a woodstove for winter and the other with huge windows to look out onto the garden for summer. Big change from my last place, a barely one bedroom glorified cottage!

Anyway, in the spirit of letting you know what I'm making, today I made some more pillows for my "shabby chic" sofa. It's most definately more shabby than chic! After painting the winter living room different hues of gray and getting a most modern sofa and coffee table, I had a yearning for something of the old house.

I didn't clean up and there's still things waiting to find their rightful home behind the sofa, so here's a sliver of a picture:

no crafts for four days!

I brought some knitting but I didn't do any. No, that's not exactly true. I cast on 60 stitches to begin a new pair of socks. That's as far as I got.

I went on my camping trip to the Bay of Fundy National Park in New Brunswick, Canada. It was cold and dreary but we were lucky and the unsettled weather passed us by until after we had packed up our tent and all the gear one has to bring on a camping trip. We did leave a day early. The fog was as thick as it ever gets and there were intense downpours as we drove home.

I like that in Canada, when they tear down an old covered bridge, they put up a new one that looks just like the old one. Very quaint!

We also traveled up to Moncton to see the White Stripes. What a great concert! We felt very old. I dare say we were the oldest people there, hands down. Do we get a medal or an award for being crazy for standing in the front of a crowd of high school kids who have four billion times more energy and don't mind being crammed in like a bunch of sardines? I don't know, but get this: it was worth it. Great concert!

Afterwards, some boys asked us if we had jumper cables and they called Dick (my significant other) "sir".