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".

knitting socks

It has been pointed out to me that I haven't posted in a while. I'm glad anyone wants to see what I've been doing!

What have I been doing? Well, I stopped knitting those bags 'cause I was developing a small mountain of them and I need to find a venue to sell them if I'm going to make so many.

So, I've been knitting socks. I don't think they're "worth" putting up pictures of. They're socks. Fairly plain socks.

I am suddenly crazy about knitting socks since I learned how to do it on two circular needles instead of four (or five) double pointed ones. I really found it annoying, trying to juggle all those needles. Now, it's pure mindless pleasure. And I get to watch bad television at the same time!

So, that's it for now. Maybe I'll post a photo of a pile of socks when I get back from the camping trip I'm going on. That'd make a nice picture.