OMG! The cousins will be here this Thursday, and there's still a ton to do!
Last night was good. The mittens are charted and well started, and the Stars won over Vancouver (woo-hoo!!).
Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! I mentioned to my husband a few weeks ago that I thought it would be sooo great to get a romantic text message on Valentine's Day. He said, "Yeah, but who would send it to you?" What a card.
I'm off to the guest room!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
I have some good contacts.
This has been a really good week, networking-wise.
The 'Original' in the blog name refers to my business, Original Production. I'm diving back into serious networking, after being out of commission most of December and a big chunk of January (travel, and a nasty bug it took freakin' forever to get over). Believe me, in a small business that depends on referrals there's nothing like not being around for a while to bring things to a screeching halt. So I'm getting it geared back up, as quick as I can.
I met a fellow copywriter at Net-Ed yesterday (first time that's ever happened), and I'm looking to sign him on as a contractor. I visited the Business Success Group on Monday and met a woman who does websites. It looks like she and I are going to work on some interesting things together, too. She has an idea for a video blog that I'm really excited about being involved in. And I met with an existing client who not only gave me a good-sized check but also more work! So things are looking up on the OP front.
And in the Knot arena (that part of the blog name refers to my knitting habit), after frogging my Stars mittens approximately two hundred times (okay, maybe seven or eight), I put them aside and set out to find a way to actually do intarsia in the round, instead of trying, yet again, to just figure something out. When I first started investigating I was surprised at how many experienced knitters simply said it can't be done. I'm here to tell you otherwise. In fact, I learned two different techniques (this and this), and either will work very well for these mittens. I'm going to work on the chart tonight, and maybe start on them (again).
And speaking of the Stars, they're playing tonight but we won't be at the game. We went Wednesday, and in fact have tickets to four games in February (and may be buying more). There are two games next week we're looking at...maybe the mittens will be done by then.
And I just realized that I didn't mention the Stars in the name of this blog! I should fix that. There's no doubt I'll be talking about them here. Often. And enthusiastically.
Anyway, so tonight it's snuggling in with interesting knitting, pasta with parma rosa sauce and keeping up with the game via Twitter. My kind of evening!
The 'Original' in the blog name refers to my business, Original Production. I'm diving back into serious networking, after being out of commission most of December and a big chunk of January (travel, and a nasty bug it took freakin' forever to get over). Believe me, in a small business that depends on referrals there's nothing like not being around for a while to bring things to a screeching halt. So I'm getting it geared back up, as quick as I can.
I met a fellow copywriter at Net-Ed yesterday (first time that's ever happened), and I'm looking to sign him on as a contractor. I visited the Business Success Group on Monday and met a woman who does websites. It looks like she and I are going to work on some interesting things together, too. She has an idea for a video blog that I'm really excited about being involved in. And I met with an existing client who not only gave me a good-sized check but also more work! So things are looking up on the OP front.
And in the Knot arena (that part of the blog name refers to my knitting habit), after frogging my Stars mittens approximately two hundred times (okay, maybe seven or eight), I put them aside and set out to find a way to actually do intarsia in the round, instead of trying, yet again, to just figure something out. When I first started investigating I was surprised at how many experienced knitters simply said it can't be done. I'm here to tell you otherwise. In fact, I learned two different techniques (this and this), and either will work very well for these mittens. I'm going to work on the chart tonight, and maybe start on them (again).
And speaking of the Stars, they're playing tonight but we won't be at the game. We went Wednesday, and in fact have tickets to four games in February (and may be buying more). There are two games next week we're looking at...maybe the mittens will be done by then.
And I just realized that I didn't mention the Stars in the name of this blog! I should fix that. There's no doubt I'll be talking about them here. Often. And enthusiastically.
Anyway, so tonight it's snuggling in with interesting knitting, pasta with parma rosa sauce and keeping up with the game via Twitter. My kind of evening!
Saturday, February 7, 2009
I have a shower door!
My early-rising DH, bless him, had the shower door installed by the time I woke up this morning. Now I have to finish the walls (and the closet clean out and the carpet cleaning and...), which means deciding for sure what fabric I want to use. And figuring out how to use fabric as a wall treatment in a room that's guaranteed to be humid. (Most of the how-to instructions say to use liquid starch and just slap it up, but point out that it doesn't stand up to much moisture. How does one deal with that in a bathroom?)
I'll have to hit Joann Fabric and make the fabric decision, I guess. For a long time I had thought I'd use cheesecloth, which has the texture I'd like. But I'd definitely have to paint over it. That might work, with the paint helping to hold the fabric up. But it might also just make a huge mess. What to do, what to do...? That's one very fine thing about the starch technique, though. It's so easy to remove the fabric that I can put one up, change my mind and take it down and put another up without a lot of fuss.
Anyway, that's on the docket for today. So is making progress on the stash/guest room closet. And I'm going to be doing some test knitting on intarsia in-the-round, trying to make progress on my Stars mittens. And I swear I'm going to upload the photos from my camera and get my "Projects" page on Ravelry updated. Really, I am!
I'll have to hit Joann Fabric and make the fabric decision, I guess. For a long time I had thought I'd use cheesecloth, which has the texture I'd like. But I'd definitely have to paint over it. That might work, with the paint helping to hold the fabric up. But it might also just make a huge mess. What to do, what to do...? That's one very fine thing about the starch technique, though. It's so easy to remove the fabric that I can put one up, change my mind and take it down and put another up without a lot of fuss.
Anyway, that's on the docket for today. So is making progress on the stash/guest room closet. And I'm going to be doing some test knitting on intarsia in-the-round, trying to make progress on my Stars mittens. And I swear I'm going to upload the photos from my camera and get my "Projects" page on Ravelry updated. Really, I am!
Friday, February 6, 2009
I have a lot to do today.
We're getting ready to have company. I've long maintained that having guests is a very good thing -- otherwise the soap dishes would never get cleaned.
Lately, though, DH and I have both been stuck in an unfinished project cycle. Besides the normal chaos in our house and yard, we've both started some fairly major projects that got bogged down, and we...uh...put them on the back burner. Let them simmer, so to speak. Okay, we got tired of them. All the UFP (unfinished projects, as opposed to the knitter's UFO [objects]) would be only minor deals if it were our usual guests coming to visit. My immediate family comes to visit fairly regularly, and they're pretty gracious about the clutter. But the company that's coming this month is some cousins who might prefer to not have power tools in the guest bathroom.
So we're hustling to get a few things finished. Installing the shower door in the guest bathroom (hence the power tools), cleaning our the guest room closet (aka my knitting stash), fixing up Popeye's pen (that's another post altogether). And, of course, work and business do go on, meaning Rich goes to work and I have to act with some modicum of responsibility towards my customers and contractors.
So right now is the leading edge of a day that had better be busy.
Lately, though, DH and I have both been stuck in an unfinished project cycle. Besides the normal chaos in our house and yard, we've both started some fairly major projects that got bogged down, and we...uh...put them on the back burner. Let them simmer, so to speak. Okay, we got tired of them. All the UFP (unfinished projects, as opposed to the knitter's UFO [objects]) would be only minor deals if it were our usual guests coming to visit. My immediate family comes to visit fairly regularly, and they're pretty gracious about the clutter. But the company that's coming this month is some cousins who might prefer to not have power tools in the guest bathroom.
So we're hustling to get a few things finished. Installing the shower door in the guest bathroom (hence the power tools), cleaning our the guest room closet (aka my knitting stash), fixing up Popeye's pen (that's another post altogether). And, of course, work and business do go on, meaning Rich goes to work and I have to act with some modicum of responsibility towards my customers and contractors.
So right now is the leading edge of a day that had better be busy.
Monday, February 2, 2009
I have better things to do.
I had to clean the bathroom mirrors. Clorox® Disinfecting Wipes claim to be low-streak, so you can use them on mirrors. Nope. What started as one little soapy splash ended with my having to clean the whole mirror.
If that sounds too impossibly whiny, let me mention that the two mirrors in our master bathroom measure four feet tall and a total of nearly fourteen feet wide. It's a project. (But, on the plus side, I always know what the back of my hair looks like. If you can consider that a plus.)
If that sounds too impossibly whiny, let me mention that the two mirrors in our master bathroom measure four feet tall and a total of nearly fourteen feet wide. It's a project. (But, on the plus side, I always know what the back of my hair looks like. If you can consider that a plus.)
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