Or whatever that means in this house. I wrote lesson plans today, so tomorrow, we go back to school. With any grace, I’ll be cleaning, reading and knitting again. It’s just so easy to fall into bad habits, again, isn’t it? I was doing pretty well until my husband did that whole hospital thing. That thing that I did not mention, but that accounted for the two week absence you may or may not have noticed.

Anyway. Tomorrow. Normal for us.

Also, I am now in the market for a new camera. No money, of course, but still in the market. My lens cover has bit the crap, and the lens will not last long like that, I know. It’s kinda like having a PS3 with no controller: looks good, but has limited practical use. Perhaps I should knit a little cozy to protect it.

Woohoo! I found my camera! My desk was so seriously covered under it was not even funny. Here is the puzzle:

Here is the sweater. Nope, I haven’t been using weight loss products beyond the stress of life. The sweater just fits me now, and I was sucking it in a bit, LOL!

Hmm, that’s certainly not the most flattering picture, and it was way worse before I cropped it. Perhaps I need to make it a point to take a new shot when I wear it again. And on that note, I guess it is time to make this year’s FO page, isn’t it?

So, over two weeks it has been since I posted here. That is a very long time for me, LOL. I am usually quite a bit wordier than that, but I’ve just had a lot of personal, not crafty stuff going on and it interferes a bit with sitting here and blogging. Ah well. I do have some crafty stuff to share with you.

I finished this puzzle, if you can say a puzzle with 5 pieces missing is finished. I say yes, because I put in the effort, and that should count for something.

If I could find my camera, there would be a picture here of the puzzle.

I also re-did Sonnet. I am really loving this sweater, and as soon as the weather warms a bit, I plan to wear the snot out of it. Love it. Totally.

And, if I could find my camera, there would be a picture here so that you could see exactly why I love it so much!

Guess I should find my camera now. The blog without pictures is as boring as a landscape with no digital signage.

Take a picture of your current project, whatever that happens to be. Or maybe one you recently finished. Or the materials for the one you are about to start. Let’s say materials for a project in whatever state it happens to be in at the time you snap it. On Friday, post the picture and tell us about your project. What you did, or what you are going to do. How much you are enjoying it, or hating it. You know–show and tell.

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isn’t really much of a report at all. Basically, all I have to say about beading is that all my supplies are at Mama’s, and I haven’t really touched them since the last craft fair. Oops. Christmas came up hard and fast, and I was just busy with other stuff, ykwim? I could pretend I was designing the spring line of Nooka watches, but … I haven’t.

What I have been doing is lots of knitting and lots of reading and lots of puzzling. After all, there’s only one of me. However, once I remember to bring my beads back home, I’ll be doing some beading as well.

“Oh, so that’s how you do that!” That was my first thought as I read through this little Basics of Beading book of Katie’s. I’d been curious about several things, including how to use memory wire, and what exactly to do with those fabulous wire-wrapped beads I had to buy not to long ago, and I finally sat down to find some answers. Now I know, hehehehe. But of course, I’ll need to buy more stuff: memory wire and jump rings for starters.

I really enjoyed looking at the macrame section in the middle. My boys will need a necklace from me eventually, and I was having a real hard time envisioning how to do a more masculine design for them. Call me old fashioned, but pink pearls are just not a good look for the boys of Chez CassKnits!

And the seed bead section–breathtaking! I admit I have a thing for seed beads. The tiny perfection of them just gets to me. I love, love, love working with them, even as Mama laughs at me about it. I love them so much, that I pick them up with my sore, arthritic fingers and place them one by one onto the wire that I prefer over string. That’s love, now!

not sitting here at this computer, I would be doing crafty type stuff. I might be working on that 1/3 complete puzzle, or I might be weaving in the ends on Sonnet Redux. I finished the knitting last night, and boys and girls, I think it is hot. Like tankless water heater hot. I doubt someone seeing it for the first time would recognize it as a Sonnet.

So, umm, why am I still sitting here? Why am I not doing crafty stuff?

Because I am a wee bit distracted by the way dh is mumbling in his sleep and also by this. If I had the extra money, I would totally be buy the stuff to make about three of those. Maybe more.

I have finished nothing, but I do have several irons in the fire. I’ve extended the button band on Sonnet by an inch, and it no longer gaps, except over the first two buttons, which I can just leave undone, I guess. I’m picking up stitches now to bring the collar in a bit. I have to admit that it makes me feel pretty good to be able to alter a knitted garment to fit better. The knitting of a piece is a satisfaction of it’s own, but fixing it when it doesn’t quite work, that’s a buzz of it’s very own. And OH MY WORD! When I button that thing, it is a completely different garment.

I also started to start a puzzle with the kids yesterday. I say started to start because we didn’t even get the pieces sorted out before I got a call and had to leave. Today, though, we shall start properly.

And now, I have delayed long enough, and it is time to announce the winners of the progresso soup basket. There were only 10 entries, so I can only guess that the week between Christmas and New Year’s might not be the best time to run a blog contest, right? The winning numbers, as selected by three children are 7, 4, and 10. According to the original post, that means I need to hear from Justin, Loretta, and Mama. Actually, I don’t need to hear from Mama, since I know right where she lives. Enjoy your kitchen wear ya’ll!

Take a picture of your current project, whatever that happens to be. Or maybe one you recently finished. Or the materials for the one you are about to start. Let’s say materials for a project in whatever state it happens to be in at the time you snap it. On Friday, post the picture and tell us about your project. What you did, or what you are going to do. How much you are enjoying it, or hating it. You know–show and tell.

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