I entered all the pertinent information into Random.Org number generator, and the comment number is
12
That means that Sarah (I will PM you on Ravelry) wins the booty.
Congrats to Sarah, and thanks everyone for playing along and visiting my little place here. I hope maybe you found something of interest and maybe you will come back.
I have had fun checking out all of your blogs, too.
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January 12, 2011
January 9, 2010
On The Needles Of Iron (and contest winner announcement)
A yearly goal…
The February Lady Sweater, barely started, so really not worth a photo, which may turn into a KAL with my former co-worker knitter peeps. I am knitting with Elsabeth Lavold Silky Wool.
A secret…for someone…out of hand dyed Toe Toez, purchased from Settlers Farm (now the Wicked Stitch), in Wamego, KS. Appropriately, I think. (Clues!) So, no photo yet.
A gift…a Big Foot Shawl, from Wrapped In Comfort. Complete except for the last half of the bind off row. Yes. That’s right. I have come up short of yarn, pushing the yarn goddess too far, once again. This time, however, I went to Ravelry, to the Yarn forum, and made a plea. Someone answered, and there is someone else’s leftover Naturally Dawn winging its way to me, for which to finish up this excellent piece. I cannot wait to see it blocked. Stay tuned. Again, no photo. Still sort of a tender subject, and really just sort of a blob of blue until blocked.
Also. I love Ravelry. Again.
Really? I was going to take photos of all the above but ended up with Youngest and the Grandbebe Girl and Two last night. Their power went out temporarily, so I was the winner.
Speaking of winners...
The winner of a $35 gift certificate to the world renown Atomic Sisters Etsy Emporium is….drum roll….
in a totally arbitrary drawing of names on little slips of paper...from a newly thrifted, gifted Longaberger basket Christmas gift from DSis (oh she knows me so well)...
Erin!
…..cymbal crash!!
(Erin, I sent you a comment letting you know. Contact me by email (over in the sidebar above the photo of the Cat Who Would Be Queen) and we will arrange for the winnings!)
Thanks, everyone, for reading along with me, for commenting, and participating in our contesting (and by our, I mean DSis and myself!). Here’s to Year Trois (lifting a glass)!
The February Lady Sweater, barely started, so really not worth a photo, which may turn into a KAL with my former co-worker knitter peeps. I am knitting with Elsabeth Lavold Silky Wool.
A secret…for someone…out of hand dyed Toe Toez, purchased from Settlers Farm (now the Wicked Stitch), in Wamego, KS. Appropriately, I think. (Clues!) So, no photo yet.
A gift…a Big Foot Shawl, from Wrapped In Comfort. Complete except for the last half of the bind off row. Yes. That’s right. I have come up short of yarn, pushing the yarn goddess too far, once again. This time, however, I went to Ravelry, to the Yarn forum, and made a plea. Someone answered, and there is someone else’s leftover Naturally Dawn winging its way to me, for which to finish up this excellent piece. I cannot wait to see it blocked. Stay tuned. Again, no photo. Still sort of a tender subject, and really just sort of a blob of blue until blocked.
Also. I love Ravelry. Again.
Really? I was going to take photos of all the above but ended up with Youngest and the Grandbebe Girl and Two last night. Their power went out temporarily, so I was the winner.
Speaking of winners...
The winner of a $35 gift certificate to the world renown Atomic Sisters Etsy Emporium is….drum roll….
in a totally arbitrary drawing of names on little slips of paper...from a newly thrifted, gifted Longaberger basket Christmas gift from DSis (oh she knows me so well)...
Erin!
…..cymbal crash!!
(Erin, I sent you a comment letting you know. Contact me by email (over in the sidebar above the photo of the Cat Who Would Be Queen) and we will arrange for the winnings!)
Thanks, everyone, for reading along with me, for commenting, and participating in our contesting (and by our, I mean DSis and myself!). Here’s to Year Trois (lifting a glass)!
January 1, 2010
Two Years Now
I started this humble little effort of mine 2 years ago on January 1st. Yessirree, I did.
I was not sure where it was to go, or what I was going to do with it, beyond just a vague sketch in my head.
Often I hear that plans and outlines and ideas going forward are the way to get where one wants to go. Guess I didn’t know where I wanted to go, because I figured if I was going to do this, I better just start, and the first of the year is always a good day to do that. Start something, that is.
I had given it some thought. For some weeks, I had pondered the issue of a name. Title, yes. Aim and direction and focus? Not so much.
Probably why I never wrote a novel.
There was one goal I did set for myself, and that was to be true to me, and to keep this blog for me and no one else. That meant for me that I was going to honest (without hurting anyone, of course), and that this exercise was for me. I am glad that some have found it interesting and maybe entertaining or even helpful, but really? It’s more about what I want to write, and how I feel I want to express myself.
I didn’t know if anyone would ever find my blog. I didn’t know if I wanted anyone to find it. I didn’t tell my family about it for some weeks. Maybe months.
But I put the link out there when I posted comments, out on Ravelry, and I let the fam know the secrets were being aired, like dirty laundry.
In all, it’s been a very rewarding experience, and I have even brought DSis, Middle Daughter, and BFF over to the dark side. (Mwahahaha!)
I recently started working on slurping my posts up into a book. (o my gah! That sounds so pretentious!) I am doing it 1) because I just love me some hard copy, and 2) what happens if Blogger disappears someday? In working through the ‘editing’ of the slurps, I am pleased with what I have found. Sure, some of it is cheesy, but some of my writing…well…it’s okay. I have grown, and my photography has matured.
Pretty sweet.
Some of the most fun I have had started this past October, when DSis and I started our tag-team blogging, and then opened Atomic Sisters (where she sells things, and I do not!). We have continued posting at our respective blogs on alternating days, which I think works very well. Keeps me motivated, scheduled, and honest! And we can feed off each other, too, which we have always done very well. Much to our mother's dismay as we sat in the backseat and laughed uproarilously at nothing.
Enough of the retrospective. Suffice it to say I think I will keep at it. Those who know me (in real life) know I generally always have something to say!
With anniversaries around here come contests, and here’s the deal for this one.
1. Leave a comment with a goal you have for the New Year. (We don’t do no stinking resolutions around here!)
2. And come next Friday (Jan 8), there will be a drawing.
3. Doesn’t get much more simple than that.
4. (If you do not wish to be in the drawing, that’s okay. You can still wish me a happy bloggy-versary. Just let me know you are opting out.)
Seems like I have left something out…oh, the prize! Well, see it’s like this. We have this Etsy shop called Atomic Sisters, and the winner will receive a $35 shopping spree to said shop. (fabric, and aprons, and handspun yarn! Oh my!)
There you go, folks
I was not sure where it was to go, or what I was going to do with it, beyond just a vague sketch in my head.
Often I hear that plans and outlines and ideas going forward are the way to get where one wants to go. Guess I didn’t know where I wanted to go, because I figured if I was going to do this, I better just start, and the first of the year is always a good day to do that. Start something, that is.
I had given it some thought. For some weeks, I had pondered the issue of a name. Title, yes. Aim and direction and focus? Not so much.
Probably why I never wrote a novel.
There was one goal I did set for myself, and that was to be true to me, and to keep this blog for me and no one else. That meant for me that I was going to honest (without hurting anyone, of course), and that this exercise was for me. I am glad that some have found it interesting and maybe entertaining or even helpful, but really? It’s more about what I want to write, and how I feel I want to express myself.
I didn’t know if anyone would ever find my blog. I didn’t know if I wanted anyone to find it. I didn’t tell my family about it for some weeks. Maybe months.
But I put the link out there when I posted comments, out on Ravelry, and I let the fam know the secrets were being aired, like dirty laundry.
In all, it’s been a very rewarding experience, and I have even brought DSis, Middle Daughter, and BFF over to the dark side. (Mwahahaha!)
I recently started working on slurping my posts up into a book. (o my gah! That sounds so pretentious!) I am doing it 1) because I just love me some hard copy, and 2) what happens if Blogger disappears someday? In working through the ‘editing’ of the slurps, I am pleased with what I have found. Sure, some of it is cheesy, but some of my writing…well…it’s okay. I have grown, and my photography has matured.
Pretty sweet.
Some of the most fun I have had started this past October, when DSis and I started our tag-team blogging, and then opened Atomic Sisters (where she sells things, and I do not!). We have continued posting at our respective blogs on alternating days, which I think works very well. Keeps me motivated, scheduled, and honest! And we can feed off each other, too, which we have always done very well. Much to our mother's dismay as we sat in the backseat and laughed uproarilously at nothing.
Enough of the retrospective. Suffice it to say I think I will keep at it. Those who know me (in real life) know I generally always have something to say!
With anniversaries around here come contests, and here’s the deal for this one.
1. Leave a comment with a goal you have for the New Year. (We don’t do no stinking resolutions around here!)
2. And come next Friday (Jan 8), there will be a drawing.
3. Doesn’t get much more simple than that.
4. (If you do not wish to be in the drawing, that’s okay. You can still wish me a happy bloggy-versary. Just let me know you are opting out.)
Seems like I have left something out…oh, the prize! Well, see it’s like this. We have this Etsy shop called Atomic Sisters, and the winner will receive a $35 shopping spree to said shop. (fabric, and aprons, and handspun yarn! Oh my!)
There you go, folks
November 11, 2009
Winnings and Gifts and Prizes, oh my!
Will they invite me back next month? I played Bunko (Bunco?) again this past week, stepping in for our just recently moved next door neighbor who has moved to an assisted living facility. Which is sad for the Guy and me. We love our neighborhood, and mostly because of our neighbors. A rare thing in today’s world, I think, to actually know one’s neighbors.
But I digress. Not only did I play, but I won the really big money this time! Most buncos (bunkos?) (with a roll off even!) and the ‘Traveler’ (don’t ask, I can’t explain, except to say...extra dollars!) So I have won the Pretty Big, the Big, and the Really Big money now four months in a row (I think). Will they invite me back? More importantly, if they do, can I continue this streak?
Perhaps some perspective is in order. There is a $4 buy-in, and the ‘really big’ money that I won last night? $19. Plus the fun. And the laughs. And the food.
Some time back, I won a contest over at Noodleroux. Recently I received my booty from ChaCha, in the form of a gift certificate from Tumblefish Studio on Etsy. She thought something to hang on my freshly painted walls and in my newly redone rooms might be a nice thing. Well, haven’t I been having a ball shopping over there? Why, yes, I have! And I think I might just have narrowed it done to my choice. I will show it off once I have it all squared away.
Then, more recently, I had the chance to meet with some friends from my college days. Since our meeting, one has been kind enough to send me some of her artwork. This sort of gift is so meaningful to me on many levels. I think it is very generous, first, and second, having no talent in this regard, I am awestruck by those that can put what they see into this sort of medium. I am working to get these two pieces framed and find a special place to put them in my home.
So as I write this, what is it I see? Some very special and fun things, certainly. But what stands out vividly and starkly are the relationships.
Between good neighbors.
Between new friends found through blogging and communicating through the internet.
Between old friends renewed.
Now that blows me away.
My BFF evah! (Dearest Sister) and I are still tag blogging, and selling our goodes at our Etsy shoppe, Atomic Sisters (powerful, explosive, also mid-century!). Check out both! They're swell!
But I digress. Not only did I play, but I won the really big money this time! Most buncos (bunkos?) (with a roll off even!) and the ‘Traveler’ (don’t ask, I can’t explain, except to say...extra dollars!) So I have won the Pretty Big, the Big, and the Really Big money now four months in a row (I think). Will they invite me back? More importantly, if they do, can I continue this streak?
Perhaps some perspective is in order. There is a $4 buy-in, and the ‘really big’ money that I won last night? $19. Plus the fun. And the laughs. And the food.
Some time back, I won a contest over at Noodleroux. Recently I received my booty from ChaCha, in the form of a gift certificate from Tumblefish Studio on Etsy. She thought something to hang on my freshly painted walls and in my newly redone rooms might be a nice thing. Well, haven’t I been having a ball shopping over there? Why, yes, I have! And I think I might just have narrowed it done to my choice. I will show it off once I have it all squared away.
Then, more recently, I had the chance to meet with some friends from my college days. Since our meeting, one has been kind enough to send me some of her artwork. This sort of gift is so meaningful to me on many levels. I think it is very generous, first, and second, having no talent in this regard, I am awestruck by those that can put what they see into this sort of medium. I am working to get these two pieces framed and find a special place to put them in my home.
So as I write this, what is it I see? Some very special and fun things, certainly. But what stands out vividly and starkly are the relationships.
Between good neighbors.
Between new friends found through blogging and communicating through the internet.
Between old friends renewed.
Now that blows me away.
My BFF evah! (Dearest Sister) and I are still tag blogging, and selling our goodes at our Etsy shoppe, Atomic Sisters (powerful, explosive, also mid-century!). Check out both! They're swell!
November 1, 2009
Winner!
And other Big! Announcements!
First, by drawing, out of a little Fire King bowl, the winner of the 'from Bindi and Me, to You' baby alpaca handsspun lacewgt yarn is (drum roll, please...)
Stacy! Yea! for Stacy! Stacy, email me (over there in yon sidebar info) and we get shipping it to you squared away, toot sweet.
And check over at Just-a-mere to see who won the fab feedsack fat 8th's Dearest Sister is giving away.
Announcement #2! Dearest Sister and I are embarking on a new shared adventure. Just like Lewis and Clark, we are. (OK, not really.) We have had many shared adventures in the past, and now we are adding commerce to our list. AtomicSisters Etsy is opening today. To begin with, I will list handspun yarn and she will list feedsack fabric, aprons, and children's hankies. Eventually, perhaps later there will be other 'venturing' out, but this is where we start. For those not familiar with Etsy, search for AtomicSisters (no space), under sellers. Look and see!
Announcement #3 Dearest Sister and I are continuing our most recent shared adventure. We are keeping on with 'tag team' blogging through November. At least. With maybe the occasional help of the 'cereal' blogger, if she can be coerced. (I happen to know her cereal of choice used to be shredded wheat...)
Our Halloween went famously! Lots (but not too many) trick or treaters. Some candy left over. And I got to take the Grandbebes out. Grandbebe Girl did a bang up job of it, too.
Grandbebe Two collected candy (not really) as a Red Hot Chili Pepper!
Grandbebe Girl was a Fluffy Pink Poodle.
Complete with curly poodle tail. She collected lots of candy. And said 'trick or treat' and 'thank you' for every piece!
And here we are...in November.
First, by drawing, out of a little Fire King bowl, the winner of the 'from Bindi and Me, to You' baby alpaca handsspun lacewgt yarn is (drum roll, please...)
Stacy! Yea! for Stacy! Stacy, email me (over there in yon sidebar info) and we get shipping it to you squared away, toot sweet.
And check over at Just-a-mere to see who won the fab feedsack fat 8th's Dearest Sister is giving away.
Announcement #2! Dearest Sister and I are embarking on a new shared adventure. Just like Lewis and Clark, we are. (OK, not really.) We have had many shared adventures in the past, and now we are adding commerce to our list. AtomicSisters Etsy is opening today. To begin with, I will list handspun yarn and she will list feedsack fabric, aprons, and children's hankies. Eventually, perhaps later there will be other 'venturing' out, but this is where we start. For those not familiar with Etsy, search for AtomicSisters (no space), under sellers. Look and see!
Announcement #3 Dearest Sister and I are continuing our most recent shared adventure. We are keeping on with 'tag team' blogging through November. At least. With maybe the occasional help of the 'cereal' blogger, if she can be coerced. (I happen to know her cereal of choice used to be shredded wheat...)
Our Halloween went famously! Lots (but not too many) trick or treaters. Some candy left over. And I got to take the Grandbebes out. Grandbebe Girl did a bang up job of it, too.
And here we are...in November.
October 27, 2009
Almost There!
Stay on target! (Anyone else thinking of Red Leader and destroying Death Stars with X-Wings?)
Anyway. Readers paying attention will have noticed that Dearest Sister announced a Fantabulous Fat eighth sized of vintage Flour sack Fabric giveaway to:
But first.
Let me speak about my weekend. I watched the grandbebe girls Saturday. First I had seen them in a couple of weeks, having had a cold. That evening, I traveled south about 45 minutes to meet with some college friends for dinner. One I have met for lunch fairly regularly the last couple of years. The other I have only reacquainted with this past year on Facebook. So yeah, we hadn't seen each other in about 30 years. We shut the place down. And could have stayed longer, except that we are...not young. The conversation was refreshing and fun and I left there feeling so good.
And then, less than 2 miles from home? Got pulled over by le Sheriffe. For speeding. Yep. Can't say when last time that happened. Because I don't! Speed, that is. Really no need for it anymore. But I was. There is a place where the speed limit drops, and there was a hill, and I was going faster, and There. He. Was. And I just don't handle those types of authority figures...without turning into a little girl basically. I try. Really I do. But it's hard! So he asks what I've been doing, and right out I answer, 'I have been in Longmont, having lunch with some college friends'. See. It's now 10:30 pm. That answer is clearly not working. Stutter stutter stutter. Yeah, sounding real grown up! And I hadn't even had a glass of wine. Thank gawd for that! He comes back to the car, gives me back my license, and his business card, and tells me he is letting me off with a warning.
Let the good times roll!
And do you think maybe he was trying to hit on me?
End of day today? I remember that I never changed my license when I had my vision corrected surgically over six years ago. The license still says I am suppose to be wearing corrective lenses. Haha, Mr. Law Enforcement Officer. Gotcha!
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. And my offering for winning laurels and glory and other splendiforous prizes.
Or prize.
I offer for your consideration a skein of my handspun baby alpaca, that I processed from raw fleece to laceweight yarn. From Bindi, the alpaca, and me, to you.
Anyway. Readers paying attention will have noticed that Dearest Sister announced a Fantabulous Fat eighth sized of vintage Flour sack Fabric giveaway to:
- Celebrate the smashingly successful and fun blogtoberfesting time she and I have shared.
- To help announce the Super Secret Sister Special Surprise coming up on the highly auspicious first of November (11-1! Lots of ones! Very lucky!)
- Commemorate this wonderful time of fresh Halloween candy.
- Bring in Daylight Savings Time.
- (fill in the blank)
But first.
Let me speak about my weekend. I watched the grandbebe girls Saturday. First I had seen them in a couple of weeks, having had a cold. That evening, I traveled south about 45 minutes to meet with some college friends for dinner. One I have met for lunch fairly regularly the last couple of years. The other I have only reacquainted with this past year on Facebook. So yeah, we hadn't seen each other in about 30 years. We shut the place down. And could have stayed longer, except that we are...not young. The conversation was refreshing and fun and I left there feeling so good.
And then, less than 2 miles from home? Got pulled over by le Sheriffe. For speeding. Yep. Can't say when last time that happened. Because I don't! Speed, that is. Really no need for it anymore. But I was. There is a place where the speed limit drops, and there was a hill, and I was going faster, and There. He. Was. And I just don't handle those types of authority figures...without turning into a little girl basically. I try. Really I do. But it's hard! So he asks what I've been doing, and right out I answer, 'I have been in Longmont, having lunch with some college friends'. See. It's now 10:30 pm. That answer is clearly not working. Stutter stutter stutter. Yeah, sounding real grown up! And I hadn't even had a glass of wine. Thank gawd for that! He comes back to the car, gives me back my license, and his business card, and tells me he is letting me off with a warning.
Let the good times roll!
And do you think maybe he was trying to hit on me?
End of day today? I remember that I never changed my license when I had my vision corrected surgically over six years ago. The license still says I am suppose to be wearing corrective lenses. Haha, Mr. Law Enforcement Officer. Gotcha!
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. And my offering for winning laurels and glory and other splendiforous prizes.
Or prize.
I offer for your consideration a skein of my handspun baby alpaca, that I processed from raw fleece to laceweight yarn. From Bindi, the alpaca, and me, to you.
One of these yummilicious skeins, approx 3 oz and about 450 yards of 18-20 wpi lace wgt.
All you have to do is leave a comment telling me you want to be in the drawing. The drawing will be Halloween and the winner (and other things) will be announced November 1st.
Join in, and don't forget to check out the goods over at Dearest Sisters.
September 19, 2009
Win-Win-Win
A couple weeks ago I had a week that was just like Christmas. I am just now getting around to writing about it.
First, I was Winner With Most Points at Bunko (or Bunco). I fill in with the neighborhood group, but fill in almost every month, so I am a regular, at least when it comes to filler-inners. But being a filler-inner, I don’t have to clean house, or fix treats, or keep score. I play the ‘but I’m not a regular…’ card every chance I can! And it works. They love me! However, the regular regulars noted this was twice in a row I had won this /most points' honor, capering away with the big bucks, all $13 of them. They may not ask me back. Until they need me.
Next, I had an email from Martha, who is the incredibly talented Q is for Quilter. She offered me some vintage 30% cashmere/lambswool blend and two vintage pattern books. (Thirty per cent!) For one reason or another, she wasn’t going to use it. Go ahead and take a peak at her quilt work. Like she needs a reason to not knit? Anyway, would I like it, since I had real grandbebes to knit for. Hmmm…let me see. Yes please.
Then I heard from Cha Cha at Noodleroux that she liked best of all what I had described as my ‘Cultural Heritage Costume’ in a contest over at her place. Which...where I'm the sheriff...is all jeans/shorts and tees/sweats! After she gets back from her worldly travels, I look forward to receiving a prize package worthy of someone winning such a contest!
Lastly, Dearest Sister and Sister’s Mister determined that her remaining days of vacation, previously spoken for a now-defunct trip, are up for grabs, and that we might just grab them for a get-away really exotic and special. Somewhere that just might require a passport!
All this in just a week.
See. Just like Christmas!
First, I was Winner With Most Points at Bunko (or Bunco). I fill in with the neighborhood group, but fill in almost every month, so I am a regular, at least when it comes to filler-inners. But being a filler-inner, I don’t have to clean house, or fix treats, or keep score. I play the ‘but I’m not a regular…’ card every chance I can! And it works. They love me! However, the regular regulars noted this was twice in a row I had won this /most points' honor, capering away with the big bucks, all $13 of them. They may not ask me back. Until they need me.
Next, I had an email from Martha, who is the incredibly talented Q is for Quilter. She offered me some vintage 30% cashmere/lambswool blend and two vintage pattern books. (Thirty per cent!) For one reason or another, she wasn’t going to use it. Go ahead and take a peak at her quilt work. Like she needs a reason to not knit? Anyway, would I like it, since I had real grandbebes to knit for. Hmmm…let me see. Yes please.
Then I heard from Cha Cha at Noodleroux that she liked best of all what I had described as my ‘Cultural Heritage Costume’ in a contest over at her place. Which...where I'm the sheriff...is all jeans/shorts and tees/sweats! After she gets back from her worldly travels, I look forward to receiving a prize package worthy of someone winning such a contest!
Lastly, Dearest Sister and Sister’s Mister determined that her remaining days of vacation, previously spoken for a now-defunct trip, are up for grabs, and that we might just grab them for a get-away really exotic and special. Somewhere that just might require a passport!
All this in just a week.
See. Just like Christmas!
January 17, 2009
And So It Starts...
I recieved the embroidered blocks from Dearest Sister in the mail on Friday. They are the cutie-wootest! She is very good in her vision and with her skill.
Also she is very ahead of me, being done with her part.
Never fear. There are boy characters, too. We are not presuming anything yet!
She has a great post here about our previous quilting adventure for Grandbebe Girl (which I enjoyed reading very much), and I have my 'Q is for Quilt' post here for background on our grand plans.
Anyway. The embroidery, it is done, and now the planning, cutting, piecing, and quilting is up to me.
My plans for the pattern. I starred the one I like. Not complicated, but a little different than the simple nine patch of Grandbebe Girls. (Ignore the numbers. They are not related to anything of import.) Templates at the ready!
The chosen fabric for the quilt, collected mostly by Dearest Sister from her various forays at estate sales, auctions, and ebay. I contributed a few of the vintage reproductions. What would I do without her? Have a pretty small quilt, I tell you!
Fabric washed, tested for colorfastness, and otherwise prepped. I am ready for the cutting.
I am making really good progress on the two knitting projects that are realy stash busters, but jeezopeez, I am talking acres of garter for the one and I am glad to be seeing the bottom of the yarn for the other. I am ready for a bit of a change up. And this will need to be quilted before the weather warms. Seriously. I know myself that well.
So let the games begin!
And now for something completely different...(anyone remember where that's from? I do!)
We have contest winners from three completely random drawings involving index cards, a pen, scissors, and small bowl. See! Completely randomized.
Katarina wins the Pampered Chef recipe books.
Jennifer wins the Steinbach Woole sock yarn
Lizzzknits wins Dena's roving.
Applause applause applause! I really thank everyone who entered and I wish I had gifts and prizes for you all. I hate simply HATE having to pick only a few to win.
January 10, 2009
Bloggery Contest
I think I might be getting my act together. Maybe. I got my recipe collection (and I use the term loosely) out last night and started filtering. 5 Crisco inserts, all the same....yep, there are definitely some organizational needs there. And yes, I still bake with Crisco. How else am I to bake decent cookies a mile high! On the definite upside of that partially completed task, I found my mother's oatmeal cookie recipe in her own hand!
After spending some time this morning working on the '08 financials in anticipation of taxes (oh be still my beating heart), it's time for a reward.
Fun!
Games!
Prizes!
For the offering..
- 3 Pampered Chef cookbooks...donated by Youngest Daughter who sells the product. Fun stuff. (Pampered Chef cooking stones not required.)
- I skein of Steinbach Woole Aktiv Effekt sock yarn, 100g, 460 yds, 75% wool/25% polyamid. Nice stuff.
- 3 oz of baby alpaca roving...from Dena, the baby alpaca. Soft stuff...very soft stuff.
So let's see. For the winning of these prizes, answer these questions three.
#1 Which would you prefer? (one, two, or three?)
#2 (And because I really liked this last time and was turned on to some really fun sites) What is a blog/site you visit regularly?
#3 (And because I have this on the brain this morning) When will you likely get your taxes completed? Not mailed off...because that depends for me on whether I owe or not...but done. Do you get them done as soon as you get your documents, or are you a procrastinator, always needing extensions?
So there you have it...stuff for the non-knitters, the non-spinners, and...uh...the non-eaters.
I will choose the winners with three random drawings, one for each prize, next Saturday, not because there will so many entries by then, but because this promises to be another full week.
Cheers, all, and happy tax season!
November 11, 2008
What I Won...
...from One Good Apple's blogiversary contest!
She held a comment contest, whereby she asked us for our favorite movie quote. Then she arbitrarily chose one, and designed and worked a bit of original embroidery with the quote, about the movie.
Remember the book fair, when my goal was to find The Phantom Tollbooth and The Princess Bride? (that and stock up with reading material for the next year at bargain basement prices filling my insatiable need to read AND save money AND support the Friends of the Library. But I digress....) The Princess Bride is one of my favorite books, and when it was made into a movie, I was pleasantly surprised. It has since become one of my favorite movies and most often quoted.
When the kids were/are around, and were/are taking off on some escapade, they mostly leave with my admonishment, 'You kids have fun stormin' the castle!' At first, the Lovely Step-Children were a bit flummoxed not being as familiar with this movie as my offspring were. What, exactly, was this woman telling them to do...and just how old was she???
This is a very quotable movie...
'Mahwadge...iz wat bwings uhs here todway...'
'IN...CON...CEIVEABLE!'
and the always useful...
'My name is Inigo Montoya...you killed my father...prepare to die.'
Really. I must stop.
So last Friday Wonderful Guy tells me I got a package. Well! It's from Liverpool! (See. I have international readers. I do! Also, where the Beatles first played...but I digress.)
And this is what bounty lay inside.
I am just tickled with the way Emily conveyed the movie and the quote.
Immediately, The Cat Who Would Be Queen was on the table batting at the little pin with the embroidered sewing machine. Silly kitty. It's not for her!
Thanks again, Emily at One Good Apple.
October 10, 2008
So Many Ends!
But so worth it.
Thanks, Mason-Dixon Knitting. And thanks, Kay (of the same M-D Knitting), for ‘favoriting’ my Ravelry project, too! I was all a-flummoxed! My little twist on the original pattern is using variegated yarn for the center instead of four different colors. Makes for a few less ends to weave in. A few.
I have two finished. I am off to start another.
And it’s Friday, so the winners of my ‘unremarkable contest’ are…
Thanks, Mason-Dixon Knitting. And thanks, Kay (of the same M-D Knitting), for ‘favoriting’ my Ravelry project, too! I was all a-flummoxed! My little twist on the original pattern is using variegated yarn for the center instead of four different colors. Makes for a few less ends to weave in. A few.
I have two finished. I am off to start another.
And it’s Friday, so the winners of my ‘unremarkable contest’ are…
Corwink wins the handspun, and...
~Phyllis~ wins the roving!
Congratulations, and send me your info by email and I will send your booty post haste! And thanks, dear readers...for giving me a chance, coming back, for taking the time to comment, and for your suggestions to broaden my reading habits.
It was an eclectic group of sites, and yet strangely compelling....
October 8, 2008
My Hair
This past weekend I had a chance to see how others see my hair. I have been growing out the color for about a year, best guess, give or take a month.
Brief recap. I was very blond when little, as a young girl, and as a teenager, with or without Sun-In (can I get a witness?). Shortly after my babies started arriving, hair started darkening, and by the mid-30’s, it started to lighten up again….but with a distinctly different tint, a grey-ish glint.
I remember my mother only as having a head of silver hair, and expected to have the same, but when I was caught with a camcorder (early 90’s and that’s what they were!)…shock horror! I had brown hair with ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ streaks. I looked so dowdy. I was also trying to find a new job out of state. Steps needed to be taken. A drastic solution for a desperate situation, as it were.
So the coloring of hair started. And so it continued…to last year, when I decided I so over it. My length-impaired stylist did some last color magic to ease the grow out pain, and the change began.
It has been neither unpleasant, nor dramatic. I had been coloring blonde, and the front/top of my hair is very light naturally. Not much change in other words. I am keeping it longish, shoulder length, so there is some blonde on the ends still. My hair grows sooooo slow. And like many other things in life, a gradual change comes to seem like no change until we meet up with someone who sees it.
So this weekend, Wonderful Guy and I go to our local mall for a few errands. I duck into a clothing store to check out the end of the season sales, find some likely prospects, and go to try them on. Wonderful Guy comes into the store after a while, is approached by a sales person, and he says he believes his wife is in a dressing room. He attempts to describe me, saying ‘she has…’ and the salesperson attempts to help ‘…white hair?’
I have white hair to a complete stranger.
White. Hair.
What did I expect? I am not sure, but to hear it put to words…it just feels a bit mature…which is what I am, I know….but maybe isn’t exactly what I feel.
Just yet.
Brief recap. I was very blond when little, as a young girl, and as a teenager, with or without Sun-In (can I get a witness?). Shortly after my babies started arriving, hair started darkening, and by the mid-30’s, it started to lighten up again….but with a distinctly different tint, a grey-ish glint.
I remember my mother only as having a head of silver hair, and expected to have the same, but when I was caught with a camcorder (early 90’s and that’s what they were!)…shock horror! I had brown hair with ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ streaks. I looked so dowdy. I was also trying to find a new job out of state. Steps needed to be taken. A drastic solution for a desperate situation, as it were.
So the coloring of hair started. And so it continued…to last year, when I decided I so over it. My length-impaired stylist did some last color magic to ease the grow out pain, and the change began.
It has been neither unpleasant, nor dramatic. I had been coloring blonde, and the front/top of my hair is very light naturally. Not much change in other words. I am keeping it longish, shoulder length, so there is some blonde on the ends still. My hair grows sooooo slow. And like many other things in life, a gradual change comes to seem like no change until we meet up with someone who sees it.
So this weekend, Wonderful Guy and I go to our local mall for a few errands. I duck into a clothing store to check out the end of the season sales, find some likely prospects, and go to try them on. Wonderful Guy comes into the store after a while, is approached by a sales person, and he says he believes his wife is in a dressing room. He attempts to describe me, saying ‘she has…’ and the salesperson attempts to help ‘…white hair?’
I have white hair to a complete stranger.
White. Hair.
What did I expect? I am not sure, but to hear it put to words…it just feels a bit mature…which is what I am, I know….but maybe isn’t exactly what I feel.
Just yet.
Don't overlook 'my unremarkable contest'. Comments will be considered through Friday, 5PM.
October 6, 2008
An Unremarkable Contest
I have rummaged through my fiber and my yarn, and have come up with some likely candidates for giving away. I submit for your consideration…
1 oz of roving, a merino (positive)/silk blend (I am pretty sure) with a hint of glint. Very nice stuff, if not a lot. It would be very good for plying with something else, or blending with something before spinning.
and...
2-3oz skeins of handspun (not of my spinning) I bought at a friends antique/authentic sort of old timey craft store some years back. How quaint, I thought. Handspun yarn from someone’s sheep, I mused! I might knit it up equally charming, I said to myself. I never thought I might be spinning up the like! Alas, I didn’t knit it up, and I think I would like to pass it on. It is a worsted wgt and 2-ply, not terribly bulky, but not fingering either. Also wool, but I don't know anything about what kind.
So anyway, to celebrate such and such a number of hits, and a whatever number of visitors over an equally unassuming amount of time, I will offer these as prizes.
What I ask of you is:
#1 Comment before…uh…how about 5 PM Friday my time, which is mountain time.
#2 Let me know if you want to be in the roving drawing or the yarn drawing, or both, I guess!
#3 Share with me a non-knitting blog you enjoy. It can be of a different crafty persuasion, or humorous, or writterly, and/or containing the wisdom of the ages. I am not picky with other’s addictions. I am looking to expand my horizons. All selfishness here, see.
What I will do:
#1 I will draw 2 names, one for each prize on Friday when I get home from work. Unlike the last time I was giving something away, I am going to be around this week. Who knows…maybe I will be able to hunt up some other goodies to throw in, too.
#2 I will check out the blogs suggested in my never-ending quest for self-enlightenment.
And there it is.
September 21, 2008
Weeee'rrrre Baaaaccck!
And we had a great time. Unbelievable how fast a week can go.
I am catching up and catching my breath, but there is important business here at House of Blog.
The post-that-would-be-a-contest elicited three entries, and I choose all three to be winners of iris. Because I am like that, because here EVVVERRRYBODDDY wins!, because I have lots of rhizomes, because I make the rules here at Needles of Iron (with an 'iron' fist....not so much...but maybe!), and finally, just because!
becky.perry at comcast dot net
and I will have your botanicals in the post, post-haste. Also, let me know if you need some directives regarding planting, care, feeding, walking, and potty training, etc. of the new babies, and I will enclose that as well.
I would only add this disclosure regarding printed directions. I use them mostly as guidelines, gardening an awful lot by instinct. Mostly if you follow these three things...good sun for a part of the day, don't let them get/stay too damp, and don't plant too deep (let the sun shine on the rhizomes), you should have good luck.
A parting shot....mostly for Wunx~... at Longwood Botanical Gardens in Philadelphia.
I am, indeed, a tree hugger.
September 12, 2008
Heading Out (and ‘a sort of a maybe contest’)…
…tomorrow for a week in Philadelphia with Wonderful Guy, visiting Eldest Daughter and the Significant Other.
I am so not ready.
Oh, I am ready to go on vacation with Wonderful Guy, to see the girl-y and the boy-o, to fly away, to be away from all that is all work.
I am not packed. My list is not even made. And I always have a list. My houseplants aren’t watered. The tomatoes aren’t picked. The iris rhizomes going to live in other states aren’t mailed. Trip knitting isn’t ready, only vaguely planned…
I don’t like being in this position.
It is true it has been an unusual week, and I will be kind to myself. I will give myself credit for the things I have accomplished. The packages of iris are ready to go to the post office, and Eldest and Youngest Daughter’s have iris ready to plant for themselves. I have a vague idea of what knitting I am going to take. I only have to pack for myself.
See! Maybe just a little ahead of the game. And Only Step-Son is house-sitting, so that takes care of so much.
I don’t know if/when I will have time to post while gone. I will try, but it will be time to enjoy with Eldest Daughter. Rest assured we will be having fun!
Now for ‘the sort of a maybe contest’….
If you have been following my efforts here, you know that I have some very nice and unique iris. Many of them have been dug and divided this year, and I have rhizomes looking for homes.
For ‘the sort of a maybe contest’…
>Leave a comment telling me something you have learned that we share in common, or how how vastly we differ.
>If you would like to be in a drawing for some iris, put iris in the comment. (See! You can comment even if you don’t want iris!)
> I will put together a couple packages of 6-8 iris and send to the names of the commentors who are drawn (….if there are that many…if there are any….)
I will let you know by next Friday and get them in the mail as soon as I get back from Philly (with instructions on how to care and feed your new charges!). If you get them in the ground right away, they should be okay for the winter, even if it will be a bit late-ish.
So there you have it. My first contest….let’s see where this goes!
June 12, 2008
Another Win!
So I took a chance and entered one of Allison's contests last week. She attended a publisher's extravaganza (the BEA, actually), and brought home some treasure which she shared through her blog. I could not pass up a chance for some free books, especially these...
Yep, I won! Signed, too! Now I have not been a Harlot reader. She gets so much attention, you know, and I am one to seek the lesser traveled paths. But for free I will see what the hubbub is about. Well, what I have briefly looked at has shown me what the hubbub is about. She is one funny writer. So onto my reader list she goes...
Yep, I won! Signed, too! Now I have not been a Harlot reader. She gets so much attention, you know, and I am one to seek the lesser traveled paths. But for free I will see what the hubbub is about. Well, what I have briefly looked at has shown me what the hubbub is about. She is one funny writer. So onto my reader list she goes...
The Secret Life Of a Knitter is from 2005, not her newest, but that's okay. I haven't really read anything of hers. The Yarn Harlot Writes Again is a bound excerpt/teaser thingey for her book to be released this year. Probably get me hooked and I will have to put it on my Christmas list, and my family will say...Mom wants a book by a harlot???
Interestingly enough, I found Allison's blog through Crazy Aunt Purl's. They are buds, and Allison was at BEA with CAP. Some may remember that in CAP's sweepstakes last winter, I won her book (and a bag of Cheetos, and a pair of chopsticks...) as a daily prize. Wierd, huh?!
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