Sewing Machine Woes

I couldn't bear to talk about it yesterday, because it was too painful. I wanted to spend all of Friday sewing the bloody neckers for beavers. I wanted to, I really did. I'm really close to being done. I just need to finish with the bias tape around the outer edge, then quickly sew the group badge on.

Pizza in the Morning

I made pizza for brunch this morning before running off to work. I went with Jim Lahey's recipie for potato pizza as done by Smitten Kitchen. It was simple and tasty. I only let it rise once for a little over an hour, because that's the time I had, and I used a mixed bag of little potatoes because that's what I had. The purple potatoes really gave it a nice little hit of colour.

We are the beaver

"We are the beaver, we got cute little webbed feet

Yeah, we are the beaver, it's bark we like to eat

Yeah, we are the beaver, a nickel we complete.

Yeah, we are the beaver, we are the beaver, we are the beaver."

Meh heh eh heh heh

I consider myself a bit of a JOAT when it comes to crafts. I don't mean to say I can do everything, but being a Jill-of-Lots-of-Trades or Jill-of-Many-Trades, don't have it's own special acronym.

Today, I wanted to tell you more about why I wanted to start this blog. I covered the main one in my first post, but there are a few other reasons as well.

Summer Lovin

"Had me a blast
Summer lovin' happened so fast!"

But there's no love between my pasty skin and the summer sun. I am pure European. I am not alabaster, ivory, fair, milky or snowy. I am a pallid and pasty pale. I don't tan I burn. Once I've burned I do turn a different shade. I'm merely pale instead of pasty pale.

You may be wondering why I bring this up on a blog about crafts. The answer is simple: Tan lines.

Funeral Today

My Grandfather passes away last weekend. We're going to his funeral today.

Isaiah 49:14
But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me;
my Lord has forgotten me."
Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget you.

UFO

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But seriously, since you're just getting to know me, I wanted to share my unfinished objects pre-blog.

Hi!

This marks my decision to start a blog. As the title suggests, I'm a crafty kind of person, and I wanted an opportunity to share my love of handicrafts. The online community is filled with crafty people, but I find that most of the people I meet in real life can't tell knitting from crochet (for instance), let alone how to do either.


My first love is knitting and I also love sewing, but I also work on quilting, crochet, calligraphy, origami, and cooking (not as crafty as the others, but handmade is handmade...).


Right now I mostly work off of other peoples patterns, but I work on my own original designs when I'm inspired.