Sunday November 30, 2008
There’s the shirt, completed and being worn by #1 son, who made a goofy face for the occasion. He didn’t button the sleeve cuffs, but he rolled them down at least. This is a KwikSew pattern, and would have been […]
Saturday November 29, 2008
I fixed the shirt, responded to the business emails that came in on Wednesday and Thursday, washed a few things… But basically I took yesterday off, too. The grading of papers is beginning to loom. The Empress came over and […]
Butterscotch Cut Outs
Yesterday was Thanksgiving. My parents, an aunt and uncle, and 75% of the kids were there, along with me and my husband and an assortment of dogs. We had a good time, with plenty of interesting conversation and good food. After […]
Squash Casserole and Cracker Ads
Happy Thanksgiving! I know it’s not Thanksgiving, but #2 daughter is home and has a job, and we’re going to cook and bake and go out to the mill for grains and generally start celebrating now. One thing we’ll make, […]
Tuesday November 25, 2008
I’m getting up at 4:19 these days. Compared with having my husband out of work, this is good, but compared with, say, sleeping till 5:30, it’s not good. The big question becomes, do I try to go back to sleep, […]
Monday November 24, 2008
Yesterday I hemmed the shirt and marked the buttonholes. I didn’t actually do the buttonholes, because right now it’s a really nice shirt, and it is easy to destroy that by making bad buttonholes. I have an old-fashioned machine, not […]
Sunday November 23, 2008
Here’s where I got to on the shirt yesterday. You can see from the picture below that I did in fact get some sense of how the sleeve plackets should be. This is not going to be a perfect shirt, […]
Saturday November 22, 2008
In the past two weeks, I’ve either worked on the websites of, or met with or gotten an assignment to work on the websites of, a steampunk jeweler, a big game hunter, a web designer, a choral group, a legal […]
Friday November 21, 2008
Today will be linkbuilding all day. The relatives never did arrive, but I guess they still might, so after work will be housework and decorating for Thanksgiving. There are plenty of Christmas decorations up — there was a giant Christmas […]