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Category Archives: Crafts

Countdown to Christmas

Here we are, December 1st!  I can hardly believe it.  I have my own reasons to have 2009 linger as long as possible but since we’re heading toward 2010, I figure I should celebrate, and I will celebrate each day.
Today was a $0 project.  I have a wreath for my door I received as a [...]

Vinegar and Varsol

Last night I tried my hand at an etched egg.  I had bought a few brown eggs to try out different looks and had recently learned about etching. I used regular, full strength, white vinegar as my acid.  I found that the brown layer of the shell came off and I could coax it off [...]

Olive

I also knitted a giant olive on the weekend that I thought I would share. It’s a tolerated cat toy, no catnip, so it’s not really sought out for pleasure.

Ravelry bound!

Enjoying learning to knit through Ravelry and the videos found on knittinghelp.com, absolute godsend. My imac and I spent the afternoon together working on fingerless gloves, some lessons learned (like why I knit inside out while the rest knit right-side out – have fixed that, btw) and I have demystified cables and thumbs. I [...]