Squee! Christmas Movies! And that leads us to Artsy Craftsy Goodness! Somehow… I’d seen great costumes in movies before and every now and again some neat statue or sword would stand out but I’d never really put much thought into those things from an artist’s point of view until I was listening to a knitting …
Monthly Archive: December 2009
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23
A Dyer’s Garden?
I’ve been obsessively planning and replanning… and replanning next year’s garden and I’ve decided to incorporate several plants that you can make natural dyes from (you know, the way it was done ‘back in the day’). This decision mostly came about after going through my Richters Herb Catalog and realizing that I wanted over $500 …
Dec
21
Tacky Gold Birds!
Found these beauties at the Goodwill - and my husband wanted me to leave them there! But for $2 – I couldn’t leave that tacky goodness behind! I think I’m going to spray paint them Lime Green… or White… I haven’t decided yet. What do you think? They’re made by Syroco, USA, Copyright 1966. (The date …
Dec
18
Joining the ARBA & The Twisted Wabbitry
I joined the ARBA – The American Rabbit Breeders Association! I also registered a Rabbitry name – The Twisted Wabbitry (Thank you Maria for the inspiration!). By joining the ARBA I get to attend their shows where I can have my rabbits compared to the breed standard by qualified judges – they also have judges …
Dec
16
Pasa Doble DOH!!!
Apparently there is a correlation between knitting and that saying about the forest and the trees… Remember how I mysteriously put my cables on the back of my Pasa Doble shaw? Well I took my knitting and the pattern to the wonderful folks at Knit Wits in Evansville, Indiana (a-not-so-local-yarn-store) and begged for help. The …

