published!
such a sleepy thursday, yawwwn. ok, i’m up, i’m up, i swear.
the new spring issue of you grow girl is out with the theme ‘beginner’. appropriately, my two reviews are there, one for mcgee & stuckey’s: the boutiful container and the other on sarah stein’s noah’s garden: restoring the ecology of our own backyards. both are very good, especially stein’s for just pure daydreaming reasons if nothing else.
i’ve been accepted into the r.a.o.k. ring! very exciting —and though i was very relieved to see my knitting stash is not so large as some (phew), it’s still a little too big for my comfort level, so i’ll be de-stashing soon (at least at little bit… obviously, i’m still trying to convince myself.) also, some knitting books i have i’m just not crazy about and i know others would appreciate them more. for the books, however, i was thinking i’d offer them to any of the ladies that read this here journal first, if you want them. trades are happily welcomed – for yarn, mags (old copies of interweave’s knits or, especially!, old rebeccas, rowan, or phildar mags! it’s so exciting to even just think about trades, hee.), or anything otherwise, but if not, and i really like you ;), i’ll just send a book trade-free.
up for grabs:
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erika knight’s simple knits with a twist - ~ debbie bliss’ simple living
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ann budd’s the knitter’s handy book of sweater patterns
i watched finding neverland last night—everyone i had talked to who had seen it told me they cried watching it, so i resisted. i felt either two things would happen: a) i’d cry, and i don’t like crying when it’s about movies, or b) i wouldn’t and instead would want to roll my eyes in annoyance at the cloying artificialness of the supposed crying scene. no surprise, i’m sure, that option a happened – buckets in fact. embarassing, but there it is.
sometime today or tomorrow i’m officially switching over to my new hosting people (textdrive.com!) so if this site is down, don’t be alarmed ;), it’ll all be up and running by sunday at the latest.
ooh! the new knitty is up! my favorite are the cute beach bags...
{ posted 7 April 05, under hungry }
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you know…i’d be interested in the simple knits with a twist, but i don’t have anything to trade. i would just buy it off you. however, if someone else here offers a good trade, you should take it, of course. :)
what’s r.a.o.k?~ Lalitha
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Okay, I have to ask. I looked at the RAOK site before, and it was all “we’re full, bugger off.”
Not the case anymore? Cause I want in!~ Miri
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Great reviews, Andrea! Noah’s Garden sounds like it’s up my alley, so I’ll check it out!
I just got accepted to RAOK,too!~ Liz
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welcome to RAOK!
i had no idea you were involved in you grow girl… great reviews! someday i hope to get beyond pots, when i live somewhere with, er, soil…~ jess
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great reviews, andrea! and, yes, welcome to RAOK. did you get the invite to the Yahoo group? I joined the ring months ago and never did receive the Yahoo invite – so I guess I’m not technically in the ring yet!!
~ amanda
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I am definitely doing a second lelah cuz i think it looks fabulous in cotton! Yours is so crisp. I’ve got it planned in black debbie bliss cotton aran w/ a white ribbon w/ black pocka dots.
RAOK looks awesome, I hadn’t heard of it before! I may try to join as well… thanks for the comment on my work, i really appreciate the feeback! (and I didn’t get my $ back, grr)~ Kaitlyn
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just remembered i should post some r.a.o.k. info here, though i already emailed lalitha about it—
r.a.o.k. stands for ‘random acts of kindness’ and it’s a knitting ring in which its members basically do nice stuff for each other for no other reason than to be nice, and maybe get some niceness thrown their way ;)
members put their addresses and yarn preferences into a general database, plus birthday and other special info so that if i wanted to give away a certain colored yarn that was just sitting in my stash collecting dust, for example, i could just check the database to see who’d like 10 skeins of fun fur (shivvverrr!) and then send it off to make that person’s day!
it’s a great idea and pretty successfull it seems. for more info, click on ‘rings’ on the top of the journal page and then click on r.a.o.k. to get taken to the official homepage.~ andrea
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I just bought McGee and Stuckey’s book a few weeks ago – I’ve been bitten by a bit of a green thumb lately and want to try my hand at a simple indoor herb garden this spring. It’s a surprisingly good reference book to just READ, you know? Patiently waiting…
~ Sandy J