Steampunk Locket

Attention Steampunk and other sci fi lovers! Available for purchase here, in my Etsy store for $14 plus shipping, is a steampunk/clock gears locket that I made last weekend: It comes on a 24″ gold plated chain with lobster clasp. Click through to the listing for more photos and information.

Porn

Tell me this isn’t super-hot: That’s John, sewing up the teddy bear I’ve been knitting for his niece for Krismas. All the bear parts are sewn up– now I have to assemble them together. Isn’t he just… hubba hubba!

Mortaine’s Mind

So…. I’m trawling through the past, um, 8 years (?) of my blog posts and online messages and such and pulling together what looks to be about a 200 page book of thought meanderings on life, knitting, pets, food and health, etiquette, networking, boundaries, safety, and writing. Just thought I’d mention that. If there’s something […]

Childfree and Property Taxes

Kind of a thought-ramble from when I still paid property taxes. I want as much of my property tax going to schools as possible. If **your** children are in a safe, educational school, then they are off of the streets and not hoodluming up my car, my home, or my neighborhoods. Plus, when they get […]

See my vest!

I finished this tonight. It’s knit in Dale of Norway Lerke, which my friends Karen and Elizabeth gave me last year for my birthday, and which I cast on and started using this year on my birthday! The yarn is 55% wool, 45% cotton, and it looks like a slate gray in the photos, but […]