i have decided to put off my attempts at learning to crochet ( again ) until after christmas. only because i have several gifts i want to make, and it makes sense to stick with what i already have a (semi)-grasp of. so i have a few different knitting projects on the go already. all fairly simple of course, next year if i want to get more complicated i better start in august. i am working with my first pattern, up until now it’s been scarves and blankets, straight knit, knit, knit. it’s a simple pattern, but a pattern all the same, and it’s coming nicely. i’m excited to be making gifts for people, it really is satisfying.
i was also thinking of possibly using one of those book printing sites to make up books of photos for the grandparents, has anyone used one of these? it seems like a bit of a daunting task the more i think about it, only because i can’t do it from here, being as we’re all hooked up to the world wide web like it’s 1994 and everything. i would have to take photo’s on a disk to a friends house and work the whole project there high speed style. and i have no ideas what kind of time i’m looking at as far as doing all the photo editing and layout stuff.
i gave in to my inner hipster yoga mom and bought molly sophie the other day. though i paid slightly less then that at our local fancy baby store, it was still a pricey chew toy. but since i have not bought a single thing for miss molly, aside from one new sleeper to come home in, i figured, what the hell. i have to tell you, sophie recieved at least 20$ worth of love the very first day. babies really do love to chew sophie’s nuby little head. go figure.
today is an olivia home day, so also her little friend. i’ll be packing everyone up and we’re off to the early years center. finally. we had to skip last week since sidney was all fluey. she survived btw. quite nicely. she wasn’t even that sick. i mean, i don’t know for sure it was The Big Scary Flu of course, but considering it’s rampant around here, it’s a safe bet. and surprise surprise, it wasn’t Big or Scary, it was just the flu. and people are STILL asking if we’ll be getting the shot. even after we’ve all been exposed to it? really? gah.
the early years center has started the pizza lunch wednesdays again, so i think we’ll be taking advantage of that today too. then when we get home hannah and molly ( hopefully) can go right to bed and the girls can go off an play and i can get some knitting done
November 12th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
I wanted to buy that Sophie but couldn’t justify spending over 5 dollars for a chew toy. However, I would totally justify it if was a second, third, or even fourth child that wasn’t getting anything new
My mom has made two of those photo books now – they turned out awesome. But we have high speed (so does she) and it took her the better part of a year to do the first one. She had to scan a lot of old photographs though from my childhood. Looks great though!!!
November 15th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
I made a 400+ page one for Scott and I and a remixed version for Gparents using BLURB. We print Scott’s tattoo portfolio with it too. Awesome program, great print quality, cannot recommend enough. If you want it by Xmas though you w ill have to get on er.
November 15th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
OH and you do NOT need high speed for Blurb, unlike LULU. Blurb is a program, you do it all on your computer then upload.
Actually you may need to upload in town on high speed, our last 400 pager needed a faster connection, but the small ones do not. You dont need high speed to work on it though,.