February: Things I'm looking forward to

My little girl is turning a year old this month! I love hearts and celebrations of love and homemade cards. I love the approaching spring.

Knitting

So I'm finishing the first earflap on my second earflap hat of the year.  It's this fast knittin' pattern from the genius behind kittyville.  THANK YOU for the pattern!
I've also made my first two knitted headbands, a plain one for Iso and a cabled owl one for ________.
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We've been working on childproofing.  Now that our babe's almost a year, she's crrrrrrrazzzzzzzzzzzzzzy mobile.  Actually, she's been that way for the last ... two months or so.  I HAD NO IDEA how not childproof our house is.  Also, we have too much clutter, I've known that for a while.  We haven't had the cleansing purge that moving every year or so provides, and I think because I've moved so much I have a weird attachment to stuff sometimes.  sigh
It's just stuff.
so many projects, so little time.

Resolutions, part two

I still don't want to commit to resolutions, but I will try to complete 50 projects this year.  That's doable.

And now, a (start of a) list!

1) Hats - 12 of them.  Why not? There are 12 months.  And maybe I'll keep some of them.

13) Learn spanish - for real this year.

14) Finish reading The Wheel of Time Series (Robert Jordan)

15) Read the first several Dresden Files books.  The first one... well, lets say, I've heard really good things about the following books.

16) Shawl-like object for me

17) perpetual calendars, for real this year.

18)

January: Things I'm looking forward to

First post of the year! Welcome to 2012, and hopefully a new era of me posting on a more regular basis. I hope there's more snow. Portland has just the right amount of seasonal change for me. Not so much that I feel like death and desolation has entered my bones every winter and that heat and ruination owns my pores every summer (I'm lookin' at you, Illinois), but enough. Actually, the climate's pretty temperate here, but I am a big baby and the mild winters are great. But I still like the snow. I'm also looking forward to Baby Bear's first birthday next month!?!. Time flies when ... well, some of it's been fun, it's definitely been an adventure. She is an amazing little creature, and I absolutely adore her. I'm looking forward to crocuses and spring. I know, contradictory to what I said earlier... But I'm starting to get that gardening itch again. I'll have to be content with poring over seed catalogs.

Speaking of death, I'm looking forward to a new year of less people I know dying.   Last year sucked for that.  ((looks down at shoes, not sure what to say after bringing up the subject))...

I'm not big on resolutions, or keeping them.  Maybe it's the truth about the latter that makes me not want to bother with the former.  Anyway, I'm not going to Resolve to Lose Weight, or Resolve to Make More Pancakes or something.  Maybe I'll make some crafty resolutions.  I generally still buy handmade, but I do go a bit batty sometimes and decide I need New Towels.  (By the way, I donno what is up with my use of the uppercase.  I think maybe I think it looks more official.  I was feeling that way about the towels when I bought them.  It was during my nesting phase with the Beanlet).  No, no hard and fast resolutions this year.  At least not right now.

I have been sick

FOR WEEKS NOW AND IT'S GETTING REALLY OLD.

the end.

Windy Day Gathering

So.
Windy days knock branches off clean smelling pines and firs.  No need to just through the downed twigs on your compost pile or in the yard waste.  I use bits in vases, on curtain rods, in wreaths.  Smells great. 
And you can throw it on the compost pile a coupla weeks later.

new favorite site

Or at least my favorite for today.
http://moistcrochetedvagina.blogspot.com/
you are welcome, friendos.