Aimless Prose

How many is a hundred words? What does it look like? Where does it go? When does it stop? How does it feel? How does it sound? Does it resound? Does it abound? Will it be here when I come back? Or will it have moved on to better places and kinder spaces? If that is the case, I have much to learn and plenty from it to gain. For only fools are blind to their mistakes.

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Renaissance Woman

I have thought long and hard on the subject and decided that I do want to be a renaissance women, I want to do a little but of it all without having to fit into the norm that everyone wants me too.

While reading lots of posts on Etsy and joining live events in the virtual labs. There is plenty of good advice to go around with 80% of that advice being that you should find one niche and stick with it. I find this hard and limiting. Maybe I want my niche to be that I have a little of everything. This may come back to bite me in the ass but I guess that is just something I will have to deal with when I come to it.

So with that in mind I am going to bring my original Etsy shop -Sweetee- back and mold it together with PK.mmminty. This week and next concludes fall semester after which I will have some free time before Christmas to have some photo shoots (I hope). I know I make a lot of pie crust promises but I hope you will look forward to this as much as I am.

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Wonder No More

Wondering where I've been? Maybe? Probably not, but just in case you have... I have been knitting and wining and schooling it up. My main bit of news is that I have sold my camera! Before you say "Oh No!", let me tell you why. The camera I had was good for some point and shoot action or for someone who generally doesn't know much about cameras. It was a point and shoot and I didn't like how limited it was. So I went digging and fell in love with a Canon PowerShot SX20IS that I am stoked about ordering with some of my tax return money. It has 12.1 mega pixels as opposed to the 6.1 mega pixels of the previous. It also has 20x wide angle optical image stabilized zoom. Super excited and looking forward to much better pictures!

In other news I have some cute spring cabled hats ready to be posted once I get my new camera, within the next few weeks. Taking pictures with my phone just wouldn't do them justice. Also a wrap that I finished up for Ravelympics should be ready for some camera loving too.

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Spring!

Yay for Spring! The past few days have been just gorgeous. We have had the windows and the screen door open so we get a nice cross breeze through the house. Baby girl has loved it and spent hours in the backyard with bubble makers and digging in the dirt. Which is perfect because i can see most of all the back yard from here at the dining room table while i work on school work.

Today we found this cute little lady. You can't tell much in this picture but I am pretty sure its pregnant. Looking straight down on it, it's belly was about as round as a quarter or a half dollar. Usually they are pretty high strung but she just hung out while we pretty nearly pet her.


I am hoping we can finish out the week with this beautiful weather so once i get caught up on my work i can spend sometime in the yard knitting while the girl plays. Perhaps a picnic is in order?

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Not My Tuesday Morning Cup of Tea

Let me preface this with saying that I have never been to a Tuesday Morning before. I remember all those commercials that they ran a couple years ago. They really touted the quality of the store. There wasn't one here until about 6 months ago I think maybe a little longer. I have recently heard 3 people talk about it on separate occasions. So my curiosity was definitely peaked. So Friday on the way home from little girls gymnastics I decided to swing in and check it out.

It was nothing like I was expecting. There was so much stuff packed into that store (which in and of itself was really a large store). There was a wide variety and I did see a few brand names but I was completely turned off by my first impression. Everything was just piled together, there was very little order. It looked more like a garage sale with every shelf filled with whatever would fit. I will admit though I found some yarn and this may be TM's only redeeming quality. There were yarns I had never seen before. These were two lonely skeins of cotton yarn from Chile. Anyone ever worked with these before?


I might have to go back on Tuesday's just to see if they have more yarn. Is that lame?

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