Lia's Bear

Made from a super soft chenille like wool acrylic blend.  The bear feels like velvet.  

All photos taken with my cell phone, sorry for the poor quality.  

Succulent Garden

My new little succulent garden.
In a cereal bowl from JoAnn's Fabrics.


Not sure what this one is, maybe a sedum.


I'm pretty sure this one is a sedum.


Some sort of echiveria.


Not sure about this one.


Another echiveria, probably of the same variety as the first.
This one is going to flower soon. It has a long stem with two little buds on the end.


The buds (resting on the probable sedum).

I couldn't stop buying these guys at $2 a pop.

Shamrock Shuffle 2009

Pre race, in the slush and snow.


Post race, Sandy and I looking very pleased with ourselves.



While training we decided that we wanted to be able to run the 8K (5 miles) in less than an hour. On race day we decided that we just wanted to finish the race. We managed to complete the course in 58.75 minutes, running 11.75 minute miles.

We felt pretty hardcore about the whole thing as only 13,500 or so of the 40,000 registered runners showed up.

The Chicago Tribune's write up is here.

Fern Cowl

Stephanie's birthday present. Fern stitch cowl out of Cascade Pastaza, a wool and llama blend. I didn't block the cowl because it started developing a really nice sculptural quality that I thought the birthday girl would like.




And two "detail" shots. The picture quality is pretty crappy since I had to use my phone.

Dirty Sheep!

More Peanut!  I've been spinning up the second batch of washed wool.  You can see that it isn't quite as washed as the first batch.  The new batch is to the right, the first batch is under it, to the left.  It's not too different, enough that I feel like a slacker though.  I'm pretty sure that the rest of the dirt will come out when I wash the finished yarn.  We will see I guess.  

You should see the floor under my wheel!  I pull out the little burs, plant stems, and short bits of wool as I go.  It gets pretty bad by my feel.  I need to sweep.  

Welcome Eliot-Anne

The body of the blanket I knit up for TJ & Erica's baby Eliot. 

The shower was this weekend, I was down to the wire, or I'd have better pictures.  

A detail shot of the corner.  

Ta Da!

The birthday girl, in mom's lap with dead fish hat.  

Dad, with the catch of the day.

And the birthday girl again, with mom holding up the tail for effect.