You’re invited to an Exploration Party with Tara Swiger

Posted by on Aug 12, 2013 in Blog Fun, General Ranting, Tags and Memes, Web Fun, Writing | 9 comments

This post is part of the Exploration Party – a celebration of our inner explorers, led by Tara Swiger of Explore You. You can find other tales of adventure from artists, crafters, writers and biz smarties – and share your own story – right here. via You’re invited to an Exploration Party | Tara Swiger. It’s taken me awhile to figure me out. I gather that I’m not alone in that. I spent most of my life so far… probably half what...

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Good Food, Plus

Posted by on Aug 2, 2013 in Blog Fun, Cooking, Family, Gluten Free |

What do you do when you’re going to your cousin’s for dinner and she’s an awesome food-n-family blogger? You make gluten free peach crumble from scratch… without a recipe… and with the odds-and-ends you have on-hand in the rental beach house…because you’re stupid. It worked out fine, though. Here’s how: before slicing peaches, using a fork blend butter (1/4-1/2C), brown sugar (1/4-1/2 C), GF flour...

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Lots of Stuff! Loads of Fun!

Posted by on Aug 1, 2013 in Blog Fun, Family, freebies, Gluten Free, patterns, Podcast |

I’m off on vacation with the family and finally have a second to post! YAY! First, I have a new cowl pattern for you! My sister asked me a few months ago if it was possible to make a knit möbius… so I designed a cowl for her! The pattern repeat is Fawn’s Eyes because my sister is a real-life Snow White. Animals approach her randomly. See: Like that. I also designed the cowl to have a lacy-pointed trim, so I included a little...

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#Knitchat-ter

Posted by on Jul 5, 2013 in Blog Fun, Tags and Memes, Web Fun |

Massively excited and honored to have been invited to a #knitchat tomorrow (Saturday, July 6th, 2013). Details at the Knit Chat site. Come join in, ask questions, and… see how fast I can type back to you!   You can also watch the convo stream at the KnitChat site or here:   Tweets about “#knitchat”

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Another reason to love Austin

Posted by on Jul 2, 2013 in Blog Fun, Cooking |

I’m here for work work (although I get to see DarkMatterKnits–Squeeee!) but I just had to share another reason why you might want to love Austin, TX: Four Meat Plate (and one of them meats is already gone gone.

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