The Archie Chronicles

The other night I had my butt planted in front of the computer after the kids went to bed.  Archie routinely alternates between sleeping on Cole’s bed and walking around the house.  So, the other night, I thought nothing when I heard him out in the kitchen.  Then, he came up to me panting.  I thought, “I know this dog hasn’t been outside, why the heck is he panting?”  Then, I went out into the kitchen because I remembered the toll house chocolate chip/peanut butter chip bars I had made for dessert that night.   I walked into the kitchen and thought:  “that’s odd, why is the pan tilted at that weird angle and halfway hanging off the counter?”  Then, I stepped on something that went crunch and stared at my bar cookies.  It took a minute to realize that someone had been eating my cookies and it wasn’t me.

 

In my current state of existence, toll house cookie bars don’t get made that often.  There was no way I was going to pitch these homemade toll house bars. 

We still ate the rest of them.

My Very First Stitch Marker sale!

I am so excited to announce that Joan, from The Local Needle, has purchased nine sets of my stitch markers!  Joan, though you said you live on the wild side, I wanted to post some pictures anyways (I re-took them in daylight) so you know what you are getting!

Thank you so much!

Testing, testing

I was talking to Kristin last night about my lame picture taking skills (I need to learn how to use the camera is the issue).  She mentioned that some of my pictures look a bit distorted  because the sizes are weird, and I attribute that to trying to minimize my pictures to make them fit the specified size for the page I use in wordpress.  But I tried something different this evening.  I need your opinion:

Are these any better?  Should I try and make the picture bigger, do you think?

I am doing a clean-out of a house for a trust customer right now (this person is in a nursing home, won’t return home, has no local family) and today I filled up over 20 large black garbage bags full of clothes.  There were vintage ties, gorgeous pendleton shirts, cashmere sweaters, a silk kimono from a trip to Japan, handmade tailored suits, etc. etc. etc. —

For some of my favorite etsy shops that use vintage clothes as part of their craft, such as nancygamon, refabulous, superfay, and craft leftovers —- ladies, I was thinking of you every time I came across something really neat.  This stuff is heading to a Goodwill store in western Illinois if you’re interested.  (hee hee–most of you are nowhere near Illinois)

I knit on the “ugly scarf” Sunday night (though I am trying not to hurt its self esteem by calling it this….I think I will call it the “swamp scarf”) and am going to try and get back to Lainie’s cardigan tonight.  Plus, I got some beads from a new (to me) etsy shop yesterday so I might just work on some stitch markers after the kids go to bed!  Yay!