Author: Annie

St. Andrew’s and Di GilpinDid you ever meet someone and immediately just LOVE them? It seems that your senses of humor and love of the ridiculous are in sync? That was how I felt when Di stopped by our first morning at the VERY beautiful B&B where she’d put us up, with her hair wet…

We left St. Paul on Tuesday evening and arrived in London around noon. Neither Gerry nor I were able to sleep on the plane (damn!) so the long, long drive up to Scotland seemed to take forever! We came armed with a few magnetic bumper stickers to alert folks around us that we’re from that…

If you’d have asked Gerry and me 2 years ago – which I don’t think anyone would have done – “What do you think you’ll be doing for your 17th wedding anniversary?” We wouldn’t have had an answer. Two years ago Gerry was having his stem cells harvested, he was days away from his transplant,…

I’ve received a few books recently and I wanted to mention them. I figure it’s the least I could do, me getting these amazing tomes and enjoying them so much! I LOVE me some books; I love looking at them, holding them, browsing through the pictures and designs – it’s very inspirational. As a designer…

Hey Folks, I just wanted to thank all of you for your very well-thought ideas about the whole knitting / designing / writing and earning a living at it conundrum. I was so impressed – and very pleased – with the measured feeling of your comments. Somewhere deep inside I think I was afraid I’d…

Whenever I get all, “My life is just WRONG!” I can be assured that a bad, bad cold is on it’s way. Evidently that’s what overtook me yesterday, and the doubt is still hovering today. But at least I know it has a trigger – a virus! I should have learned by now – and…

I’ve been blogging less and less – I think it’s a combination of 3 things: 1. Summer. I’m enjoying it altogether too much!2. Twitter. I’m tweeting and that can take the edge of my blogging hunger.3. Uncertainty. I’m struggling with the loving what I do / am I earning enough dilemma. SUMMERThis has been a…

And thus begins the 30-day countdown to my OWN birthday. You do realize that Barack and I were born in the same year, just 30 days apart…? Burn, baby, burn!

Today I’m working outside on our back deck, enjoying the sort-of thriving plants, the non-growing grass seed, the lovely shade and a book on CD (Maisie Dobbs, Messenger of Truth – excellent for knitting… and yes, that’s Myrna Stahman’s high school pic stuck onto my namaste needle case – I loved the photo and she…

I’m too lazy to finish the word. I’ve been a lazy blogger recently – sorry – but I’ve been a BUSY designer, and that’s why the radio silence! Busy #1 – New Crochet PatternI have had a wild hair for a few months to work up a new crochet lace shrug, rather like my Lattice…