Krafty Kitten

iPractice makes iPerfect

2012-01-27T15:00:00.004-05:00

The end of the month is nigh. I finished the two classes for January and discovered that I was lucky enough to get an opportunity to try out the new iPad for the next month. This blog entry is, in fact, being typed out in the notepad on the iPad from my sofa while I drink tea and watch Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It is pretty cool; I must admit. Photo by Jeff Wilcox I have some nice and

The calendar never lies...

2012-01-23T19:57:00.000-05:00

Courtesy of Getty Images I've found my month passing by rather rapidly. Every time I look at my calendar, I am left feeling kind of woozy at the passage of the days. Since classes are only a month long where I work, I find teaching to be white-hair inducing when the months are incredibly shortened... As they were this month. We lost the first day of class thanks to the New Year's

Wordless Wednesday - Work in Progress

2012-01-18T09:00:00.001-05:00

Life is good

2012-01-14T14:47:00.000-05:00

It was a rather Green Christmas Coming down off the holiday rush always takes time. This season was no exception. We had a truly wonderful holiday, filled with friends, family, warmth and laughter. The week between Christmas and New Year's Eve we held no fewer than 3 parties. There was food and drink flowing, stories, jokes, and games... It was a good holiday. Crockpot Mulled Wine -

2011 in Review - Now with 2012 Resolutions!

2011-12-31T15:14:00.000-05:00

This holiday season ate me up and spit me out. I don’t know where time went and I don’t know how it got so crazy leading up to Christmas. By the week before, I still had almost all of my shopping left to do, a party on Christmas Eve with no food, and we barely had a tree…. However, by the time Christmas did roll around, the tree was decorated, food was prepared (including some amazingly good

Wordless wednesday - WINNER

2011-11-30T17:21:00.000-05:00

Wordless Wednesday -- Inevitable or Improbable

2011-11-23T09:00:00.002-05:00

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Wordless Wednesday - - Worth 1000 words

2011-11-16T09:00:00.001-05:00

How about 30000

NaNoWriMo - Hot or not?

2011-11-08T15:49:00.000-05:00

While I haven't been writing in my blog, I HAVE been writing. I'm over 20000 words into my NaNoWriMo piece and finding myself struggling with certain genre vs character issues. Big Guy has been reading over my work and feels that it's well written over all. I still struggle with being descriptive and not rushing through scenes, so I'm erring on the side of overly descriptive. I can always go back

Novels and Scrivener

2011-10-31T21:05:00.000-04:00

Tomorrow, NaNoWriMo begins. I'm a bit nervous about it since I have NEVER tried this before. I've been writing my entire life, I've started numerous books and novels, and I have been working on the same book for six years running. I finally decided to buckle down and get one done. It's not the book I've been working on for six years... Instead, I am going to start a new one to slam out in

Camera Critter Saturday - Meow, meow

2011-10-29T11:47:00.001-04:00

Wordless Wednesday: Fall

2011-10-26T09:00:00.003-04:00

"Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower." ~ Camus

A Brief Post and pictures

2011-10-24T09:00:00.001-04:00

I'm coming down with something, so I think today's entry, by necessity, must be short. It's times like these I begin to feel my growing age. Sleep is difficult, rest is difficult, and I'm not the 18 year old I still see in my mind's eye. Things ache and crack and pop now. They didn't always. It was a busy and pleasing weekend. We even took Little Guy to Zoo Boo on Sunday and had a blast.

Viva la yarn revolution!

2011-10-21T09:00:00.000-04:00

It's been a busy week. After the rally on Saturday, I attended another Assembly on Sunday and I knew it would be too busy a week for me to do much else on the ground. In my spare time, I did get another hat done for the Occupiers and a set of mittens as a special request. I'm not sure that mitten is what you think it is... The mittens look like they just should not work. The thumb looks

Wordless Wednesday: Solidarity

2011-10-19T09:00:00.002-04:00

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men - Abraham Lincoln

Occupy South Bend rally wrap-up

2011-10-17T09:00:00.001-04:00

The rally I attended on Saturday was awesome. There's nothing like working with people towards a common goal to make your spirit feel empowered. I crocheted a hat, made and flew signs, participated in a march, and enjoyed the company of an amazing group of people. It was truly an amazing experience. I encourage everyone to get out there and take part. These people are protesting for your

Camera Critter Saturday

2011-10-15T09:00:00.011-04:00

Occupy Krafty Kitten

2011-10-13T09:00:00.001-04:00

I don't normally bring politics on this blog. There really isn't a need or a purpose to it. However, something is going on in America right now that is affecting me and should affect you. The "Occupy Wall Street" movement is being compared to the riots and revolutions in the Middle East earlier this year, and, honestly, was sparked by the same reasons. For three weeks the movement occupied

Wordless Wednesday: Occupy Together

2011-10-12T09:00:00.001-04:00

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Timeline

2011-10-11T05:29:00.009-04:00

I'm going to take a break from my usual mommy talk to actually go tech for a bit. Believe it or not, I am a bit of a techie. I don't need the latest and greatest, but I do like playing with things to figure out how they work... (That could be taken in so many ways) Back in high school, I taught myself HTML 4.0 and I have a tendency to poke through programs and find all their secrets. Big Guy

What I did with my weekend

2011-10-09T11:25:00.005-04:00

This USED to be a tree So did this (but I fixed that) The weekend after Big Guy and I moved in, the mulberry in the backyard leaned into the neighbor's yard. It was rather startling and horrifying for us since we had JUST moved in and we were getting a call about the tree deciding it preferred another yard to ours. We had several tree companies come out and look it over. All of them

Winter is coming (nerd)

2011-10-07T09:28:00.001-04:00

This bush was once green.... Fall approaches. The leaves are changing, the heavy, sweet scent of smoke and dead leaves hangs in the air. Today was warm, but there's still that underlying knowledge that the colder days get closer. It's nice to be in a place where the walls aren't likely to radiate cold. (Big Guy complains that is an inaccurate term, but I disagree. It's a perfect

Wordless Wednesday - Homeschool Dinosaurs

2011-10-05T12:53:00.005-04:00

Because we must

2011-10-03T13:02:00.000-04:00

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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

2011-10-02T19:10:00.000-04:00

Krafty Kitten is taking a huge leap forward, as you can see. I've changed the formatting (a bit) and I am hopefully improving the content. The change reflects (in a way) the changes we've been going through around here. Aside from the move, Little Guy has started being homeschooled, Big Guy is still the house-husband, and I, the intrepid instructor, am trying to talk myself into going back and