Visor Hat

From the Youngest Knitter :)

So I decided to try a knitting experiment. First I knitted this weird looking thingy out of a chunky wool blend yarn (believe it or not, it's a hat):

Then I cut this weird looking thingy out of plastic canvas:



I folded the bottom of the hat in half and Mom helped me sew the plastic canvas inside. And this is what I got: a hat with a visor!!

Spring

From the Youngest Daughter :)

Some pictures of spring flowers to brighten your day!

Hyacinth (and a tulip just starting to grow in the bottom corner):

Crocus:

Tulips:

Noticing

From Guess Who :)

Sometimes I notice very random things. Like once when we were eating hamburgers. I held mine up for a bite, and suddenly noticed how the steam wafted up in ever changing spirals and swirling puffs. So there I sat, holding a hamburger, a HAMBURGER for goodness sake, and admiring the steam! Did you ever look carefully at steam? You should try it sometime. But I suggest admiring it coming from a cup of tea or coffee. You will look a little less crazy doing that than if you admire a hamburger.

Also, when I was cutting open a cantaloupe I noticed the color. How the pale orange fades into light green, with a dark green stripe just before the cool texture of the skin:

Another time, I was eating split pea soup with a glass of cranberry juice. My dessert was waiting on an aqua colored plate. Suddenly I noticed how pretty the color of the soup, the juice and the plate looked together. I wouldn't have expected those colors to look nice together but they did, in an odd way:



So yeah. I notice very random details, like frosty patterns on the window, how light reflects off of things, the texture of flower petals, etc.
Do you ever notice things like that? Because if you don't, you probably think I'm pretty weird by now. But I'm OK with that. :)

Friends of the Library Book Sale

Finally a post from someone else: the Mom!

I love my local libary. Their book sales are awesome.

Brand new looking hardcovers: $1

Perfect Paperbacks: 50 cents

Lief Enger, a biography of Stowe, Jeannete Walls, and Stephen Ambrose

Roy, Forster, Gopnik, and Stone!

A few books on writing and grammar that made my day.

And two colorful covers: Orchids and Writing. What could be better?

Let it snow all it wants.

I'm a happy camper.

Birds

From the Only Person Who's Been Blogging Lately :)

The sky was literally white today. So believe it or not, these pictures are in color!

I like how they look so stark and mysterious.

Knitting

Youngest Daughter :)

OK. So I've been working on knitting these for the last, um, 6 months. No joke. If I would have sat down and just focused on knitting them, I could have finished in about, um, two days. No joke. The problem is I can only knit so much before I'm tired of it. So I stop knitting. And I wait a few days. Knit a few rows. And on and on... *sigh*

My mom made a pair, too. Hers are the, uh, hmmm. What color is that? Coral? Peach? They were done, well, a lot sooner than mine. :)
Btw I love these colors together:

Oh, and I also have another good reason for taking so long. I had to knit THREE fingerless mittens to make one good pair. I would be embarrassed to wear the first one I made.

On the first one, I made the cable wrong. See how it winds around the top like a snake? Well it's supposed to twist together like the cable in Take Two.

In Take One, the thumb got messed up. That opening that goes all the way to the bottom of my thumb? Yeah. Not supposed to be there. :)



And Take One was too short. I made my second and third one longer. Much better. :)

P.S. Those yarn pictures that I posted a few days ago? That's the yarn I used for these. :)