three day weekend

There was lots of tea and crochet.

A trip to Whole Foods.

New bowls from Anthropologie.

And baguette baking on Sunday.

~RLM

on arthritis and granny squares

Between winter ailments, my job required early bedtime, and new hobbies, I'm quickly turning into a little old lady.

I (successfully) taught myself to crochet this week.

It's been a long running joke with myself that my brain just wasn't capable of processing both crochet and knitting, but I guess something clicked up there this time, as opposed to my last ten failed attempts.

And now I'm a wee bit obsessed with my soon to be giant Granny Square Blanket. 

I followed the instructions from The Purl Bee and grabbed some random Cascade 220 from my stash.

Thankfully crochet doesn't seem to be hurting my hands as badly as knitting - the cold weather is giving me juvenile arthritis attacks - and it's just mindless enough for nanny days so I can work on my blanket while the baby destroys the house plays.

And now that the kid germs have manifested into a nanny plague, the blanket will be keeping me company on my sick-day-off tomorrow, along with my pot of tea and layers of flannel.

~RLM

a bit of random

from the last week...

I joined the sixty-four colors group on flickr.

I spent Saturday afternoon in Broad Ripple with Sonia.

We tried out the new Art Deco style lobby bar in Fountain Square.

I replaced Stewart, my trusty four year old video iPod, with Albert, my shiny new iPod touch - a Christmas gift from Dad.

~RLM