andrea is here
andrea is there
andrea is well
andrea is spell
andrea is so cool
andrea is the best
andrea is wonderful
andrea is rich
andrea is very confused
andrea made me cry
andrea is for me
andrea is my friend
andrea is certified
andrea is distributed
andrea is an exclusive
andrea is no exception
andrea is a young woman
andrea is a beautiful name
andrea is a force to be reckoned with
andrea is always fighting for her love
andrea is an excellent teacher
andrea is proving an apt pupil
andrea is bright
andrea is changing into a bird
andrea is a very shy girl who lives in austin
andrea is big for her age
andrea is outgoing while not insincerely bubbly
andrea is a punter of loudonline
andrea is the youngest of three sisters
andrea is one of amore
andrea is done.
andrea is back haha!
andrea is at the beginning there are no possibilities to support it all
andrea is ready to serve breakfast.
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
Tea-time
I don't think I ever shared this one either! Dang, I'm such the slacker! LOL Guess I'd rather knit and felt than blog. [grin]
This was made as a Yule giftie for Brie, on request! :) Aren't the colors scrummy? Gotta love Kureyon.
This was made as a Yule giftie for Brie, on request! :) Aren't the colors scrummy? Gotta love Kureyon.
Mara's Commuter Bag
This is another one of those cool felted bags from Knitty.com. The flower is a felted one from Nicky Epstein's latest felted flower book. I'm very pleased with this bag. I used Cascade 220.
Our Lovely Lady
This is "Carnaval" by Pat Taylor, a fine artist and instructor here in Austin. She's also a very fun and talented bellydancer and instructor.
Pat's work has the honor of being the first thing we've ever formally framed for ourselves. My parents have always graced our household with framed art and it's always been such a blessing because framing is so danged expensive! Got this done at Hobby Lobby and it's not perfect, but is pretty darn gorgeous and we're happy!
Thank you, Pat, for your fine work. She looks great across the room. :) I can see her from where I sit in my office.
Pat's work has the honor of being the first thing we've ever formally framed for ourselves. My parents have always graced our household with framed art and it's always been such a blessing because framing is so danged expensive! Got this done at Hobby Lobby and it's not perfect, but is pretty darn gorgeous and we're happy!
Thank you, Pat, for your fine work. She looks great across the room. :) I can see her from where I sit in my office.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Impossible Demands
“If someone condemned you because, say, you failed to prevent Hurricane Andrew, you wouldn’t dissolve in shame or work to overcome your inadequacy. You’d dismiss the whole issue. That’s the wonderful thing about seeing that our society makes impossible demands on all women.” — MARTHA BECK
I think our society makes impossible demands on *all* of us, not just women. That's being too narrow-minded IMO. I think it doesn't take into consideration all of the ramifications. It lays blame on those who are not women. Silly. We all have choices we make and we made this bed together.
Still, the sentiment is excellent.
Big Bend Knitting, 2007
Of course I knit something while I was on vacation in Big Bend! I *always* knit on the road. 8 hours of sitting in the car does that to a person. BTW, if you get car sick, I *highly* recommend the Relief Band. It's expensive, but ever so worth it. Mara and I are hooked! No Dramamine for us!
The scorpion is my souvenir for the trip. She was there last time Dad and I went, but she was too expensive. So I got a lizard instead. This time, she was on sale, 30% off! So SNAG!
The knitting is the ball band washcloth pattern from "Mason Dixon Knitting" (and the pattern is written completely inside out, so I basically used the picture and my brilliant engineering mind to figure it out) and the hat is the Easy First Hat from Tracey Ullman's "Knit 2 Together" (and that pattern is great ;).
I didn't realize until I composed the photo that I chose the colors from the scorpion go with the knitting. I picked the yarn color before I bought the scorpion.
The hat came in handy on our last day (47F with high winds and rain... brrrr!) and the washcloth was very fun to knit once I figured out the pattern (and that was satisfying on it's own).
The scorpion is my souvenir for the trip. She was there last time Dad and I went, but she was too expensive. So I got a lizard instead. This time, she was on sale, 30% off! So SNAG!
The knitting is the ball band washcloth pattern from "Mason Dixon Knitting" (and the pattern is written completely inside out, so I basically used the picture and my brilliant engineering mind to figure it out) and the hat is the Easy First Hat from Tracey Ullman's "Knit 2 Together" (and that pattern is great ;).
I didn't realize until I composed the photo that I chose the colors from the scorpion go with the knitting. I picked the yarn color before I bought the scorpion.
The hat came in handy on our last day (47F with high winds and rain... brrrr!) and the washcloth was very fun to knit once I figured out the pattern (and that was satisfying on it's own).
Our Trip to Big Bend 2007
Big Bend National Geographic Photo Gallery
The menu on the National Geographic site has some more features like a map and such.
John took lots of pictures while we were there, so we'll see how those turn out. He took them on film, so we'll have to get them developed... The National Geographic photos are amazing, but they do not really give you the idea of the vastness and the starkness. John and Paul (my dad) found survey maps and worked out a theory about the area being a collection of calderas (old volcanoes). It's a very convincing argument. Have a look at http://alnk.org/baldgame (Yahoo maps, in hybrid or satellite format) to see what they mean.
We enjoyed our cabin at Wild Horses Station 5 miles north of Study Butte (Stoo-dee Beaut) and had some fabulous dinners at the Starlight Café in Terlingua. We floated down the river in rafts with guides for two days down the Santa Elena Canyon and saw prehistoric ferns growing in a tiny off-shoot canyon. The ferns aren't found anywhere else in the area. We drank water that was filtered through 1000 ft of rock and it was delicious. We camped on the Mexican side and had a fabulous view of the mouth of the canyon. The water was up and the weather was gorgeous. We hit 97F on Thursday. We came back in and fired up the grill, enjoyed some seriously wonderful chicken breasts with an amazing sunset on our porch, which was set way up on the foot of a mesa. We hiked up the Lost Mine trail in Big Bend Park proper and Mara did a fine job! She meet lots of friends and had a great time.
It is a harsh life there, to be sure. You have to be made of stern stuff to live there year-round. Water is precious. Some crazy blankety-blank person from Austin decided that this area was the perfect place for a 5 star resort with a golf course, so we saw what current over-use can do to the desert.
People's wells are being sucked up to grow grass(!) for the putting greens.
Overgrazing when the area was first discovered (late 1800's) has made some serious impacts on the land. It used to be grass land and now it is fierce desert. If it doesn't stick you, poke you, or bite you, it's a rock. We watched a dust storm fly through and hit us. It looked like rain at first.
The last day we were there, it rained and was windy and very cold. The old adage "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes." Is certainly true for Big Bend country!
But the sunsets are generally viewed in the east, painting the mountains gorgeous pinks and golds and having a cold one while sitting on the benches outside of the General Store is a treat not to be missed.
When we get the photos back from the developers, I will send you the link to Flickr.
I hope everyone had a great spring break! Hopefully next year, Texas won't have it all in one week! Gas stations were running out of gas while we were on our trip... Exciting!
Thursday, March 01, 2007
You don't *have* to be pretty...
A great cross-post:
A Dress A Day: You Don't Have To Be Pretty...
An excerpt:
"You Don't Have to Be Pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked "female"."
A Dress A Day: You Don't Have To Be Pretty...
An excerpt:
"You Don't Have to Be Pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked "female"."
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