Archive for October 2007
oh, damn it
Posted by: Sarah on: October 31, 2007
I just realized (stupidly) that I do not have enough yarn to finish the first pair of the Six Socks.
That ball, and a slightly smaller ball in my knitting bag, is it. Damn it.
Of course, this is hallmark me. I always manage to dip into my stash to start a project without much thought beyond [...]
odds and ends
Posted by: Sarah on: October 30, 2007
Ice bat was helping with the first of the Six Socks!, because he’s good like that.
And look, even though I can’t have a lime green workspace in Maine, at least I can have a lime green needle pot.
Baby steps. Baby steps.
it’d be criminal
Posted by: Sarah on: October 29, 2007
The Capt’n and I have a sushi joint. A place where we go at the end of a long week, a place where they know us, and within a minute of sitting down, we’re given soup, and tea and questions about the week. Seriously, it’s enough to make me wish they’d named the Capt’n “Norm,” [...]
stocking (see, it’s a pun) up
Posted by: Sarah on: October 28, 2007
I finished the last of the Capt’n’s nerdtastic nerd knitting (knerd?) nerdy birthday present. And I think I’m going to wait and let him post a picture of his Megatron Socks and then swipe it, because I am just that petty, and his photos are better anyway.
But in order to finish the Megatron Socks (to [...]
getting it right
Posted by: Sarah on: October 21, 2007
The schizophrenic nature of my wants has a nasty habit of rising up and chomping hold of my posterior, which means that I’ve spent another particularly blustery Saturday surfing other domesticated/crafty blogs where the women seem blissed out, the children are adorable scamps, the crafts are pastel dreams, the houses are immaculate-yet-lived in, and everything’s [...]
ugly cupcakes
Posted by: Sarah on: October 15, 2007
So, somewhere between the really good coffee, the delicious homemade bagels and the Stephen Colbert column, the Capt’n turned to me and said, “Wow. After the dog-and-pony show for the bread, cupcakes are going to seem like a snap, aren’t they?”
I think I rolled my eyes at him and mumbled something about “done baking for [...]
bagels
Posted by: Sarah on: October 15, 2007
Oh, yeah. I had another bread project going while I was braiding up the previous loaf.
Bagels.
I figured I was already proofing up one project, why not two?
By the end of this morning, I had lived out a small fantasy of mine — sitting around our sun-drenched kitchen, drinking incredibly good coffee made from a french [...]
a tribute
Posted by: Sarah on: October 14, 2007
More bread in honor of the Capt’n’s going and getting himself born.
I eschewed the yellow book this go around in favor of “The Bread Baker’s Apprentice.” Pop loaned his copy to me after my modest success with the Irish Soda bread of last week, and I decided, after spending most of the week reading it [...]
irish soda bread
Posted by: Sarah on: October 6, 2007
Okay, aside from Kate Hepburn’s crap brownies, the yellow book can do no wrong. Here, for example, is my first run at Irish Soda Bread, in honor of the Capt’n’s tribute month.
Yeah, tribute month. For as long as I’ve known him, the Capt’n has demanded tribute — very similar to a Roman Emperor demanding [...]
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