Birthday cake

A couple of days ago was my birthday and Tom ordered a special cake for me. Now, I am not too big on cakes but the woman who makes these does an incredible job. She probably makes the best cakes ever. Unfortunately, I was not thinking and did not get a picture of the cake in whole form but here is a picture of the slice. It's white with coconut frosting. Yum, I love coconut .



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Another blog about the iPhone

I don't think I have said this week yet how much I love my iPad and iPhone. So now that I have gotten that out of the way, I give another example of why.

I have an app called Zite that is like a magazine or newspaper custom built for me. It has several popular sections already built in but then I can build in my own sections with my own interests.

So here is a shot of one of the sections that has been populated with stories Zite thinks will be of interest to me:




I can click on any of these stories and read them now or save them to Evernote for reading later (see shot below). I can also give a thumbs up or thumbs down to each store and Zite will act accordingly and give me more of the same or less of the same. I think this is just so cool. I am probably too easily amused and too easily impressed.




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Purl

If you have been following this blog then you know I have been struggling with learning to purl and also know that I have a bit of a hate/hate relationship with it. Yesterday, I decided to ditch the stubbornness and give it another try. Lo and behold I did it while watching the super bowl yesterday! This particular stitch is called the seed stitch (or moss stitch) which I have been wanting to do for awhile. Just didn't have the guts.







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It's a real nice stitch with a lot of texture. You knit one purl one and then on the next row, you knit the purls and purl the knits. There's no stopping me now!!!

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Smartphone to the rescue again

Last night, I had to go to a mall far, far away from my house to pick up my contact lenses. And, it just so happens, that this mall also has the closest Joanns to me.

So, to kill two birds with one stone, I also stopped at Joanns because I wanted more kona cotton and some binding fabric.

Well I have a Joann's app so even though I did not have my paper coupons with me, I have an app for the iPhone with coupons on it.


I was able to use all these coupons for my purchase plus I had some gift cards so my total out of pocket was $2.00. In addition, several of my items were already on sale so I was really able to stretch those gift cards.

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Something to make life easier

When we visited the Art Institute last fall, we visited the museum store and I saw this scarf that was made up of round pieces of wool felt. The price of it of course was outrageous so I snapped some shots knowing that I would be able to make it myself.

I found some wool felt on eBay for a decent price and as soon as it arrived, I started tracing little circles on the wool felt and cutting them out. It didnt take a brick falling on my head to figure out that this would take forever so I put it aside thinking that some day soon I would get back to it...or not.










Well that day has now arrived with the purchase of my new Accuquilt Go cutter that is advertised to be 90% faster than rotary cutters. This will speed things up considerably I would say.





And besides that, I got a screaming deal on this from my favorite quilt store here in town. I saw it at the Sewing and Quilt Festival this weekend. Their price was 25% off their regular price but I told them what their competitor down the way was selling it for, and they gave it to me at that price. And that price was below their cost so I was very pleased with my little bit of bargaining. Never hurts to ask.






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Scarf

I have put this new scarf up on etsy for sale but I had a hard time doing it because I just love this scarf. It is so soft and so colorful. I would love to make more out of this stuff. Easy to knit with and beautiful in the end.

Work bomb