Wednesday - again.

This week lies in the great valley between "last day of classes" and "finished with finals" for my teen aged daughters. Theoretically, they are studying but mostly, they are getting on each other's nerves.

So, I've been trying to stay out of their way and get a bit of laundry done. I've been hoping to go see Star Trek for, oh, the third time but real life has been interfering as usual.

Laundry brought this Cool Wednesday to mind. No one uses diapers around here anymore but if I did, I would do this:

Make your own (or my own) cloth baby diapers!

Knitting-wise, I think this is one cool tool. I've been thinking about making some baby hats and this would make things a bit more exciting.

Think of it as the new summer movie: "Stripenator III: The Rise of the Random Stripe Generator."

The Third Cool Thing of the Day: I'm a Pittsburgh girl at heart. I wish I could raise bees but I don't have enough room here in Saint Paul. These guys have the right idea. I think I could get this shown at my local drive in movie:

Bee Force: Breaking Training II.""

Blue Saturday

You may have realized that the reason these are striped mittens is that I don't have enough of the nordic blue yarn. Now, I have even less. So mitten number two will have a top and bottom of blue but many, many stripes of other colors in the middle. The lesson here? Don't become too attached to the blue.




Before leaving for our Christmas holiday trip, I had to repack one of my daughters' suitcases - she chose "poorly" as Gandalf said. As a result, I found a lot of things in her drawers to give away this week. Two pairs of jean, tan pants, a skirt, a blouse, a pair of shorts and her brother's little Crocs. When you are in charge, you get to choose what goes! We are going to plaster and paint her room this January so I am anticipating lots of other items to give away!