Tag: Sahara

» Liz’s first TNNA Market :: Day 1


I made it to Columbus safe, healthy, and happy. The hours leading up to my departure were a tad stressful, though. I somehow found myself with increasingly more and more to do, and fewer and fewer hours in which to do it all. I was running around the apartment, throwing clothes in [...]

Posted on: June 02, 2007 by Liz | Tags: , , | 4 comments

» Friday evening blues


Eye Candy Friday I haven’t been very good about posting eye candy, so I thought I’d give it a shot again today. Now, I’m a smoker, but I’m not one to glorify it or try to get others to pick up the habit - it’s a nasty habit, and I ought to quit. Still, [...]

Posted on: May 25, 2007 by Liz | Tags: , | 1 comment

» They call me Ant Beth


Ok, they don’t really call me Ant Beth… but it’s funny, because I do have an Aunt Beth, my name is Elizabeth (though never Beth - Liz, perhaps, but never Beth), and yesterday, I spent the morning dealing with ants. Yesterday morning, I woke up to find a trail of ants marching into the living room [...]

Posted on: May 24, 2007 by Liz | Tags: , | no comments

» Sahara update & the state of American television


I’m amazed at how quickly progress on the Sahara is going, considering I started this thing the evening of the 15th. I finished the body last night. Or rather, I finished the first attempt at the body. After I bound off the bottom edge, I tried it on and decided that (1) [...]

Posted on: May 21, 2007 by Liz | Tags: | 2 comments

» Knitting and ripping Sahara


I’m in a kind of rotten mood today. The weather is grey and blah, cool and damp, and a little foreboding. I feel sick to my stomach, and I don’t know why. And I realized last night that I have to rip out about 3.5″ of my Sahara because I was stupid. I’ve [...]

Posted on: May 17, 2007 by Liz | Tags: , | 3 comments

» Spinning straw into. . . brick?


When I got up this morning, I checked on the yarn drying out on the porch, and I was a little sad to notice that the yarn was very stiff and rough-feeling. The dyeing process seemed to have stripped it of the softness and loftiness that it possessed in its undyed state. I called [...]

Posted on: May 15, 2007 by Liz | Tags: , | 5 comments